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Phenomenom S1E3 LIVE — It’s hard to read a blank book.

Well, the first episode stunk, and the second episode was great, so I don’t quite know what to expect tonight.
Right off the bat they recap the confrontation Criss Angel had with Jim Callahan, the guy who did automatic writing using the spirit of a dead professor. Jim claims that Criss is an […]

Phenomenom LIVE S1E2 — Criss Angel predicts (correctly) that co-host Uri Geller and his psychic friend are frauds!

Yikes, why am I watching this? [SK: Because you love bad TV.] The first episode was a disaster, but it is Halloween, so I suppose I’d better give it another chance. The celebrity helpers this week are Ross Matthews, Miss USA Shandi Finnessy, and Cheetah Girl Raven Simone.
Since this is a two […]

Phenomenon S1E1 makes an hour of your life disappear

Tonight is the premiere of magic-show-for-the-new-millennium Phenomenon on NBC. Judged by “Masters” Uri Gellar, the “spoon bending” fraud from the 1970s famously exposed on the Johnny Carson Show, and Criss Angel, the star of “Mind Freak” who has never once used a continuous one-camera shot of his “amazing” tricks. “Celebrity” helpers are former supermodel Rachel […]