If you are a certain type of viewer, the arrival of Netflix’s new drama Kaleidoscope will have filled you with excitement. That is because Kaleidoscope represents nothing less than a bold new vision of storytelling. There are eight episodes in total. Some are set before a heist, some after the heist and one episode concerns the heist itself. But here’s the thing: you can watch the episodes in any order you like.
There’s the (randomised) order that Netflix serves up, or any other order you can dream up on a whim. It’s a nice idea, isn’t it? After all, Netflix was the service that freed us from the shackles of linear scheduling, so it makes sense that it should now attempt to free us from the shackles of linear storytelling.
