The series is about Cameron Black who is known as the world's greatest illusionist. He showed many tricks which make FBI offered him to work with them but Cameron refused. After his career is ruined by scandal, he thinks at the FBI offer and how it will be useful for him.
Mush up some MacGyver with a little Leverage and then throw in, well, just about every "Cocky Specialist teams with Perpetually Perturbed FBI Agent" series and you've got Deception.
Never rising above its hokey premise, the procedural is further sunk by transparent mysteries, hollow supporting characters, and a fatal lack of surprises.
As escapist fare, though, it turns the trick, plays its cards well, pulls a rabbit from the hat, etc. Or as ABC might say, "Abracadabra, here's to another Castle."
