- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 1, 2023
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings
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Positive: 5 out of 21
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Mixed: 13 out of 21
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Negative: 3 out of 21
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It’s great to see Giancarlo Esposito top-lining his own series, which he does very well. And the ensemble is engaging if a bit tame (except for Jai Courtney’s outsized Bob). If you love heist stories, it’s an experiment worth watching but it won’t rank as a seminal work in the genre regardless of its distinct presentation.
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There’s a clockwork energy to heist stories that’s interrupted here. It lacks the right build-up, but I’m not even sure if watching the episodes in chronological order (a quick internet search will pull up that info) would fix the issue. The pacing’s just off.
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But for all its architectural mischief, "Kaleidoscope" would be strictly formulaic if you laid its chapters out in chronological order. Series creator Eric Garcia no doubt had his hands full writing episodes that could all serve as intros without giving away the game entirely and also be engaging enough to get a viewer to do a modicum of mental labor in keeping the story straight. That he has done.