Tales from the Loop (TV Series) Home (2020) User Reviews

A slap in the face

[michael7-761-617150 · 9/10 · 27 October 2020]

Home deliveres the slap in the face we all deserve, as we complained about the slow pacing of several of the other episodes in this series.

Its allmost to clever to be real, but the overall theme of time passing to fast "in a glimpse of an eye" is a lesson for us all to enjoy all the small things instead of rushing through. Even when they seem to be slow paced.

Ill admit the show isnt perfect, but i experienced a wide array of emotions through out this season, and thats something the fewest shows can do.

I for sure hope well see a second season, and maybe finally find out why all this dangerous tech is lying around unsupervised.

Cole (Ducan)

[walfrutta · 9/10 · 10 May 2020]

I really enjoyed this series. I wanted to drop a line just to say that the little boy Ducan ( playing Cole ) is a pretty superb actor for his age. Do tou agree?... I hope to see more of him!

So sad...

[fluxbox-964-684674 · 9/10 · 15 July 2020]

I really love the show.. superb agting, beautiful writing and vfx. But this final episode made me feel a bit empty and sad inside. And now I really need more Tales from the Loop.

Breathtaking

[mhdreiling · 10/10 · 16 May 2020]

Probably the single best last episode for a series that I've watched in a long while. Subtle acting, superb writing and directing, and the whole setting of the story and the emotionally effective way it closes and connects the whole season will stay with me for a long time. This episode is a gem of pure poetry.

Beautiful Yet Very Heartbreaking Tale of Life

[matejmaricposlovni · 10/10 · 12 April 2020]

This last episode made this whole tv show a Beautiful Masterpiece.I am writing this with Chills going trough my spine and all of my body.It is a Heartbreaking Tale of Life from Cole's Perspective.It reminds me how life can pass in a blink of an eye without us even realising it.It inspires me to cherish and enjoy every moment of my life with my loved ones."Change is a part of Nature" - Cole Discovers as he confronts and explore the real Truth behind what happened to his Brother.One of only few things that you cannot Control is Time,How much time you have here,and when its time to go into afterlife.I can't really express how i feel right now after watching the whole show,but i can tell you one thing and that is the fact that i will never forget what i have gained from the experience of watching this show,and the messages of importance of life and how it can pass so quickly.Use every second of your life to enjoy it and share it with your loved ones,death is not the end dont get me wrong,it is merely a new beginning,but you are here for a reason,and the time you have,you must use it with all of your heart.

Refreshingly Different

[rswunsch · 8/10 · 15 June 2020]

I believe in this show. It's not perfect but I truly believe the concept would lend itself to a few more successful seasons. Very interesting approach to some very deep subjects

I Felt It So Deeply

[akinz · 10/10 · 15 April 2021]

This one was my favorite episode, it was emotional, it had twists, it had a bit of everything. And directed by Jodie Foster!

As they say in the promos, not everything makes sense

[ginger-111 · 9/10 · 28 August 2020]

I have mixed feelings about this episode, so the writers obviously did their job. Part of those mixed feelings involves frustration that they did their job so late in the series.

The wild whiplashing moments of the final episode were almost insulting. It's like the writers came to work one day, were told the money's run out, and they'd better stop dragging their feet and get on with a story if they ever planned to. So let's fold and refold this story to guarantee there's nothing left. The last episode gave glimpses into several far more interesting stories that were never told. It was like the writers said, "Here's all the cool stuff we could have done, instead of the painfully tedious stuff we wasted your time with."

This episode is a hurried wrap up to fill in as many gaps as possible in the previous episodes, as shown through the eyes of the young boy Cole, who seems to be the most stable resident of this surreal little town. It guarantees that we never make connections to the characters by hurrying them along through their own timelines so that we merely observe, we don't take part.

In the first episode, and the promotional trailers, we are told two very important things, that everyone is connected to the Loop, and that not everything makes sense. The shared connection is that the Loop seems to make people miserable and destroy lives.

