Stellan Skarsgard beating that phone to death was a scene of absolute beauty. A+ majestic temper tantrum.

@Teukka72

5 жыл бұрын

"Some telephone equipment was harmed in the making of this episode".

@swedishviking4086

5 жыл бұрын

It was a proper Viking Berserker Rage

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

we need new phone,....

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

neuralmute His soul has evolved.

@SgtMjr

5 жыл бұрын

@@swedishviking4086 Stellan goes HULK!

That 90 second one take shot on the roof. Terrifying

@mattblom3990

5 жыл бұрын

It was an excellent scene.

@Arcian

5 жыл бұрын

I instinctively held my breath throughout that entire scene. When the guy's foot got stuck in the graphite...

@badcode8037

5 жыл бұрын

@@Arcian The guy got his boot torn by the graphite. What will happen to him?

@sketis2012

5 жыл бұрын

@@badcode8037 Comrade soldier, you are done.

@NaturalReese09

5 жыл бұрын

I held my breath the whole scene and almost fell off the couch when his boot got caught under the graphite!!!

"You don't want to cross a line where you feel like you're excited about upsetting people, because we're not." - DID YA HEAR THAT D&D?

@v1perys

5 жыл бұрын

What are you referring to?

@danielmacharia9808

5 жыл бұрын

@@v1perys Game of Thrones

@belvinananda

Жыл бұрын

I dont know dungeon and dragon had a series

That rooftop scene was so intense.. I felt so much dread for those guys.. The dosimeter counters going off was so well done..

@DRAGOMymeme

5 жыл бұрын

plz subscribe @innoxi for more Chernobyl videos

@DanRickmanMedia

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-in8ih5sc8d I'm pretty sure he's right with Dosimeter lol

@rezaka116

5 жыл бұрын

I loved the fact that it was one continuos shot, and it took exactly 90 seconds. The attention to detail is amazing

@crazybastardo9452

5 жыл бұрын

8\10 of those guys are survived. 1 minute 30 seconds not a mortal radiation dose.

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

@@crazybastardo9452 other question is how many of them is alive now. note they were drafted and was in early 20s at the time

Please release the deleted scenes and extras!!

@NG-xp3rn

5 жыл бұрын

Show it all, tell the truth!

@oomagain2605

5 жыл бұрын

Plastic and rubber are good for shielding from neutrons or fast neutrons,. Lead is for photons

@NZAnimeManga

5 жыл бұрын

@@oomagain2605 A thin layer of lead can actually be counter productive due to K_alpha and K_beta x-ray emissions in high radiation-field conditions.

@michaelr3583

5 жыл бұрын

Please pay more $$$ for it

@vadymvv

5 жыл бұрын

@@NZAnimeManga it would'nt if it's "fresh" metal.

I now want a miniseries from Craig about Holodomor. Thank you for mentioning this horrific event. Hearing you talk about the tragedy so respectfully and thoughtfully just melts my heart. With love from Ukraine. Thank you, HBO! Unfortunately here, in Ukraine, we're still trying to figure out how to treat our tragic history right and what's more importantly how to learn from it. Thank you!

@Johannesburg777

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to see a mjni series on tthat. I had never of the Holodomor until the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Are there any documentaries that talk about this tragic time in history?

If you are interested in the documentary he says in the podcast, search chernobyl 3828. You will see the real scene in the roof,the speech and the robot!

@neuralmute

5 жыл бұрын

Seconded!

@aarondelahaye-artist1017

5 жыл бұрын

Γεώργιος Κουτρούλης thirded;)

@Tuning3434

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Very intimidating situation.

The song from the Episode 4 trailer... It plays in the episode when they are dumping the bodies of the animals. That song is for a reason, as is everything else in these mini-series. "Black Raven", a song about a raven circling in the sky -- an omen of death. For a non-Russian speaker that meaning would be lost, but the creators put it in anyway. That's the level of detail I absolutely love.

@NickHunter

5 жыл бұрын

the soundtrack to this episode had me in pieces

@saikeenra

5 жыл бұрын

Black raven, black raven, Why do you circle over me? You won't have your prey, Black raven, I'm not yours.

God I love this podcast. It’s so informative and interesting. I look forward to it just as much as the show’s episodes.

@ggarzona

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly how i feel, I discovered the podcast last week after watching ep 3 and was sad to have missed the first two episodes right after i watched the series. Really cool way to sumarize a chapter and fill my need to discuss it right after the show has ended!

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Mykil47 Priceless

@system1912

5 жыл бұрын

Same here! :D

@manus.4962

5 жыл бұрын

Same ^__^

Best parts 1. The whole scene of men on the roof. *Stumbles and gets stuck* "YOU'RE DONE" 2. Valery smiles. Boris and Valery hug. 3. Boris throwing tantrum 4. The trio conspired up against the State

@SandWolf_

5 жыл бұрын

fukushimanuclearbabydolphin Yep, that too! Although the dog shooting scene with the three guys dragged on a little far too long for me.

