| Chernobyl 09:31 - Jun 7 with 4861 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Apologies if covered before - but this was quite a good drama that filled a post Game of Thrones void. If only 10% was half true it made disturbing viewing. Looking forward to the follow up series The Leiston Triangle. |  |
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| Chernobyl on 10:48 - Jun 7 with 4795 views | BigManBlue |
Agree, really enjoyed it. From what I know it was pretty true to events, Khomyuk was invented but everything else was based on real people involved and events recorded as occurring. Some very harrowing sequences, the end of the third episode particularly got across the unnatural horror of it all I thought.
Still, couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the dad from Friday Night Dinner. |  |
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| Chernobyl on 11:24 - Jun 7 with 4771 views | vilanovablue |
| Chernobyl on 10:48 - Jun 7 by BigManBlue |
Agree, really enjoyed it. From what I know it was pretty true to events, Khomyuk was invented but everything else was based on real people involved and events recorded as occurring. Some very harrowing sequences, the end of the third episode particularly got across the unnatural horror of it all I thought.
Still, couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the dad from Friday Night Dinner. |
It was pretty accurate up to the last episode Legasov wasn't in the court room but the programme needed an "ending"" which after what had gone before was a little annoying. Having said that it was excellent up to that point and mostly accurate. Lyudmilla Ignatenko the firefighter's wife her story was very accurate and lifted from the excellent Chernobyl Prayer which is a book gathering together testimony from those who were there, if anything the TV show played the awfulness of his condition down... |  | | |
| Chernobyl on 11:31 - Jun 7 with 4761 views | GeoffSentence |
It is fantastic, pretty gruesome at times and thoroughly terrifying given it tells how close we were to an even worse disaster.
Apparently it is the highest rated TV show on IMDB.
People like it. |  |
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| Chernobyl on 11:32 - Jun 7 with 4754 views | BigManBlue |
| Chernobyl on 11:24 - Jun 7 by vilanovablue |
It was pretty accurate up to the last episode Legasov wasn't in the court room but the programme needed an "ending"" which after what had gone before was a little annoying. Having said that it was excellent up to that point and mostly accurate. Lyudmilla Ignatenko the firefighter's wife her story was very accurate and lifted from the excellent Chernobyl Prayer which is a book gathering together testimony from those who were there, if anything the TV show played the awfulness of his condition down... |
Thanks for that info! I didn't realise the end wasn't particularly accurate in the specifics, which is disappointing but as you say probably somewhat necessary for resolution given that the show was short-format.
I've never heard of that book, I'm going to order myself a copy now though. Thanks for the recommendation!
Edit - Just seen that Svetlana Alexievich is the author. I read Second Hand Time a couple years back, cannot rate her highly enough. [Post edited 7 Jun 2019 11:36]
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| Chernobyl on 11:47 - Jun 7 with 4732 views | Johnny_Boy |
| Chernobyl on 11:24 - Jun 7 by vilanovablue |
It was pretty accurate up to the last episode Legasov wasn't in the court room but the programme needed an "ending"" which after what had gone before was a little annoying. Having said that it was excellent up to that point and mostly accurate. Lyudmilla Ignatenko the firefighter's wife her story was very accurate and lifted from the excellent Chernobyl Prayer which is a book gathering together testimony from those who were there, if anything the TV show played the awfulness of his condition down... |
The creator & director posted all the relevant resources on Twitter the other day. From what I can gather, each episode is (mostly) named after each specific book/journal/testimonial relating to the disaster.
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| Chernobyl on 13:09 - Jun 7 with 4656 views | IpswichKnight |
It's getting remade to show the correct version of events according to Russian TV, this time it will tell the story of a heroic KGB agent as he chases down a plot by the CIA to blow up the reactor! | | | |
| Chernobyl on 13:10 - Jun 7 with 4656 views | Keaneish |
Great TV. The only thing that poked me in the eye were the thick English and Scottish accents! |  |
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| Chernobyl on 13:14 - Jun 7 with 4644 views | Romeo4 |
I thought it was put together really well. Harrowing and gripping in equal measure.
It is true that Mazin adopted some artistic licence in certain aspects (especially the courtroom episode) but it was done in a way to congest it into 5 fast-flowing episodes and to make the 'true' story more understandable. For example the explanation Legasov gave in the courtroom using red and blue cards never happened but Mazin (rightly) decided that it would be good to explain to the laymen how a nuclear reactor works and how the explosion came about. Also in real life Khomyuk never existed but was used in the programme to represent a whole team of specialists who worked alongside Legasov.
