Has anyone watched In & Of Itself on Hulu?

[TR]

I...don't really know how to explain it so I want to talk about it with someone who has seen it, lol.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I just got the book out of the library and will start it in the next day or two, and then watch it, so it might take me about a week but I will be happy to chat about it afterwards. It was recommended by a friend who has, let's say, weird taste in books/movies/media.

[TR]

I don't think it's a book. It's a documentary/filming of Derek DelGaudio's stage show. It's, like, part magic, part psychic, part therapy?

[cleo29]

I just started watching The Vow about the NIXVM cult. Very interesting and i would love to discuss.

[cleo29]

Jan 25, 2021 12:13:15 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jan 25, 2021 12:10:18 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I just started watching The Vow about the NIXVM cult. Very interesting and i would love to discuss.

For me this ended up being horrible! There is a better doc about it out there but I can’t remember the name, and by the time so was finished with the bow I didn’t have it in me to watch anything else!

I am watching the one on HBO. So far it seems good. I do think they highlight in the beginning how easy it would be to get pulled in. What they are "promising" is something so many of us would want, but then you realize that it is so much more and much worse. 

[yentl]

I watched it. I thought it was so moving and also fascinating like HOW IS HE DOING THIS?!?!

[TR]

Jan 25, 2021 12:51:24 GMT -5 yentl said:

I watched it. I thought it was so moving and also fascinating like HOW IS HE DOING THIS?!?!

THANK YOU! Yes! I am most confused about the letter part. Are those people plants? WTF?

[yentl]

Jan 25, 2021 12:54:29 GMT -5 TR said:

Jan 25, 2021 12:51:24 GMT -5 yentl said:

I watched it. I thought it was so moving and also fascinating like HOW IS HE DOING THIS?!?!

THANK YOU! Yes! I am most confused about the letter part. Are those people plants? WTF?

Yeah I was wondering maybe they pulled someone’s info from ticket sales and did it that way.... and then I guess every envelope is the same letter? I don’t think they were plants just because they seemed pretty authentically shocked.

I went to a similar but much less intense show once and they pulled DH up on stage and it was total BS. They basically told him what to do on the way up so zero magic involved.

[shananagins]

I saw it live in NYC a while ago. It was really fascinating! I need to watch the special because it was long enough ago that I don't really remember specifics.
I do remember that it was not what I expected. I went in thinking it would be more of a traditional magic show. It was . . . not that.

[TR]

I think they could easily have tracked who picked up what card and then he could select that particular card for the letter reading. But that's a lot of prep work having someone write a letter like that. There were such specific things in them!

And his sleight of hand was amazing.

[TR]

lol and when I was googling after watching it I found this that really made me go WTF: www.thejerx.com/blog/2018/8/22/the-final-in-and-of-itself-by-derek-delgaudio

[cleo29]

Jan 25, 2021 13:57:25 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jan 25, 2021 12:18:53 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I am watching the one on HBO. So far it seems good. I do think they highlight in the beginning how easy it would be to get pulled in. What they are "promising" is something so many of us would want, but then you realize that it is so much more and much worse. 

Yes that’s the one I watched. I hated it by the end lol. I think the other is Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult? It’s on STARZ, it’s 4 episodes, which honestly The Vow could have been about the same, it really REALLY drags on.

I can definitely see that. I think I am 5 where India's mom gets involved, but honestly, I am not that interested. lol

[yentl]

Jan 25, 2021 13:03:46 GMT -5 TR said:

lol and when I was googling after watching it I found this that really made me go WTF: www.thejerx.com/blog/2018/8/22/the-final-in-and-of-itself-by-derek-delgaudio

This is a joke, right??

[TR]

Jan 25, 2021 14:03:12 GMT -5 yentl said:

Jan 25, 2021 13:03:46 GMT -5 TR said:

lol and when I was googling after watching it I found this that really made me go WTF: www.thejerx.com/blog/2018/8/22/the-final-in-and-of-itself-by-derek-delgaudio

This is a joke, right??

I have no idea, honestly.