Amazon's new sci-fi show Tales from the Loop is an anthology based on the work of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. His work blends the futuristic, long forgotten, into suburban/rural 1980s settings. It is evocative yet creepily nostalgic. If you've never seen his pair of art books, Tales From the Loop and Things from the Flood now's a perfect time because the images and moments selected to create the world of "the Loop" in this sci-fi series are visually stunning, unsettling, and eerily comforting. This show is not your ordinary dystopian fare.
Executive produce by Matt Reeves, Tales from the Loop enters a dystopian world via a town and various people who live and work above a powerful machine, known as "The Loop", that's as mysterious as the parts of the universe it seeks to explore. Unlike most stories of its ilk, Tales focuses on the human actors and the emotional aspects of life in the future. Amidst the fallen machinery and abandon tech l
