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Deception - Season 1
A dramatic-magic story shows great magic tricks by the world's greatest illusionist, Cameron Black who reached the height of success before his career is destroyed by scandal. FBI exploit this trouble to offer him to work with them, and Cameron accepts but without forgetting his revenge for his career.
7 January 1983, San Jose, California, USA
5 March 1955, Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
14 April 1949, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
8 October 1986, Pasadena, California, USA
30 May 1979, Sterling, Illinois, USA
9 May 1980, Bronx, New York, USA
24 February 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 July 1969, Washington, USA
18 June 1966, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
14 February 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
March 08, 2018
Platinum-plated nonsense -- but also self-aware enough to know just how nonsensical. Deception is mostly just a lot of fun.
March 12, 2018
The "Magician helps the FBI fight crime" hook of Deception sounds silly, but the early episodes prove that "silly" isn't the same as "bad."
March 09, 2018
It's all pretty absurd, but the show is too light on its feet to begrudge for long.
March 09, 2018
As escapist fare, though, it turns the trick, plays its cards well, pulls a rabbit from the hat, etc. Or as ABC might say, "Abracadabra, here's to another Castle."
March 13, 2018
Improbable but still fun magic-themed crime drama.
March 06, 2018
Never rising above its hokey premise, the procedural is further sunk by transparent mysteries, hollow supporting characters, and a fatal lack of surprises.
March 12, 2018
Unfortunately, Deception is a show about the magic of illusion that has a great deal of difficulty being, y'know, magical.
July 20, 2017
Mush up some MacGyver with a little Leverage and then throw in, well, just about every "Cocky Specialist teams with Perpetually Perturbed FBI Agent" series and you've got Deception.