@johnnymwal

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. It was over played. I would have preferred to see other things happening over that time line.

@andriyignat8959

5 жыл бұрын

Babushka (opening) stroked me the most .

@SandWolf_

5 жыл бұрын

@@andriyignat8959 It is funny because I never had a problem with the cast speaking English until that VERY moment. I guess in my subconscious, that Babushka face doesn't match the language that comes out of her mouth. That scene took me out unfortunately.

@Bartimayus

5 жыл бұрын

@@SandWolf_ Yeah I have to agree that's the one scene where they needed an accent.

That line "over the clothes, fuckn shit" gets me every time.

@drakashrakenburgproduction5369

4 жыл бұрын

Bacho was the man. A very memorable character. Tough as nails but caring when needs to. Very accurate portrayal of combat veterans.

Really anticipating the minute by minute walk through of the accident in episode 5. This was such a great episode, just a great depiction of being on that roof.

@Mykil47

5 жыл бұрын

Slamjack01 I agree. Man this episode was dark too.

It is a very important series for me personally. My last name is Ukrainian, but I grew up in Siberia, Russia because my grandparents were sent from Ukraine to Siberia during Stalin. The sound of milk splashing in the bucket before I even saw the very first shot of the opening scene brings me back to my childhood. I have exactly the same babushka back in my hometown, although, she doesn’t have a cow any more. I’m living in New York now and missing her terribly. The entire series is just astonishingly precise in production design and the otherworldly Icelandic score in the background is perfect for this atmosphere. Really painful to watch because I grew up in this and that is exactly why I always wanted to move to a different place. But I love my homeland deeply and watching Chernobyl is very nostalgic and full of tears.

@ernestspuzulis6203

5 жыл бұрын

Contradicting yourself there, love the homeland, yet want to leave it. It wasn’t an Ukrain tradegy, but the one that the whole Soviet Union suffered trough. I’m Latvian and I had classmates who’s reletives were served as liquidators in Chernobyl. Besides that, series are really good. You can see thag it was made with respect towards the people who partook part in this. Though, I think at times they overdramatise it or make Soviet looks a bit too “barbaric”. The miners look and act like some thugs when in reality they were quite nice, well spoken and hardworking folk. Doesn’t take much to find videos of said workers. Another example would be the military. My grandfather was almost sent as a liquidator, but before the departure the officer told to all that they have gathered that if by mistake they brought a person with more than 2 kinds, they should step out of the line to be sent back home, as the place they will head to might be their end.

@kristinakrylysov

5 жыл бұрын

​@@ernestspuzulis6203 As an immigrant, I'm probably going to live with this contradiction within me my whole life. I agree that some scenes, especially in the first 2 episodes felt overdramatized and fake and I wish they had people from the Soviet Union in their cast and crew. But overall, it's still a very powerful and impactful series, that is extremely rare nowadays.

@bink6778

5 жыл бұрын

Kristina Bodnya it’s very rare that I read a comment on KZread and am glad to have read it once I’m done. Thank you for sharing a bit of your story.

@kristinakrylysov

5 жыл бұрын

@@bink6778 Thank you for your kind words.

@nikkivenable3700

5 жыл бұрын

There are times I wish I could sit down for coffee with someone who writes a comment that deeply moves me....we could talk about life, death, and the in-between. I think I could learn a lot from you!

"they didn't do anything mean to this cow, like raise it in an industrial farm" BURN BABY BURN LMAOOOOOOOO

@LetsTakeWalk

5 жыл бұрын

ShotgunBob (Radiation burn)

I could not keep my eyes open after that one dog came running out of the house towards the whistle. There was a moment the stride of this animal showed its excitement and joy that a human had arrived and would soon feed and love him. Had the final puppy scene aired, concrete pouring as the puppy shook in fear, I would have lost it. I'm thankful it was cut. This series has been both terrifying and amusing. I know now, how very little I knew of this tragedy. "One glass of vodka, every hour for four hours," as treatment for radiation exposure. They were clueless as to what they were up against. And that was Perestroika.

Last week watching Chernobyl: “oh god radiation sickness is horrific! This show could never horrify me more.” This weeks episode: “Hold my beer.”

@jamesha520

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle Voltti you mean “hold my graphite”

@NickHunter

5 жыл бұрын

"most of them are happy to see you... bang, we put them on the truck, we dump them in the pit, then we drink" ;_;

@danheuser5148

5 жыл бұрын

I still found the radiation sickness, and knowingly sending people into situations where they're going to get a mega-dose of radiation, and die a horrible death, more disturbing when compared to the dog killing. Either way, I sure wouldn't want the animal culling job, nor would I want a job in a slaughter house.

