The Road Trick

Entertaining and a fun guy. Many times too awkward to watch. Good entertainment

Adam is not your typical magician. He's kind and really interested in learning more about other cultures. This show mixes travel and magic so well. I love how even the most skeptical people lower their walls when they see Adam perform a trick for them. I found this show fun and endearing. Hoping for a season 2!

Adam is a magician armed with tricks, a good attitude, and a sense of adventure the really resonates with me. He wants viewers to see the barriers that magic can break down, but his execution across the first few episodes is unorthodox and lands him in some pretty raw corners of Europe. Adam uses his magic to defuse tense situations outside his comfort zone (and mine), impress new friends, and expose areas of culture not often captured on camera. It's impressive how sincerely authentic Adam comes across on camera.

My feedback for Adam: Be more curious about food. You say comedy is the best ice breaker, but it's a distant second to food. How many people that were initially hostile toward you would have had that reaction if you were breaking bread with them? That being said, please keep pushing your comfort zone and if you're ever in Boston, let's try to sneak into a party or something!

The tricks themselves are okay.

Adam Trent is undoubtedly a very talented magician, and the concept of him travelling around Europe using his tricks to befriend locals into sharing some of their culture is a sound one.

Unfortunately, his ignorant and entitled manner very quickly started to grate. He personified much of what pisses people off about Americans overseas, with his repeated acts of disrespect and general assumption that he could do whatever he wanted, regardless of local custom or regulations (or even basic good manners).

He also quickly became uncomfortably creepy around the young females he encountered, and on one occasion early in the series he even asked the cameras to stay behind as he walked off into the distance with a pretty young blonde, with the obvious intention of bedding her.

I didn't watch much further than that, so I can't say whether the series improved, or if he managed to learn anything valuable on his travels. But from his extremely high levels of self-confidence and undisguised conviction that he was fully entitled to get whatever he wanted (so long as he badgered and pestered people enough to get it) I would be very surprised if he gained anything from his journey except a further belief in his own greatness.

Handsome, charming, talented... and utterly devoid of humility, respect, or depth.

I wanted to like this show. It's obviously cheesy as can be right from the beginning, but I thought it might be cheesy in an endearing way. Adam has moments of charm but they're few and far between. The rest of the time is unbearably awkward. Like a reality version of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but without the self-awareness. He's pushy, entitled, and totally oblivious to social cues. He creeps on attractive young women and geeks out about talking to them like he's 12 years old.

Too painful to even finish the 10 episodes.