Review of the "Kaleidoscope" series. The series seems to spin the old record, telling another story about the “robbery of the century”, a seemingly hackneyed topic where we only saw this, but still the project was quite suitable, with an interesting plot, a pleasant visual and an atmosphere of criminal romance.
Moreover, the project is essentially a breakthrough in cinema, it brings something new, previously almost no one has seen it anywhere, that the series can be viewed from any series and is its main feature. But is such an experiment successful? Let’s figure it out, I’m not going to talk about every episode, just briefly try to describe the general concept of this “phenomenon”.
The series really can be viewed from any series, from this the general meaning will not be lost, and each viewer will have his own sequence in the plot, personally I watched from the second, then in order to the fourth, and then for some reason included the seventh and famously fell out from the end, and in general from the whole series, this is my favorite series, by the way, but not the essence.
This concept came to me, but after watching, purely thinking about how to watch the series, I came to the conclusion that as usual, yes, the correct order of the series is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Well, the eighth series purely technically should always be the last, this is even hinted at by the final credits, which are noticeably different from the rest.
Of course, how exactly to watch the case of everyone, but personally I believe that the standard schedule of series is canonical, the creators of the series of course tried to make each episode independent of the rest, they in principle succeeded, but there is no specific code that should transform each series into the first, but the only thing that is, is the presentation of the main characters at the beginning of each episode. And if you think about it, this is unfortunately the same ordinary series that you will watch for example from the fifth series, the meaning will be the same, in fact, any series can be watched like Kaleidoscope, but the point is that only Kaleidoscope allows you to watch it this way.
Caste and characters
In general, the characters in the series are quite interesting, well-designed and competently prescribed, each with its own story for which it is interesting to observe. The series seems to have only eight episodes, but during this time you get used to the characters and even empathize, still the plot captures as much as 25 years, which also adds uniqueness to the series.
The cast of course is very fit, but separately pleased Giancarlo Esposito and Jai Courtney, Courtney played in Bob Goodwin, the character of the safebreaker, completely written off from Captain Boomerang from the suicide squad, I think if Boomerang himself had a similar storyline and the same screen time in the second part of the “squad”, the film would be much cooler.
But Giancarlo, it would seem for such a mini-series, gave out just an amazing acting game, proving that he can play not only villains, the creators of the series clearly did not fail by choosing him for the main role.
As for the plot and other things, visual for example, then of course everything is clear, the plot sags in places unfortunately and sometimes it is not clear what is happening, sometimes it is even boring, but in general this is a standard strong plot for a series about robbery, sometimes it even feels like watching the film adaptation of the gta.
Visually, the series is very pleasant, especially an interesting screensaver with the kaleidoscope itself stands out, and the name of each series is distributed by colors, for example, if the series is green, then the episode itself will always feature green, mainly it will be manifested in things and the surrounding interior.
As a result, the series turned out to be an interesting experiment, and it is up to you whether it failed or not.
"Kazakski!"