The Contract Allows Us To Do Whatever We Like With You.

[rionaleonhart]

Okay, I have seen only two episodes, but Derren Brown's Trick or Treat is absolutely terrifying. I cannot believe there is a second series. The first I can understand, because people didn't know what they were letting themselves in for, but a second series means that people must have watched the first and thought, 'Yes! I want that! I want to be kidnapped and stranded in an unfamiliar country! I want to be abused in the street and made to think I am trapped in a box! This sounds exactly like my idea of a good time.'

Does this really sound like your idea of a good time, Trick or Treat applicants? Does it really?

I am also rather disturbed by Mr Brown's apparent willingness to offer his guests Mini Rolls containing delicious chocolate and cream and razor blades. I mean, I'm assuming there was some sort of trickery involved, and he didn't just stick the blade in one of them and hope, but I cannot see where this trickery can have come in. And he's breaking into people's houses in the middle of the night, and he's leaving people in enormous mental distress, and I feel he may have gone past 'so scary it's hot' and hit 'so scary it's really freaking scary'.

Not that I don't still find him hot.

I wish that, rather than just saying 'BY THE WAY THIS GUY WAS FINE AFTERWARDS OKAY' on the screen, the episodes would actually show the participant being fine afterwards. 'HE WAS GENUINELY PLEASED TO HAVE TAKEN PART, PLEASE ENJOY THE CREDITS AS WE PLAY THEM OVER FOOTAGE OF THIS POOR MAN SOBBING IN AN EMPTY THEATRE' is not, I have to say, entirely reassuring.

I tried to find clips from the ventriloquist's dummy episode, which was one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen, but alas I could not, so here is a clip of Derren Brown being rather charming on stage instead. He wants you to touch his goatee!

Also, Derren Brown paying for things in America with blank paper. I particularly enjoy 'Can I buy some of your sole?', and it's always fun when they show the attempts that don't work.


(I told a Real Life friend that I was alarmingly attracted to Derren Brown, and she thought I meant Dan Brown. I was horrified. It's like telling a friend you once stole a can of cat food and having her respond with 'YOU EAT KITTENS?')

Comments

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

johnnypurple and i were just talking about how there ought to be fic of derren brown and the stig*. that is the one thing that would make this bitter life worth living, we said.

and then we ordered chips.

* may or may not be the same person/thing/entity/god.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I can't watch the one with the ventriloquist's dummy. Seriously. I have a phobia of them, and it would freak me out so badly if I watched it.

The episodes where a treat is involved make up for the scar of the trick ones. Just wait until you get to the old lady and the piano girl. You will flail in glee and happiness and want to pinch his cheeks for being so lovely.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"Also, Derren Brown paying for things in America with blank paper. I particularly enjoy 'Can I buy some of your sole?', and it's always fun when they show the attempts that don't work."

He's got psychic paper!

Also, are all those things he does actually legal, or is it okay because people volunteered to be on the show? But the Zombie Game Guy didn't volunteer, I think, and he was still kidnapped.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Oh my god what kind of creepy show are you watching?

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

And yet I cannot help adoring him. Waaah.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to go off and have lots of nightmares now.

Derren Brown kidnaps the Top Gear presenters after getting them to sign a release form and he and the Stig fight it out for who gets to keep them, y/y?.

I am also tempted to change my amnesiafic idea so instead of the CIA dumping Richard in Mongolia with no memory (as part of a "Learn the secret of the Stig" plot gone wrong) to Derren Brown doing it as a prank. Although this would be a bad idea, as saying his name might make him appear.