@NickHunter

5 жыл бұрын

@@danheuser5148 *dogs, and of course that's worse. Just a different kind of horrific. Also another sort of necessary evil

@kvoltti

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Heuser dogs and the human robots.. both were horrific

Another fantastic episode from this amazing series. The roof scene is amazingly accurate compared to actual footage I have seen of the cleanup.

9.7 on IMDB... that says everything about this series. The acting, the acurracy of the events, the drama that is transmited -> Masterpiece! P.s: it would be great if @hbo release the making of/behind the scenes. GOOD F*****G JOB!

@Shofotolavski

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, a good subject was ruined by the American worldview. GOOD F*****G JOB!

@MrDaniyil

5 жыл бұрын

It is not so accurate, tbh

@carpovalexandru

5 жыл бұрын

MrDaniyil ofc not 100% accurate, but it is something

@Shofotolavski

5 жыл бұрын

@@carpovalexandru It does not deserve a high score of 9.7 Actors and props are excellent But the script is too bad, full of Americans’ prejudice against the world. Did the Soviets rule the country by killing and monitoring? All the heroes involved in the disaster relief are why they seem to be against the Soviet Union? HBO may not know that the cold war is over and should end the lie

@blackvoron1997

5 жыл бұрын

@@Shofotolavski btw, cold war not over, just morfed in some other form. I say it as Russian

The most important mini series on TV since 'Roots'. And it's going to rightly win ever single award it is nominated for.

@QQ-og3ui

5 жыл бұрын

@CommandoDude LOL

@scipioafricanus3324

5 жыл бұрын

This series has made me really, really paranoid about nuclear power.

@polkka7797

5 жыл бұрын

Scipio Africanus trust me, nuclear power is actually very safe, these reactors where just designed to make bombs, and were crewed by crap engineers

@jackthompson391

5 жыл бұрын

@@polkka7797 "Trust me". Oh right, after all you're some random idiotic internet troll. You're an ignorant moron. Buzz off.

@neuralmute

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackthompson391 I look at it this way - the only big nuclear accident since Chernobyl has been at Fukushima, where they were using a far safer design, which managed to stand up to a fucking *magnitude 9* earthquake, and only got in trouble when hit head on by the tsunami caused by an earthquake that big. And that was a plant built in the 70's as well, below the safe high water mark, under the foolish assumption that the more advanced breakwalls that had been built in front of it would hold off anything the ocean could throw at it. It was an idiot design flaw, again. But knowing that a safer reactor design that old *did* stand up to a mag 9 earthquake, very close to the epicentre? I find that really encouraging. If they'd only paid attention to the previous high water marks there would have been no disaster.

When Craig started on the puppy scene (no more bullets, lead pouring on the alive puppy), I sobbed so hard that my cat (Ollie) came to me, lay his head down on my chest & started purring (trying to comfort me) - Humans DO NOT deserve these loving animals *still sobbing*

Very tough episode to watch. That phone scene though... Immediately I thought of Ralph Fiennes in 'In Bruges'.

@Misslt27

5 жыл бұрын

Valery: "Comrade! It's an inanimate fucking object!" Boris: "YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!!!"

@chrisswaim3798

5 жыл бұрын

You heet the Ukrainian?

The silent interaction between the miner crew chief and Boris when he asks if his guys will be taken care of and Boris says simply “I don’t know” in a defeated tone, that’s brilliant, a silent understanding afterward showing the pure futility of their own actions.

Currently wondering whether I should post a video explaining the physics of the reactor failure before the finale, or wait until afterwards.

@jmchez

5 жыл бұрын

Would be nice to post as extra for the finale.

@GhostEye31

5 жыл бұрын

Go for it for sure, also love to see you reacting to it in general.

@animuauntie

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video, and thank you for mentioning this show. I am not current with TV, so I didn't know this existed!

The dog killing was very difficult to watch. So i kinda just listened. This show is exceptional. This event has always fascinated me, grateful someone has stepped up to tell the story as close to accurate as possible. Bravo!

@ernestspuzulis6203

5 жыл бұрын

They never show them killing dogs directly. Just aiming and pulling the trigger with no dog in sight. I don’t know what you tried to avoid seeing there.

Whatever you do, don’t show John Wick this episode...

@audaxaquilae6974

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha why do you think ussr collapsed?

@fangyao6620

5 жыл бұрын

Audax Aquilae The USSR thought face is more important than truth.

@liquidsnakeckw

5 жыл бұрын

@@fangyao6620 the joke is that john wick brought down the USSR over dead pets

@fangyao6620

5 жыл бұрын

@@liquidsnakeckw interesting !

@markgarcia8253

5 жыл бұрын

Audax Aquilae : True. John Wick speaks Russian already

I hardly cry when watching TV. This episode had me bawling. A very tough but necessary watch. Everyone involved with this show has done an amazing job! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!!

never in my life have i wanted the deleted scenes less

@robertjusic9097

5 жыл бұрын

You mean more?

