Mosaic

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 22, 2018
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 34
  3. Negative: 7 out of 34
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  1. asmanraj
    Jan 28, 2018
    5
    The first episode is boring. Episodes two through five are riveting. The last episode is frustrating and unsatisfying. Jennifer Ferrin carries the show but the script of the last episode left a lot to be desired. Not worth your time.
  2. EludiumQ36
    Feb 17, 2018
    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, AlteredBarely 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, ...… Expand
  3. Vancomycin
    Feb 12, 2018
    8
    A "whodunnit" to start off 2018 right, you'll need to put the phone down to follow the plot on this one.
  4. TVBug
    Feb 21, 2018
    3
    Way too self-conscious. When I saw that it was Soderberg...that explains it.
  5. james-cordoban
    Feb 16, 2018
    9
    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.
  6. Dmorles
    Feb 27, 2018
    10
    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 orI'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.… Expand

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Jan 29, 2018
    70
    At any given time, it’s both a dazzlingly experimental work and a totally conventional murder mystery. It’s frank and secretive, flooding viewers with information without giving them the tools to make sense of it. The story has multiple different paths to follow, but they all end up in the same place. Less a show than a television experience, it’s brilliant and exasperating.
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  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Allison Shoemaker
    Jan 26, 2018
    80
    At worst, this is a familiar, “Broadchurch”-esque experience, complete with great performances and writing as precise as a whip. At its best, however, it’s a new way to experience a familiar story, and so when the answers you expect arrive, they’re somehow new, too.
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  3. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Jan 24, 2018
    85
    This one gains momentum as it moves along, and ultimately is an absorbing exploration of the complexity and incertitude of human relations.
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