Amazon’s Tales from the Loop Is Intimate, Irresistible Science-Fiction

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.JacobOller reviews the Amazon anthology series TalesFromTheLoop, calling it 'intimate, irresistible science-fiction'

, where the genre setting merely kickstarts a more evocative piece of naturalist drama. Sometimes the sci-fi elements add layers and depth, but they often just support and color the humanity Halpern writes into the stories.

Mercer is a one-company town—sometimes beautiful in its simplicity, sometimes bleak, beige, and brutal—peppered with-like sci-fi mundanity. Robots aren’t shiny and new; mechanical wonders are used to dispose of garbage. Retro Middle American frump becomes all the more impressive because it takes its impossible components for granted.

The episodes all feel quite different in tone, though with the resonating similarity of the universe. It’s good worldbuilding adapted into good worldbuilding—each episode sounds like a story you could hear over a night sitting at a strange city’s single bar. And since they share the same writer , the strengths and weaknesses persist despite plot differences or aesthetic choices.

 

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