An ambitious robbery, a band of seasoned criminals with complementary skills, old resentments... On paper, the scenario of
Kaleidoscope
is not very original.
The recipe is known, seen, reviewed and re-reviewed.
In the hold-up register,
Ocean Eleven, Elusive
and
Inside Man
at the cinema like
La Casa de papel
- to name a few - have already occupied this ground and marked the spirits.
To stand out from his predecessors,
Eric Garcia
has bet on a structural subtlety allowing spectators to discover its story as it sees fit.
A non-linear story divided into eight major episodes with the only obligation to end with the one devoted to the very day of the big robbery.
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“The story of a heist that spans 25 years and a unique television experience where each episode is a piece of the puzzle,
announces the introduction.
Follow this long-running crime through different time periods, in any order you want.
How will they get there?
Who will betray the others?
Who will get out?
By default,
Netflix
offers
a sequence of episodes but subscribers are free to form their own mosaic with the obligation to start with the didactic episode entitled
Black
and end with
White
.
Each episode focuses on recounting key events that occurred on the sidelines of the hold-up at different times.
Chronologically,
Green
(7 years before),
Yellow
(6 weeks before),
Orange
(3 weeks before),
Blue
(5 days before),
Red
(the next day) and finally
Pink
(6 months later).
Each episode made as a pilot
"With all of these series being offered in their entirety on streaming platforms, there's no reason to watch
Kaleidoscope
in order
," Eric Garcia told the
New York Post
.
Why can't we watch it out of order?
To make this viewing configuration possible, the American showrunner has structured his episodes accordingly by making them as if they were pilots
.
"By discovering the different characters at different times, you perceive them in different ways
," he explains.
It seemed wise to me to combine the story of a robbery and a non-linear narration.
A second viewing of the series in a different order will give you another look at the plot.
And
to emphasize that
"there is no perfect order"
among the 5040 possibilities to enjoy
Kaleidoscope
.
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Leo Pap, played by
Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Boys, The Mandalorian
), recruits a band of criminals to rob the vault of SLS, a high security company run by his former friend Roger Salas (Rufus Sewell).
At the end of the day, a booty of 7 billion dollars in bearer bonds stored in a safe with the latest technological innovations in terms of security.
To support him, Leo Pap joins forces with Ava Mercer (Paz Vega), a trustworthy woman specializing in arms trafficking, the couple Judy and Bob Goodwin (Rosaline Elbay and Jai Courtney) specialists respectively in explosives and in the opening of trunks, Stan Loomis (Peter Mark Kendall) the smuggler and RJ Acosta (Jordan Mendoza) the driver.
Slowly eaten away by Parkinson's disease, the gang's mastermind plays a time trial tinged with personal revenge and family redemption but disturbed by betrayal,