@neuralmute

5 жыл бұрын

Both at once?

The amount of moral dilemmas at play during this crisis is just entirely defeating. This show does a fantastic of shining light on various areas. What a disaster this was. An avoidable one.

@christinakaur8766

5 жыл бұрын

Well said.

The interviewer points out that the rooftop clearing was conducted over months and was left out of the show but shown on script, but I thought the one shot was so brilliant to allow the viewer to figure this out. We saw the character maybe clear out 3 pieces of debris in the 90 seconds. Among thousands and thousands of graphite that remained. That was powerful. This was going to take a lot of men, and a lot of time.

@angelaraber

5 жыл бұрын

Thousands of men... just one or two pieces at a time. A lifetime’s worth of radiation for a thousand dollars. It boggles the mind.

@AlexDemidov

5 жыл бұрын

Watch Chernobyl.3828 documentary about work on the roof. The film is named for the 3828 people who worked in this area.

That rooftop scene made my stomach churn.

@BoulevardFan28

5 жыл бұрын

The rooftop scene, and the one where the engineers stare right into the core of the reactor, are both chilling.

There are some aspects that has been ignored about the cleanup, but I don't mind it since they can't show everything. One thing to know they used many different kinds of robots, both Soviet-made and foreign (along West German ones, we know of Japanese, Hungarian and East German machines). In the "low" radiation zone they more or less did their work fine, but even there they eventually had to employ men to finish up the job. The infamous Joker robot didn't die instantly, they first through it merely got stuck on a piece of graphite, expanded dangerous times of labour to get it free only to find out it was dead -exposing lot of people to extra doses, absolutely pointless in the end (edit: ok they address this in the podcast). Another thing to know is that lead shields can't be used forever. Lead is very brittle and as both mechanical wear and radiation keeps damaging it, they cause cracks and changes in the crystalline structure that eventually makes it useless. When they look down the one prominent thing you can see in the show is Elena, the big circular thing. Elena was the nickname of the reactor's Upper Biological Shield, which was dangling in the reactor mouth in a very unstable position (and still is to day). The many pipe-like things extending from it were nicknamed Elena's hair, and they are nothing else but the remains of the railing the fuel rods themselves were placed on. Omitted are two triangular sensor probes put on Elena by helicopters meant to measure radioactivity, but those may have been put there later. Curiously Elena seems to be missing from episode 3's shot of the still-burning reactor.

Bleakest 90 minutes of TV, movies, etc. I have ever seen. The dogs being shot made me cry. First time in a long, long time.

God this was a perfect pairing to go along side this miniseries. Thank you HBO!

Like I’ve said countless times in the last weeks, this episode was absolutely amazing. The accuracy is stunning and mostly true to what really happened. The one thing I got to see which I’ve never seen before was how the conscript troops (Liquidators) arriving to help in the cleanup operation. Their aren’t many photos or video of the camps where the Liquidators stayed during the cleanup. We also get to see how the evaluation of the out villages in Belarus and Ukraine happened in the months following the disaster. The scenes showing the Liquidators walking/driving the ZIL-130 truck (blue and white truck) through Pripyat and spraying down everything in the city. It looked so real compared to photos and video taken during the cleanup. Another very sad thing that we got to see was the killing of house pets which did actually happen. I don’t believe theirs photos or video of that happening and I could see why. I loved the how real the robots looked like the Joker probe and the Soviet STR-1 lunar rover which they converted in the use of cleanup on the roof, then we get to see how the Army had to send the conscript men up to the roof for up to 90 seconds where they literally throw one graphite block at a time off the roof and into the reactor core, it looked just like how it really happened, THE UNIFORMS LOOKED SO REALISTIC. The thing which looked most realistic to me was at the end of the episode when the two men climbed up the stack above the RBMK reactor and placed the red flag, there is footage showing them actually doing this, the men doing that look exactly the same right down to the clothing which they are wearing! Another great episode, I hope next week is just as good as this weeks!

@ernestspuzulis6203

5 жыл бұрын

So you disregard primary source of evidence because it doesn’t look real to you and you prefer fiction over reality? Show is good, quite accurate, but they dramatise some bits a bit too much.

Stalin's treatment of the Ukrainians in the 30s is perhaps the least known genocide in the west. Truly horrorific and yet it's rarely spoken. The people of Ukraine have been through so much, that scene with the old woman was heartbreaking.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Maekar I Targaryen God Bless Ukraine May it’s heart heal.

@TS35267

5 жыл бұрын

In LA, Grand Park, right in front of the City hall, there is Holodomor Memorial stating how many people died in Ukraine thanks to the strong Ukrainian diaspora. Famine happened also in Kazakhstan, 1.5 mln of Kazakh people died - 38% of Kazakhs, the highest % of any ethnic group killed in USSR.

