Amazon Prime's new original series "Tales from the Loop" is a quiet and startling success. The show truly focuses on individual character studies following a different character in the same small rural town each episode.
In this unassuming town we learn that scientific advancements in certain improbable areas have been made by an underground science laboratory network called THE LOOP. Each week we follow a simple story that is not about thrills and punishments like in "Twilight Zone" but instead hopes and redemptions. This is a formula for a new and different kind of television that we have not seen much of especially in a science-fiction context. In this fascinating season one outing, genre plays second to number one...character and number two...story. This is a deep and intellectual study of the human condition and scientific theory.