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Will There Be a Season 2 of Netflix's Kaleidoscope? Here's What We ... (Seventeen.com)

The thriller series "Kaleidoscope" hit Netflix on January 1, and fans may wonder if we will see the crime group heist again. Here's what we know about ...

Though the first season was set and loosely based upon IRL events surrounding Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when $70 billion in bonds went missing from downtown Manhattan, we don't know yet when the potential second season would take place. However, the January 1 premiered Kaleidoscope has yet to be officially renewed by the streaming giant. The crime anthology centered around a group of master thieves attempting to break into a vault for the largest payday in heist history treated each viewer to a different immersive viewing experience.

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Is Netflix's Kaleidoscope Based on a True Story? (Den of Geek)

Non-linear Netflix heist thriller Kaleidoscope was inspired by true events...or events that could have hypothetically been true.

This means the story is somewhat of a non-factor without adding some zest to the alchemy. There is still negligible evidence to this day about the whereabouts of the cash. So how does this tie back to the events in the show? Kaleidoscope is the thrilling theoretical answer to some of these questions. After the devastating tropical storm that wrecked havoc on the East Coast of the United States a decade ago, about $70 billion in bonds in a vault deep underground were ruined by the fluids that inundated New York City. You know how it feels like virtually every piece of television or film has to have some sort of disclaimer in the news before its release saying “based on a true story”?

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Netflix's Kaleidoscope: Season 1 — movie review (Vanguard)

Netflix is out with another thriller-heist movie in Kaleidoscope. It is a crime anthology centered around a group of master thieves attempting to break into ...

There is still negligible evidence to this day about the whereabouts of the cash. Nobody else would even comment about what happened that would lead to a storm affecting sums of cash very far underground so vulnerable to destruction. After the devastating tropical storm that wrecked havoc on the East Coast of the United States a decade ago, about $70 billion in bonds in a vault deep underground were ruined by the fluids that inundated New York City.

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Kaleidoscope's Giancarlo Esposito addresses ideal order to binge ... (Daily Express)

Kaleidoscope star Giancarlo Esposito has opened up about the best way to watch Netflix's latest hit drama.

The idea of the show baffled fans at first but the series promises to make sense no matter which way viewers decide to watch the show. Interesting.” Interesting. However, in a new interview, Kaleidoscope stars Giancarlo Esposito and Tati Gabrielle revealed the best way to binge-watch the new Netflix series. In a recent interview, Esposito and Gabrielle shared the ideal way to binge the new series and they have very differing views. [Netflix's ](/latest/netflix)new heist drama has taken viewers by storm.

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What's the Best Way to Watch Randomized Heist Series ... (Vulture)

Heist series 'Kaleidoscope', now streaming on Netflix, can supposedly be watched in any order, but is the randomized experience really the best one?

Start there, then alternate “Violet” and “Green,” the two flashback episodes, with “Orange” and “Blue,” episodes that move the story toward the heist chronologically. Then watch “Red” and “Pink,” two episodes set in the aftermath of the heist. Here’s how I wish I’d watched Kaleidoscope: “Yellow,” in which Leo assembles his ragtag team of misfits (which includes Paz Vega, Rosaline Elbay, Peter Mark Kendall, and Jordan Mendoza), is absolutely the best place to begin the story. This approach is kind of perverse, but it might be the right kind of perverse for some viewers. Besides, “White” is hardly the only episode of Kaleidoscope with a heist or caper of some kind. Kaleidoscope is structured so every episode builds up to the big heist at the heart of the story. It’s a bit like looking at a crossword puzzle’s solution and then trying to solve the puzzle. It depends on which episode they watched in the lead-up.) Still, the confusion generated along the way often seems kind of pointless, and anyone looking for Kaleidoscope to offer a revolution in how TV storytelling works will likely be disappointed. Apart from “White,” designed as the eight-episode season’s finale, Kaleidoscope can be watched in any order — or as Netflix puts it, “the order in which they watch the episodes will affect their viewpoint on the story, the characters, and the questions and answers at the heart of the heist.” Each selection, in other words, will give viewers a different experience of watching the show. Watching this way, viewers immediately learn Leo and Roger’s history together, why Leo’s animosity runs so deep, and the significance of one of Leo’s employees. By starting with “Red,” an episode set in the immediate aftermath of the central heist depicted in “White,” the intended finale, I mostly found myself wondering, Who are these people and what do they want? When one character says of the big score, “We’ve got a chance to fix everything that went wrong in our lives,” viewers know how wrong he is.

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Netflix's Kaleidoscope has a random episode order, but it's still boring (Polygon)

To pull off the job, Leo gets together a crew that includes Ava Mercer (Paz Vega), Judy Goodwin (Rosaline Elbay), Stan Loomis (Peter Mark Kendall), RJ Acosta ( ...

It feels like the intended effect of Netflix randomizing Kaleidoscope’s episodes was to compel friends to urge each other to continue the show so they can reach the next big episode or moment. Even the heist itself, which has an hour devoted to it but still mostly manages to be about walking from one place to the next, can’t find a way to be exciting or slick. And nothing about the show or its characters has even the ounce of the charm it would take to make following them through this byzantine shuffle of episodes anything other than a drag. Kaleidoscope’s pacing feels nonsensical, which might seem like it’s the obvious fault of the random order. None of these glaring issues can be attributed to the randomized order. It relies on characters who know more than we do, who hold back the ace up their sleeve, obscured from even the audience, for just the perfect hand. Rather than any kind of actual personality for the characters or anything else that might make you care about them, we get first-day-of-class fun facts like one character liking the play the drums or another wanting to retire to the beach. Just like a great heist, a great heist movie requires perfect timing, giving out character reveals at just the right moment, knowing when the story needs a new complication, and throwing shocking twists in at exactly the right moment for maximum audience impact. Depending on the order of your episodes, when we meet Leo he’s either about to break out of prison, or he’s dead set on revenge via the biggest job he can think of: hitting his former partner who now runs a security company with a high-tech underground vault. Meanwhile, every side character just seems like more trouble than they’re worth, with most of them feeling like they’re at best one Google search smarter than the audience about everything from safe cracking to explosives. Unfortunately, the show never really makes a song worth listening to, and mostly feels like a din of out-of-tune instruments, no matter what order they’re in. While this format is almost interesting at first blush, its problems become clear with a little more thought: There’s nothing fundamentally interesting about learning things in a random order.

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Netflix's 'Kaleidoscope': What makes it so appealing to OTT fans ... (Economic Times)

Kaleidoscope allows viewers to enjoy the series in any order of their choice. · Korean Dramas releasing on Netflix in January 2023: See list · FAQs:.

Remember, that this order will present the story differently to you than it will appear to other viewers. The story depicts a long timeframe ranging from twenty-five years before the heist to six months after the heist. What is the “ideal” order to watch Kaleidoscope?Ironically, there is no set viewing order for Netflix’s Kaleidoscope and this is what makes it a unique show. In this episode, you will get the showcase of the entire heist. You can enjoy any episode in any order of your choice without missing the “high points” of the story. The series comprises eight different episodes.

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