'Tales From The Loop': Will Rebecca Hall's character Loretta return in Season 2? The fans want to know
In the middle of a relentless pandemic, Amazon Prime's 'Tales From The Loop' turned out to be a cheerful option. The sedating sci-fi show, comprising of eight standalone yet interconnected episodes, chronicles the tales of a town that is situated atop a research facility. The center is called 'The Loop', for the particle accelerator-like machine that sits inside of it unlocks mysteries of the universe, but culminates in bizarre happenings in the town.
Strange things take place in the town, apart from body-switching and past-selves running into future selves.
In the first episode, we meet a young girl called Loretta, who has lost her mother. Her newfound friend Cole (Duncan Joiner) and his mother, also named Loretta, offer to help her. A conversation between the two Lorettas in the forest later reveals that Loretta (Cole's mother, played by Rebecca Hall) is the grown-up version of the child Loretta. Loretta, the adult, shows her a huge orb called 'The Eclipse', which is made of several black pieces.
The Eclipse is the essence of the Loop and is responsible for all the strange things in the town, including Loretta's (the child) presence. The adult then tells the child that she would later remember this as a dream and would find a little girl looking for her mother when she grows up.
Considering that we saw Loretta's whole life- from childhood to adulthood, it is unsure of whether we will get to see her in the second season, If at all there is a second season.
Speaking about her character's direct connection to the Loop, Hall told Comicbook.com, "It sort of explains her character. I think often, we play people who are, as other people like to call it, quote-unquote 'unlikable characters'. And you do a lot of work trying to understand why and communicate that to an audience so that they feel -- not empathy necessarily, but sympathy I suppose -- towards that person. But in this instance, all of that work was done for me narratively, so I didn't have to worry about it. And I think that does inform the whole show. I didn't worry about softening the edges with her. And I found it to be such a sort of comprehensive character on the page."
Asked if there was a second season for Loretta, she said, "I don't know about [a second season]. Your guess is as good as mine, honestly. I mean, this show could go absolutely anywhere, any time or place. I suppose Loretta is a bit unique in that by the end of the season, you've sort have seen -- with some gaps, you've seen an entirety of her life, from that childhood to adulthood. You've seen a big chunk of her life. And I think that that's interesting in itself."
'Tales From The Loop' is streaming on Amazon Prime.