@@Miskatonic1927 Is it really set in the 80s though? Stuff in Mercer looks like it could be from anywhere between the 50s and the 80s and we know time moves at different rates between Mercer and the rest of the world. When it moves at all, that is.
@@travtotheworld Well the US Loops were being worked in the 50s (if the RPG is anything to go by, and that’s if it was cannon), so it kinda makes sense.
Never once when watching it have I thought about Stranger Things. It's a completely different type of show, different pacing, lots of long fixed shots, pauses in dialogue or scenes of people not talking with no music to distract you... it's really amazing
I'm a swede, and now i have seen the whole serie and I love it. I'm a fan of Simon Stålenhags painting and a become a little bit worried of that the stories should take place in US and not i Sweden. But that was no problem at all, the stories is universal. But as a swede it was funny with all the swedish easter eggs, like the volvos, the Owe Thörnqvist song i episode 1 and the police car in episode 5. :-)
It's a wonderful, well made piece of scifi that gently allows the viewer to experience what's going on. It requires a little effort, a little focus, a little thought, so it'll bomb in an American market but do well everywhere else.
I watched the first episode with my Mom and sister while I was visiting home for Easter. I loved it! Slow, melancholy, and deeply contemplative. Very much up each of our alleys!
i just finished this series and its really different than stranger things, it tell the story of the people of the town and more deep into the human story and how the anomaly affect the people. its a really great show and beautiful cinematography. worth to watch totally
It's based on a book of illustrations from the Swedish Dinosaur Guy. He didn't write anything, he just built worlds and scenarios out of color and lines
Just watched first two episodes. I have to admit the first one is a little slow and focuses on child actors where the dialogue can feel uncomfortable but episode two is captivating. I won't spoil anything but you must check it out.
@@gestaltbird I just watched episode 1 and maybe I'm just super emotional because of the coronavirus lockdown but the bit at the end with the mother telling her boy she would always be there for him broke me, I was crying my eyes out.
Camera work, actors, sound design, artwork... Absolutely amazing! The stories are a bit sad, that's true, but emotions are real and pauses allow to sink into the situation. Don't expect wow-magic, that's about ordinary people, ordinary emotions, all the characters are very relatable, the story is very believable. This is a masterpiece!
Yeah I didn't expect feels out of that show. I was expecting a spooky sci-fi mystery like Dark or Stranger Things. It was that partially but also so much more
wow!!! a guy working for IGN in 2020 who knows how to actually review a content? this guy deserves better than present IGN. Kudos dude,effin impressed!!!!!!!!
Top directing, cinematography, casting and Phillip Glass score. Fascinating and unique world building, where the ambiguity and mystery do not impoverish the experience: they enhance it. It sets a memorable mood that lingers. Such great storytelling, characters and emotion in such a pretty package is going to bear repeat viewings. I have a feeling this is going to make it onto a lot of people's 'best of' lists and deserves awards attention. (NOTE: Stick with it to the end. the final episode by directed by Jody Foster is a great payoff and one of the highlights imo)
I didn't think of similarities to stranger things at all watching tales of the loop lol. But this was interesting to compare. The show reminded me more of HBO's the leftovers, because of the music and the general feeling of ppl being lost and trying to find their way.
This is also what I got from it, thematically and musically . I miss the Leftovers ! This series is most like the last or maybe penultimate Leftovers where she SPOILER ALERT 🚨........... .......... where one of the main characters gets into a futuristic device to ...................you know if you’ve seen it . Same feels.
Kash Boy Wonder I don’t believe he’s saying they’re similar, just drawing the comparison between Amazon having their own Sci-Fi drama to the one Netflix does.
@@nevilmali6093 Dark is a German language show on Netflix. But there is an English language dubbed version. I personally cannot tolerate dubbed dialogue. It always sounds weird and I hate seeing the mouths not matching the words. But I have heard that Dark is pretty amazing and plan to watch that one of these days.
@Craig D You’re absolutely right that its german show and it is dubbed in English. I started w German soundtrack w subtitles but half way through,I changed to English.
definitely loved this show! I would love for there to be a second season, Perhaps same characters? Different dimensions? Different time periods? This show is very well executed!
I'm all in! The "sci-fi" (such that it is) is merely the thin device needed to get to the wondrous heart of each tale. The tales are about the moral and ethical issues that the characters must face. I usually stopped each episode about three quarters in to see if I could figure out the ending. I missed every time! The bonus for me was the wonderful score by Paul Leonard-Mason and Philip Glass. I bought the soundtrack! The show was an excellent distraction from my quarantine routine.