@artyshmunzuk5435

5 жыл бұрын

Also 3 million deaths in RSFSR itself, don't forget that.

@SukhoiT10

5 жыл бұрын

It was in Russian republic and Kazakhstan republic also. And it was not Stalin's treatment, it was global famine due to bad crop and infrastructure ruined during revolution and civil war. But after USSR crash those events much politized in exUSSR republics and in some of them state government trying to present it like Stalin's genocide. Ukraine is example of such history distortion.

@Jon.A.Scholt

5 жыл бұрын

@@SukhoiT10 Please, don't whitewash genocide, not a good look

The cow conversation gave me some giggles xD

Well done for recognising the Holodomor

@lexbor3511

5 жыл бұрын

@Олексій Донога Noone sane is denying that it was a hunger and millions died. What I and some other honest historians are denying is that it was intentionally created to kill Ukrainians. It was man-made disaster - the same as Chernobyl, but the same as Chernobyl it was not intentionally created to kill people. And the word "holodomor" means intentional killing by starvation. So the notion itself is wrong. There is not one document proving that it was intentional but there are plenty of documents showing Stalin sending help to starving people. And Soviet Union kept all its criminal records. Thats why we now have proves of Katyn massacre and many other crimes with Stalin's signature on it. If Stalin's intention was to kill Ukrainians - there would be no Ukrainian Soviet republic at all. And no-one would dare to oppose him. He never shied from breaking people's will. He removed Chechens and their republic in one night and did it to several ethnic groups relocating them to Siberia and Kazakhstan. I am no commie and am not even Russian. I just respect myself and thats my I am for truth and no-one can bs me.

@Alina190995

5 жыл бұрын

don't listen to this communist above me, it tries to spread a russian propaganda, surprised that he didn't mention that it was Americans fault in Holodomor.. brainwashed

@Alina190995

5 жыл бұрын

@@lexbor3511 glad that you admited that you are a liar and so is your government, the rest of the world already knows it)

@Elivasfq

5 жыл бұрын

The hunger in the early 30's in the USSR was real. People died from Siberia through the Volga region to Zaporozhye and beyond. Around 3 million in Ukraine, around 4 million elsewhere.

@l.u.7834

5 жыл бұрын

@@lexbor3511 Stalin sending help to starving people - BULLSHIT!!!

So happy I found this podcast. I've literally listened to all of them in one day, one more ;(

These podcasts gives so much inner satisfaction to absorb the heartbreaking events that has happened :(

@akbar_khalid

5 жыл бұрын

Beautifully put.

That last scene was so heart breaking. 💔💔💔

@ssotkow

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the baby was remnant hope and lasting memory of her late husband. Suffered same fate as daddy.

@bugsbunnyknowsbetter

5 жыл бұрын

blueberry smasher her baby died by her own fault. She literally killed her child.

@QQ-og3ui

5 жыл бұрын

@@bugsbunnyknowsbetter She, like the rest of the citizens, were ignorant to the entire concept of radiation. They didn't know. They had no way to know because they weren't provided with that information.

@MichaelD-fn5lv

5 жыл бұрын

She knew she wasn't supposed to touch him. The nurse specifically asked her about pregnancy.

@VictorLight

5 жыл бұрын

She literally hugged her radioactive husband after she was told not to touch him. It was her fault but it was also sad.

The podcast is such a great idea. Thank you. This is a must-see for those who want to deeper explore the disaster of Chernobyl. We see the victims and the reactions of the people who were in charge. It's powerful and it not only provides details of what actually happened, but also gives a fascinating insight into the mind of a Soviet person. The sense of duty, the obedience to the regime and how cruelly it was exploited. The story needed to be told.

The 90 Seconds of the Roof scene is my favorite scene from any TV show ever. Thank you for making it.

The neatly tidied infant bed at the end made me weep

@vickygarnett7623

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. The dog stuff was just horrible. The roof scene was unbearably tense. The dialogue-free final 20secs where Ljudmilla had to sit in a ward with new mothers cradling their newborns while she sat next to an empty cot broke my heart.

I'm so glad I found out about this podcast! Answered so many questions I had whilst watching the episodes.

I'm really glad no animals were harmed, the dogs man.. those poor puppers. I know, i know.. it had to be done, and it was more humane than letting them suffer in radiation sickness, but it's still sad.

55 telephones disliked this episode

This series break my heart. I cried watching episode 4.

@ssotkow

5 жыл бұрын

Those pack of puppies and their mother. Heart wrenching . Why does the kid look so familiar? He looks like Tye Sheridan from Ready Player One but he's not.

@Bandersnatch187

5 жыл бұрын

@@ssotkow I couldn't place where I had seen him while watching, but he was in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

@peopleshowup3447

5 жыл бұрын

blueberry smasher Maybe you know him from Dunkirk.

