Not much in the way of actual facts on show, limited research and wild speculations.
Each expert/ cast member seems to like going over the same things before and after each break which happens a lot.
The first 'build' the water chamber: They couldn't find an accurate replica, due to none existing and finding a museum piece of questionable accuracy and With some 'coincidental rumour / knowledge' they embark on rebuilding it to 'figure out how houdini potentialy did it..
So they resorted to guess work and approximations and having experts in the field of magic history give them insights.
The 'magician' training was interesting in making possible theories on houdini's own thought process and training if a bit over simplified, spelling out each step. then glossing over others.
Then the inevitable things go wrong stuff happens which kind of puts these experts so caled experience and knowledge into question.
Then there's the results, a bit more drama and then one explanation of how it could be done.
Each expert/ cast member seems to like going over the same things before and after each break which happens a lot.
The first 'build' the water chamber: They couldn't find an accurate replica, due to none existing and finding a museum piece of questionable accuracy and With some 'coincidental rumour / knowledge' they embark on rebuilding it to 'figure out how houdini potentialy did it..
So they resorted to guess work and approximations and having experts in the field of magic history give them insights.
The 'magician' training was interesting in making possible theories on houdini's own thought process and training if a bit over simplified, spelling out each step. then glossing over others.
Then the inevitable things go wrong stuff happens which kind of puts these experts so caled experience and knowledge into question.
Then there's the results, a bit more drama and then one explanation of how it could be done.