Netflix has started the year 2023 with an exciting series experiment: the thriller series “Kaleidoskop” about a robbery during a hurricane can be watched in random order or is chased by Netflix during playback by the random number generator. Nevertheless, an understandable story emerges at the end, because each episode is self-contained and covers a certain period. but what is the best, the ideal, the right order for “Kaleidoscope”?
Stephen King has now spoken out on the subject, who is best known for his numerous horror novels and their film adaptations, but who is also a self-confessed movie and series fan and loves to make recommendations on social media:
Not only did King tweet “Kaleidoscope” as “premium entertainment,” he also recommends watching the series in chronological order. But what exactly does that mean? The sequence of sequences named after colors then looks like this:
- Purple – 24 years before the robbery
- Green – 7 years before the robbery
- Yellow – 6 weeks before the robbery
- Orange – 3 weeks before the robbery
- Blue – 5 days before the robbery
- White – the robbery
- Red – the morning after the robbery
- Pink – 6 months after the robbery
But there are also plenty of other ways to watch “Kaleidoscope” – as mentioned at the beginning, there is actually no right and no wrong, because it is precisely this individual experience that makes the series so attractive. That’s why Netflix itself has only put together a handful of conceivable sequences that tend to follow a certain motto or model.
This includes a Quentin Tarantino sequence, which, like in “Pulp Fiction”, jumps back and forth in time quite wildly. Or an order in the style of the thriller masterpiece The Usual Suspects, starting after the robbery (“Pink”) but then jumping back to the beginning (“Purple”) and then following the chronological order of events.
According to Netflix, we have summarized in this article which options there are to watch “Kaleidoscope”: