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@John_Locke_108

5 ай бұрын

Great reaction. It's still crazy how I live in America and I was 9 when this happened. And yet I have no memory of it. My first exposure to Chernobyl was in the video game Call Of Duty Modern Warfare. Seriously.

@neptunusrex5195

5 ай бұрын

The story isn’t so much about the accident, it’s the story of the people who lived, suffered, and died. The series is the people’s story. The people sacrificed everything - their health, their home, their professional reputations and careers, even their very lives to do what the situation required of them. They went willing to their deaths to save others, to save their countrymen, to save the people of neighboring countries, they sacrificed all for the sake of the greater good. As the character Khomyuk says so solemnly, “they died rescuing each other”. The story may get details wrong or changed for dramatic effect but the series makes the viewer feel the experience, trauma, and emotion of the events surrounding Chernobyl. The story is not the accident’s story, it is the people’s story.

@BigAidsIII

5 ай бұрын

This series did honour to the medium of television. It is one of the best series ever made.

@neptunusrex5195

5 ай бұрын

There is also an accompanying podcast that Mazin did that goes way into not only production but gives A LOT more insight to the actual facts of the events and people involved. Highly recommend listening to it after the show

@Soules_Sensei

5 ай бұрын

There is still debate about the bridge of death that most of the testimony and related info about it says that its not true , and there is some other reason why its called the bridge of death , also the baby absorbing the radiation instead of the mother , medically speaking from experts say that that might also a bit dramatic and done for the show . There are some other stuff here and there like in episode 2 the explosion that could have happened because of the lava getting to the water was exaggerated , yes it could have destroyed the other power plants near it but it wouldn't have been 4 megaton explosion , the math doesnt add up . Dont get me wrong the show is a master piece , but take in consideration there are some small stuff that where exaggerated and blow of of proportion for dramatic effect .

Fun fact: someone translated Legasov's tapes into English, recorded them, and then edited them to match the quality of the originals. You can listen on youtube. Its interesting.

@azazello1784

5 ай бұрын

That's not fun at all.

@passerby2562

5 ай бұрын

Interesting

@What-lt3lj

5 ай бұрын

@@azazello1784 it is if you're autistic and replaced trains with nuclear history

@Reblwitoutacause

5 ай бұрын

I need a link immediately

@What-lt3lj

5 ай бұрын

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RIP to the actor who played Anatoly Dyatlov, Paul Ritter. He played the role whilst dying of cancer. Known mostly by the comedy series Friday night dinner. Well worth watching, considering the polar opposite in character.

@jlinkous05

5 ай бұрын

Ironic!

@5050TM

5 ай бұрын

Oh how sad. Rip.

@frankieramsay6040

5 ай бұрын

he was a beloved actor from a tbh show called friday night dinner, his range is amazing

@dicekolev5360

5 ай бұрын

Comedic actors are proven to be the best actors ever, especially when put in dramatic characters. 🤌🏻

@CliffuckingBooth

5 ай бұрын

He was not great not terrible... No but seriously that shows how amazing actor he was.

I know this is an obvious point, but it's something I love so much about the series - "How does an RBMK reactor explode?" is asked at least once in each of the first four episodes (by different characters for different effects), and then, in episode five, we get the answer from Legasov, as if he's reaching back through time and answering each and every instance of the question being asked: "*That* is how an RBMK reactor explodes. Lies." As you guys pointed out, the answer to the question posed by the miniseries is right there in the first line of the first episode. This script is *stunningly* crafted.

@shakira.rahman8786

4 ай бұрын

Wooooww.......... That is an incredible observation. Thank you❤

@SeArCh4DrEaMz

5 күн бұрын

yes, yes it was. So say we all !

I loved their decision to show the reactor's explosion in the last episode and not in the first one. The trial scene was so good and the explanation Legasov gave about what happened was very well done, I'm not a scientist person and they made Advanced Nuclear Physics very easy to understand, in my opinion.

@tysonngubeni8545

5 ай бұрын

💯💯absolutely

@heathen-heart

5 ай бұрын

the scene in the first episode where they show the explosion from a distance and then the shockwave was impressive in its own right too.

@chungleandthebims167

5 ай бұрын

I think the difference is perspective. Not knowing just how bad the explosion was or how much worse it would become. ​@@heathen-heart

@elric5371

5 ай бұрын

No it was awful, the explanation is completely wrong and full of lies.

@dailycarolina.

5 ай бұрын

@@elric5371 The show is fiction based on real events. It's not a documentary. They tried to be as accurate as possible, though. Most historical adaptations take liberties for dramatic purpose. Anyone who is interested in to know more about that day and the aftermath , can do their own reasearch , there is plenty of information.

I think @22:20 he is looking at the drain in the floor thinking his blood is going down that drain when they shoot him.

@suvijii841

5 ай бұрын

My thoughts, too. A sound proof room with a metal chair, all tiles and a drain in the floor? I think it was kinda obvious.

@sophietaylor9753

5 ай бұрын

Yep, and why he looked behind the door. He was checking to see if someone was there.

@user-wi9hv2pb2q

5 ай бұрын

Yeah he was 'suicided' 2 years later. They tend to wait until the public eye fades.

@camillep3631

5 ай бұрын

that was my first thought also

@josefaharrison

5 ай бұрын

There was a type of t0rture where they filled with water the room to a certain point where you can’t sleep or sit, that’s why the floor is lower inside, I think I read that somewhere.

Even after watching through the series several times, it is still haunting reading “Valery Khodemchuk’s body was never recovered. He is permanently entombed under Reactor 4”

@AniwayasSong

5 күн бұрын

I seriously doubt anything of his mortal body remains. I understand (And share) the sentiment however. :-/

@KdeeBUBBLES444

7 сағат бұрын

I remember watching the series for the first time, wondering why they kept bringing up this one specific guy in episode 1 when we never actually see him or find out what happened, only to kind of forget about it and be absolutely floored reading that sentence in the finale and realizing that was the POINT

To be a scientist is to be naive. My favorite line from this entire series. We live in a time when people call scientists liars, but when you understand what science is about, you know all a scientist has is their pure love for truth.

@kimmycup9313

5 ай бұрын

This hits right now with their constant warnings of global warming and there are still people who don't believe these scientists. We are being put in danger by our leaders and their greed. Their power is more important. The day will come when the warnings we have received will come to be and it will be too late to do anything about it (if it isn't too late now) 😢😢

@sriayyappansaravanakumar5136

5 ай бұрын

"Why to worry about something that isn't going to happen. We should print it in our currency" my fav line. That thought was the cause of the whole disaster😢

@MegaMerdeux

3 ай бұрын

Many scientists believe dudes can become a women. So I'd take these "experts" opinion with a grain of salt 😂

@vomilksined8047

Ай бұрын

Not all scientists like this, some just needs money

@user-rk3yb6nd1n

Ай бұрын

Kitty, you're indulging in the No True Scotsman fallacy. Scientists are, at the end of the day, people and are as prone to greed, pride, and foolishness as anyone else.

The story isn’t so much about the accident, it’s the story of the people who lived, suffered, and died. The series is the people’s story. The people sacrificed everything - their health, their home, their professional reputations and careers, even their very lives to do what the situation required of them. They went willing to their deaths to save others, to save their countrymen, to save the people of neighboring countries, they sacrificed all for the sake of the greater good. As the character Khomyuk says so solemnly, “they died rescuing each other”. The story may get details wrong or changed for dramatic effect but the series makes the viewer feel the experience, trauma, and emotion of the events surrounding Chernobyl. The story is not the accident’s story, it is the people’s story.

@myplan8166

5 ай бұрын

Half of europe needs to build statues for those people

@G1NZOU

5 ай бұрын

True, that's what some people forget when they say "oh this part is incorrect". Yes there are some inaccuracies but they were focusing on how the actual characters experienced it, it's a drama, not a documentary. They tried to get a lot of things right and in most cases they did, especially in terms of location shots an costuming.

@Psycorde

5 ай бұрын

It's very much about the incident and underlying reasons for it as well. No need to be overly dramatic, these are not mutually exclusive.

Hildur Guðnadóttir crushed the score, and you guys crushed this reaction. It's been a pleasure.

@BaddMedicine

5 ай бұрын

Hildur was fantastic with this score.

@flanker6212

5 ай бұрын

@@BaddMedicine Just so you know, every single sound in the score is made up of actual sounds in a real nuclear power plant. They went with a sound recorder to get the sounds of the pumps, the bellows, the mechanical hums, the engine room doors, the reactor noises etc

@Quzga

5 ай бұрын

@@flanker6212 That is such genius... She has really done a great job filling the void after Jóhann Jóhannsson passing. I bet he would be proud! it's still crazy to me such talent to come out of a small country with fewer than 400k population, but I do think as a Swede living in these types of cold climates with not much to do we tend to get into art more than other countries.

One of the most important lessons from this series is listen to the scientists, I don't see Chernobyl as just a critique of how the USSR was operating at that time, it's a great critique of how scientists are not given the credit or the space to talk about real important events. Just look at how people and other leaders were handling the recent covid pandemic.

@gladiater56

5 ай бұрын

I would suggest that you took the wrong message home. The series is more a warning about complying with blind authority than advocating for scientific supremacy in decision making. I certainly am not not making that comparison as I think it's far too flattering to the health advisors of the pandemic. They did not operate honestly in all circumstances and as a result have done considerable damage to thier credibility with civil rights minded people. They acted as the Soviet government did, narrow minded, dogmatic, punitive. EDIT: Apologies to the original commenter I didn't read and understand that you did remark on the same issues I brought up but were placing additional emphasis on the trust the science angle. I simply disagree that the pandemic health experts were acting as morally as you seem to believe.

@MilesL.auto-train4013

5 ай бұрын

​@@gladiater56 As someone who worked customer service in a highly enclosed area under high risk to make enough money to get by during the pandemic - gonna have to disagree with your takeaway.

@gladiater56

5 ай бұрын

@@MilesL.auto-train4013 Disagree all you want. Your experiences during the pandemic do not mean you're automatically right.

@kittymandias

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@nishamabel9607

5 ай бұрын

@@gladiater56 Perhaps my view comes from the fact that I am Brazilian, and our previous far-right president spread the false notion that Covid was just a cold, He refused to buy and distribute vaccines and spread a huge anti-vaccine movement in the country and we ended up with more than 600 thousand deaths in Brazil, it was very sad period in our lives. I can't help but relate to the feelings of helplessness the characters face in the show.

The scene where Shcherbina talks to Legasov is my favorite. First, they talk about what all people living in post-war Eastern Europe think about: there are so many places here where the ground is soaked in blood that you think people can no longer live in such a cursed place (I guess I relate a little because I live near Auschwitz and people think that place is cursed... And it's a harsh truth to accept, but life goes on no matter what.) Another thing that moves me is the fact that they both know that their end is near. It's like two dying men talking about life, coming to terms with their fate, but at the same time some regret that they don't appreciate this beauty until something terrible happens. And what connects these two points is this tiny caterpillar that represents that life in Chernobyl and Pripyat will go on, despite how much misfortune has happened on this ground. Just as it happened after terrible wars and the destruction of people and cities.

@azazello1784

5 ай бұрын

It was a disgrace to cast Skarsgard to play Shcherbina after he played bootstrap's bill in pirates of the carribean

@thechonus3858

5 ай бұрын

@@azazello1784 what

@azazello1784

5 ай бұрын

@@thechonus3858 Actor who played Shcherbina played a supernatural weird character in Pirates of the caribbean movie. You can't take him seriously after such a role.

@thechonus3858

5 ай бұрын

@@azazello1784 I'm aware of who Bootstrap Bill is - you have an odd understanding of how acting works though. If the PotC movies are your only experience of Stellan Skarsgård's work as an actor, I recommend you seek out more of his work - he's an amazing actor. He won pretty much every acting award that could be awarded to him for his role as Shcherbina.

@sheilaomalley4055

5 ай бұрын

@@azazello1784 He has an incredibly long and diverse career with many great performances, internationally and here. If you've only seen the one movie with him, that's on you.

Perhaps my favorite scene is the park bench conversation between Boris and Legasov in this episode...they have come from almost hating each other to really admiring and becoming friends. Just great acting there.

"The official death toll remains the same... 31." That's one of the biggest insults to me. All the people who were affected by what happened, who developed cancers or other illnesses, or died horrifically because of the radiation effects... there's no way it was just 31. It insults the memory of those who suffered, those who died, and those who helped to fix the disaster from becoming even bigger and more widespread. I think my favorite scene in this episode was between Valery and Boris, during the break, when Boris laments his lack of impact and Valery tells him that he got everything done that they ever needed and was the one who mattered most. "They made a mistake and sent the one good man..." Such a great scene, and both Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård were fantastic.

