French ‘Torture’ Show Game of Death: It’s Milgram All Over Again

Game of Death, a French documentary about a fake reality show of the same name, aired in France on Wednesday to great public alarm and caused ripples in the stateside political blogosphere. The reason why is that the game show in question essentially reconfirmed Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1960’s experiment: Contestants on the fake show were willing to keep on electrocute another ‘player’ past the point of pain, into unconsciousness, and even to death when the show’s audience and hostess urged them on: