History Series / Kaleidoscope2023

** In "Violet", Leo targets a club that was openly racist against him and his loved ones.

** In “Violet,” Leo targets a club that was openly racist against him and his loved ones.

** [[spoiler: In "Pink," Bob forces Ray to call Stan and Judy and arrange a meeting with them, wherein Bob will show up and presumably kill Stan on the spot. The show leads us to believe that Ray did make that call— we cut to Stan and Judy getting ready to go, and Stan remarking that they're going to be late. However, it turns out Ray called Agent Abassi instead, and the name "Porky" in Ava's book was code for the FBI A.K.A. "the pigs." Meanwhile, Stan just wanted to get to a food truck before they ran out of lengua tacos.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The series was designed to be non-linear, with the viewer able to jump into any episode. ''White'' is meant to be watched last, however.

** [[spoiler: In “Pink,” Bob forces Ray to call Stan and Judy and arrange a meeting with them, wherein Bob will show up and presumably kill Stan on the spot. The show leads us to believe that Ray did make that call— we cut to Stan and Judy getting ready to go, and Stan remarking that they're going to be late. However, it turns out Ray called Agent Abassi instead, and the name "Porky" in Ava's book was code for the FBI A.K.A. "the pigs." Meanwhile, Stan just wanted to get to a food truck before they ran out of lengua tacos.]]
* BigStormEpisode: the entirety of ''White'' takes place during a major hurricane that's sweeping across Manhattan.

* BreakTheCutie: One of the hired killers in “Pink” is notably talkative and easygoing, unbefitting for the serious job at hand. When [[spoiler: Bob ]] catches him reading his intimate letters, he slams his head against their car's steering wheel multiple times, covering his face in blood. His friendly attitude is replaced with a stoic silence thereafter.

** [[spoiler: The main necklace that Ray and Graham try to steal in “Violet” is the object Ray leaves in the vault at the end of “White,” which Salas and Abassi find in “Red.”]]
** In "Blue," Bob mentions wanting to retire to "pink sands." [[spoiler: The last thing he sees before dying in "Pink" is, fittingly, the sands of the beach turning pink after being shot.]]
** In "White," we see Brad Salas, Roger's son, wearing a black shirt with a colorful pattern on it. [[spoiler: This heavily implies that he's the one who shoots Ray at the end of "Pink."]]
** If you watch "Blue," "Orange," or "White" before "Yellow," you'll notice Bob's wounded hand. [[spoiler: "Yellow" shows how he was shot during the Diamond Way job.]]

* CaperCrew: The episode “Yellow” is centered around a formation of the job crew.

** “Green”:

** “Yellow”:

** “Orange”:

** “Blue”:

** “Violet”:

** “Red”:

** “Pink”:

** “White”:

* 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.

* 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 have died miserably, and so have 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.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Salas warns Hannah that if you cross the Triplets, you might be walking down the street one day, brush up against someone, and die of a heart attack thirty minutes later— that's how dangerous they are. In ''Pink'', [[spoiler: Abassi has a stranger shake her hands and after a few steps collapses.]] As with much of the show, though, whether or not this is actually foreshadowed in your viewing depends on which episodes you watch first.

* 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.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is named after a color: “Yellow”, “Green”, “Blue”, “Orange”, “Violet”, “Red”, “Pink”, and “White”.

* IntoxicationEnsues: As part of the plan to break out of prison in “Green”, Stan laces a pot of oatmeal with crushed up magic mushrooms and serves it to the inmates, getting everyone in the cafeteria high. The distraction helps lure the CO's away from the infirmary, where Ray is held up.
* 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 declaring his commitment to be a better man. He almost seems to take Ray's advice to give up and walk away from his RoaringRampageOfRevenge plot. However, Bob continues pursuing his revenge and ultimately dies because of it.]]

* 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 “Yellow”, the former getting together with Bob since then. The tension between Bob and Stan grows as a result of Bob's fear of Judy getting back with her ex. [[spoiler: 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.]]

