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Mosaic

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Mosaic

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HBO | Release Date: January 22, 2018

Summary: Premiering on the Mosaic app as a branching narrative drama, the more linear six-part miniseries from Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon centers on the disappearance of children's book author/illustrator Olivia Lake (Sharon Stone) and the two men she knew: Joel (Garrett Hedlund), and Eric (Frederick Weller).

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Slant Magazine

Chuck Bowen

Jan 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: There's little of the numbing, script-heavy exposition in Mosaic that lards most TV shows, allowing the actors to fashion strikingly specific and stylish performances, defining characters by their habits and environments rather than by the mandates of signifying dialogue. Soderbergh provides resonant snapshots of the characters, boiling decades of history into glances and absurdist asides. Read full review

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Collider Adam Chitwood

Jan 19, 2018

Season 1 Review: While the app version offers an entirely different storytelling experience, it’s a testament to the richness of the story that Solomon and Soderbergh crafted that it works so well as a limited series even though it was conceived as this branched narrative piece. Murder mystery fans will find this one fulfilling and satisfying; Prestige TV fans will find plenty to love about these complex characters; and Soderbergh acolytes will be overjoyed to experience the filmmaker’s signature touches in longform storytelling once again. Mosaic really does have something for everyone. Read full review

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Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Jan 24, 2018

Season 1 Review: This one gains momentum as it moves along, and ultimately is an absorbing exploration of the complexity and incertitude of human relations. Read full review

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CNN

Brian Lowry

Jan 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: This HBO drama from director Steven Soderbergh essentially takes a pretty conventional murder mystery, dresses it up with a gimmick and comes away with a pretty compelling if somewhat conventional story. Read full review

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Los Angeles Daily News

Rob Lowman

Jan 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: The series needed someone with the glamor of Stone to be the centerpiece of the mystery, even if she isn’t the largest piece of Mosaic. The series is not the smoothest of fits, but it has enough shiny parts to keep it interesting. Read full review

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 17, 2018

Season 1 Review: When streamlined into a conventional neat-and-tidy package, Soderbergh’s show loses a considerable amount of its moment-to-moment mystery, since things are merely what they appear to be. On its own, it’s fine, but it pales in comparison to its cerebral interactive counterpart. Read full review

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Slate

Willa Paskin

Jan 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: Stone’s performance is lively enough that I cared who killed Olivia (the answer is both clever and predictable), but the reveal is, like everything else, oddly dispassionate and strangely placid. In this way, at least, Mosaic is a nice distraction from everything else on your phone. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 4, 2021

It's undeniably a solid miniseries, but for the most part its passivity didn't please me.

There's more intrigue than complexity, which creates a decent but not entirely proactive narrative. The characters are not really likeable, so It becomes a bit difficult to navigate through theIt's undeniably a solid miniseries, but for the most part its passivity didn't please me.

There's more intrigue than complexity, which creates a decent but not entirely proactive narrative.

The characters are not really likeable, so It becomes a bit difficult to navigate through the mystery, but Sodenberh manages to bring his experiment to the shore, and if you're like me and enjoy stories like this, I think you will find enough to keep you entertained.… Expand

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amheretojudge

Jun 7, 2019

The biggest trick that Soderbergh pulls off is how smoothly the casting and the tone shifts, you will be amazed how this goes, more than where this goes.

Mosaic Soderbergh is always the man for the thriller. And breaking that image of his, in this mini-series, the thrills rely more uponThe biggest trick that Soderbergh pulls off is how smoothly the casting and the tone shifts, you will be amazed how this goes, more than where this goes.

Mosaic

Soderbergh is always the man for the thriller. And breaking that image of his, in this mini-series, the thrills rely more upon drama and the horror.. well, on short supply. The director, Steven Soderbergh collaborating with the writer Ed Solomon, almost looks like a match made in heaven. The absurdity of the world that Solomon is famous for creating, Soderbergh with his authenticity labels this storyline with enough credibility to grab your attention. Another endorsement of the series which lured me in, was through this bizarre setting of this case that allows you, the audience, to interact and solve on your own. Something that Black Mirror, infamously tried later on too, and not to mention failed miserably.

But the difference between Bandersnatch and this Soderbergh product, is that latter one is infused on telling the story first, rather than handing over the stick to its viewers. And despite of constraining themselves to not fall for the commercial aspect, as Black Mirror did, the series still lacks the communication to build any possible hype. Also, It lacks the romance between the characters for us to care about. And as a result, this creates an outreaching physical distance where even someone as skilful as Soderbergh too feels incompetent and helpless, on serving the purpose.

The crowdedness in the screen makes the filling of the gap in the narration easily. It is also difficult to cope up, on separating their individuality but if got hold of them, the narration grows complex and easy at the same time. Soderbergh, an expert in exploring such a theme, coming from Traffic and Ocean's Trilogy, this is like a piece of cake for him. It's a pseudo reaction that only he gets to enjoy it and we, as an audience, just teased or tortured- choose your preference- in this Mosaic structure crime drama, breaking the fourth wall and re-building the crucial first three.… Expand

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