'Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself' on Hulu tests the limits of magic

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Derek DelGaudio knows you don't trust him.

"I do not expect you to believe anything you're seeing or hearing," he says early in In & Of Itself, Hulu's filmed version of his well-received stage show. You're watching a performance, he acknowledges, and it's easy for a performer to deceive an audience from a stage. But that, he suggests, is all the more reason to trust him: "Knowing you won't believe me, that's the only reason I'm going to tell you the truth."

And the truth he seeks in In & Of Itself is nothing less than the basic, but also basically unanswerable, question of "Who am I?" The show cannot be faulted for a lack of ambition or imagination, and it's never less than mesmerizing — perhaps never more so than in the moments when it doesn't quite work.  Read more...

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