@Gruntled2001

5 жыл бұрын

My God... the empty crib and a bereft mother next to it. That was too much.

@berserker2.0

5 жыл бұрын

@@ssotkow That kid is actually 26 years old.

Stellan's complete meltdown on the phone when he hears what the Soviet leaders have done when ordering the Joker, is one of my favourite scenes out of the entire show. His performance is breath taking. If Reactor 4 would have been able to see it, it would have been in absolute awe because Stellan pretty much rivals its meltdown at that point. This series is one of the best series to ever grace the TV screen, full stop. The attention to detail, the accuracy of the events, you knocked it out of the park, and then some! The blue-ray gets played here on a regular basis. I was 15 when the accident happened. We couldn't eat anything from the gardens, the cows had to be brought indoors and children weren't allowed to play in the sand boxes. So, yeah, the series hits home sometimes.

The cow scene was great. When the soldier aimed his gun I knew he was gonna shoot the cow. But gosh I love this whole show. My sister has always been fascinated by the Chernobyl tragedy -- a few years ago she was always talking about it and trying to get me to watch the documentaries on KZread. But I was never interested -- until she showed me the trailer of this new HBO series. At first we thought it was a documentary. And then I saw Stellan Skarsgard in the trailer and I was so excited.

@ethanwhite2274

5 жыл бұрын

I thought he was going to shoot the woman for not moving. When I saw the cow on the floor I was in shock

“Comrade! Your Done.” Had a double meaning this episode :/

watching the series with the companion podcast has truly been a memorable experience . Thank you so much

I wanted to see more of those miner guys.

@jeffreyb7665

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. Those miners were badass.

@Karajorma

5 жыл бұрын

We already had the scene where they mine naked. I don't think you can see much more of them without an endoscope!

@Karajorma

5 жыл бұрын

But yeah, I agree they were awesome.

@DanRickmanMedia

5 жыл бұрын

What else was left to see of them? XD

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

@@DanRickmanMedia lool

Craig Mazin is very talented he went from writing the Hangover trilogy to this both quality but very different genres with very different themes very successfully

I really recommend for those who are interested in Chornobyl a great album 'Vidlik'(Countdown) of Ukrainian band 'Onuka', which is devoted to this catastrophe. Btw, father of the frontwoman was one of the liquidators in Chornobyl.

Really amazed at the consistency of the quality of each episode. This is what you can do when you don't try to stretch it out over 5 seasons with irrelevant bs. Quality of this podcast is also consistently high! Also Stellan Skarsgård has been absolutely magnificent throughout. We need a new series that's just about him smashing up telephones.

@neuralmute

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Stellan Skarsgard smashing phones and Jared Harris pounding tables! (If you haven't seen The Terror, he fills it with A+ table pounding.)

C. Mazin described my childhood - when elders start telling you stories, you sit down and listen. Boy, have i heard things... Baltic countries have been the front line of various wars through ages, WW2 was not an exception

The ludmila scene at the end was so strong, touching and beautiful in the cinematographic way. Gosh...

@Zvenygora

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, also you can read about Ignatenko family in "Voices of Chernobyl" book, chapter "A SOLITARY HUMAN VOICE ". Her name is LudmiLa, though (sorry, but it's very popular Slavic name, I have beloved cousin of the same name)

@aposfi

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zvenygora T9 pressed the wrong button :)

Seeing how popular this show has become, i wonder if there will be another season but that one would be about Fukushima.

What should be also mentioned is the song "Black Raven" at the end which is absolutely brilliant. The Germans during World War II absolutely feared that song coming from the Soviet trenches - it meant the men singing it will be going to battle tomorrow prepared to die and have nothing to lose.

Excellent episode, I'm glad you are doing the podcast as well to discuss what went on. I remember as a teenager watching the grainy footage of the Bio Robots on the news in the 80's and thinking what an awful thing to have to do, but this show has brought home how much I didn't know about what happened.

While the show is indeed perfect, the book Voices From Chernobyl is a must on the topic.

When they were on the roof I was almost holding my breath!

This series is amazing. You guys are ballsy as hell for showing how dark everything got. Episode 1 and 4 are really hard to watch.

What a conundrum to be faced with a litter of puppies.

This episode was hard to watch. Poor animals. 😢😢😢😢. Throughout history the in genius of man and what mankind is capable of is amazing. But at the same time, man can also be so destructive.

There were around 6000 liquidators from Latvia (at that time Latvian SSR) alone, 1500 of them are already dead... Even though most now would be at the age of 50-60 only. 3500 have some level of disability, including my uncle who was there too. He can work and at least from the outside seems fine, but has some heart issues and it will only become worse. Recently had his first micro insult... so, you know... He has always been positive in life etc. so maybe it does not show as much and he has not become depressed and succumbed to alcoholism, but still. My cousin, his son, also has some issues with blood pressure... He hasn't told much about what he was doing there. At the time he was in the army (though not in Afghanistan) and they sent him there. He just said that nobody really understood how serious it (radiation) was and there was a lot of chaos actually too, as he describes it. Probably also due to generous amounts of vodka, as shown. And yes, he drinks a lot of vodka when there is some party.

