Undescribable Perfection

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent but underrated film

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Knowing that this was a piece of Soderbergh experimentation, with a companion app allowing the viewer/player to do a 'choose your own adventure' plot line, I was intrigued to find out how the tv version would render with its forced plot line. The answer is - very very badly. Fans of Soderbergh's styling will be rewarded, but the limits of time and the impossibility to explore multiple plot directions hacks the screen version to bits, leaving gaping holes in the plot and character arcs. It's a shame - for my liking the production, script and performances were all on point. Soderbergh rarely gives us a hero, and it's hard to love or even care about some of the pivotal characters, especially the always watchable Sharon Stone in the role of a children's fiction writer (!!!), but there's enough levity and heart in the peripheral characters to have kept me invested. As other reviewers have noted, the conclusion won't satisfy many people. It didn't satisfy me. In fact, I presumed that there must be more episodes still to come. As anti-climaxes go, it's real heavy on the 'anti'. Plot threads and characters disappear. Improbable and inexplicable choices are made. It's rushed and messy and ultimately inconclusive. Unresolved endings leave you either dying to hook up with your mates to unravel the 'what ifs', or they leave you slack-jawed, shaking your fist at the telly as your eyes roll out of your head. I think most people will, sadly, end up in the latter category.

This gives away some of the story if you haven't seen it.Good acting. Slow at the beginning until the murder takes place. The answer to the murder....it shows you possible scenarios but doesn't tell you definitively did it. Also, MOSAIC....it shows an art store at the end of the series by this name, tied to the murder victim...but doesn't really make the connection as to why the series had this as a title.

I actually registered on IMDb just to write a review for this series. It starts out looking as if it has potential to be a great who dunnit and ends with more questions than answers.I had trouble keeping track of all the characters because there are so many that you never see. Who the hell is Cameron anyway? And in the last episode, the only interesting well developed character, the cop, isn't even in it. He just disappears.Sharon Stone's character is so obnoxious you don't mind that someone kills her. And by the fourth episode I almost didn't care who really did it. But I had so much time invested in it already I figured let's see what happens.Well nothing. Nothing happens. It's the most unsatisfying ending of any series I've watched. And the biggest red herring they throw at you is never resolved. What was the symbol they keep showing? They make a huge deal out of it and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything.Please don't waste your time! It really is that bad.

I was anticipating the release of this series and was so disappointed that I did not bother to watch episode 3. The first episode is strange and bland. I believe the issue to be with the dialogue. It tries too hard to be witty, hip, campy and it falls totally flat. Sharon Stone overacts and cannot get out of ingenue mode yet we are looking at a middle-aged woman with a Joker smile oozing coyness and trying to seduce a younger man. It was weirdly repulsive and boring at the same time. The second issue was the scenes were very choppy---jumping from one to another without giving the viewer any information or sense of a plot. So we just watch Sharon Stone complain that she lost her ass and then writhe in bed over someone correctly analyzing that she is a lonely, menopausal woman. Her gay friend 's dialogue is an offense to all LGBTQ people. The one star is for the French bulldog pet and Sharon Stone's costumes.