Kaleidoscope: an eight-part dramatic thriller that can be streamed in any order

The new Netflix show, “Kaleidoscope,” is like a choose-your-own-adventure book for adults. It is an eight-part series that allows users to watch the first seven episodes in any order they choose before arriving at the season finale.

The first seven episodes are entirely non-chronological, but the show is loosely based on a heist that occurred on Wall Street in 2012, around the time of Hurricane Sandy. The episodes jump around a roughly 24-year timeline before the heist and one year after.

The dramatic thriller series keeps viewers on the edge of their seats as FBI agents survey the team, loyalties change and greed overcomes some of the characters. This non-chronological series aims to highlight the heist team's ever-changing agenda - as the betrayal, vengeance and scheming necessary to execute the heist.

Netflix promised 40,320 different ways to watch the protagonists as they plot and execute a heist of 7 billion dollars worth of untraceable bonds from a vault in Wall Street.

Unlike the “Black Mirror” episode titled “Bandersnatch,” or a children's choose-your-own-adventure book, anyone who chooses to stream “Kaleidoscope” will have seen every scene. There are no hidden storylines or scenes that unlock like in “Bandersnatch.” “Kaleidoscope” is a fairly interactive and creative approach to storytelling.

However, many viewers feel that the storyline gets lost while jumping around the timeline of the crime. Since the episodes are created to watch in any order, it becomes difficult to connect events, form opinions on characters and even pay attention to the plot.

Admittedly, Netflix may have bitten off more than it could chew with this series. To jumble up an over two-decades-long storyline, condense it into eight episodes, and then tell viewers to watch it in any order they please was a large feat. Perhaps it was one Netflix did not execute very well