That was pretty great. Did you bring your own costume?
Yeah, it wasn't real, but TV is just entertainment. Even documentaries these days have similar production to thrillers and dramas, putting appeal before accuracy. Same can be said for news channels. With Maxim it was so over the top, and if you tell people he can't really do any of that stuff, or even close to it, it looks very bad.
I don't really care in this case that it was staged because the solver is legit. If I do a blind solve and someone says they saw a crazy looking guy in a lab coat do that with two cubes behind his back at the same time, I would say that was just TV magic, see him at DarkMaskow on YouTube for some really impressive stuff like solving dozens of $&@%ing cubes in a row blindfolded. Can't really do the same with Maxim.