Kaleidoscope
Apr. 23rd, 2023 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyWe've been watching Kaleidoscope over the last few weeks with Bea. It's an eight part series about a heist. You are shown seven episodes in a random order, then the eighth one is always the same.
The eighth episode (White) is the heist itself and the others are: 24 years before (Violet), 7 years before (Green), 6 weeks before (Yellow), 3 weeks before (Orange), 5 days before (Blue), the morning after (Red), 6 months after (Pink).* The seven are billed as random, although I've seen somewhere suggesting that Red and Pink are always the two episodes before White (and were for us).
It was... disappointing. It's rather predictable, difficult to empathise with anyone (I liked Stan, but that was about it) and rather too many people die (including various bystanders). Nice idea, but this isn't the right series or plot to showcase it.
* Our viewing was Green, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Violet, Red, Pink, White.
The eighth episode (White) is the heist itself and the others are: 24 years before (Violet), 7 years before (Green), 6 weeks before (Yellow), 3 weeks before (Orange), 5 days before (Blue), the morning after (Red), 6 months after (Pink).* The seven are billed as random, although I've seen somewhere suggesting that Red and Pink are always the two episodes before White (and were for us).
It was... disappointing. It's rather predictable, difficult to empathise with anyone (I liked Stan, but that was about it) and rather too many people die (including various bystanders). Nice idea, but this isn't the right series or plot to showcase it.
* Our viewing was Green, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Violet, Red, Pink, White.
