Tales From The Loop (2020) TV drama

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My Rating **** Genre – Sci-Fi Run Time 1 Season on Amazon Certificate – 15 Country – U.S.A Awards – 10 nominations EMMYS – 2 nominations So, after enjoying the Sci-Fi series Fallout (2024) on Amazon Prime Video I found one more show to burn through before my monthly subscription ran out. It’s a Sci - Fi slow burner called Tales from The Loop but far more subtle and enigmatic to anything I have seen recently, best since the German Netflix Sci-Fi classic Dark (2017). With no subtitles this one should appeal to a wider audience. It’s an American adaptation of Swedish visual artists Simon Stalenhag’s novel. It certainly has a style of its own. Set in the small fictional town of Mercer in the Mid West of America (we believe around the 1970s) we are introduced to the mysterious ‘Loop’, a scientific experiment of various shapes and sizes that lives and breathes in around the towns rural settings, various monoliths, aerials, mysterious concrete structures and the odd robot or two deepening the intrigue. What exactly is The Loop? The main beating heart of it lurks in an underground secure facility where the workers clock-in every day to monitor and explore it. There is no military security or presence as the experiment is considered benign. How it got to be we don’t know but the chief scientist and father of The Loop is Dr Russ (Jonathan Price), a man who built the community around this ever expanding experiment. But what’s it for? Well that’s for you to find out. ---The Result---- It was released during the pandemic so perfect lockdown TV, a certain loneliness and sereneness to its textures. I love the various experiment dotted around the rural estate, an echo dome the size of a shed that tells you how long you will live by how many times your voice echoes, or a smaller iron ball that allows you to body switch for the day. It’s the originality and sense of proportion that makes this work, no needless big explosions or end of the world scenarios to put you on edge. It’s also about love, loss and emotions and how the machines can fulfill or, indeed, scupper your dreams. If you like your Sci-Fi subtle, slow and interesting then this is for you. ===RATINGS=== Imdb.com – 7.4/10.0 (24,123votes) Rottentomatos.com % critic’s approval Metacritic – 76% ===Trailer=== https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8741290/