@grantlawrence4600

5 ай бұрын

That's the amount that died that same year. After that, there were around 30 or so more linked to cancer directly caused by the radiation. This was over the course of many years, though. Outside of that, there's not much else you can track. You can draw some correlation between a population in a specific area that had been exposed to radiation and their rates of different cancers as they get older. But that's a difficult task. And a lot to keep track of. Which is why no one can ever say how many truly shortened their lives by exposure. The show does fearmonger a bit too hard into the effects of radiation. Even the ones who were directly exposed in the plant area; your face and body parts/skin don't melt off. It's a gradual process where your body becomes ill and shuts down. It's not a chemical burn where you are seeing people shedding entire slabs of skin or blistering all over out of no where. That part was pretty silly. If effective for a TV show....

@Hewspectre

3 ай бұрын

It's sad cause all those people who died, the soviet union didn't want to seem weak so they blamed other reasons.

@Hewspectre

3 ай бұрын

@@grantlawrence4600 Agreed, a lot of people who gets hit with large doses of radiation, normally die from other reasons not exactly due to the radiation like during chernobyl I heard a lot of reports of people who got very sick from viruses and even cancer. A lot of reports again going to say in today's time say its directly due to radiation its just another thing killed them. But back in the USSR many people say that's why people say the official death toll was 31 but that wasn't the case they didn't wanna seem week a lot of people didn't die to directly being exposed to the radiation though. A lot of people say that many people didn't have to die in the mess and I agree but someone had to do that work to prevent most of Europe from being fallout.

@AgentWesky

18 күн бұрын

Why is this an insult to you? You are not a relative, you don't even live anywhere near the excursion zone. It is an insult to the people who fought the tragedy, whose relatives who died in the tragedy, and you have to understand that HBO dramatizes quite a bit in their movie. For example, there were no vodka pallets for free in the liquidators camps. HBO did an amazing job on showing the sacrifices of the ordinary worker, by they showed soviet government as completely imponent and bent on secrecy, while that wasn't anything that happened in a real life, and then again - the insult isn't to you. Don't take some false victimhood on something you didn't know squat about before the series aired.

@sherrysink3177

17 күн бұрын

@@AgentWesky I didn't mean it was an insult to ME personally! I meant, to me (thinking about it, logically speaking), that official death toll seems like a big insult to the memory of those who were there. That's what I meant by "to me." I meant it as one would say, "In my personal opinion..." As I said, "It insults the memory of those who suffered, those who died, and those who helped to fix the disaster from becoming even bigger and more widespread." Not me personally. I just feel bad for those who were there, who aren't being counted. You are taking my wording completely wrong, and I'm sorry if I worded it incompletely and upset you.

The 'drain' made me immediately assume he saw it realizing he was going to be shot and the drain is for cleanup

@malena5026

4 ай бұрын

Instead of killing him they tried to kill his name, honor, beliefs and moral but they didn’t succeed

"First time they tried, they failed Second time, they failed Third time, they failed Fourth time, was April 26th 1986"

I have 2 connections to Chernobyl. Firstly my grandmother is Ukrainian (she's quite young for a grandmother, but remembers the Chernobyl disaster well) and she thought this series was incredible- she kept praising the small details, down to the wallpaper and plates (saying "we had that!!") and she didn't mind at all that it was in English because she already loved Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgard from other things, and it gave it the chance to be high production. She lived in Kharkov at the time of the event, which is far on the other side of Ukraine from Pripyat, but she has had multiple cancers in her life- all been benign and removed luckily, but it's very likely due to radiation/fallout. Ukraine has a very high cancer percentage in people of her generation (and older and younger) who were around when it happened of course, and to this day the percentage is still high. Secondly, my grandfather (British), his building company was one of those who helped supply materials to the 2017 dome and he visited Pripyat before construction started, he said it was one of the most chilling experiences of his life. It's been great watching your reactions, the series is so fantastic, everyone truly brought their A game and it turned Jared Harris into one of my favourite actors.

I was born in 1986 several month after the explosion and several hundred kilometers away. For me in this tv series the most terrifying thing was not the catastrophy itself, but how the state, the system (KGB then) worked. How it grinds lifes, fates, cariers, people and the truth itself. And you know what. It still works the same way.

@Lacertos

5 ай бұрын

It's nowhere near the same level today.

@Psycorde

5 ай бұрын

​@@LacertosBad enough to screw up entire country.

@shauntempley9757

5 ай бұрын

Yes. The difference is, the entire West works like this. Take a look at Gaza, and the West's response to it right now. The exact same things here, showed up there.@@Lacertos

@Lacertos

5 ай бұрын

@@shauntempley9757 I think you guys are really underestimating how terrible the Soviet regime was... Sure, the situation in the West (and in Russia btw) now is less than ideal, but it's absolutely far from what the Soviet Union used to be

@shauntempley9757

5 ай бұрын

That was true, except, Gaza is showing that the West is worse than the Soviet regime in many ways. The Soviet regime was always clear in its intentions, no matter how brutal it was, and you can look at how Moscow dealt with NZ financially as an exception to that brutality. It is the only capital outside the Commonwealth that paid its bill as much as it could when we called in our debts twice. No other capital paid up, which is why we were the only nation that did not expel our Russian ambassador when everyone else did. We also refuse to trade with nations that do not pay their bills.@@Lacertos

I think the round grate on the floor was actually a drain, not a vent. If you notice, the whole room is tiled not wallpapered, and meant for easy cleanup after torture, or worse.

@neptunusrex5195

5 ай бұрын

It looks like part of a kitchen, I think it was just a random room they decided to use, I don’t think they used it as a torture chamber. Also that particular scene never happened as in real life Legasov was too sick by then to even attend the trial. He simply stayed home being cared for by his family. It is true however that when he passed the papers made no mention of it and no obituaries were run. Only people who knew he died were people he actually knew and associated with followed by word of mouth.

@thechonus3858

5 ай бұрын

@@neptunusrex5195 Legasov looks behind the door after entering the room, and then we see the drain on the floor. This is one of the ways the KGB would "remove" people - the agent would wait behind the door in a room that would be very easy to clean after the fact. In that moment, Legasov thought he was going to be killed (In the miniseries, anyway). That's why they show us the drain - we "know" that Legasov lives past that scene, but showing the killing floor heightens the tension through our empathy for Legasov.

@o.b.7217

5 ай бұрын

@@thechonus3858 Nice theory...but we know from the first episode already, that Legasov will live.

