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MOSAIC
January 22, 2018  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This six-part drama, presented each weeknight this week on HBO (with two episodes Friday), is the latest storytelling exercise and experiment from director Steven Soderbergh. This one, Mosaic, is the story of a dead woman (a children’s book author, played by Sharon Stone) whose death is examined in flashback, with clues provided not only by other viewpoints and investigators, but by complementary information dispensed by apps, short videos and other ancillary factors. It may sound very 2018 – but to me, it sounds more like a retread of 1990, when the popularity of the central Twin Peaks murder mystery led to a cottage-industry spinoff of published diaries and other tangentially connected, officially released bits of business. Co-stars include, somewhat surprisingly, Paul Reubens. For full reviews and features, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
 
 
 
 
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