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Kaleidoscope (on Netflix) – thoughts? SPOILERS
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I just finished this yesterday. I was intrigued by the concept of being able to watch the episodes in any order. But after the initial novelty it just kind of became a heist story and the random order became less and less meaningful. So, a clever idea but seemed in the end strangely pointless as a concept.
The story itself was a mash of Reservoir Dogs, Heat and Oceans 11, so did feel a bit shop-worn. The actual heist sequence itself was also strangely subdued – only three or four guards? The whole place was just too empty and it made it look too easy. The thing with the bees was clever but just felt a bit… silly?
The main guy, from Breaking Bad, was excellent however, and it was quite sad to see him ageing and succumbing to Parkinsons as the episodes went on through the years. And the final final twist was quite well done and moving – I didn’t see it coming at all.
The random-episodes gimmick was a bit pointless, I agree, but at least it served to get the thing noticed and talked about. All too many equally well-made shows (hi, DEVS!) slip under the radar because so much new content is constantly being made available across the streaming platforms.
That said, taken in isolation, “Pink” was probably the best single episode of anything I’ve seen for a good while.
Yeah Pink was one of my favourites – a real exercise in nail-biting tension. I don’t think it would have worked if that was the first episode you watched, although that might have been an interesting experiment.
Having said that though, in googling it now I realise that the person I assumed had killed Leo at the end was not who I thought it was. (And actually, dramatically speaking I don’t think his death was needed – it would have been enough to end on him speaking to his daughter).
I assume it was Sala’s son? Same tee shirt I think
We quite enjoyed it but, as mentioned above, there were a few badly thought out situations. The action that takes place in the vault was ludicrous. It seemed to go on for ages so why weren’t there dozens of cops swarming around rather than just two FBI agents?!?
Speaking of the two agents – why was the female one killed by the bloke asking for directions? And why was she killed? Likewise the main character – the one with Parkinsons – who shot him in the subway?
Overall, I enjoyed it, but I agree about the scenes in the vault. They should have been a highlight but took too long and the absence of cops swarming the place meant that most of the tension was lost.
Re the man asking directions: as I understood it, the billionaire Triplets didn’t like people looking into their business. The FBI agent kept asking questions, so the directions man was sent (with some sort of contact poison, I’m guessing?) to eliminate her.
Re Leo with Parkinson’s: there was a brief shot of his killer’s distinctive T-shirt. The same T-shirt was worn by Rufus Sewell’s character’s teenage son. I’ve decided that he found out who ruined his dad, and went out to kill him. Ta-da!
You’re right on both counts, darling.
Just finished the lot (had to get it finished as we’re losing Netflix this week). It was ok, I think I persevered with it as I liked the set up in the first episode (first one offered up). By the end I was glad for it to finish.
I did the series in the order presented, rather than anything else, the watching in any order felt like a gimmick and not much else. Mrs. Paws complained that she couldn’t warm to any of the characters, so gave up after the second episode. I kind of predicted what would happen in the end, so there wasn’t a lot of reveal in the ‘white’ episode. Overall it felt a bit like style over substance- it looked good but didn’t quite deliver.