Anybody watch the first episode? I just can’t even imagine a situation like that. Extreme radiation sickness has to be one of the worst ways to go.
Yeah, I am looking forward to the rest of it. I did like the over the top warning about concerns over the accuracy of events due to Soviets withholding information.
Not yet, but, I have been watching the previews with great anticipation. I am assuming from your comment that at least the first episode delivers.
I’m currently finishing the latest version of Bosch on Amazon. Then I am on this this.
hope to watch it too. I did see a documentary about Chernobyl in the past, horrible.
I’m afraid to watch it. I was around for that shit (little kid) not all that far away. Don’t need anxiety over potentially developing cancer soon… Looks like compelling TV, though.
The show looks really cool, but I don’t have HBO. If it wasn’t for the kids I’d drop Netflix and pick up HBO.
I haven’t finished the first episode yet. It was just so stressful thinking, “That person is dead already, they don’t know it, and it will be painful.”
I enjoyed the first episode but must have missed the warning about the accuracy. I seem to recall a story on 60 Minutes recently about it where they had some drone video from the scene. I may have to go and check that out again. In a weird way, I would rather this kind of series be filmed with Russian actors that speak the language and subtitles. I’m so used to reading the closed captioning that it doesn’t bother me and I think it would be more “authentic.”
I got the impression from the trailers that this was a disaster film (series) based on Cherynobl, but not really meant to be taken for what really happened.
I haven’t finished the first episode yet. It was just so stressful thinking, “That person is dead already, they don’t know it, and it will be painful.”
that is what i was saying to myself in nearly every scene.
I got the impression from the trailers that this was a disaster film (series) based on Cherynobl, but not really meant to be taken for what really happened.
When Superman shows up and saves everyone you’ll really know this was not to be taken as reality.
I got the impression from the trailers that this was a disaster film (series) based on Cherynobl, but not really meant to be taken for what really happened.
The producers are claiming they strove to be as accurate as possible, minimizing combining characters, over-emphasizing/minimizing events, etc.
Re. the fidelity of the Russian investigations, I’m guessing this will be as big a part of their story as the actual event and clean-up since it opens with a suicide that is rooted in the investigation side rather than the actual event. Or so says Wikipedia.
I thought the first episode was good, looking forward to the rest.
I enjoyed the first episode but must have missed the warning about the accuracy. I seem to recall a story on 60 Minutes recently about it where they had some drone video from the scene. I may have to go and check that out again. In a weird way, I would rather this kind of series be filmed with Russian actors that speak the language and subtitles. I’m so used to reading the closed captioning that it doesn’t bother me and I think it would be more “authentic.”
There have been a few PBS shows about it recently.
You can get fairly close from certain directions, but downwind you’ve got to stay kilometers away. The new steel enclosure they put up the last few years - workers were only allowed to work 5 hour days for a month, they take at least 15 days off.
The book “Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higganbotham came out a couple of months ago…really good read. Goes into all of the background information on the Soviet nuclear industry and why the type of reactor that was installed in Chernobyl was an accident waiting to happen. Highly recommended.
The book “Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higganbotham came out a couple of months ago…really good read. Goes into all of the background information on the Soviet nuclear industry and why the type of reactor that was installed in Chernobyl was an accident waiting to happen. Highly recommended.
Just put the e-book and audio book on my hold list at my local library. We’ll see which is available first. Thanks for the tip.
BTW, I watched the first episode and really liked it. I also recommend the associated podcast. I listened to the first episode the morning after I watched the show. It was really good and gave a lot more background into what happened and what they filmed compared to real events. (spoiler, the first episode tracked real events very closely)
I haven’t finished the first episode yet. It was just so stressful thinking, “That person is dead already, they don’t know it, and it will be painful.”
that is what i was saying to myself in nearly every scene.
Same here.
Got halfway through the first episode last night. Looks great so far. I look forward to watching the rest. Great idea for a mini series.
I still lived in France when it happened. in 1988, I worked at Saclay (one of the nuclear centers in France) during the summer, making pharma tracers.
We had regular tests to see exposure. At the end of the summer, the full test showed a peak of Cesium 137. Heard that basically all of Western Europe had it after
Chernobyl. Low dose, but still…
I still lived in France when it happened. in 1988, I worked at Saclay (one of the nuclear centers in France) during the summer, making pharma tracers.
We had regular tests to see exposure. At the end of the summer, the full test showed a peak of Cesium 137. Heard that basically all of Western Europe had it after
Chernobyl. Low dose, but still…
Probably fake news, if it really happened there would be more people with super powers in Europe.
I still lived in France when it happened. in 1988, I worked at Saclay (one of the nuclear centers in France) during the summer, making pharma tracers.
We had regular tests to see exposure. At the end of the summer, the full test showed a peak of Cesium 137. Heard that basically all of Western Europe had it after
Chernobyl. Low dose, but still…
That’s crazy. I was pretty young at the time and, therefore, did not appreciate the magnitude of the situation. Watching this series has been very eye-opening.