@thechonus3858

5 ай бұрын

@@o.b.7217 did you actually read what I wrote? How did you miss the part where I said " we "know" that Legasov lives past that scene, "

@o.b.7217

5 ай бұрын

@@thechonus3858 Yes, I read what you wrote. That part, too. But I disagree with you. There was no "heightened" tension, because we already know that nothing would happen to him.

It's really horrible that Lyudmila Ignatenko was taunted after this premiered. People called her stupid and that she was to blame for what happened to her child. She didn't know! They weren't told what was happening. Of course she wanted to be there for her husband who suffered unimaginable. RIP Vasily Ignatenko, and every single one who lost their lives. 💔

@nachgeben

5 ай бұрын

This isn't entirely true. Every child in that place was being educated to work in that plant. Every person had to cross paths with nuclear education. There had been horrific radiation deaths in the 1970s to go by. A Japanese man, blasted with radiation when an accident happened to a core lid, died in much the same way as the firefighters. They already knew that the cells stop replicating with that type of radiation exposure, which is why Legasov was able to accurately describe the veins beginning to fall apart, making the administering of pain medications impossible. Beyond that, if we take the show as what happened, she was told multiple times do not touch him, he is deadly to you now, don't TOUCH him, don't go past the curtain, don't TOUCH HIM HE'S NOT YOUR HUSBAND TOUCHING HIM WILL KILL YOU. I understand she desperately wanted to support her husband in his final days, but there's absolutely no logical way she didn't know how radiation was spread. But even if she didn't know from where she lived, she was told by nurses and doctors. Extra tidbit: Many of the children, who were being educated in nuclear power as early as elementary levels, have grown up and are, in fact, the ones who help maintain Chernobyl today.

@sheepstealinggreatgreatgrandma

5 ай бұрын

@@nachgeben I think that might be overstating how much everyone knew - the people who died on the Bridge of Death makes me think otherwise. Especially since neither she or her husband worked at the plant. The way the show depicts it too, she wasn't just supporting her husband, she was looking after him when his sores stuck to his gown or when he soiled himself and there was no one else around to help. I can't speak to the accuracy of that detail, but dramatic license was already taken anyway when they chose to depict her hugging her husband, which she was actually prevented from doing in real life. But its more dramatic to have her hug him and then have the camera slow and dread-inducing music play. The number of times the show depicts the doctors repeating DONT TOUCH HIM may also have been dramatic licence for the viewers' benefit. Either way, leaving someone you love alone to die the most agonising death imaginable is no easy thing to ask of anyone, and it is also worth accounting for anyone's mental state in that situation. Between desperation, grief, shock, horror, confusion, processing that someone you love is going to die, processing their loved one's pain? It's understandable that someone would not think clearly. With all that said though, I think there is little point in arguing whether or not she should have known. It doesn't bring the baby back, and do the people taunting her after the show premiered really think she hasn't tortured herself over it enough over the years without their input?

@josefinelagerstrom2643

5 ай бұрын

@@nachgeben well, neither of them worked at the plant. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@bificommander7472

5 ай бұрын

​@@nachgebenShe was repeatedly told in the show. Was she told as much in real life? That's the problem, people harassing a real person because of how they were portrayed in a work of fiction. Besides, in reality it is doubtful that it was radiation from getting close to her husband that killed the child. It may very well be another embellishment of the show, and the only one that I disapprove of. The people who fled Fukushima face enough social exclusion as it is, without fictional simplified dramatization telling people how dangerous it is to be near a person who's been in a nuclear accident.

@MegaMerdeux

3 ай бұрын

​@@nachgebenevery child in that place was being educated? Do you have sources or evidence?

y'know what I love most about this mini-series? It reflects how the bravest of people never get credit....cause no bullshit, all the people involved saved the world and alot of them will never ever get the credit for it...but at least now we can understand that these things aren't solved by the biggest of us, but the smallest of us

@EmyN

4 ай бұрын

“These things aren’t solved by the biggest of us, but the smallest of us” that’s beautiful

@Hewspectre

3 ай бұрын

They did get medals and such I understand where you coming from but if you worked to clean up the mess you got a medal I have 7 of them from different people I can look back to see what they did I have a guys medal who was on the roof cleaning up the worse of the graphite

The carbon 'tips' on the control rods were 8 foot long, it was like slamming on the accelerator on the way to press the break.

@-ragingpotato-937

5 ай бұрын

Yes, but if you're wondering "why would 8 foot of graphite enter the core FIRST??" well it didn't. The tips are slotted into the reactor when the boron is pulled out, the tips were already inside. The thing is that the tips aren't as long as the reactor itself, and the place where the reaction was going out of control was at the bottom of the reactor, outside the reach of the tips. When they pressed AZ-5 the rods were lowered, bringing boron into the top of the reactor, but dumping the graphite tips in the worst of the reaction. Then what they said in the show happened, the reaction skyrockets, the channels break, control rods seize with the graphite tips in the runaway reaction, and explosion.

@user-sd3ik9rt6d

5 ай бұрын

@@-ragingpotato-937 Exactly, I was trying to keep it relatively simple. As all of the tips replaced what was left of the water it caused an over pressure of steam that bent the channels out of shape, therefore preventing the breaks from going on and wedging a brick on the accelerator. But the biggest take away from Chernobyl is the relative safety of nuclear energy, Far more are killed by the use of coal every year than have ever been directly killed by radiation.

@myplan8166

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-sd3ik9rt6das a german i am glad that i do not need to discuss words like your last sentence anymore.

@Psycorde

5 ай бұрын

​@@myplan8166How does that Russian dick taste, comrade? Are you enjoying gas paid for in Ukrainian blood? You're too ignorant to understand how much your government screwed you, more so with every nuclear power plant that goes offline. Believe me, nuclear is a far better option than what you chose, enjoy being dependent on the crazed dictator.

@sawanna508

5 ай бұрын

@@user-sd3ik9rt6d Even one incident like Chernobyl is one incident to many. Besides I think we can all agree taht coal shouldn't be used either because of the climante change.

Did you notice that Adrian Rawlins, the actor who played Nikolai Fomin (the plant director) also played as Harry Potter’s father? Great actor.

22:14 that's an "interrogation" or torture room, the drain is for waterboarding

@shag139

5 ай бұрын

Or rinsing away blood

@isabelsilva62023

5 ай бұрын

@@shag139 Quite, the political police' cells in my country had those drains on the floor.

@isabelsilva62023

5 ай бұрын

@mawortz No, it is for draining blood from torture.