@sandal_thong8631

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Pro-nuclear fanatics are saying today that Chernobyl wasn't that bad as only a couple dozen died.

1.) We need a Chernobyl II highlighting some other parts of the story, perhaps filling in other liquidators or other stories. 2.) Some digital "radiation cigarette burns" on the film on the roof would have been a nice touch.

@scottwatrous

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the whole roof scene could have been done a few times to really show what the effort was like, and I agree some sort of radiation damage to the film would feel appropriate. Easy enough for someone to make an edit at some point, I look forward to it.

@samy29987

5 жыл бұрын

This is my only major gripe with the show, it isn't longer lol. The show is so good and has so much quality that I would've liked for it to last a few more episodes. 8-10 would have been great.

@marklewis5905

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t dare call it Chernobyl II!

@scottwatrous

5 жыл бұрын

@@marklewis5905 Of course not. Cuz it needs to be called Chernobyl 2: Electric Boogaloo

This series, as hard as it is to watch, has been excellent. The way those victims of radiation went out was beyond horrible, those firefighters were true heroes.

Stellen (Boris) is incredible in this role

Great show. And I can relate to the way it is depicted, to some extent. I'm from Croatia and I was 11 at the time. On the sunday, two days after the explosion, I went on a hiking trip with my family and one of the thing us kids did playing was rolling in the leaves on the ground. As a consequence of that I developed a rash to the extent I had to be taken to the hospital that evening. And that was some 1500 km away. I was treated and that went away few days later. The doctors didn't know the cause of it, at the time. We all found out few days later. I don't have any medical repercussions from it but the memory stayed with me very vividly, even though I was only 11 at the time. Kudos to the show makers.

this podcast is amazing. the show is great but i love these deep dives, as horrible as it is. so illuminating.

Thank you for this show, I am Bulgarian and, this is important to me, and for many other people around here

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Nicolas How did Bulgaria deal with radiation fallout? Do you know about seaweeds?

This show is fantastic. Chilling

I did see someone on twitter (I hate to use this word but) complain that there was too much time spent on the liquidation of animals and not enough time on the cleanup on the roof. I just want to say I thought the choice to focus more on Pavel and his devastating struggle to accept the reality of the situation around him was a good one. Not because I was moved more by the liquidation of beloved pets, but because I think the rooftop clean up scene was brilliantly executed - I was terrified for everyone on that roof and the entire 90 seconds my heart was beating out of my chest. It was the most on edge I've been since the end of episode 2. I think to have focused more on that or to have repeated the dispatch of liquidators onto the roof would have diminished the terror contained in that short scene. I thought it was really well done.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Jennifer I don’t know. I don’t have any complaints of this mini series.

@deathwitheponine

5 жыл бұрын

L. Garcia me either! Some of the complaints (like the one from twitter) totally baffle me.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Jennifer It seems people are responding like this is a fictional story line, like a horror movie. For entertainment. It seems like they are behaving like the Soviets, denial.

@sandal_thong8631

2 жыл бұрын

They say tens of thousands of liquidators (out of hundreds of thousands) had their lives shortened. I still don't know the estimate for the miners or the biorobots.

Sometimes the tears I shed after each episode take a long time to stop.

Just when I thought this show couldn’t get anymore gut wrenching, episode 4 comes along. Brilliant tv, but oh so brutal to watch.

Thank you for making such a great series!

If this episode scared you, then I advise you guys to read a book called "The Sun of the Dead" by Ivan Shmelyov. It is not about the Chernobyl catastrophe, but about the civil war in Russia and about the crimes of the Bolsheviks. I guarantee you, after reading you will be shocked for a whole week. I read it in a day and could not sleep all night because of the dread that covered me. P.S. Sorry for my English.

@bellbookcandle3051

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'll check it out. 👍

@Ravi-xf8dw

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@mr.digama

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ravi-xf8dw np, man

This episode had me feeling all kind of ways. Another great episode. The fact that lagasov knew and informed the state is highly disturbing...best show on television period. So sad its ending next week

Oh my goodness, I thought they shot the Babushka, too. Glad to know she got on the bus!

I hope at the end of Episode 5 they will show a kind of tribute with all the actors together, real people involved, heroes and survivors, in front of the real sarcophagus built in 2016

Can Craig Mazin please redo season 8 of Game of Thrones?

@bellbookcandle3051

5 жыл бұрын

Please ask him to _start_ at Season 5?!

@miguellucero

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Good point.

