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The infamous “Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed” has a new season that began just a few weeks ago.

The original five episodes composed the first “season”, the first four coming out in 1997/1998 and the fifth coming out in 2005. Magicians all over Canada and the USA quickly took classics out of their show like the ZigZag girl and the Metamorphosis. Fortunately for us magicians, the show was pretty boring to watch and laymen quickly forgot which tricks were exposed. The “Masked Magician” was later found out to be Val Valentino. In this new season Val Valentino is seen in the credits as the producer of the show. The Magician seems to be somebody else from what I can gather.

The format of the show is the same as the original. The Masked Magician shows you an effect stripped down to the bare mechanics void of any presentation while the narrator explains the effect in a monotone voice along with cheesy jokes. Then the Masked Magician exposes the effect in the same lackluster way as the trick was presented in the first place. And, you guessed it, cheesy narration throughout the explanation as well.

Tricks exposed:
• Walking through a giant wall of steel (Copperfields Great Wall of China Illusion)
• Buzz saw (David’s again)
• Turning a Bentley into a Lamborghini (Criss Angel)
• Making a soda can float (TT with suction cup.. wth?)
• Pushing a coin through a rubber sheet into a glass (Ha!)
• Vanishing a toothpick (Same trick Criss has exposed and taught on many talk shows)
• Cap penetrating a glass bottle (PK ring)
• Cut and restored rope (Extra piece method)
• Vanishing a string quartet
• Vanishing woman (Using a chair)

I found it hilarious that they included vanishing a toothpick and cut and restored rope in the show. As if vanishing a toothpick is one of Magic’s Biggest Secrets. Although my girlfriend watched the show with me and was excited to finally learn how I cut and restore a rope. She was very disappointed when the secret was revealed though. Not because she finally knew, but because she knew that the method that was exposed isn’t what I do in my routine.

During the show they never say who performed the original version. During the exposure for the “Walking through a wall of steel” they never say “Walking through the Great Wall of China” but they infer it in basically every way imaginable.

Magic is really boring when there’s no presentation and the method is exposed two seconds later. I’m sure these new episodes will have the same effect as the old episodes, they’ll quickly vanish and be forgotten.