I and my family have just watched the first installment of Derren Brown's fantastic new venture "Apocolypse''. The experiment this time is to take a twenty-something layabout son with little responsibility in his life and even less interest in his family (who are obviously at their wits end) and plunge him into a post apocolyptic world pursued , it would seem, by infected zombie like humans.
Sounds a bit kitsch, but our boy Steve truly and utterly believes everything he is seeing and experiencing - it's just like he's woken up in a real life version of Resident Evil.
Steve's ordeal is not yet over by a long chalk -and the objective to find the poor guy "a heart, a brain and courage" is obviously built along the lines of Dorothy's adventures in Oz. However, Steve is no Judy Garland and instead of a dog, he has a girl named Leona and there was no whirlwind that brought him to this hell, only a bus heading for a (bogus) concert by The Killers (nice touch!).
As entertaining as all this is, I am not entirely sure how all this will end up. They have to finally reveal to him that this is all a set up at some point - hopefully before he has acquired SAS survival skills and takes them all out in revenge. It does, however, raise a lot of points about how we would all individually respond to such a scenario. Clearly in life there are natural survivors and those who would fall at the first hurdle. Sadly, I feel that Steve falls into the second group - his face through the last hour has gone from mildly complacent, through mouth gaping shock to pure horror whilst standing like a five year old needing to pee. To top it all, its his birthday.
Maybe his parents couldn't find anything suitable to buy him this year. I have warned my children. Anything is possible
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