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Netflix Reveals a Series That Is Designed To Be Watched in Any Order You Choose
Netflix's new anthology series "Kaleidoscope" will give viewers their own unique experience watching a team of skillful thieves attempt to pull off a robbery they've been planning for over 20 years. From a report: In a sneak peek clip, the cast and crew share the intricacies of the series and how it's making a new spin on the traditional anthology series. "Every episode had multiple connections to every other episode," said the show's creator, showrunner and executive producer Eric Garcia in the clip. Garcia is also one of the "Kaleidoscope" writers. In the eight-part series, the audience will follow "a crew of masterful thieves and their attempt to crack a seemingly unbreakable vault for the biggest payday in history. Guarded by the world's most powerful corporate security team, and with law enforcement on the case, every episode reveals a piece of an elaborate puzzle of corruption, greed, vengeance, scheming, loyalties and betrayals," reads a description of the show, which premieres on Netflix Jan. 1.
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"So I got this idea... Imagine a TV show about a dad with three daughters that recently lost his wife, and his two best friends come and live with him in San Francisco to help him out and get into all kinds of comedy hijinks! I call it "Full House".
And here is the kicker: The audience can watch the show in ANY ORDER!"
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And lets replicate the years of fantasizing about the Union Repository heist of GTA V.
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Some series are supposed to be watched in order, but are so insufferably slow and incomprehensible that you can watch them out of order just to enjoy the ambience.
A prime example of this is Twin Peaks. To this day, I still have no idea what it's all about. And I did try to watch it in order! I found it enjoyable enough though.
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Twin Peaks is about US Government experiments accidentally opening a portal to another dimension inhabited by entities capable of possessing humans, leading to a series of murders. Anything deeper is fabricated by people looking too hard.
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That would be "Strangers Things". No? Is nothing original?
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I find most series I just can't get into if I watch out of order, it's gets too confusing. Except for sitcoms, but those get old fast.
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You mean you haven't watched all of the episodes of Night Court in a single binge?
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The pitch seems a little different, since the episodes build toward a specific climax. A traditional, non-serial show, by contrast, has largely disconnected episodes. But you're right—this doesn't sound particularly novel, just an advertisement.
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It reminds me of microservices. XML "web services" were the rage in the early 2000's. Somebody changed the XML to JSON and claimed it was both novel and revolutionary. (It's not; there's a right place and time for them, but it's not everywhere, unlike what the fad puppies imply.)
And mini-computers were renamed to "servers" to make them sound novel and innovative. Innovative marketing, maybe.
You youngbies are silly.
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Outside of sitcoms I think "normal" TV shows now have multi-episode plot arcs.
Traditional TV shows on the other hand were largely stand-alone because streaming didn't exist and syndication was the holy grail so you couldn't count on a viewer watching in any particular order nor could you assume they'd seen any particular episode.
But it sounds like you are meant to watch every episode, but in any order. It's an interesting gimmick that might work in kind of the same way that improv works in contrast to sketc
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In reality I expect they do it by doing something like following a single character from start to finish. I can see some interesting scenarios doing that, say a character dies. If you see the episodes of other characters first you see some ominous signs something bad happened (but no confirmation), but once you know the character is dead and watch the remaining episodes you'll have this tragic knowledge that the characters lack.
Arrested Development season 4 did something like this: each episode generally fo
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Personally I think jumping around in time is already an over-exploited narrative device in books and movies. Of course they jumble it in a certain order rather than choose-your-own, so OK this is a bit different.
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Well I'm thinking more of here's the same story, but now from this character's point of view, which has certainly been done, but not to this scale. Not to mention when there is a conflict between two characters the hero/villain get switched depending on the perspective.
Of course, I could also be completely wrong in how they're planning to do it.
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Well, there have always been TV shows that introduced long arcs. Prime time soaps, for instance, would have been largely incomprehensible if you were just randomly picking episodes here and there. But for the most part, yes, writers maintained an episodic structure other than the odd two parter. But by the 1990s a number of shows like NYPD Blue and ER were borrowing heavily from the soap opera concept. Then you had some the more subtle arcs of X Files, where there were lots of "monster of the week" episodes
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"...is basically a series of 7-8 hour movies. It gives writers and directors the opportunity to tell stories in a more fulsome fashion."
I honestly think that's what most of the initial Disney+ shows were. They were planned out to be movies and then streeeeeeeeeeched out to be 8 episodes.
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Perhaps a recent Word-a-Day calendar for someone at Netflix was "Episodic"...
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