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Kaleidoscope
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Eric Garcia
A master thief and his crew attempt an epic and elaborate heist worth $7 billion dollars — but betrayal, greed and other threats undermine their plans.
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> The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda.
What political agenda? Are gays existing in movies political for you or what do you mean?
And again, Netflix have to play a numbers game. They need to have enough content for people not to leave them. That doesn't mean they don't also have genuine quality content like Better Call Saul, Peaky Blinders, Kaleidoscope, etc.
> TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views
They already started, appointing a political hack to be head of CBS, and CBS have already quickly turned very politically biased. Why wouldn't they do the same to CNN?
Unless a series is explicitly conceived from the beginning as something to be experienced in any order and written concurrently, e.g. the episodes of the Netflix show Kaleidoscope, you should read in publication order if you intend to read the series completely.
It’s not just about making sense. A flashback will often make complete sense when viewed at its chronological time. But all sorts of dramatic weight and subtleties can be lost on a reader who does not have knowledge material that was published prior, and it can further alter your perception of events that happen later on that assume you don’t have that knowledge.
Each book was written with a unique frame of reference. It’s almost always a mistake to leave that frame of reference.
In the top 50, I've see Night Agent (give it a 7), Luther (6-7), Extraction 2 (6).
I've heard good things about Beef, and maybe Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is novel because it's an 8 episode heist show that, in theory, can be watched in any order and be cogent. Arguably, this is one reason I have not watched it. Not a big fan of gimmicky things.
Of course there's also the bit of the "how can there be 18,000 shows and nothing to watch?"
Traditional storytelling is totally ordered.
I gather Kaleidoscope is parallel, in that all episodes except the last can be associated and commuted.
More sophisticated stochastic storytelling would require an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatroid .