Penn & Teller: Fool Us (2010)

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Siskoid
The first two seasons of Penn and Teller: Fool Us are one Netflix, and I was looking for a short episode of trash TV to cover lunch time and not stop my work momentum. I did not expect a magic talent show to be so addictive. Two seasons later, let me report in. Now obviously, I've always like Penn and Teller's trick-busting act (and they perform one bit per episode). As judges for a talent competition, I like them too. They are overwhelmingly supportive of every magician they see, and since there's no limit to who gets invited to open for their show (the rules state they must not figure out how the trick was done and that's it), it's not "competitive" per se. I'm not a big fan of Jonathan Ross as a host of anything, but here he makes a good foil for the magicians, a good patsy, as they say. After some fair few episodes, you start to get a sense of how some of the tricks were done even if Penn talks in code and riddles to get the participants to agree he and Teller figured it out (to Ross' amusing dismay), either because you figure out the code or else start to know what you should look for in the performance. Fun stuff, even if certain tricks seem to recur in different forms after a while. 5 years 4 months ago
nawi
The second season will air in 2015. 9 years 2 months ago