History Series / Kaleidoscope2023

* RisingWaterRisingTension: [[spoiler: As the crew breaks into each safe in the vault, the room they're in gradually fills with water. Ray later swims back into the vault room after the water has reached a story high to place the amulet Roger stole in ''Violet'' inside his personal safe, implicating him for the incident. In ''Red'', he gets his foot stuck in a gate as he tries to escape the room and nearly drowns.]]

* RedHerring: By the time we watch ''White'', we're fully aware that [[spoiler: RJ is either dead or missing by the events of ''Red''. When Judy is setting the charges in the sewer, and running out of time, RJ comes into the tube to check up on her to see how she's doing. They complete their work in the nick of time, but as they rush out of the sewer, the charges begin to detonate, causing the sewer to flood. The two start to ascend the ladder out of the sewer, but RJ hesitates to witness a wall of water rushing towards him. We cut away before we see what happens next and are lead to believe the water drowned him, until we later learn that he managed to escape. RJ ''instead'' dies when Judy shoots him.]]

* TheQuietOne: [[spoiler: Bob]] is this in ''Pink'', after his windpipe was crushed beyond repair in ''White''. His communication method of choice is a free text-to-speech app on his phone. He gets a MoodWhiplash moment when an advertisement for the app in question plays while he holds [[spoiler: Ava, Ray and Teresa]] at gunpoint. He ''can'' speak, but it presumably exacerbates his windpipe, so he only speaks when he ''really'' needs to emphasize something.

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: RJ, the most innocent member of the team, is the first to die during the heist.]]

* ICanChangeMyBeloved: A non-romantic example, but Hannah's speech to Ray in [[spoiler: ''White'' is her expressing this trope, saying that Ray is going to be the kind of person he is and there's nothing Hannah can do to change that anymore.

* LoveTriangle: Both Type 1 and Type 3: Judy has feelings for both Bob and Stan, and both Bob and Stan have clear feelings for her. Judy and Stan were exes by the time of ''Orange'', the former getting together with Bob. The tension between Bob and Stan grows as a result of Bob's insecurities over Judy getting back with her ex, which evolves into one of the more reasons why [[spoiler: the heist failed. In ''White'', it seems Judy made her choice when she chokes Bob nearly to death, and in ''Pink'' where she is now in a relationship with Stan again. However, after seeing Bob's car in a parking lot, she has second thoughts and contemplates abandoning him with the money Bob left.]]

* DownerEnding: If you watch the show chronologically, anyway. [[spoiler: The heist Ray and the crew worked so hard on fails spectacularly in ''White'', and by the end of ''Pink'', nearly every member of the show who ever tried to wrong Roger Salas or the Triplets are dead along with their loved ones. The few who are still alive now live a life of constant paranoia and turmoil, and the only people still living comfortably are the villains, and those who had to appease them to avoid such a fate.]]

** "Violet" is only about Ray Vernon, and features no other characters from the modern day besides Hannah and Roger, whos' backstories are developed alongside Ray's.

* FrameUp: In order to secure her position as Roger Salas's senior VP, Hannah plants a USB full of incriminating security info into the pocket of the current VP and comments to her coworker that he "seems suspicious", leading the Senior VP to lose his job and for Roger promote Hannah as his new VP.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There are a few moments where it's possible to feel sympathy for Bob...but these are undone once you know the full story. His hand injury from [[spoiler: the Diamond Way robbery]] comes across as tragic until you see how he got it in "Yellow" and learn [[spoiler: it was pretty much his own fault.]]. In "Pink," he [[spoiler: can barely speak due to his crushed windpipe, and tries to write a letter to Judy summing up his feelings. He even almost seems to take Ray's advice to give up and walk away seriously. However, Bob continues pursuing his revenge and ultimately dies because of it.]]

* MexicanStandoff: A four-way between [[spoiler: Ava, Judy, Ray and Stan in ''Red'' at the height of the group's tension and mistrust. Judy pulls her gun on Ava believing she and Ray made off with the bonds and played the group, and the others follow suit either to back up Judy or back up Ava.]] Their standoff is interrupted when [[spoiler:
Carlos and his group of mercenaries come in, guns blazing.]]

** "White": The flashbacks to the scenes in previous episodes have a white color filter.

* ICanChangeMyBeloved: A non-romantic example, but Hannah's speech to Ray in [[spoiler: ''White'' is her expressing this trope, saying that Ray is going to be the kind of person he is and there's nothing Hannah can do anymore to change that.]]

