It really isn’t bad at all.īut sliced up and flung at you at random, it loses something. Sometimes it plays out like Hustle, sometimes like Heat. The cast includes Rufus Sewell and Jai Courtney and, in a brief break from starring in everything else that has ever been made, Giancarlo Esposito. It isn’t A-grade prestige drama, but it is fun and intermittently gripping – and just about preposterous enough to remain entertaining. What is so frustrating about Kaleidoscope is that once you have sat through the whole thing and reordered it in your brain, it’s a pretty good show.

You will just have experienced it in a subtly different way.

By the time the credits roll on the finale, you will know as much about the show as everyone else who watches it. You won’t gain access to any new scenes by watching the episodes in a certain order. Unlike, say, Bandersnatch – the interactive Black Mirror special designed to mimic the Choose Your Own Adventure books – everyone who finishes Kaleidoscope will have seen precisely all of it.

The show wants you to end on White, which is the heist episode itself, but there’s nothing stopping you from watching it however you like. Then they might jump to Violet (another flashback), or Red (set in the immediate aftermath of the heist), or Blue (where the heist is being planned), or any of the other variously coloured episodes. Some will start with the episode entitled Green, which takes the form of a flashback. We are promised that there are 40,320 ways in which we can experience Kaleidoscope.

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