I'd recommend HBO's 'The Chernobyl Podcast '. Mazin discusses each episode in detail. |  | | |
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| Chernobyl on 13:16 - Jun 7 with 4638 views | BigManBlue |
| Chernobyl on 13:10 - Jun 7 by Keaneish |
Great TV. The only thing that poked me in the eye were the thick English and Scottish accents! |
I can never tell what’s worse - supposedly foreign characters speaking with broad accents, or English actors using cartoon vlad-the-impaler accents. | |
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| Chernobyl on 13:22 - Jun 7 with 4626 views | vilanovablue |
| Chernobyl on 13:16 - Jun 7 by BigManBlue |
I can never tell what’s worse - supposedly foreign characters speaking with broad accents, or English actors using cartoon vlad-the-impaler accents. |
I have to say that the accent issue didn't affect me maybe the fact I had watched The Death of Stalin where they do the same thing had got me used to the idea. | | | |
| Chernobyl on 13:51 - Jun 7 with 4589 views | SpruceMoose |
The accompanying podcast is good if you get the chance to have a listen. There's one for every episode. |  |
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| Chernobyl on 13:54 - Jun 7 with 4581 views | chicoazul |
As anti-Marxist/collectivist polemics go I thought it was pretty good. |  |
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| Chernobyl on 14:49 - Jun 7 with 4519 views | vilanovablue |
| Chernobyl on 13:54 - Jun 7 by chicoazul |
As anti-Marxist/collectivist polemics go I thought it was pretty good. |
In fairness I think the point they were really making was about truth, plenty of parallels with the state of the USA... | | | |
| Chernobyl on 15:04 - Jun 7 with 4487 views | howdonblue |
| Chernobyl on 10:48 - Jun 7 by BigManBlue |
Agree, really enjoyed it. From what I know it was pretty true to events, Khomyuk was invented but everything else was based on real people involved and events recorded as occurring. Some very harrowing sequences, the end of the third episode particularly got across the unnatural horror of it all I thought.
Still, couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the dad from Friday Night Dinner. |
Yes that third episode really did hit home especially sending the liquidators up on the roof when the space buggy’s broke down !
WOW
There’s also the podcasts that accompanied every episode with the creator Craig mizon talking about the making of each episode
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| Chernobyl on 19:47 - Jun 7 with 4384 views | stonojnr |
| Chernobyl on 13:22 - Jun 7 by vilanovablue |
I have to say that the accent issue didn't affect me maybe the fact I had watched The Death of Stalin where they do the same thing had got me used to the idea. |
agreed it was far better than everyone trying to do cod Russian,Ukrainian, Belarusian, Eastern european accents as they are all different, just like accents in the UK are all different,and making it sound like a production based on compare the meerkats.
I think once you are absorbed in the drama you dont even notice that stuff, just like in the Death of Stalin.
I thought it was an excellent tv show, and it was pretty much nearly all totally what happened, I remember from episode one some reviewer saying it was too far fetched & just made for tv, but no it wasnt. | | | |
| Chernobyl on 11:00 - Jun 8 with 4127 views | GeoffSentence |
I watched a BBC documentary about Sellafield. fascinating stuff. We were saved from a radiation release covering the north west of England by the foresight of the designer John Cockcroft who insisted that a filter system be installed on the cooling tower in case the cooling air ever became contaminated. Everyone else scoffed at the idea, to the point that the filter system was referred to as Cockcroft's Folly.
In the event of that fire, the cooling system did get contaminated and we were saved the worst of it by The Folly. | |
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| Chernobyl on 14:03 - Jun 8 with 4049 views | SpruceMoose |
| Chernobyl on 11:00 - Jun 8 by GeoffSentence |
I watched a BBC documentary about Sellafield. fascinating stuff. We were saved from a radiation release covering the north west of England by the foresight of the designer John Cockcroft who insisted that a filter system be installed on the cooling tower in case the cooling air ever became contaminated. Everyone else scoffed at the idea, to the point that the filter system was referred to as Cockcroft's Folly.
In the event of that fire, the cooling system did get contaminated and we were saved the worst of it by The Folly. |
So you're saying we missed our chance to rid the UK of Manchester and Liverpool? | |
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