Netflix’s “Kaleidoscope” may look like the typical thriller sequence, nevertheless it has one factor that units it aside from different heist films and reveals: the sequence, launched Jan. 1, is eight episodes lengthy, nevertheless it’s designed to be watched in any order. Every episode is titled with a special shade — a nod to the titular kaleidoscope — and begins with a title card about how distant the episode is from the heist. Some episodes happen simply days earlier than, whereas others go a few years into the previous to fill in on the backstory. Played by Giancarlo Esposito, the sequence star is a grasp thief who places collectively a staff to rob a vault, however in the long run all of them get greater than they bargained for.
Creator and showrunner Eric Garcia defined why he designed the sequence to be watched in any order in a Dec. 25 interview with the New York Post. “I mentioned, ‘I feel with all this batch supply [of episodes on streaming] there isn’t any motive you need to watch a present so as. Why cannot we watch it out of order?'” He added, “And heist tales, which have all the time been my favourite style, are all the time about loyalty and who is admittedly on whose aspect, and shifting identities. For a present that is meant to come back into totally different characters at totally different instances, and see them at totally different aspects, it felt like a wise approach to merge the 2 issues: heist and nonlinear [storytelling].”
You may, after all, watch the Netflix miniseries within the order episodes are posted in — which mixes up the timeline — or you might randomly decide which episode you watch subsequent by yourself. Ahead, we’re breaking down the timeline of the episodes and a few doable orders you might watch them in, together with our personal suggestion.
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Netflix’s “Kaleidoscope” Order
- “Yellow” – six weeks earlier than the heist
- “Green” – seven years earlier than the heist
- “Blue” – 5 days earlier than the heist
- “Orange” – three weeks earlier than the heist
- “Violet” – 24 years earlier than the heist
- “Red” – the morning after the heist
- “Pink” – six months after the heist
- “White” – the heist
“Kaleidoscope” Chronological-Episode Order
- “Violet” – 24 years earlier than the heist
- “Green” – seven years earlier than the heist
- “Yellow” – six weeks earlier than the heist
- “Orange” – three weeks earlier than the heist
- “Blue” – 5 days earlier than the heist
- “White” – the heist
- “Red” – the morning after the heist
- “Pink” – six months after the heist
“Kaleidoscope” Reverse-Chronological-Episode Order
- “Pink” – six months after the heist
- “Red” – the morning after the heist
- “White” – the heist
- “Blue” – 5 days earlier than the heist
- “Orange” – three weeks earlier than the heist
- “Yellow” – six weeks earlier than the heist
- “Green” – seven years earlier than the heist
- “Violet” – 24 years earlier than the heist
Heist-First “Kaleidoscope” Order
This order begins with the heist after which jumps all through the timeline.
- “White” – the heist
- “Violet” – 24 years earlier than the heist
- “Yellow” – six weeks earlier than the heist
- “Green” – seven years earlier than the heist
- “Red” – the morning after the heist
- “Blue” – 5 days earlier than the heist
- “Orange” – three weeks earlier than the heist
- “Pink” – six months after the heist
POPSUGAR’s Suggested “Kaleidoscope” Order
We suppose this order performs with the nonlinear side whereas additionally providing you with info on the most-interesting instances.
- “Yellow” – six weeks earlier than the heist
- “Green” – seven years earlier than the heist
- “Violet” – 24 years earlier than the heist
- “Orange” – three weeks earlier than the heist
- “Blue” – 5 days earlier than the heist
- “White” – the heist
- “Red” – the morning after the heist
- “Pink” – six months after the heist