* MeaningfulFuneral: Or a meaningful clearing out of the office. The book Moby Dick is seen in 'Pink' when [[spoiler: Abassi's office is being cleared out.]]
* 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.]]

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Depending on what order the series is watched in, some scenes can repeat but now showing a different side to the truth. That's particularly true for “White” which shows the actual heist.

* 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.
* 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 drowned, until we later learn that he managed to escape. RJ ''instead'' dies when Judy shoots him.]]

* 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.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: The main plot of “Pink.” Six months after the heist, Bob works with Roger Salas and a pair of hired killers to track down the surviving members of the heist crew, specifically intending to kill Stan. Despite this, he actually doesn't kill anyone himself: one of his henchmen kills Ava and Teresa, and Brad Salas kills Ray, while Stan and Judy are unharmed.]]

* SignatureSoundEffect: the cranking and clicking noises of a combination lock punctuate the beginning and end of every episode, and is featured at length in “White”.

** In “Violet”, when the heist of the Glen Club starts going south, [[spoiler: Salas sets fire to the building in order to buy them more time. This ends up killing Ray Vernon's wife, who was in the building unbeknownst to him and Ray.]]

** “Pink,” although the impact can change depending on when you view it.
** “White,” which is intended as the final episode, even though it's chronologically the third-to-last. If you watch it after all the others, it fills in some important gaps, specifically [[spoiler: what happened to the bonds, what Ray left in the vault, what happened to RJ and Bob, and who shot Ray at the end of "Pink.”]]
* WhamShot: “White” contains several:
** If you watch “Pink” first, [[spoiler: the shot of Brad Salas wearing the same shirt as Ray's killer in is this, though the show doesn't emphasize it.]]
** If you watch “Violet” and “Red” before “White,” [[spoiler: the shot of the gem Ray places in the vault is this.]]

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Since the episodes are supposed to be watched in random order (though Netflix will always place "White" as the finale), the show plays with this. Two episodes, “Violet,” and “Green,” take place significantly earlier than most of the other events of the story, making them most likely to qualify no matter what order you watch. However, if “Pink” or “Red” are viewed first, most, if not all, of the remaining episodes could be seen as this. Alternately, viewing the episodes in chronological order averts this trope entirely (though “Red” does feature flashbacks to the heist itself).

The series is a heist story told in a non-linear fashion, where each episode contains a piece of the overall puzzle, and as such, viewers are able to start on any episode they wish; heck, Netflix outright randomly chooses a random order for what episodes are seen per person (though Netflix will always place ''"White"'' as the final episode).

* TenMinuteRetirement: In ''"Violet"'' Leo gets out of the game until [[spoiler: his wife is fired and racism played a factor in the firing.]]

** In ''"Violet"'' Leo targets a club that was openly racist against him and his loved ones.

** [[spoiler: In ''"Pink,"'' Bob forces Ray to call Stan and Judy and arrange a meeting with them, wherein Bob will show up and presumably kill Stan on the spot. The show leads us to believe that Ray did make that call— we cut to Stan and Judy getting ready to go, and Stan remarking that they're going to be late. However, it turns out Ray called Agent Abassi instead, and the name "Porky" in Ava's book was code for the FBI A.K.A. "the pigs." Meanwhile, Stan just wanted to get to a food truck before they ran out of lengua tacos.]]

* BreakTheCutie: One of the hired killers in ''Pink'' is notably talkative and easygoing, unbefitting for the serious job at hand. When [[spoiler: Bob ]] catches him reading his intimate letters, he slams his head against their car's steering wheel multiple times, covering his face in blood. His friendly attitude is replaced with a stoic silence thereafter.

** [[spoiler: The main necklace that Ray and Graham try to steal in "Violet" is the object Ray leaves in the vault at the end of "White," which Salas and Abassi find in "Red."]]

