ABC this Sunday night revealed — ta-da! — Deception, its new light procedural about a master illusionist who finds himself assisting the FBI (or is it the other way around?). Might this Unlikely Crimesolver Dramedy fill the Castle-shaped hole in your DVR?
Created by Chris Fedak (Chuck) and with illusionist David Kwong (Now You See Me) serving as a co-producer, Deception stars Jack Cutmore-Scott (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to nobody watched it) as Cameron Black, an illusionist whose career hits the skids when his long-secret twin brother Jonathan is framed for vehicular manslaughter. Cameron spends a year trotting the globe in search of the peer who staged his brother’s crash/dead body swap, until he notices in a TV news report that an FBI crime scene has replicated one of his grand illusions.
Cameron arrives at the airport hangar where an FBI jet seemingly exploded, with a key cartel player inside, where he meets Agent Kay Daniels (Billions‘ Ilfenesh Hadera) and her magic-loving partner Mike Alvarez (Prison Break‘s Amauro Nolasco). Cameron’s theory that the jet didn’t blow up but was the subject of a “deck flip” is met with warranted skepticism, until he reveals the hidden door through which the real plane was whisked away amid the distraction created by smoke grenades.
