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- HBO
- Jan 22, 2018
- HBO
- Jan 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).
- HBO
- Jan 22, 2018
- HBO
- Jan 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).
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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84% Positive
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16% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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
0 Reviews
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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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
6.2
48% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
33% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
6.2
48% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
33% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
I've watched this series twice and it's excellent. Gives you everything you could want from a Detective TV series - except an ending on a silver platter. Soderberg builds a muddy plot filled with testimonies, evidence, facts, prime suspects and motives. The story also delves into human memory and leads the viewer down a path where they must decide whether memories presented are real or whether they are possibly imagined. The theme of memory in the story is a big one - and kind of reminded me of the study done on flashbulb memories in 1988 with the space shuttle Challenger crash. If you like thinking and enjoy sleuth/detective series - look no further.
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SEASON 1
I watched the "linear" version from HBPO, not the app version. Good acting, interesting ambivalent and contradicting characters and interesting not off the shelf storytelling.
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SEASON 1
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.
A "whodunnit" to start off 2018 right, you'll need to put the phone down to follow the plot on this one.
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SEASON 1
Barely made it halfway through the premiere episode, so banal, so boring. If you cannot capture my interest more quickly then you've lost me. Others may hang in there but there are FAR too many shows out there in streaming space now for me to waste my time with a slow-burn bore. Recent shows I would recommend that are FAR more engaging from the outset: Jean Claude van Johnson, Altered Carbon, Berlin Station season 1, Black Mirror - all seasons, Shut Eye, Future Man, ...
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