Steven Soderbergh's Mosaic Trailer Promises a Unique Miniseries

HBO has lifted the lid on its secretive Steven Soderbergh project , Mosaic , partake a new house trailer for the innovative Garrett - Hedlund - starring execution secret miniseries . With the trailer get along the tidings that the serial , in a way , is available now : viewers with access to an iPhone , iPad , or Apple TV can download theMosaicapp and check all the rude footage properly now . An Android version of the app is on the way , as well .

As HBO ’s official proclamation put it , theMosaicapp allows viewers “ to choose what point - of - view from which to follow the news report and to , in issue , make their own experience from the material Soderbergh and [ author Ed ] Solomon created . ”HBO will release the official version ofMosaicas a six - part miniseries in January , but until then , audience phallus can cut across the narrative in any way they see fit , play with perspectives and following different character for an utterly unique app - based experience .

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TheMosaictrailer sell the concept better than any amount of explaining can do , showing that watcher can follow various character and revisit authoritative scenes , in the Leslie Townes Hope of putting together the clues surround a murder . Sharon Stone ’s type has been stamp out , and it reckon like there are plentitude of suspects , including Hedlund ’s protagonist .

You ’ve got to applaud HBO , Soderbergh , and Solomon for craft such a mold - break up piece of storytelling . The online age , where every viewer of every show has multiple cyberspace - ready devices littered around their home base , show writer and directors with a the great unwashed of options , and it ’s hard to recall of a labor that has explored these hypothesis better thanMosaic .

Netflix has paddle in “ choose your own risky venture ” content , but HBO ’s new launch offers something a great deal more off - the - wall than that . The tarradiddle ofMosaicplays out the same whichever options you opt , but in following different characters and piecing together more of the patch , viewers can build a extensive understanding of the narration and come to their own judgments about who is shamed or innocent .

However , it remain to be seen if TV audience are quick for this . Mosaicappears to be a trailblazing concept , unlike anything else produced by a major meshwork . HBO is asking viewing audience to download an app , act on it for hours and then tune in next year to see Soderbergh ’s edition of event . It ’s a luck to ask , but the bribe could be vast if HBO wield to crack into a whole new arena where interactional idiot box storytelling can be distributed by an app .