** If you watch "Blue" or "Orange" before "Yellow," you'll notice Bob's wounded hand. [[spoiler: "Yellow" shows how he was shot during the Diamond Way heist.]]

* JerkWithAHeartofJerk: There are a few moments where it's possible to feel sympathy for Bob...but these are undone once you know the full story. His hand injury from [[spoiler: the Diamond Way robbery]] comes across as tragic until you see how he got it in "Yellow" and learn [[spoiler: it was his own fault.]]. In "Pink," he [[spoiler: can barely speak due to his crushed windpipe, and tries to write a letter to Judy summing up his feelings. He even almost seems to take Ray's advice to give up and walk away seriously. However, Bob continues pursuing his revenge and ultimately dies because of it.]]

*** The [[spoiler: necklace Ray steals from the country club has an amethyst gem in its center.
*** Ava Mercer shields a young Hannah away from the scene of her father getting arrested with the flaps of her purple trenchcoat.]]

* CoolOldGuy: Ray may not be trustworthy, and has plenty of flaws, but he's also a smart and capable thief with years of experience pulling off jobs. Most visible in "Green," "Yellow," and "Blue." [[spoiler: Even in "Pink," when he's clearly suffering from Parkinson's, he manages to defeat Bob and save Judy and Stan's lives, although it ends up costing Ava and Teresa's lives and he doesn't live much longer after that.]] As with much of the show, the order you view the episodes in could change how sympathetically you view him, but his cool factor is almost always present.

** "Green": Washington Correctional Facility features green walls and uniforms. Ray's letter to Hannah uses green paper, and he whittles Irish Spring soap into a butterfly shape.
** "Yellow": The color of the USB stick [[spoiler:found in the senior VP's bag.]] The gas during the Diamond Way job.
** "Orange": The letters on the "FBI" jackets.
** "Blue": The sauna.
** "Violet": Ray Vernon's auto-shop business has a purple-colored title. The [[spoiler: necklace Ray steals from the country club has an amethyst gem in its center. Ava Mercer shields a young Hannah away from the scene of her father getting arrested with the flaps of her purple trenchcoat.]]
** "Red": There's a giant reflective red screen at the hideout, and [[spoiler: the boat Ray's crew escapes on has a red stripe on it.]]
** "Pink": The taco truck, as well as [[spoiler: the cabin where Ray, Ava, and Teresa hide out and Bob's visions of the "pink sands" after he's been shot by the FBI. The stripes on Bob's tracksuit are also closer to pink than their usual red, and the earbud cords he has people wear so they can hear him speak through a text-to-voice translator are a neon pink as well.]] There's also [[spoiler: the pink blossoms on the trees seen as Ray is shot at the very end of the episode.]]

* RedHerring: By the time we watch ''White'', we're fully aware that [[spoiler: RJ is either dead or missing by the events of ''Red''. When Judy is setting the charges in the sewer, and running out of time, RJ comes into the tube to check up on her to see how she's doing. They complete their work in the nick of time, but as they rush out of the sewer, the charges begin to detonate, causing the sewer to flood. The two start to ascend the ladder out of the sewer, but RJ hesitates to witness a wall of water rushing towards him. We cut away before we see what happens next and are lead to believe he's dead, until we later learn that he managed to escape. RJ ''instead'' dies when Judy shoots him.]]

* FrameUp: In order to secure her position as Roger Salas's senior VP, she plants a USB full of incriminating security info into the pocket of the current VP and comments to her coworker that he "seems suspicious", leading the Senior VP to lose his job and for Roger promote Hannah as his new VP.

* BigStormEpisode: the entirety of ''White'' takes place during a major hurricane sweeping across Manhattan.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The height of the tension of the heist itself is punctuated with [[spoiler: the intense hurricane that Ray takes advantage of to break into Roger Salas's vault.]]

* EmpatheticEnvironment: The height of the tension of the heist itself is punctuated with [[spoiler: the intense hurricane that Ray takes advantage of to break into Roger Salas's vault.]]

* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: Hannah ]] is the only one who is not blinded by obsession and/or greed and realizes that the heist can only end in tragedy.

* OhCrap: Doubles as a FiveSecondForeshadowing when Ray lets out a sharp "NO!" as he sees [[spoiler: Ava Mercer die in front of him in ''Pink''.