@neptunusrex5195

5 ай бұрын

🙄 It’s a washroom adjacent to the kitchen. You can tell from set decorum as they walk through the hallway into the room that it is CLEARLY part of a kitchen, they simply used it as a makeshift interview room. The juxtaposition of that “image of a grate” is what is meant to feed the audiences’ imagination and give the sense of impending doom. But it is just a kitchen.

@robertmenard6590

5 ай бұрын

Yep. It was an interrogation/execution chamber, not a kitchen lol

‘Fun fact’: with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, their thrust toward Kiev from the north took them past Chernobyl. Russian forces seized the power plant and took up positions in and around Chernobyl. In the process of taking the power plant, the ‘protective’ cover over the blown reactors was blasted away. After a few a week, the Russian forces in and around Chernobyl began suffering from radiation poisoning. Said forces were withdrawn with the retreating forces days later. Ergo, the state/government from Moscow continues to kill their citizens at Chernobyl.

The music over the ending is so haunting. I binged all 5 episodes in a row after work when it came out and when I got to the ending.. the music, real facts and human sacrifice and the scale of everything.. I gotta admit I got a little teary-eyed. Greed and cowardice endangered the entire world, but hope, courage and sacrifice saved it. Those men, from Boris and Valery to the miners.. all heroes.

@eugenek2284

5 ай бұрын

it's an Orthodox christian ritual singing for funeral service, there are many masterpieces there

@myplan8166

5 ай бұрын

Real heroes. Facing death and sacrifying themselves. This is Russia's pride.

@heiiiloh

5 ай бұрын

@@myplan8166Russia? You are kidding me…

@myplan8166

5 ай бұрын

@@heiiiloh sorry, you're right. It's now ukrainian, of course.

The score with it’s gritty sounds, was recorded using decommissioned Ignalinos (Where some filming location took place, which also has a RBMK reactor, in Lithuania) nuclear power plant.

the way the geiger counter feels like a monster in a horror movie and you just feel it coming closer. It's so scary

So basically an unstable reactor design at low power, no containment dome, positive void coefficient, and operators not told what they should not do in that situation. Plus a lack of a safety culture and you get…this…

@o.b.7217

5 ай бұрын

And the worst of it all: you find combinations like that all over the world.

People are discussing whether the white-tiled room Legasov is put in after the trial is a torture/kill room or random kitchen-adjacent room. But i think it being up to interpretation and covert is the very reason it feels so chilling and paranoid - very on brand for the KGB.

there is a great fact in the IMDB trivia, where the composer actually went to a nuclear reactor and recorded ambient sounds and thats what they used to create the score. This is also one of the highest if not the highest rated shows on IMDB. Absolutely incredible! Probably the greatest show ive ever seen. Great reaction!!!

@PeterDB90

5 ай бұрын

It was for a while the highest-rated, surpassing Breaking Bad, but since then it has declined a bit and if you check IMDB Breaking Bad is still the highest rated TV show.

This show has so many great lines that make me absolutely feral. My favorite might be "every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid."

There's an interesting documentary out there called The Babushkas of Chernobyl about women who went back into the exclusion zone and (at the time of making the documentary) several of them were still living in the abandoned villages surrounding the nuclear plant. I was a little kid when the tragedy happened and I remember two things in relation to that. That very same year when the workers' parade was happening, my mom noticed everyones faces being awfully red on tv (and when my dad came home his face was also very red) apparently that was around the time the radioactive cloud was passing over Poland. The second thing was few years later. Somoene was trying to build an identical type of a reactor where I live and there were massive protests and the project was cancelled. I even remember for years seeing graffitti that was basically said "nuclear plant = death of the city" (I think the building or wall it was on was finally painted over or torn down somewhere in the 2000's).

@philipmihailov

5 ай бұрын

I have a similar memory from my country - Bulgaria, also part of the Soviet block. The communist government doesn't care to stop celebrations on the first of May - the Day of the Labor. Workers and university students, teens from high schools paraded for several hours under the light rain, 4 days after the explosion, when the radioactive dust cloud was already here. High-ranking communists were warned, and supplied with clean food and water. All of them who were on this parade were covered with umbrellas, which was kinda strange for such a light rain. Still, regular people were not informed even 6 days after the disaster, and after that, the government tried to hide the scale of the danger. So the series is right about that - Lies literally take lives.

@sawanna508

5 ай бұрын

The only ever build nuclear power plant in Austria was never finished because of massive protestes against it. The bulding still exsists but without a reactor. It was turned into a museeum I think.

Guys please also check out the Chernobyl real life vs TV show footage comparison. It's really interesting and shows how much effort they put into trying to make it look as close to reality as possible.

My interpretation of the shot of the floor grate in the green room is that this is a detention cell, which can be easily hosed down. There's even a bucket over by the link, possibly for human waste. It even occurred to me that someone could be tortured in there and the blood hosed down the drain.

I think the shot of Lagasov staring at the drain indicated he thought he was about to be shot. Room with a tile floor and a drain in the middle is easy to clean, and nerve gas is probably more expensive than a bullet and 2 comrades with mops.

I've heard this theory which I'm inclined to believe, that the guy shown eating sunflower seeds, which was the same guy who asked for cigarette in episode one. Now as random as this may seem, eating seeds/chips etc is a coping habit for people trying to quit smoking. So when he asked for cigarette he knew it was all over for him. It's quite an insignificant detail but it does show the attention to details they put to this show. I also like the detail in episode 2, where the general didn't ram the gate with the car up front cos that's where the dosimeter was mounted and they actually took the time to show him turning the car around and ramming the gate in reverse. So many well thought details in this show that when the collective picture emerged, it's truly one of a kind.

@heiiiloh

5 ай бұрын

It’s not theory. It’s truth.

Finally I can say without spoiling anything ! There's a quote in this episode that hit me so much I decided to get a tattoo of it: 'Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid'

2:30 "What's he got in that briefcase" - papers, documents pertaining to his job, maybe lunch, a calculator, paperclips - big ones. What are you even asking exactly, did you forget what you're watching and thought that maybe this is a MCU crossover and he had the Tesseract in there?

Man, I never make it through the footage at the end without crying. Re: the score - a lot of it was recordings of sounds in actual nuclear reactors and facilities. Re: the survival of the three men who went into the water to open the tanks -- remember that they were all put into thick protective head-to-toe gear before they went in, gear that no one else had been outfitted with before that moment, because at that point everyone involved knew how dangerous it was and they did their best to equip them with every protection they could.

@heiiiloh

5 ай бұрын

“Three men” survived because of water and route, not protective stuff

"They mistakenly sent the one good man..." I don't know why, but this line just hits me hard. Maybe because it's the reassurance that it gives to Boris that he's a good man.

