Masters of Illusion

The title says it all! The title says it all! The title says it all!

There is one thing that I hafta say. It is that I find "Masters Of Illusion" to be a beautiful show to watch & it's all because of the magicians whom come on the show to showcase their magical talents, entertaining the audience including Dean Cain himself. I remember watching this show on MyNetworkTV when I was a little boy & it was so amazing. I'm also happy that The CW usually airs this show during Saturday Nites & that makes me feel good. I even like the background music which plays when the performers do their magic tricks & this ("Masters Of Illusion") happens to be the same show I decided to watch tonite as opposed to wasting my time with watching some stupidity called "The Kids Choice Awards".

It seems they intentionally want the show to appear cheesy, cheap with cheap acts, every now and again there is a winner but few and far between.

Not really worth waiting through commercials to watch and card tricks are so overdone if they pull out a deck it's fast forward time. Some of the illusions are great but it seems like a lot of filler acts are included. Lots of magic tricks lost their appeal when I figured out one of the greatest tricks ever at the 'Dixie Stampede' in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. If there's the quintessential beautiful girl barely wearing a costume just remember good things are often a matched set. Who knows if she has an identical twin??

Who knows if that random audience member has been training for months to appear with different magicians on different shows?

I checked out an episode because magicians Barry and Stuart were on it and I'm a huge fan. While some of the acts are decent (others seem like they're stuck in the 80s) I could not get past the constant background music that played through the entire episode. Not only was it mixed WAY too loudly, to the point of actually making it difficult to follow what the acts were saying, but it was cheesy; it killed the mood; it was distracting and was completely unnecessary in the first place.

It's a shame because this show could do a lot to promote magic, especially new and fresh acts, but the execution is just terrible. They need to fire their sound editor. It's OK to kill the music during a performance, and pick music that is more appropriate and less cheesy when there's a reason to have it.