The programme I just watched with members of Goldie Lookin' Chain on it was far less impressive. Much more cold reading and more obvious editing. Including one woman who was told her relative "was stabbed" before Morgan switched to a vague illness, pretty much in the same sentence. Which I guess is why they left it in. The casual viewer or creduloid wouldn't even spot or pay attention to that.
The random Derren Brown-esque street readings via phonebox have many, many holes in them in terms of:
-We have no idea how many readings are given per successful reading
-The footage of Morgan making her statements may not be contemporary with the response footage
-Literally all of the "misses" can be edited clean out due to the switching back and forth between reader and read.
-(Therefore) we don't know what was actually said to elicit the positive responses shown
The celebrity readings feature a good deal of cutting away and closeups/distance shots. They are very short at only a few minutes; how much footage was shot? How many "misses" occurred? The "wow she couldn't have known that" testimonials at the end, by implication, apply to the whole reading. But it may be that they are stated with only to those "hits" that stood in mind.
In short, she's clearly taken a leaf out of Derren Brown's book in terms of changing the flavour of her readings, varying locations, carefully controlled setups and editing, and using a degree of showmanship not usually seen in "psychics". The overall effect to the casual viewer or believer is of a genuine psychic. But not, by any stretch of the imagination, one with a nice arse.
The random Derren Brown-esque street readings via phonebox have many, many holes in them in terms of:
-We have no idea how many readings are given per successful reading
-The footage of Morgan making her statements may not be contemporary with the response footage
-Literally all of the "misses" can be edited clean out due to the switching back and forth between reader and read.
-(Therefore) we don't know what was actually said to elicit the positive responses shown
The celebrity readings feature a good deal of cutting away and closeups/distance shots. They are very short at only a few minutes; how much footage was shot? How many "misses" occurred? The "wow she couldn't have known that" testimonials at the end, by implication, apply to the whole reading. But it may be that they are stated with only to those "hits" that stood in mind.
In short, she's clearly taken a leaf out of Derren Brown's book in terms of changing the flavour of her readings, varying locations, carefully controlled setups and editing, and using a degree of showmanship not usually seen in "psychics". The overall effect to the casual viewer or believer is of a genuine psychic. But not, by any stretch of the imagination, one with a nice arse.
