Mosaic‘s title is a bit of sly wordplay. Obviously it derives from the task presented by Steven Soderbergh’s tale of murder in a small town—that is, to solve the crime. But something else needs to be pieced together here; namely, figuring out what the hell Mosaic is. A TV show? A video game? A digital version of one of those interactive dinner-theater murder mysteries?
Though Mosaic is airing on TV for the first time next week, it’s been around since last year as an app that allows viewers to direct the investigation themselves. Follow this clue or that. Pick the character whose perspective you wish the story to be told through. Check voicemails and emails between the suspects and the victim. Nothing you do will change the outcome—this isn’t Clue, the 1985 board game movie that was shot with multiple endings—but it apparently alters a viewer’s understanding of why things happened. Television critic Glenn Garvin takes a look.
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