Seven episodes, one story, and you pick the sequence. Watch them out of order and you get a mystery. Watch them chronologically and you get a straight con. Whatever order you pick ends with episode 8.
The heist at the center of Kaleidoscope is worth $7 billion, and the crew pulling it off falls apart on their own betrayals and greed before they ever get clean.
Giancarlo Esposito, Gus Fring from Breaking Bad, plays the mastermind. The seven main episodes are named for colors (Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Violet, Red, and Pink), and Netflix serves them in a different order to almost every viewer. The eighth, White, is the heist itself and always lands last.
Fans have mapped out which sequence gives you what. Chronological runs Violet (24 years before), Green (7 years before), Yellow (6 weeks before), Orange (3 weeks before), Blue (5 days before), White (the heist), Red (the morning after), and Pink (6 months after). Want mystery instead? Open on Red, the morning after, and let the heist reveal itself in reverse.
Two years on it has built a cult following, though critics stayed split at a 49 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
