On HBO, anyone watching. Love this show so far, pleasantly surprised.
Chernobyl
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I think you may need to be either a little bit of a science nerd or history buff to really enjoy it, but its tough to watch with some of the content. Highly recommend it.
I've enjoyed it thus far. I don't think people at the time understood just how gravely serious this was. Then again, nothing of this magnitude involving nuclear reactors had ever happened before and the Soviets weren't exactly sharing a lot of information with the rest of the world.
Agreed, and watching those guys who were exposed suffer is awful. Lots of self sacrifice as well.
Watched first episode and liked it, have not had chance to watch 2 and 3 yet.
Hope it has a happy ending.
I remember choosing Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island as the topic for my year-end presentation in middle school.
Have been fascinated by it (and more recently Fukushima) since then.
Have been fascinated by it (and more recently Fukushima) since then.
This is interesting (International Nuclear & Radiological Event Scale - INES):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
Very good series. I am old enough to remember it and it is interesting to find out what actually happened. Interesting depiction of life under communist rule, as well.
Very well done. Gotta love the old Soviet bureaucracy and no one better bring bad news...
Phenomenal final episode, its been a while since ive seen a series end so well and live up to/exceed the expectations I had for it.
I love how the Soviet Union listed something around 30 lives lost. On the show they had it between 4000- and 90k.
I loved the series, but fear for Jared Harris. His characters have offed themselves in Mad Men and now Chernobyl. That's got to mess with a guy's psyche.
the cornerstone of the Soviet regime is based on lies and deception. The Ukraine had experienced its own Holocaust (referred to as "Holodomar", which loosely translated in English means, death by hunger). approximately, 5 million Ukrainians were killed during a artificially engineered famine created under Stalin.
nothing in russia has a happy ending.
Surprised no one else hates the British actor tactic. Id rather have had all Russian actors with subtitles or Russian accents in English. It’s a really well done series, very interesting, but its feeling all fiction when a Chelsea scientist tells a Suffolk Gov official that Russian people are sick of this....And how would you know?
I always prefer subtitles, watch quite a few shows regularly that have them...and they are some of the best on TV
I can't believe the 'bad' guy survived, being at ground zero and all.
I always enjoy seeing the real pictures compared to the actors
I always enjoy seeing the real pictures compared to the actors
He had actually survived pretty substantial exposure at smaller accident when he was younger. Great genetics I guess.
