Creator of eight-part Netflix show that can be watched in any order shares order he wrote series in

While Netflix might be continuously releasing bangers this year, you can’t forget some of the gems already on there.

Perhaps watching Fool Me Once led to you going back to the other Harlan Coben series, or watching Glen Powell in Hit Man made you want to watch Top Gun: Maverick again.

And maybe seeing Giancarlo Esposito in The Gentlemen had you searching his name into Netflix for more, leading you to Kaleidoscope.

The series landed back in January 2023 and can rather uniquely be watched in any order.

With each episode named after a colour, it’s up to you which one you pick first but the order will affect how you view the story.

And as a film writer had their say on how you should watch it, the show’s creator revealed the order in which he wrote it.

The crime thriller spans 25 years and follows a ‘crew of masterful thieves and their attempt to crack a seemingly unbreakable vault for the biggest payday in history’. Each of the eight episodes reveals ‘a piece of an elaborate puzzle of corruption, greed, vengeance, scheming, loyalties and betrayals’.

Alongside Esposito, it also starts Paz vega, Rufus Sewell and Tati Gabrielle.

Just in case you can't get enough of Esposito right now. (Netflix)

Creator Eric Garcia told SYFY WIRE how he said before writing Kaleidoscope he had already decided ‘there's no reason we should have to watch things in order these days’.

So, he laid out a basic pitch of an interactive story ‘and from there, it grew’.

Almost treating each episode like a ‘pilot’, his team made sure they didn’t ‘go stale’.

“But hopefully, my theory is, depending on the order you've seen them, your view will be slightly different from mine, because as you come to know somebody, it changes,” he explained.

And he confirmed that the run order on Netflix is the general order the episodes were written in.

The series follows a heist. (Netflix)

"I wrote the 'Yellow' episode first and I wrote the 'Red' episode second. Then we got the stories up and running all around them, and then it bounced back and forth,” he said.

“And as one [episode] would change, registering the natural course of production, whether it's notes, actors, or we lose location, it would change other stuff, too. A lot of it was about tracking that stuff, too."

Although, Garcia reckons most people will start with ‘Blue’ but he says ‘Orange’ is also ‘a great place to start the series’.

You can watch Kaleidoscope (in whatever order you fancy) on Netflix.