It zooms in on the dust of the impact radius more than on the spectacle of the explosion. There are dinosaurs and weird robots walking around, and they co-exists with the locals. All its pieces coalesce into a greater whole than their own parts. In its own ineffable way, the relationship between people and the Loop is profoundly reassuring. It’s worth making the time for, though. Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr | Amazon.it | Amazon.es | Amazon.co.jp | Amazon.cn | Bookdepository.com. And what a town it is! There's a bit of text, but the text is mostly besides the point. Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on April 4, 2016 - 2:13pm. Check your email (and spam folder) to confirm your subscription. If you buy from the links, I get a little commission that helps me get more books to feature. One-third Twilight Zone, one-third Stranger Things, and one-third Welcome to Night Vale, what makes Tales From the Loop unique against peak TV's glut of gritty sci-fi is what lies at its rustic heart: The Loop is an inexplainable alien thing that reveals what makes us human. After we learn her story in the first episode, her prominence ebbs and flows as background characters take the central focus in their own episodes. Yeap, something similar to the real life Large Hadron Collider but less technical because you don't have to read through the science of how it works. The Loop puts boundless potential literally within arm’s length of small-town Ohio, and yet, its denizens lead more or less the same lives they’d live without it. It's a TV show unlike any other: slow and steady where others are fast and furious; simple where others are complicated; and beautiful in its utter plainness, while others get ugly as they pursue production design awards. It’s not that big of a stretch from Stålenhag’s art, which is overwhelmingly melancholic in the way it juxtaposes the mundane and the fantastic. Based on Simon Stålenhag’s 2014 art book of the same name, Tales From The Loop centers on the fictional town of Mercer, a sleepy little burg built atop a massive subterranean particle accelerator known colloquially as the Loop. Individual episodes may feel lacking, but the collective experience is utterly rewarding. Tales From the Loop is a gorgeous, hardcover book filled with 125 pages of art and story (the result of an enormously successful Kickstarter). It’s like a song by The National but with robots. “Parallel” shows a man meeting himself in another universe, but it chooses character drama over genre thrills as the two versions of the same man attempt to befriend one another. Tales from the Loop is maybe best understood as visual art, rather than a conventional narrative. With Daniel Zolghadri, Paul Schneider, Rebecca Hall, Robert Nahum Allen. Tales From the Loop will begin streaming on Prime on April 3. Yeah, and dinosaurs too. Book Review: Tales from the Loop by Simon Stalenhag. Everything is properly designed. Over and over, Tales from the Loop gestures at some inarticulate sadness and shows its characters trying to work through it. In 2014, Swedish artist Simon StÃ¥lenhag published his online illustrations — a visual experiment of apocalyptic sci-fi harmlessly invading scenic rural Sweden — into a book titled Tales From the Loop. Perhaps the robot on the cover may have given you the clue that there are going to be robots. Discovering more about the universe doesn't make us mad; it makes us feel relief. The paintings from Simon Stalenhag are stunning. Books that blur the line between reality and fiction are those that I find most interesting. newsletter. Through the eyes of a set of acclaimed directors — Ti West, Charlie McDowell, So Yong Kim, and Mark Romanek each helm an episode — every moment feels delicate and human, and despair never overwhelms wonder. 'Tales From the Loop': TV Review. None of that matters next to how the Loop impacts the lucky, or unlucky, people who live near it. Highly recommended. Tales from the Loop by Simon Stalenhag is such a book. Tales From the Loop is not a show that will change the world, but maybe, just maybe, it might change you. There are other weirder stories because of The Loop. By the way, this is a book that's funded by 3,890 backers on Kickstarters who pledged $321,680. It's a beautiful thing. Really, TALES FROM THE LOOP is about the images: hyper-realistic paintings of Swedish life with decaying robots, inquisitive dinosaurs, rundown hovercraft, and well-worn androids. Tales From the Loop is an anthology at heart, but it's more accurate to call it a mosaic. ... Nathaniel Halpern's adaptation of Stålenhag's book Tales From the Loop, a collection of those paintings, settles on something closer to the former. Who made the Loop? Best described as an anthology series, Tales From the Loop from showrunner Nathaniel Halpern is perhaps the first television adaptation of paintings.