It’s so enjoyable watching shows with you men and hearing your discussions. One day you’re gonna join the expanse fandom but until that day comes keep up the fantastic work!

@LaMancha958

5 ай бұрын

Yes please! The Expanse - one of the best TV Shows ever.

@wowkir

5 ай бұрын

Expaaaaaaanse!!!!

Really big industrial disasters almost never happen because one thing went wrong. It's basically always because dozens of things went wrong. And very often those things are neglected maintenance and not following safety regulations.

@kittymandias

5 ай бұрын

I agree. This is why forensic engineering is so necessary and so interesting, because industrial disasters are often a result of specific actions executed at the worst times.

22:16 - “He thinks he’s going to get gassed.” Very close. The grate in the floor is a drain that was used to drain the blood out when someone was shot there. They didn’t do it that much in the 80s but he was reminded of what had often happened in that room in the past.

Hey did y’all know Jared Harris is the first Dumbledore’s (Richard Harris’) son?! I love that fact. Every time I see him I think of his dad. Both awesome actors🤘

@marig9236

5 ай бұрын

they are incredible. a gift to us all really

The Bridge of Death is actually an urban legend. There has been no confirmation as to whether or not anyone was even on the bridge, much less died from being on it that night.

Episode 5 is my favourite of th eentire series because of the minutae explaining what caused the explosion second by second and the updates. It's a real achievement to make a scientific presentation so compelling.

@elric5371

5 ай бұрын

You mean to fill people full of lies.

@Myriip

23 күн бұрын

@@elric5371 Lmao, let me guess vatnik, it's all lies and propaganda from the west? Quite amusing to see that in 2024 russian bots still try to push this, despite the world knowing the truth for the last 20 years, how unbelievably pathetic, just like russia itself.

When Russia invaded Ukraine they had troops that actually dug trenches in the Pripyat area and quickly suffered from radiation poisoning. At one point there was combat on the grounds of Chernobyl. Even now there are those that don't appreciate that this is serious enough to transcend politics.

The details of what happened was simplified for the audience, there's a U-tube presentation from MIT that goes into more detail. FYI, this is why we don't use RBMK reactors in the US. All of ours have a negative coefficient, so in the event of an accident, they power down.

Boris staring in awe at the caterpillar always get me 😢💔😭😭

@michaelriddick7116

5 ай бұрын

They're havin REAL problems with F'i g InFlUeNcErS going into the exclsion zone for selfies, and screwing with stuff. One person was recently arrested for taking a shoe out ...

I had absolute chills running all over my body for this. Thank you for reacting to this. So powerful what an ending!!

I'm an engineer but anyone can notice this. The beginning of the episode Bryukhanov asked if there's no danger in keeping the power low for that long. The simple answer would've been yes and the simple solution: bring the power back up to nominal levels, from 1800 MWh to 3200 and then we're fine to carry on the test after midnight, then Chernobyl would've never had happened. Or it would've happened at a later time or another reactor.

Jared Harris is Richard Harris' son, he is so damn good

I have been waiting for this, what a show this was and that ending was just everything. "You were the one who mattered most" line always gets me. So lucky that they had the one good man when they needed it the most. To see that the unchanged death toll is still 31 is sickening. "What is the cost of lies?" Incredible show, horrifying reality.

I remember as a kid in the 80s them talking about how the Russians used graphite which was a huge problem.

To my mind, this is the supreme example of what can be accomplished with a mini-series. I've watched it many times. It's just amazing and so well acted. You guys did a great job with your reactions. Well done!

Really liked ur reviews after every episode, great to watch as always

One of the most powerful cinematic experiences I've ever watched. Glad to see it still so affecting to you guys as well and your thoughtful commentary.

Mindhunter and Derry Girls come to mind when you think about comparable series. This was so well done it reminds those of us who create and appreciate works in the arts of what's possible with support.

Now y'all should jump down the youtube rabbit hole of videos about Chernobyl. Especially the newer ones, from a couple of years ago, that urban explorers filmed of the abandoned city.

I had watched this miniseries by myself shortly after subscribing to HBO Max. A few months later I decided I would show it to my wife. I figured we would get through the first two episodes the first day. After episode 2 she said to continue to episode 3. Then 4. We completed the entire miniseries in one afternoon. This miniseries grabs you and does not let you go!

That little office is a kill room. The drain in the floor is for rinsing our the blood. They stuck him in there to think about it.

My mother said that year most of the vegetables had a bit of iron aftertaste. Out of her 7 siblings 4 died with cancer and even my mother had cancer on her liver. Both my grandparents from that side died with cancer. We will never know the true death toll of Chernobyl.

Afterword: the green "wallpaper" was ballistic tile. Dyatlov gave an interview late in life. He maintained to his dying day that he was out of the room when they raised the power. Fomin broke his glasses and slit his wrists awaiting trial. He was released early for mental instability. He was let go from Kalinin from the same reason. Brukhyanov found himself virtually unemployable. He ended up a paper pusher in the Ukranian Ministry of Trade. Lyudmila turned down five offers to come on as a consultant. She was done. Much of the plot was taken from Voices from Chernobyl, interviews conducted by a famed Russian writer. When Harris first got the script his reaction was "Oh, great. A 24-page monolog". Emily Watson said the role was hard because Khomyuk was a hard woman, and she wasn't. Everything was astonishingly real. After glazonst, papers and people were as open as if it were the West. The changes: The helicopter fell because it hit the crane they showed vanishing into the smoke. There was no paper with missing pages. The designers were aware of the problem but--planned economy--ran out of time and budget to fix it. So they documented it and wrote instructions for the operators. The KGB decided the instructions were too sensitive to release. They never made it Pripyat. Finally, Legasov wasn't present at the trial. But the outcome was the same. He was shunned, and voted down for director of the Kirchatov, which he'd expected. That broke him.

One of the best mini series HBO ever created

Great reaction, guys. I’m so glad you “liked” it. It truly is amazing. Harris and Skarsgaard just really killed it. Everyone did, of course, but those two stood out to me.

I love how they showed and explained what happened within the reactor all the way up to the explosion. It’s done so well, that anyone can understand. Brilliant.

Love watching you guys, great series! Also, the Oak looks like a straight up Gears of War character.

This really was an amazing series, tbh I didn't know about Chernobyl at all before this. I cannot recall if I was taught about it and missed it or forgot or did not pay attention to it or it was not taught at all. But I really learned a lot. I watched this when it came out and then watched many other videos/documentaries about it. Gosh. Such an sad incident. And such a well made show.