One of the things they didn't mention in this is that the background footage of the roof during the briefing scene? It's real. That is actual footage of the Chernobyl rooftop and the men who worked on it. One of the liquidators who went up there was given a camera and told to take a video of those cursed 90 seconds, so the men who followed him would have a guide to go by.

I have read about Chernobyl when I was in highschool, it felt like history even though it was 15 years since the event and still ongoing till this day! Really appreciate Craig Mazin and crew to do such a great job retelling this tragic story, and the podcast is a great touch on telling more!!

This was by far the hardest episode to watch. They had to kill the animals. It was necessary but HORRIFYING

@Mykil47

5 жыл бұрын

Tamara Kunklinski totally agree. This episode was dark. I can’t believe it could have been darker.

@ssotkow

5 жыл бұрын

Culling livestock due to viruses are so commonplace in age of superbugs immune to our antibiotics, which is just as cruel IMO.

@pattimoser6779

5 жыл бұрын

I'm so, so glad they didn't show the scene with the last living puppy!!! To me even listening about it was devastating ;( On the other hand, I know for a fact that some pets have died locked in the abandoned apartments... That's even more horrifying death than getting shot.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Tamara Kunklinski Why was it considered necessary?

@tamarakuklinski4240

5 жыл бұрын

@@Blue-hf7xt did you not see the scene where Legasov explains that the ground will need excavated along with terminating of all house pets and farm animals to help stop the spread of radiation? Unfortunately it had to happen, we as viewer's may not like it but it really happened in that order.

Just watched episode four. Fantastic and heartbreaking!

This pod cast was needed thank you guys.

When Chernobyl happened, I was living in Miami & pregnant with my oldest daughter, who will turn 33 in July. At that time, I was in the process of finding a house, concentrating on my classes at UM, work, & lamaze classes. It was all just a blur for me. I remember people in Miami speculating about Turkey Point & how we would all be in the same situation if the reactor blew. Watching this HBO miniseries brought it all back. Almost to the point of imagining hearing my baby daughter crying as I watched. I remember very vividly hearing things as I went about my daily routine...or people discussing it at work (conversations in the background). Now I've been watching every documentary I can find. This show appears to be extremely accurate. Breathtakingly accurate, in fact. It deserves every award known to mankind.

When you spend all your budget on making in-depth behind the scenes videos and documentaries for GoT so you have to make do with a BTS Podcast for Chernobyl.

@daniel3231995

5 жыл бұрын

I rather prefer this format actually. More intelligent.

@alfier1736

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Yeah same. Chernobyl isn’t the kind of spectacle chasing programme that warrants bts videos. Its better to be hearing the real anecdotes behind the story.

@abatesnz

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfier1736 Rubbish. Heaps of people are interested in this series and these podcasts. Hence the plaudits and ratings and viewer numbers.

@alfier1736

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew Bates, think u misread my point. I loved the podcast & thought it delivered enough insight into the show without cheapening the disaster by reducing it to pure spectacle, hence why i didn’t believe it needed bts videos about the making of it.

@abatesnz

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfier1736 Ah. So you're saying the commentary is enough, and doesn't need video support. Fair enough.

This is the best show on TV right now, period.

Such amazing done series.. hope will get to see the left out parts too...

Possibly the best dramatic documentary ever on TV

You are the best! thank you for your reasearches! AND TALANT!

These podcasts should come with three shots of vodka...

@katyb6979

5 жыл бұрын

Sabina Dudová And a dosimeter!!

@lhpkazuha

5 жыл бұрын

Then each Chernobyl episode should come with a bottle

@Christrulesall2

4 жыл бұрын

And some sausages.

Very well done! Love the mini series and the podcasts!

So so glad that they didn't show the scene where the puppy was buried alive. That would have been too much for me haha. I hugged my cats tight watching this. Such an amazing show though!

@bellbookcandle3051

5 жыл бұрын

I had to fast forward through it, because I knew what was coming...

Honestly as a huge history buff I love this series. What makes this great though it not only is extremely accurate but it makes you want to research the diaster as well. Which btw some parts are not true but I understand why it's told that way the way they show the Soviet people is so true and not in anyway as some sort of fear mongering or comedy like we are used to in Western cinema. Honestly this is more a documentary than a docu drama because pretty everything is based on real people events are places surrounding this disaster. Only criticism I give and I get the point that it's what they wanted to towards a learning lesson I don't agree with trying to apply it to US politics it does a disservice to the disaster itself it should have just been a telling of the invent when u invoke how it relates to the US u cheapen the story and the acts of heroism these people did. Honestly for me it would have been perfect if they didn't involve that so for inaccuracies -1 point and for using this event as a narrative spin -1 point but that being said 8/10 watch it if u can it's 1000% worth the money u would spend to see it.

Hands down the most powerful thing I've ever watched

The scariest and most tear-squeezing drama a have ever seen in all. my. f. life. Craig Mazin and his team made an incredibly good work.

This show is bang on. Great job