Here, those constraints mean that every episode must be legible to viewers who are coming in cold: It could be their first one. But it reminded me, a bit, of the George Perec novel translated into English as “A Void,” one that in French and English both is written without using the letter “E.” It’s a clever stunt, but do readers today remember the story, or simply the fact of its constraints? I suppose it’s novel enough to have a bunch of episodes available to watch in random order (although it’s not brand-new: The former CBS All Access launched in 2020 a series, “Interrogation,” built in a similar way).
The issue with “Kaleidoscope,” though, is that its design is less an ingenious way of moving storytelling forward than the sort of thing a creator, or a streamer, does because it can. “Kaleidoscope” has an interesting enough story at its center - the whirring of its random-episode design overlays a story of a daring heist undertaken as a sort of revenge by a master criminal ( Giancarlo Esposito) and his crack team. A perhaps gently hungover viewer may be coddled by the knowledge that viewing order doesn’t matter, and, for that matter, that pertinent information will be repeated as needed to make points clear. In this way, it seems to suggest itself in form as much as premiere date as ideal for a New Year’s Day binge. 1, is intended to be viewed in any order, with its first seven episodes possible to scramble and remix however the viewer chooses ahead of a final installment.
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The new series “ Kaleidoscope,” premiering on Jan.
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