Black Butterflies - Netflix Series

Black Butterflies SEASON 1 Trailer 2022 (ENGLISH VERSION)
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This was almost as confusing as Momento. Wikipedia has a few choice words on that movie:

The film's nonlinear narrative is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.

Two sequences? I must have missed it. I eventually figured that Momento was told in reverse order, but that was all.

This one doesn't run backwards, but it does jump around in time a bunch which makes it hard to keep track of just what's going on. There are also several threads that run through the show that keep forking and then merging, except no that wasn't a merge, that was the other girl, you're just confused. Decider sums it up pretty well:

Time jumps, at least the back-and-forth kind, are all the rage for prestige dramas these days. Sometimes the gambit works, sometimes it doesn’t. From what we’ve seen, the more care that’s taken with how each time period is presented goes a long way to helping make such a story cohesive and coherent. A new French thriller actively goes back and forth in time, using a device that definitely sets the two time periods apart.

I think the 'device' they are using is a color shift. Stuff from earlier times has a different tint, more yellow. Current time scenes are more blue.

It's a pretty horrific tale told by a old guy who appears to be a harmless. He's not. And none of the people in the story are who you think they are, but all we have to go on is what people tell us and most of them are lying. All is eventually revealed and it's pretty nuts.