Comments on: Tales From The Loop is Your Next Quarantine Fix

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:18:04 +0000

Episode 8 was exceptional. Early on, the series plays like an anthology series with a confluence of events. Kind of like a sci-fi Traffic, Crash or Babel. But I don’t know how much hyperlink this really is. I feel like the individual episodes can maybe stand alone. But I don’t think it can be viewed as seamlessly out of order.

I think the Jodie Foster direction score deserves a review after the Season 1 finale.

Also, the Shane Carruth cameo is a nice touch.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:26:06 +0000

Hey Henry,
Seriously – this is a great show. It’s really quite good. It’s emotionally rich, and compelling. My only brainmelt is that they set us up to be something a little different than I anticipated. And I PROMISE you, that I wasn’t anticipating Stranger Things, or anything like that. But I did think it’d be more of a self contained retro twilight zones or something.

If I could talk to my pre-tales from the loop self, I’d say, it’s a great show. But it’s not Twilight Zone. It’s not Dark. It’s not Black Mirror. It’s totally different. Go for the UNBELIEVABLE art direction. Go for the brilliantly emotive conundrums. But do not expect Twilight Zone.

I still have like 2 to go before I’m done… so, I probably shouldn’t be opining at all. But whatever. It’s my post. I’ll opine all I like dangit. hahah.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:44:46 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. Just finished Episode 3. Really needed this genre of programming as I continue to work from the kitchen table. While the writing may not be as enthralling on a crazy-stuff-in-a-small-town level as Dark or as compelling of an overlapping anthology series as Black Mirror, it’s still pretty good. But it’s definitely a step up in quality from Bloodride on Netflix.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:55:52 +0000

Hey Kelley Jo,
Watched two more episodes last night and this morning. Dark is an interesting parallel that you mention. Dark. Huh. I guess? It has a similar – separate world – feel to it. Like the town of Dark, Winden, is so separate it’s other. And This Loop town (what is the town’s name? Is it called Loop?!) is also other. I wouldn’t have ever compared the two in a million years. But now that you mention it, I see the similarities.

It’s interesting that in ep6 the alternate universe says their Loop shutdown years before. Not sure what to do with that. Is this town just off of our parallel timeline maybe?

No idea. But I wish that someone from Dark, Black Mirror, or the Twilight Zone has helped with the scripts. Just saying.

By: kelley jo

kelley jo — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:24:28 +0000

I binged the whole series over the weekend. I liked it, but I am a hardcore Dark fan and it seemed to be the Americanized version of that and Black Mirror (both of which I found superior to this show). I think this was a good attempt, and there were a couple of episodes that really stuck out as better than the rest, but it wasn’t a series I will be attached to. For one thing, each episode has a sort of Brady Bunch mentality to it as far as the beginning of the episode poses the problem, and by the end the problem is solved even if it isn’t a happy ending. I realize they are all attached in a linear format, but the stand alone episode depends too much on being independent of the others imo. I fully agree with you that they sold it as really ‘tech-y’ and then told us little to nothing about the loop or the sphere in it, but what really got me is by the end of the series they had shown no intent of explaining it more. Why the huge build up to the mystery that is ‘the loop’ if it basically just turns out to be someplace most of the town goes every day to work? It could have been a steel mill with a giant magnet for all the info we received. Again, these are just my opinions. All in all, I did enjoy it, but mostly was just a hold over to get me through until June and Dark season 3 :)