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Tales from the Loop - Season 1
Living in in 'The Loop', a machine is designed for exploring and revealing the secrets of the world, as residents of the machine, experience the strange catastrophe of the universe, and analysing it.
19 May 1985, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
28 October 1939, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 February 1971, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
23 July 1977, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
April 02, 2020
It plays like a TV series inspired by paintings. Striking to look at - pretty. Static. Austere. Slow.
April 01, 2020
Whether or not viewers stay seated for the full rotation of this Loop, there are unlikely to be many complaints about the quality of the transport.
March 30, 2020
Tales From the Loop is a unique series that peels back the layers of its compelling characters to make sometimes profound, sometimes mundane observations about people.
April 02, 2020
[It] understands those unspoken moments or even ideas can be just as powerful - if not more so - than the concepts that another show would relentlessly hammer home, as though afraid the audience might miss whatever is not made overly explicit.
April 02, 2020
Tales From The Loop nevertheless retains that characteristic spark of child-like wonder and melancholy that made Stålenhag's work so unforgettable to begin with.
April 03, 2020
In bleak times, the new Amazon show is a brighter alternative to Netflix's Black Mirror.
April 02, 2020
Nobody would accuse Tales from the Loop of being gripping, but it has other qualities, rare in a frenetic era: it is thoughtful, patient, and unafraid to leave its Big Questions open-ended.
April 02, 2020
In all, the Loop has a striking look, but its stories... are a bit too laconically told to justify the sit.
April 02, 2020
Tales from the Loop is that rare sci-fi show: one that trusts us to breathe in deep the oddities of its world, accept that we aren't going to know everything, and climb aboard anyways.
April 02, 2020
The drama dwells on concerns that are very human in origin, sometimes using sci-fi elements as a catalyst and sometimes barely integrating them at all.
April 02, 2020
There's humor in these "Tales," but it's sparing and usually sidelined by the serious emotions. At times the storytelling just sort of floats, like the snow that magically falls upward in one segment.
March 31, 2020
[Tales from the Loop] builds up a certain promise of adventure that never quite pays off.