Incredible reaction. I wanted to rewatch this series but not alone so this was a nice levity for me 🙏🏻

This is one of my favorite series ever. It extremely well done. The music, the sounds, it's all haunting. The acting is too notch as well

Very good series, and a good run of reactions! This show is dear to me heart not just bc it's so good, but also bc it's directed by an old Swedish Eurodisco icon (Stakka Bo/Johan Renck!) and has a TON of Swedes in the cast. Looking forward to whatever's next, and really hoping it's Altered Carbon :D

@wowkir

5 ай бұрын

Omg I didn’t even think of that. Altered Carbon is INCREDIBLE. And I know these guys especially would LOOOOOVE IT.

@TzunSu

5 ай бұрын

@@wowkir Haha yes, not a lot of people even over here knows that it's directed by Stakka Bo, or that he became a director even! I think Altered Carbon would be right in their wheelhouse, although they would probably have to blur a lot :D

I'm glad you guys got to experience this masterpiece. Such a powerful series and event. I'm also fascinated to know more about Oak's dad now too haha 😄 sounds like he was a great man

Such an incredible show and the reaction is on point! 👌 The song in the end is perfect. 😢

Glad you guys watched this series. It was incredibly done and I'm glad that it sparked your interest.

Excellent reaction 👍 One of the things I think this miniseries does really well is to underline how ego and greed can have such disastrous effects. Ideology over facts. It's one of the things I worry about the most when it comes to implementing nuclear energy and other technologies... In theory, they may be wonderful, but what happens when someone wants to cut corners to make a buck? In any industry, really... Anyway. Really enjoyed your reactions & analysis on this one. Thank you.

Nice reaction. Love the new BG setup too.

The series was praised in the media for being exhaustively researched, but some commentators noted inaccuracies or liberties were taken for dramatic purposes, such as Legasov being present at the trial. The first episode depicts Legasov timing his suicide down to the second (1:23:45) to coincide with the second anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion. Legasov actually committed suicide a day later. The epilogue acknowledges that the character of Ulana Khomyuk is fictional, a composite of Soviet scientists. Journalist Adam Higginbotham, who spent a decade researching the disaster and authored the non-fiction account Midnight in Chernobyl, points out in an interview that there was no need for scientists to "uncover the truth" because "many nuclear scientists knew all along that there were problems with this reactor-the problems that led ultimately to an explosion and disaster". Artistic license was also used in the depiction of the "Bridge of Death", from which spectators in Pripyat watched the aftermath of the explosion; the miniseries asserts that the spectators subsequently died, a claim which is now generally held to be an urban legend. The series also discusses a potential third steam explosion, due to the risk of corium melting through to the water reservoirs below the reactor building, as being in the range of 2 to 4 megatons. This would have been physically impossible under the circumstances, as exploding reactors do not function as thermonuclear bombs. According to series author Craig Mazin, the claim was based on one made by Belarusian nuclear physicist Vassili Nesterenko about a potential 3-5 Mt third explosion, even though physicists hired for the show were unable to confirm its plausibility. The series' production design, such as the choice of sets, props, and costumes, has received high praise for its accuracy. Several sources have commended the attention to even minor setting details, such as the use of actual Kyiv-region license plate numbers, and a New Yorker review states that "the material culture of the Soviet Union is reproduced with an accuracy that has never before been seen" from either Western or Russian filmmakers. Oleksiy Breus, a Chernobyl engineer, commends the portrayal of the symptoms of radiation poisoning; Robert Gale, a doctor who treated Chernobyl victims, states that the miniseries overstated the symptoms by suggesting that the patients were radioactive. In a more critical judgment, a review from the Moscow Times highlights some small design errors: for instance, Soviet soldiers are inaccurately shown as holding their weapons in Western style and Legasov's apartment was too "dingy" for a scientist of his status In a 1996 interview, Lyudmilla Ignatenko said that her baby "took the whole radioactive shock [...] She was like a lightning rod for it". This perception that her husband, Vasily, was radioactive and caused the death of her daughter soon after birth was recreated in the miniseries. However, Ukrainian medical responder Alla Shapiro, in a 2019 interview with Vanity Fair, said such beliefs were false, and that once Ignatenko was showered and out of his contaminated clothing, he would not have been dangerous to others, precluding this possibility. During an interview to BBC News Russian in 2019, Lyudmilla Ignatenko described how she suffered harassment and criticism when the series was aired. She claimed reporters hounded her at home in Moscow and even jammed their foot in her door as they tried to interview her, and that she suffered criticism for exposing her unborn daughter to Vasily, despite the fact she hadn't known anything about radiation then and that risk to a fetus from such exposure is infinitesimally small. She said she never gave HBO and Sky Atlantic permission to tell her story, saying there had been a single phone call offering money after filming had been completed. She thought the call was a hoax because it came from a Moscow number and hung up. HBO Sky rejects this, saying they had exchanges with Lyudmilla before, during and after filming with the opportunity to participate and provide feedback and at no time did she express a wish for her story to not be included. The portrayal of Soviet officials, including the plant management and central government figures, received some criticism. Breus, the Chernobyl engineer, argues that the characters of Viktor Bryukhanov, Nikolai Fomin and Anatoly Dyatlov were "distorted and misrepresented, as if they were villains" Some reviews criticized the series for creating a stark moral dichotomy, in which the scientists are depicted as overly heroic while the government and plant officials are uniformly villainous. The occasional threats of execution from government officials were also seen by some as anachronistic: Masha Gessen of the New Yorker argues that "summary executions, or even delayed executions on orders of a single apparatchik, were not a feature of Soviet life after the nineteen-thirties". Higginbotham takes a more positive view of the portrayal of the authorities, arguing that the unconcerned attitude of the central government was accurately depicted.

I wholeheartedly recommend going to Pripyat if you can (once it opens again - it is currently closed because of the war in Ukraine), it is one of the most sobering and scary and fascinating places I have ever been (I was there years ago). I equate it with the various locations relating to The Killing Fields in Cambodia in terms of psychological impact. Excellent reactions! And I would love to see you guys react to the 1984 movie The Killing Fields.

@olgatrotsenko2153

5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure there's gonna be no Pryp`yat' tours for at least 10-15 years after the war ends. All territory surrounding it is heavily mined and it's pretty much a suicide to go there until it's de-mined. If it's gonna be de-mined at all...

I did the Chernobyl tour two times! A great experience! While watching the bridge scene I got major chills - I've crossed That bridge! Great reaction guys! bravo!