* ChekhovsGun: Zig-zagged, especially if you watch the episodes out of chronological order. At the end of "Blue," [[spoiler: Judy gives RJ the gun he's asked for.]] In "Red," [[spoiler: RJ and Bob are mysteriously absent.]] In "White," we find out [[spoiler: RJ attempted to shoot Bob but only hit his ass, and Judy killed him in retaliation. So there ''was'' a gun and it ''did'' go off, but it didn't ultimately do much on its own.]]

** "Green":

** "Yellow":

** "Orange":

** "Blue":

** "Violet":

** "Red":

** "Pink":

** "White":

* 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.

* 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 have died miserably, and so have 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.]]

* GunNut: Ava keeps several guns in her basement, and is shown to be proficient with them. [[spoiler: Partly played for laughs in "Pink," when Bob keeps finding guns hidden throughout the safe house, including the knife rack in the kitchen.]]
* 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.]]

* IntoxicationEnsues: As part of the plan to break out of prison in ''Green'', Stan laces a pot of oatmeal with crushed up magic mushrooms and serves it to the inmates, getting everyone in the cafeteria high. The distraction helps lure the CO's away from the infirmary, where Ray is held up.
* 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 declaring his commitment to be a better man. He almost seems to take Ray's advice to give up and walk away from his RoaringRampageOfRevenge plot. However, Bob continues pursuing his revenge and ultimately dies because of it.]]

* 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 ''Yellow'', the former getting together with Bob since then. The tension between Bob and Stan grows as a result of Bob's fear of Judy getting back with her ex. [[spoiler: 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.]]

* 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''.]]
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Depending on what order the series is watched in, some scenes can repeat but now showing a different side to the truth. That's particularly true for "White" which shows the actual heist.

* 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.
* 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 drowned, until we later learn that he managed to escape. RJ ''instead'' dies when Judy shoots him.]]

* 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.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: The main plot of "Pink." Six months after the heist, Bob works with Roger Salas and a pair of hired killers to track down the surviving members of the heist crew, specifically intending to kill Stan. Despite this, he actually doesn't kill anyone himself: one of his henchmen kills Ava and Teresa, and Brad Salas kills Ray, while Stan and Judy are unharmed.]]

* SignatureSoundEffect: the cranking and clicking noises of a combination lock punctuate the beginning and end of every episode, and is featured at length in ''White''.

** In 'Violet', when the heist of the Glen Club starts going south, [[spoiler: Salas sets fire to the building in order to buy them more time. This ends up killing Ray Vernon's wife, who was in the building unbeknownst to him and Ray.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: In "Pink" Bob hires two killers who banter with each other for most of the episode and bond over a relationship advice-themed podcast.

** "Pink," although the impact can change depending on when you view it.
** "White," which is intended as the final episode, even though it's chronologically the third-to-last. If you watch it after all the others, it fills in some important gaps, specifically [[spoiler: what happened to the bonds, what Ray left in the vault, what happened to RJ and Bob, and who shot Ray at the end of "Pink."]]
* WhamShot: "White" contains several:
** If you watch "Pink" first, [[spoiler: the shot of Brad Salas wearing the same shirt as Ray's killer in is this, though the show doesn't emphasize it.]]
** If you watch "Violet" and "Red" before "White," [[spoiler: the shot of the gem Ray places in the vault is this.]]

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Since the episodes are supposed to be watched in random order (though Netflix will always place "White" as the finale), the show plays with this. Two episodes, "Violet" and "Green," take place significantly earlier than most of the other events of the story, making them most likely to qualify no matter what order you watch. However, if "Pink" or "Red" are viewed first, most, if not all, of the remaining episodes could be seen as this. Alternately, viewing the episodes in chronological order averts this trope entirely (though "Red" does feature flashbacks to the heist itself).

The series is a heist story told in a non-linear fashion, where each episode contains a piece of the overall puzzle, and as such, viewers are able to start on any episode they wish; heck, Netflix outright randomly chooses a random order for what episodes are seen per person (though Netflix will always place "White" as the final episode).

* TenMinuteRetirement: In 'Violet' Leo gets out of the game until [[spoiler: his wife is fired and racism played a factor in the firing.]]

