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.

How do you know that they are not any special effects and it's overly dramatic

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?

It says that "no camera tricks are used" at the beginning, but there are no explanations or not even hints to the tricks done and It really seems like there are camera tricks used all the time every time everywhere. If you want to make a series about magic tricks, you have to successfully separate that from a sci-fi movie. I can't see any difference here. What reference do I have that there really is some illusion done successfully? If you want to do you magic tricks and you don't want do reveal the secrets of them, the audience must, I'm saying again, the audience "MUST" be there so that the tricks done "MEANS" something. If you are doing those on a TV show, you are going to have to prove somehow those are not camera tricks otherwise I would watch Star Wars instead. I suggest you to watch some Derren Brown shows to get some kind of an Idea for how to do this. And the "you" I am referring here is not the reader, It's the Drummond Money-Coutts!

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