This episode is a fittingly morose end to a morose world, but it does it in a way that makes you satisfied there's nothing more to concern yourself with.

The best episode!

[bayherd · 9/10 · 18 February 2022]

This was, by far, the best episode in this season. It was so beautiful done. All the way from the acting, the scenery, the music and the story.

They have really captured the essence of Simon Stålenhag. He is the artist behind this concept and have done superb illustratings that captures the very essence of the swedish lifestyle in the 80s combined with scifi technology. Just amazing.

And for us living in sweden you can see small details in the series which is connected to our lifestyle in the 80s. Very well done by the team behind this series.

This episode really left one breathless. They orchestrated it all so well. They story was just amazing. How we get to follow Cole and see how his life changes, in a blink of an eye.

One thing that really puzzles me, is the scene when Cole climbs up the tower in the end. In the begining we see Cole and his grand mother in the fields taking pictures with her camera. Then she tells Cole that she though she saw someone on the one of the towers. Was it Cole she saw? And at the end of this last episode, we see Cole taking one final picture with the camera on the tower. Is he taking a picture of him and his grandma in the fields?

A soft sci-fi series subtly directed and performed

[tiancaipipi110 · 7/10 · 4 December 2021]

A soft sci-fi series subtly directed and performed, nicely touched by well composed music throughout the season. Less hard than Black Mirror, more focused on character development. It slowly unfolds the story layer by layer in a gentle pace, without falling into the commercial traps.

Episode 2 is so far my favorite, the final episode has the potential to a lot more than it is, but feels rushed.

When I Was Gone, Did You Miss Me???

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 9/10 · 8 October 2020]

We open , with scenes of the routine of characters from around the LOOP. Cole , Klara, Loretta.

Cole is having a dilemma with life. He misses Jakob who is off working at the LOOP.

Cole goes to talk to JAKOB AND Jakob / Danny confesses to COLE. LOL, finally we address this massive elephant that's been in the room!!

+1 Star for Danny finally coming clean about the body switch with JAKOB!!!

Cole goes to see his mother but she's not at the LOOP CENTER. COLE then storms off into the WOODS, to find the ROBOT. Cole addresses the ROBOT as JAKOB. Cole and the Robot kick a soccer ball back and forth. Cole runs up and hugs the ROBOT!!

Cole tries to take JAKOBBOT back to Loretta but on the way they encounter another robot!!! And this ROBOT attacKS JAKOBBOT!!!

+1 Star for the fight between Robots!! That was fun!!!

But they continue their WALK and JAKOBBOT breaks down. Apparently he was more damaged than he let on!!! Cole cries!! What will happen????

Cole collects a bunch of pine cones, and makes a circle as a marker around JAKOBBOT. Cole lets his soccer ball go in the stream. It floats downstream and wait, what? It appears upstream and floats back to him. Then as he walks away the whole stream ICES OVER??? The heck is going on here???

Cole goes back to where Danny lives. Danny doesn't answer when someone calls for DANNY, anyway. After all , he is Jakob now.

Cole goes to the LOOP underground and waits for his mom. He sees a flying ship overhead! Wow they are making progress. Wait what happened here? When Loretta comes out, she looks much older. What happened with Cole here??

So I'm about lost. Now we see George, Loretta, they knew about Danny? Klara is now wheelchair bound and has to be spoonfed?? So wait now Loretta is eating alone. Where did George go??? Did he run off???

When her phone is flashing?? She runs out of work. Cole is waiting for her outside??? She has aged tons.

Finally we get an explanation. When Cole crossed the stream when it was thawed, he crossed a barrier in time. He came years into the future. What a trip. And then, another man comes to see Cole. He introduces himself as Danny. Apparently they gave him a different body. Danny has a daughter now, and introduces her to COLE. Haha, they start kicking a soccer ball around together. Will this help heal anything?

LOL and so here at the end... Loretta reveals, she is a robot. Or her consciousness has been put in a robot body. Wow. That's a amazing. Poor Cole. He skipped over like 15 years of time. So much has changed.

