Death by Magic

I'm sure he is a great magician and it's possible that he is not using "camera tricks." However, when the producer/editor constantly uses camera cuts in the middle of each trick you can't help but feel cheated..... Not amazed.

If you want viewers to feel the magic, you have to shoot it in one continuous shot.

It can be entertaining to watch but it's WAY over dramatic with things that we've all seen before or when we know he's obviously not in danger. I understand a bit of suspense for atmosphere but this was another level of intelligence-insulting drama. He also tries to pay homage to other magicians by doing things they died doing which is pretty cool. But sometimes he changes it completely while making it seem like he's doing the same thing but because he changes it, there really wasn't any danger. That's kind of a slap in the face to the other people who died doing it by acting so dramatic about doing the same dangerous thing...when you're not. Also, many times the people in the background act like background actors in a Sitcom. It's like they were told to ignore the fact that there are cameras and a guy doing magic and just act natural. It made it feel less genuine. At one point he interrupts a couple eating at a restaurant and says he's doing magic. When he goes and sits back with the other couple he's doing the trick for (2 feet away) the other couple don't even act interested or try to see what he's doing. If you like magic you might like this but don't expect too much greatness here.

Just enjoy the show! I feel like the other reviewers are just looking for something to be wrong as opposed to just enjoying the wonder. I bing watched the whole season and liked every second of it.

If you study anything to long or expect to be disappointed then you probably will be.

In theatrical magic there are only a certain number of tricks. What marks out one magician over another is their presentation and this guy has his presentation down cold. One trick is to make something disappear only to be produced again from an impossible location. This could be a driver's license inside a sealed coconut in Miami or a playing card stuck to a ceiling in a Cape Town bar. It's the same trick. Another trick is taking an empty container and filling it with some thing or many things. This could be a paper bag magically filled with packs of playing cards, a cone made of news paper filled with sweets or a paper bag magically filled with a pair of shoes ( or for that matter a hat with a live rabbit ). All the same trick, just presented differently. The weakness here is that we have no idea if the tricks were performed for real? Were the audience actors or real people? There's a caption before each episode telling us it's all legitimate, so that's all right then because TV shows never lie. Do they?

I can't tell if the audience is fake or not but it's fishy how in one episode someone in the audience was from another Netflix show