At 5:54 you see a typical swedish snow racer. A great thing to run down snowy slopes. I remember it with great joy from my childhood. Even if it has a English name, I don't think it existed outside Sweden.
We love this first season. Hope there's a second season. Great job with the video, agree with what you are saying. Also interesting how the children play a main role and how they explore nature and technology and are out and about wandering around like kids ought to be doing, exploring the world.
The only reason I wanted to watch this was because I love Rebecca Hall little did I know that it would be a very intriguing and unique show. It was slow paced and very meaningful. It was dark and sad, but beautiful and real. This is visually dreamy beautiful show and I loved it💗
@@markofsaltburn I read that it's going to be an anthology series. Same setting different people and stories and there may be crossover appearances from season 1 characthers.
I remember looking at Simon's artwork a few years ago, and I never thought I'd see it turned into a show. Now, I'm absolutely dying to see Electric State or Things From the Flood in show form. Both are much darker than the Loop.
Tales From the Loop (the book) is to Stranger Things as John Carter (the book) was to Superman, Star Trek, Space 1999, Logan Run, Star Wars, Dune, et al. Well, maybe not, but the fact that it did precede Stranger Things and happened to drop as a TV show during a time of 80's nostalgia tends to make me want to make that over dramatic point. I'm just glad we are living in such glorious times to have both - no, all that we are getting from these shows right now!
These stories about kids solving small town mysteries (like ET, Stranger Things, Goonies, Super 8, IT, Paper Girls) are part of the KIDS ON BIKES genre. I would really appreciate if more people, talking about those movies/series/books could mention the name of the genre, because it’s very popular, but no one really even knows that it is an existing genre and because I love that genre, lots of „genres“, sorry for that :)
Because that's not a real genre. I've been a fan of film and TV studies, lived through the actual '80s, and have never heard that term. If whomever is trying to start a new one, they have to be more specific because not all stories with kids on bikes cover this topic and vice versa. If anything, Small Town Sci-Fi is a better and more accurate label since it's not limited to just kids on bikes...
PLAYER1 well the term is quite new and as you say it’s not a real genre yet. There is a video on RU-vid talking about that upcoming genre, „The rise of the Kids On Bikes genre“), and I think the name is quite accurate
@@ahmadqayyum9973 - Episode one is similar to Dark but for the most part, it's like Black Mirror-- each episode has a stand along sci-fi storey... Twighlight Zone like... I find the could be 30 min episodes and get a little drawn out with hour long episodes
Man I've been playing Control lately..and the whole SCP vibes it gives off. The you got this show. Perfect way to end a day of gaming then pop this show on.
They're clickbaiting the video mostly. Although they have similar themes but only on surface level. But drawing that comparison is a nice way to convince new people to watch it
I have just watched the entire series, and found it to be a great adaptation of the books. Still, I missed some of the tech, which explains the world of the Loop. The facility houses a particle accellerator (the "Loop"), much like CERN, which is the major source of the anomalies. The magnetrine technology isn't explained at all, and only barely referenced; the huge flying ships are an iconic part of Stålenhag's art. I should know, as I wrote most of the tech stuff for the roleplaying game. In episode 5 ("Control") the remote-controlled robot (or the "Paarhufer Mk 79 Semi-Autonomous Service Unit" as I called it in the game) worked a bit differently than I had in my mind, but it was cool nonetheless. Anyway, the creators got a lot of things right, and my wife and I drooled over Loretta's mid-century modern house. I hope there'll be a second season.
As a tabletop roleplaying game enthusiast I purchased the Tales from the Loop RPG about 10 months ago and the world it is set in looks to be very cool after reading through the books. I first heard about the game after it first came out as a Kickstarter campaign near the end of 2016 but missed the opportunity to help kick start it. One of my gaming friends recommended it so I researched it and finally bought a couple of the books. I also bought the art and story book The Electric State by the original Swedish creator Simon Stalenhag and the artwork is amazing. I have not been able to run or play the RPG yet as we were in the middle of a Trail of Cthulhu RPG scenario before the pandemic came about. But when I first heard they were going to do an Amazon series a few months ago I was excited. So I am looking forward to it. As a teenager through the latter half of the 80s I can appreciate the 80s nostalgia. And as an avid D&D player when I was a kid back then just like the kids in Stranger Things I have a fondness for that show too. Tales is definitely going to be a different kind of story though. It's more sci fi heavy than Stranger Things because Earth is now actually an alternative history from our normal Earth since the discovery of the particle accelerator in the 1950s. So, in Tales, robots are walking around as a part of normal life. The 1980s it is set in is pretty different than our real 1980s or that of Stranger Things. Anyway, slower moving story or not I will definitely watch the new series on Amazon Prime.
