Rule-breakers who throw the finale into the mix have a mind-boggling 40,320 ways to watch Kaleidoscope. Just how many different experiences are possible? If you follow the rules and save “White” for last, there are 5,040 possible combinations of the seven episodes leading up to it. How? Apart from “White,” designed as the eight-episode season’s finale, Kaleidoscope can be watched in any order - or as Netflix puts it, “the order in which they watch the episodes will affect their viewpoint on the story, the characters, and the questions and answers at the heart of the heist.” Each selection, in other words, will give viewers a different experience of watching the show. But the show’s title also refers to a device that mixes and matches colors to form new patterns, which Kaleidoscope encourages its viewers to do as well.

Each episode bears the name of a different hue, which in turn figures heavily into the episode’s visual scheme. As the title suggests, colors play a major role in the heist drama, the creation of Matchstick Men author Eric Garcia. Kaleidoscope arrives on Netflix with not one gimmick but two. Rule-breakers who throw the finale into the mix have a mind-boggling 40,320 ways to watch. If you follow the rules and save “White” for last, there are 5,040 possible ways to watch Kaleidoscope.

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