@marig9236

5 ай бұрын

did you see the red forest?

@nickbenke3306

5 ай бұрын

We passed it but it's not so red anymore. the highlights were seeing the Duga Radar array and climbing up the ferris wheel in Pripyat!@@marig9236

I could not watch episode 4 again, but glad to watch episode 5 with you guys, awesome series

In my comment on the first episode I said that for an RKBM reactor to explode, it requires a very precise sequence of unlikely events. Legasov explains, step-by-step, those events in this episode. The odds were greater than the chance of winning the Powerball three times in a row.

@user-sd3ik9rt6d

5 ай бұрын

It wasn't random, there were no ' odds ', this was physics, simple for those who want to know.

You were referring to the sound effects a lot. Most sounds ( those low frequency types) were actually recorded in various parts of actual power plants. They are the sounds of turbine governors, coolant pumps, etc.

This series is hands down, a necessary watch for everyone. Beyond the skill of writing, the cinematography, music and acting, the message about the cost of lies is too powerful to ignore. It is also important to listen to the accompanying podcast. The creators call out all the changes they made to the story, holding themselves to the same level of truthfulness that they call for in the series. All of this is why I got so excited about out HBO’s The Last of Us was because of this series. Craig Mazin was primarily know for cheap, schlocky comedies before this. And he proved himself here. When I heard he was working on The Last of Us, I knew that there would be no one better to handle such a nuanced story with aplomb.

@elric5371

5 ай бұрын

No, they ironically filled the series with lies and didn’t even look over them, the podcasts don’t either. The true story of Chernobyl is much less dramatic. The explanation of why it exploded is completely fictional too.

About the room Legasov was led to after the hearing - he checked behind the door because it was a common occurrence within the KGB to have someone stationed in the room behind the door to shoot the person who enters. Interrogation wasn’t something they indulged in often. Once you were on their hit list, you barely had time to breathe the air in the room before the trigger was pulled. What’s on the floor is a drain. Easy clean-up.

You guys have to watch The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford. When I was a kid, there was a constant worry about nuclear war with USSR, turns out we were closer than we ever realized and didnt find out about some incidents that could have sparked a war until the Soviet Union and their wall of secrecy fell.

Considering the death count it was so lovely to see how even the worst cases like the 3 guys who went to release the water valves, or the pregnant woman lived & thrived. That mixed with the score at the end was just so good.

Fantastic performances. Fantastic show.

I watch this mini-series every year or so. Gripping, visually amazing, emotional and yet deeply thought provoking. A tour-de-force in TV story-telling.

As far as this show goes, I think all the technical aspects of putting something on film, we done very very well. Dramatization and technical errors in the subject matter aside, it conveyed the shortcomings of this political system, and it showed the incredible sacrifice required to get things under control. It's emotional impact is off the charts. I did go on to look into some other content on youtube about this event. I really liked the guy's reaction on the channel The Atomic Age. I liked the videos Kyle Hill has done on Chernobyl. I think I also watched a couple of videos from Harvard maybe?, that took a deep dive into the event. That was a bit over my head in many places, but I watched as much as I could. I've read a few different articles where they interviewed a nurse that worked on people that were exposed to the radiation from this event, it was interesting to get her take on this show. She was pretty candid, one of her comments about how the show portray the victims was, it looked like the director gave the art department free reign to do whatever they want, because the people they cared for didn't look like that. There's a ton of material out there to dive deeper into this, if you want to. Still, this series is excellent imho.

@kittymandias

5 ай бұрын

I loved your comment. I watched the same videos 😂

Once again, thank you for your reaction to this episode. This series was amazing in so many respects. It was of course dramatized and I know that certain things were left out or condensed such as the character of Khomyuk being a representation of a group of people. However, that fact doesn't take away from the story as a whole. This was an important and tragic event that impacted so many lives in a very negative way. This may not be the place for it, but if you are interested in another story of true events, please add the movie The Big Short to your list. It most likely won't win any polls, and it is also dramatized like this was, but it tells the story of the housing market collapse in 2008 and the impact on the lives of so many. Again, thank you for this reaction, keep up the great work gentlemen.

I believe the linger on the drain cover was pointing to what he was thinking, that he might about to be killed..The drain being used to wash away blood...That's why he looked at it. He knew it was the kind of room used for such things.

Powerful depiction of history. Thanks for your great reaction to it!

good to see you guys, as always. love this mini series. maybe it's not completely historically accurate, but I believe it's still the best we could get. it's important for the world to remember those events. not connected to this show - but I recommend you to watch "20 days in Mariupol", either for reaction or on your own. it's a documentary about war in Ukraine and people's lives during horrific days in Mariupol. reading the news every day and living in war I still can't put myself into watching it because I know what I'll see, but it was created so the world knows the truth. it's heavy so I understand if you prefer to skip it for the KZread, but if you spend your time to at least give it a chance - then this film fulfilled it's purpose.

Dyatlov was not the villain he was made to look in this show. He actually was a very competent, if not the most competent man on site. He was not easy to work with because he was a perfectionist. This attitude generated his image. Also, as he was the sole survivor of the engineers in that shift, he was the scape goat from the get go. There ar audio transcripts from the control room. Dyatlov never acted like this. He did not insult anybody or threaten anyone to have him fired. The mood is describes as calm until Akimov activates AZ5 to end the test. AZ 5 was also not pressed as an emergency measure, but just to shut the reactor down after the test.

Hey guys, this happened when I was 15 and I was living in Manitowoc (yes, a fellow Wisconsinite!). I specifically remember discussing it in my 10th grade history class in high school and seeing it on the news and such.

In terms of emotion, the final epilogue of this episode was one of the most emotional things I've witnessed. From the music played during it and realizing the actual sacrifice and danger of the situation. It is an absolute masterpiece of a mini series.

The KZreadr, Kyle Hill, has an AMAZING series of videos about everything nuclear (especially disasters). Well worth looking up.

I can remember the impact of the incident in my childhood, not by reading it in the news but in the fact that my mother was terrified of me being out in the rain. So big was the incident and people knew so little at the time that acid rain as far away as England, was a real worry. One single accident could have poisoned half the world. It reminds us how fragile life really is.

Feeling the Oak on this one at the end: The ethical, spiritual weight of this film quickly accumulates with the score and real footage of the characters -- Legasov's methodical courtroom voice slowly unwinding and expanding to a narrative voiceover -- the whole project unloads on you like a backpack of bricks suddenly slung on you.