Yo that's awesome I got the book with my brother from the Kickstarter campaign and I have to say I haven't got to play much of it with my group but I have read through the book and the story is pretty interesting and I really want to see what the tv show is going to do. Also less related but what is the Trail of Cthulhu like? I've heard of it from a few buds of mine but I haven't been able to play it.
@@FrostWolfNation If you are familiar with Call of Cthulhu RPG, Trail of Cthulhu is very similar with the Lovecraftian mythos and general cosmic horror style roleplaying. But the key difference is that the rule set is the Gumshoe System by Pelgrane Press. Gumshoe System is used in several of Pelgrane's RPGs making it very easy to play all of their RPGs without having to learn new rules. The key difference with the Gumshoe system is that there is less dice rolling due to investigative skills not requiring rolls as long as you have the particular skills to discover the clues. It really creates a smoother playing experience where PCs don't get hung up in certain areas due to not finding clues. Plus Gumshoe is a skill based system. There are no stats. Everything relies on the skills along with Sanity, Stability, and your Pillars of Sanity and Sources of Stability. It is a very investigative based horror system. So if you like a lot of mystery with your horror then Trail of Cthulhu is a better playing experience than Call of Cthulhu. And to reiterate, the Gumshoe system is interchangeable with the other Pelgrane Gumshoe games. So if you are not in the horror mood, there is a sci-fi game called Ashen Stars; Mutant City Blues is mutant super-ish hero-ish style game; in Nights Black Agent your characters are going after a vampire conspiracy from the perspective of a secret agency. And there a few others in that system.
I love sci-fi, so I will definitely check this show out. That said, I lived through the actual '80s, and it was far less romantic, or idealized than these shows like to portray. I was around the age of most of the characters, too, so I was aware of what was going on, but it was nothing like these shows promote. Pop-culture was just part of the era and the era itself wasn't treated like pop-culture itself. I never felt the existential threat of nuclear annihilation and we just carried on like we do today... Global pandemic notwithstanding. If anything, THIS era, right now, is going to be referenced and portrayed a lot more in-depth for years to come because it's a major historical and culture turning event/crisis we're all living through versus idealizing in hindsight. Just throwing this out there...
There are little to no pop culture references and this show (TFTL) is set in the very early 80's as opposed to mid to later 80's that ST is set. I'm fairly positive it's also an alternative universe of earth
The Loop machine must have been made from either a meteorite or extraterrestrial technology that crashed on earth. To do what the machine can do it probably answers what is The Theory of Everything. So far it has demonstrated anti-gravity, time travel, teleportation?, and possibly replication technology.
crazy how I came here because the cover of tales from the loop looked like something from no man's sky which intrigued me.. come to find out the cover art was done by the same person.
Didn't think about Stranger things for a second. Remind me of "Her" and some me animes like "your name ". High concept used to investigate a few human an dramas. Amazing experience. Re watching the whole series right now.
This show is totally incredible....frst of all brilliant storyline nd cinematography. Loved slow camera pans.....actors are incredible.....everyone must watch this true masterpiece....never seen so much beautiful like this
See, I'm getting seriously pissed about channels doing this stuff: How this is *better* than that. How Salonga sings Burn *better* than Philippa Soo (yeah, I'm changing the subject); how one show is trash & another is cooler. THERE'S ROOM FOR ALL!
Its not from the tv series, at around 00:33 the theme music from the tv show starts for a few seconds then it switching to something also not from the show. Not much help but maybe someone else can help
A think a better analog to TFTL is Pulp Fiction. Each story is a vignette, but they're all connected, and it is anachronistic. The anachronism here comes from actual fuckery though and isn't just a narrative device.
I'm sure both of these shows pale in comparison to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I am amazed at how shows like these run and cash out, while Dirk gets cancelled.
Finally I found you. I've been looking for this comment for a long time. I'm so pissed stranger things got 3 seasons (going till 10 I guess) while Dirk is cancelled, most underrated show ever
