Netflix's Kaleidoscope is an interesting idea that works far better in theory than it does in execution. Our review:
There is a lot of promise in Eric Garcia’s Kaleidoscope, a heist miniseries that is the latest release from Netflix to try to allow for some form of viewer interaction to its experience. No, it isn’t quite like 2018’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which was built as being a choose-your-own-adventure story with branching storylines whereas this has outcomes that remain fixed. Still, there are plenty of variations to the experience in how you chose to watch it.
It is entirely up to you, but putting some of the climactic episodes at the beginning will most certainly render much of what precedes it tedious. Its best differences come from how the various pieces speak to each other beyond just scattered twists. A flashback episode coming later can serve to fill in the gaps of what was left unspoken by characters yet was still weighing on them.
No matter which way you end up slicing it, the show itself is quite derivative in its writing and unimaginative in its characterizations. It all ends up amounting to an interesting idea that works far better in theory than it does in execution. This isn’t to say the potential for a show to be tackled in random order is a total wash. There could be intriguing future takes on such a narrative format, but they’re going to need to be a lot more inventive than this one is.
Of course, one could arrange their viewing experience to sprinkle some of these meandering episodes around a bit, though that would likely only call more attention to all their flaws. There isn’t much of any joy in actually seeing the pieces come together as the process of actually figuring out how to pull it all off isn’t ever all that clever. Instead, it is rather blunt and lacking in anything approaching greater thrills.
Even if you are to view Kaleidoscope chronologically, it wouldn’t work either as it would reveal too much information that the other episodes rely on for any remaining investment we have in where it all goes. Without giving away too much about any one point , it seems to want to be more of a character-driven tragedy than anything else.
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