And then that final scene, when Cole is taking Loretta's picture, he sees through the camera the young girl we saw in EP 1. A very touching scene.

+1 Star for that scene between Loretta and Cole

Then Cole, he takes that camera to the chimneys where Klara said she saw a man up at the top once before. Cole climbs up the tower! He looks down. Flash way forward again. Cole is older, has a family of his own. They are looking at his house, the house he grew up in. His son asks him if it feels like a long time ago! Blink of An Eye is the answer.

+1 Star for the ending.

This Ep. was truly good. Great direction by JODIE FOSTER!! Amazing. What a Season Ender. Hopefully more great tales to come!!!!

9/10

Intriguing but depressing.

[TechenPrime · 7/10 · 17 April 2020]

This world was made to be this way by this way by the writers to illustrate what humans go through with the passing of time. The issue is, it is not interpreted this way by everyone and can bring quite a depressing tone. The entire series is about tragedy and that can weigh on you. As sci-fi, nothing is really explained and this last episode is no exception. That leaves me a little disappointing. The acting is good and the music is good but entertaining, this is not. So 7/10 for this episode.

"Why can't things stay how they were?"

[classicsoncall · 6/10 · 22 February 2022]

I wanted to like this series but somewhere along the way it got bogged down in its own cleverness. This last episode was the epitome. I was encouraged to see the issue of Jakob/Robot resolved, but how is it that Cole (Duncan Joiner) and his parents accepted the idea so easily that Danny now occupied Jakob's body? I would have been enraged, as I think most people would be. And as far as Danny in Jakob's body, if this could actually happen, the person involved would most likely suffer severe emotional distress over the idea that he stole a body, while the person he hijacked wound up in a metal tin can with no hope of escape. To me, Danny was a villain unmatched. The creek that solidified (not froze, since it was summer) was a creative concept to explore the passage of time, but again, it felt like the story was playing with the audience while trying to make the point of time passing in the blink of an eye. I can see how the program would appeal to certain viewers, but the entire tone of the series was just too depressing. It would have helped if even one story from The Loop had a humorous slant. I realize it's supposed to be science fiction, but there needs to be a balance between events that happen and reasonable human reaction to them. I didn't see that in this final episode.

Season One Review

[southdavid · 6/10 · 14 August 2020]

This is an interesting one. A series of gentle, vaguely science fiction, almost (but not totally) unconnected stories that, though well-made and sometimes beautiful, I found my interest drifting away from almost every time.

Russ (Jonathan Pryce) is the head of The Loop, and underground scientific discovery centre, that dominates a small American town, both in terms of employment, but also literally, as cooling towers and elaborate constructions are ever present. The show presents a number of stories about the population of the town, and specifically their interactions with the results (intended or otherwise) of the experiment.

The reason "Tales from the Loop" looks so striking is that it's based on the art of Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag, that gives a distinct mix of 50's Americana, mixed with distinctive robots, or other forms of equipment. There in an inherent melancholy that comes from the look of the show, a nostalgia for times past, mixed with a world that has never materialised. Add to that, that a number of the stories involve loss, particularly loss of time, and you have a series that has a very sombre tone that I found sometimes to be overbearing.

Truth be told though, the main issue was that many of the stories couldn't hold my interest for the amount of time I was asked to spend with them and I wonder if perhaps it would have been better to try and fit the shows together in more of a traditional jumping narrative than have each episode be focused on a particular aspect. Maybe not? Maybe just making each episode 30 minutes would be enough. It does come together in a final episode that pulls a few of the strands into a more satisfying whole and whilst I don't regret watching it, I can't say that it was something I actively looked forward to each evening.

Nope.

[W011y4m5 · 6/10 · 30 September 2020]

I'll be honest... I didn't get it.

The finale just seems to be deliberately convoluted in order to feign any semblance of "meaningfulness" it can... It's not empowering or inspiring or anything deep - "Home" just doesn't make sense & as per usual, tries depict hateful, irredeemable characters in a peculiarly sympathetic way. Pretty pretentious, if anything.