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- 2018
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- HBO
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
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).
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
Mosaic
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 22, 2018
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6.2
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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).
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
73
84% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
16% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
Mosaic is so entertaining (it is) and engrossing (that, too) that it flies by. These six hours pleasurably melt away, and before you know it, you’re at the closing credits.
Familiar faces like Beau Bridges, Fringe’s Michael Cerveris, and Loudon Wainwright III pop up, intriguingly. All of them give themselves over to Soderbergh, who stages the action with an efficiency that is itself frequently beautiful to behold--he makes a murky murder mystery ring with dramatic clarity.
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.
Mosaic doesn’t really start to hum until episode three, at which point a parade of supporting actors--Ferrin, Allison Tolman as Eric’s attorney, Beau Bridges as the ex-police chief--start to enter the picture more prominently. ... Some viewers may be annoyed when the picture in the puzzle isn’t quite crystal-clear by the end of episode six.
Whether interactive storytelling apps are the future of TV, Mosaic is a diverting experiment that mostly succeeds, however you put its pieces together.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.2
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.2
45% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
39% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
16% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Home Box Office (HBO)
Initial Release Date: Jan 22, 2018
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Satellite Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