** In 'Violet' Leo targets a club that was openly racist against him and his loved ones.

** [[spoiler: In "Pink," Bob forces Ray to call Stan and Judy and arrange a meeting with them, wherein Bob will show up and presumably kill Stan on the spot. The show leads us to believe that Ray did make that call— we cut to Stan and Judy getting ready to go, and Stan remarking that they're going to be late. However, it turns out Ray called Agent Abassi instead, and the name "Porky" in Ava's book was code for the FBI A.K.A. "the pigs." Meanwhile, Stan just wanted to get to a food truck before they ran out of lengua tacos.]]

* GoldFever: Bob is so obsessed with big, fancy jewelry that he'd steal from Ava's trusted fence and also get his hand shot trying to break into a special display case just to get his hands on something shiny.

* ZanyScheme: Part of [[ThePlan the plan]] to break into Roger Salas's vault involves creating a mask of his face, flooding the safe room by detonating bombs in a sewer, and filling a hallway with ''bees'', to list its weirder aspects.

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

* BreakTheCutie: One of the hired killers in ''Pink'' is notably talkative and easygoing, unbefitting for the serious job at hand. When [[spoiler: Bob ]] catches him reading his intimate letters, he slams his head against their car's steering wheel multiple times, covering his face in blood. His lackadaisical attitude is replaced with a stoic silence thereafter.

* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler: Agent Abassi essentially blackmails Ava Mercer into becoming the crew's {{mole}}, in exchange for keeping her mother Teresa in the country. However, when the heist begins, Ava distracts the FBI agents by setting off explosive sparks on the 59th floor of the SLS building, leading Abassi and her partner away from where the real heist is taking place. When Abassi confronts Ava later at gunpoint, Ava says her mother's already long gone and manages to drive away from the scene in the crew's van.]]

* {{Safecracking}}: A rare modern example, but the safes Roger Salas keeps in his otherwise high-tech and highly-secured vault are purely mechanical. Bob is put on the heist crew because of his expert skills in safecracking, but his skills come into question when he [[spoiler: permanently loses motor function in one of his hands.]]

* SignatureSoundEffect: the cranking and clicking noises of a safe tumblers punctuate the beginning and end of every episode, and is featured at length in ''White''.

* SignatureSoundEffect: the cranking and clicking noises of a vault's inner mechanisms punctuates the beginning and end of every episode, and is featured at length in ''White''.

* ZanyScheme: Part of [[ThePlan the plan]] to break into Roger Salas's vault involves creating a mask of his face, flooding the safe room by detonating bombs in a sewer, and filling a hallway with ''bees'', to list the weirder examples.

* AnimalMotifs: Judy has a loose association with butterflies. Bob gets his hand shot trying to steal a priceless bracelet with a butterfly design on it for Judy, and Stan gives her a butterfly-shaped soap that Ray carved.

* {{Safecracking}}: A rare modern example, but the safes Roger Salas keeps in his otherwise high-tech and highly-secured vault are purely mechanical. [[spoiler: Bob and Stan crack the safes with a sound-amplifying pair of headphones so they can listen to the locks clicking into place.]]

* Safecracking: A rare modern example, but the safes Roger Salas keeps in his otherwise high-tech and highly-secured vault are purely mechanical. [[spoiler: Bob and Stan crack the safes with a sound-amplifying pair of headphones so they can listen to the locks clicking into place.]]

* ZanyScheme: Part of [[ThePlan the plan]] involves creating a mask of Roger Salas's face, flooding the safe room by detonating bombs in a sewer, and filling a hallway with ''bees'', to list the weirder examples.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] the 1966 film {{Film/Kaleidoscope}}.

{{JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith}} the 1966 film {{Film/Kaleidoscope}}.

NotToBeConfusedWith the 1966 film {{Film/Kaleidoscope}}.

* GoldFever: Bob is so obsessed with big, fancy jewelry that he'd steal from Ava's trusted fence or get his hand shot trying to break into a special display case just to get his hands on something shiny.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: