"Now you *look* like the Minister of Coal!"

@Rusted_Empire

5 жыл бұрын

The best part of the episode

@NickHunter

5 жыл бұрын

such a brilliant scene

@TheRealJoeSchmo

5 жыл бұрын

The miners were great!

@Ru43210

5 жыл бұрын

At the same time one of the few scenes in the series which is artificial (I don't believe in what was shown and I think none of those born in USSR will). Minister of coal production coming to the mine with 2 soldiers, are you kidding me? Everything before that was great but this one is out of the world of USSR'86.

@istvanszabo5159

5 жыл бұрын

For me it was very ambivalent to watch that scene. Of course it was cool and entertaining...on the other hand in a TV show like this, where the main focus of the creators is to show things as they happened...(as much as it is possible)... Well a civil couldn't talk like this even to common police officer, not to a minister. Unnecessarily exaggerated scene, but I forgive...the rest of the episode was mindblowing.

I don't know why, but that line "These people work in the dark, but they see everything" got me. Excellent miniseries so far, a real eye opener

@kainhall

5 жыл бұрын

resonated with me as well..... im a car mechanic X comes out with a new vehicle..... and i see right threw the bullshit i remember asking a GM dealer about how to fix a problem with a rear end....... he said "its got two different gear oils, two different sections that need to seal, ETC" i said "sounds a lot like ford bullshit" he replied "ya.... i think were sharing engineers" i didnt want to work on it..... he didnt want to work on it..... but someone had to work on it..... not life or death...... but my back sure hurt

@dipi71

4 жыл бұрын

»If these worked… you’d be wearing them.«

@StoutProper

2 жыл бұрын

@@kainhall if they worked, you’d be driving them

@seltonk5136

Жыл бұрын

Influenced by Arthur 2 On The Rocks

@mephiston001

Жыл бұрын

@@seltonk5136 whats that? NVM i googled it and i learned that your very UK Cheers!!🎇🎇

This show already reached the legendary status.

@coreyinkato

5 жыл бұрын

Agree, it reached that before episode 1 was complete. This is a masterpiece.

@Demour77

5 жыл бұрын

If only anyone outside the US could watch it :'( seems we're just gonna have to pirate if its geolocked to the US only :/

@georgebritten8208

5 жыл бұрын

@@Demour77 just get showbox....

@Bajuszba

5 жыл бұрын

@@Demour77 I'm watching it in Hungary (on hbo go)! :o

@ssotkow

5 жыл бұрын

This miniseries is riveting, but "legendary status" in just three episodes? Stop engaging in hyperbolic statements. Sound like paid advertisements.

Thanks Craig Mazin, I haven't slept well for 3 weeks now, all I do is research Chernobyl and nuclear plants...

@shylockharrison

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@AK-706

5 жыл бұрын

Marko Drapic also not sleeping well

@ella_komiya

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@H3LLS4NG3L

5 жыл бұрын

look into kyshtym. Its the worst disaster, with even more consequences, and so few people are aware of its magnitude.

@Hellfirestorm82

5 жыл бұрын

Me too but I have learned so much more about it

3 episodes in and it's already some of the best directed, written, acted and filmed shows I've ever watched

@NandiCollector

5 жыл бұрын

true.

@KbIPbIL0

11 ай бұрын

When i seen the intro in the first ep and the explosion, i felt the same The 5th ep Vichnaya Pamyat was so amazing for me.. i think it's the first time that the out of frame talking outro and images with text work so incredibly well

Glad to see so many come here after viewing, captivated and horrified by our human history.

@Kate95825

5 жыл бұрын

Our duty as ancestors, is to learn from our mistakes so we can create a better future for our descendants. "Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them."

@magicman3163

5 жыл бұрын

choggerboom don’t say human history just say USSR history

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

choggerboom There is a lot to learn from this story, event. I think every American could benefit from watching this mini series.

@Azalin2012

5 жыл бұрын

@@magicman3163 you are wrong. Ecological catastrophy of that size has impact on all humanity

@Cortesevasive

5 жыл бұрын

@@magicman3163 USSR>WORLD

I still can't get Akimov out of my head. Just remembering the denial and the level of shock from the first episode, as well as the hopelessness and fear of doing anything else than what your boss orders.. And just knowing it's a mistake.. Then having to go through having no face left, it's really heart wrenching.

I am addicted to this Series. Deserves an award at LEAST. God bless all those Firefighters.

@MrLandry2010

5 жыл бұрын

Yea this series is addictive it’s a really great show such a tragedy what happened. And the Soviet system was so stupid and inefficient. In America we were making fun of them but it was deadly serious for them. I feel bad for the victims of radiation poisoning. They died terribly and I salute the people that stopped an even worse disaster from happening.

@Cortesevasive

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrLandry2010 Which part do you find inefficient ? .World has never experienced anything like that before. Soviets did pretty well .

@chiragraju821

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@FloridaManRacer

5 жыл бұрын

@@Cortesevasive though true, there was a LOT of denial and bureaucracy that got in the way of saving lives and fixing the problem.

@fairygrant5097

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully this show shines some light on the burden of all the people living with illness because of the clean up. I've heard the Russian gov has cut pensions to the few people that got them after the clean up. They really need to be taken care of.

Horrifying what those poor men went through. "The pain is unimaginable" that's right.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

An Ngo This is one time where euthanasia seems humane.

@evacouldbe5617

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why they let them keep suffering when they knew there was nothing they could do to save them. That is just cruel imo. We put our pets to sleep when there is nothing to be done, we have more compassion for our pets to end their suffering, then our fellow human beings??? I know I would want to be put to sleep ASAP.

@ryanhunter226

5 жыл бұрын

@mimun e "We are not pets" 1) Pets are living, thinking beings too. 2) Hisachi Ouchi claimed after all his skin had burned off from radiation, that he wasn't a guinea pig, for a long time he begged for death as he suffered. Survival Instincts are extremely intense, but sometimes when you experience something as intense and unimaginably agonising as that, it's something you'll do anything to relieve yourself from, even if it means dying. Those men were decomposing and being burned alive from the inside at the same time, nearly every Nociceptor in their body would have been in a constant frenzy. Breathing, eating, drinking, urinating, defecating, talking, moving all become painful on their own and as it goes on, you are no longer capable of doing such things. Your DNA mutates, therefore protein linings are destroyed. Imagine decaying, being flayed, being burned and being choked and posioned all at once and it takes weeks for you to finally die. I don't see how someone is "a retard" for having empathy instead of the cliche, superficial perception of Love in society. I don't think they did anything to you either. In all honesty, you don't know what it's truly like until you've gone through it and hopefully no one else will. I don't like you at the moment, but I certainly wouldn't wish that on you or anyone else. Think first. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but manners cause nothing. We can disagree politely.

@pattimoser6779

5 жыл бұрын

That's funny when someone says "we are no pets" and yet wants to treat other people just like pets, taking away their right to choose whether they want to die quickly or slowly and painfully.

@Butterflylion1

5 жыл бұрын

Yes It’s would be more humane as pain relief doesn’t work

This show is one of the best things I've seen in the last ~10 years.

@nadeyt

5 жыл бұрын

100% agree

@BangTanPrettiNikki

5 жыл бұрын

1000% Agreed

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

the terror s a close second, also starring jarred harris. Just love the guy!

@megamcee

5 жыл бұрын

@Tim it's an amazingly done show about reality, which makes it just that much better as a show.

@chiragraju821

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, this beats House MD

This is now the highest rated TV show on IMDb

@kefkapalazzo1

5 жыл бұрын

fuck imdb. but this show is excellent

@onetwothreefour3957

5 жыл бұрын

kefkapalazzo1 why, what‘s so bad about imdb

@karenelizabeth1590

5 жыл бұрын

I logged into my IMDB account for the first time in ages just to add my 10 stars to the pile.

@yainaya_

5 жыл бұрын

... just like every other show on IMDB the month it premieres

I’m from France. My bf and I religiously watch the show since the beginning. My dad is a firefighter. I’ve never cried on a movie. I’ve been in tears for this entire episode. You made a god damn good job, nobody could have done better. We need to remember everybody that died for our safety. I’ll be waiting for the next episode. Thank you

Alex Ferns as Glukhov, crew chief of the miners stole the show this episode.

@marieantoinettescake9513

5 жыл бұрын

They truly did. God Love 'em.👍

@CR-px3cf

5 жыл бұрын

He played an awesome part and was a great leader

@robozstarrr8930

5 жыл бұрын

. . . " We're still wearing the fu*king hats " . . .

@MajorKeys714

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how those actors felt to film scenes completely nude, knowing that Everything would be on display? I loved it & the scene was not gratuitous; it proved a point. These miners were doing what they had to do to get the job done. And don't try to fool them about the dangers--they weren't stupid.

@edgehodl4832

5 жыл бұрын

Most badass men I ever seen, those coal miners and glukhov

It's hard to describe my personal feelings, my flashback from seeing soviet style life. I was only 9 when Chernobyl exploded. We have been living in Dnipro (the big city about 370 miles (600km) away). I remember my mom scared with the news and my uncle almost got deployed on liquidation. Many years later as an adult, I worked in the "Social Services department" in Ukraine for 8 years, and every day I communicated with people who have been working on the liquidation, and I know those who were evacuated from Prypiat. I heard many scary stories from those people, but I never imagined it was THAT horrifying... and how close humanity was from being wiped out.

@annas.2570

5 жыл бұрын

Yes... I was the same age, and in Kiev when it happened. My dad and I spent the whole weekend outside-hanging out in the park, going for walks. It's been 33 years. I didn't think about it for a long time. I didn't want to watch the show, and didn't understand who would want to watch hours of horror. And then I did. And the atmosphere of horror was just as I remember. I vividly remember thinking that I was surrounded by invisible poison and nobody could help. Damn, this was triggering...

My grandfather was held in the KGB prison in Vilnius, in the room with the water. The KGB also tortured him by tearing his fingernails out. He was let go; he went home and got his family and left on a train to southern Germany where they lived in a displaced persons camp for 5 years before coming to America. I went to the KGB museum last year and it was more chilling than any prison museum I have been to.

@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676

5 жыл бұрын

What did your grandfather do?

@floodstreet2961

5 жыл бұрын

Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois crack

@betchersgland7236

4 жыл бұрын

@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 Obviously nothing, KGB tortured people for fun, it's not like they had shit to do.

My irrational fear is acute radiation sickness and seeing Vasily and Akimov's physical deterioration from the exopsure is absolutely traumatizing, even Legasovs descriptionof it is haunting. Kudos to the creators and actors for this episode

@is2959

5 жыл бұрын

I guess it's a pretty rational fear

@DreamyWoIf

5 жыл бұрын

You saw Toptunov. Akimov would have looked even worse had they shown him.

@nerissacrawford8017

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I am going to study nuclear engineering pretty soon and then work at a power plant so....🤣 I am a nuclear enginner in the making and I am gonna have a lot of that stuff around I am not afraid but I understans that can be terrifying. 😁

Vasily's body in the end is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen in my life

@NerdX151

5 жыл бұрын

I thought so too... until I saw Hisashi Ouchi (the guy who they kept alive for 83 days). I had seen pictures of radiation victims before, but nothing prepared me for THAT...

@franciscomenano9900

5 жыл бұрын

@@NerdX151 good God man... But still, Vasily saying "I had a dream, but now it's gone" while looking at his body... True dispair. It marked me for life. And I'm 33 years old!!

@blew1t

5 жыл бұрын

@@NerdX151 yeah i know what you're talking about. idk if we're talking about the same photo but there's one going around that people claim to be his body while he was still alive, as far as i know its the only photo claimed to be him while he was dying from ARS. in the photo theres like a completely skinless guy with one of his calves missing and his legs suspended in the air, horrible. yeah its not him though, nobody really knows what the hell that photo is, most certaintly not a photo of a living person, could be a movie prop, perhaps a corpse. one things for sure, hisashi had a shitload of gauze all over his body and never lost a leg while he was dying, so that wasnt a photo of him. again dont know if we're talking about the same picture.

@f4ust85

4 жыл бұрын

Its curious though that there is no explicit graphic documentation, footage or photos of these most brutally affected Chernobyl victims, its all just oral history and medical documentation. One would expect that even Soviet scientists and medical community would want to document it.

@AdamBorseti

3 жыл бұрын

@@f4ust85 There's plenty of photos of the victims in the hospitals, all burned black and purple, various scars and lesions. They're not hard to find, but they're also not quite as graphic. The show obviously took some liberties in dramatizing, but from the dozen or so pictures I've seen of some of the workers and firefighters, they didn't look like feral ghouls from Fallout. However, out of all of the pictures I've been able to find, none of them are of Vasily Ignatenko, Alexander Akimov or Leonid Toptunov. For all I know, it really was that bad for them. I watched an interview with Toptunov's mother and from the details she revealed (through tears and sobbing understandably) it sounded like the poor kid basically melted away from the legs up. Absolutely awful - that has to be the single worst way to go, especially when you are used as a convenient scapegoat by the state along with Akimov, both of whom had died before they could face the state. They told Toptunov's mother that her son would be found guilty and sentenced to prison were it not for his death. Truly an extraordinary tragedy. 😥

Such a high quality mini-series. Horrifying and so true

@jimmydivicio838

5 жыл бұрын

This is the golden age of series

@brachypelmasmith

5 жыл бұрын

and the fact that it happened makes it all the more hitting

Dam those radiation burns are straight out of a horror story.. I felt depressed seeing this

@user-tl5su3nd8j

5 жыл бұрын

Carl Winslow its more like “the horror story is straight out of those radiation burns” ... If Ignatenko had a face...imagine Akimov

@barragin9893

5 жыл бұрын

Horror Story? Check out the documentation on Horoshima and Nagasaki

@snip3d4less

5 жыл бұрын

I literally felt sick to my stomach

@Teukka72

5 жыл бұрын

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) can be even worse and take even longer to kill you (longest survivor is like around 80 days (3 months))

@21berkyx

5 жыл бұрын

@@Teukka72 they didnt let him die tho he could have died much much earlier if it werent for research

Those miners were so badass, in real life and in the show

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

Well u know, mining is tought job, and wery dangerous job mine can colaplse, in nime gas can explode, miners basicly living they lives knowing they may not come back home, dying early becouse of all dust in lungs,... they are tough, fair man

@RollerCoasterLineProductions

5 жыл бұрын

“Tell them the truth, they work in the dark, they can see everything” ~Boris Shcherbina

Thank you for making this show. It is so good. I love everything historical and I think it is very important that people know the story of Chernobyl.

@Btvstudio

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly right! We can learn so much from history, we must make sure not to repeat it.

@ohurky

5 жыл бұрын

True words. Everyone should remember those kinds of disasters and prevent it in the future. I am a guy from Ukraine and I have explored exclusion zone twice illegally. So cool to meet the sunset in one of the roofs in Pripyat with close friends. I think everyone who ever showed interest in Chernobyl disaster should certainly visit the exclusion zone.

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

makes me want to top up my bug out bag lol

@user-or2oy9hh7s

5 жыл бұрын

Vinny Siracusa, Professor Legasov wanted people to know the story.

The best line so far "Hey, we are wearing our hats." LOL That is awesome! :)

@wellingtonsmith4998

5 жыл бұрын

"circle of accountability" was mine, but yours made me laugh

@AdamBorseti

5 жыл бұрын

"..... What? We're still wearing the fuckin' hats!?"

I was thinking just that about Akimov. What we were shown with the other men in the hospital was already horrifying, and her just mentioning that Akimov's face was gone is enough for the impact to hit. The image that my morbidly curious mind comes up with is terrifying and the way that scene played out with her interviewing Akimov is so sad and scary to think about.

@vladabuba

5 жыл бұрын

It must be horrendous ;( ...

@Motnur

5 жыл бұрын

Pareidolia Well, it's possible to find pictures of what happened to others who've had similar done to them. Hisashi Ouchi comes to mind from an incident in the 90's. Radiation causes the skin to detach from everything under it and eventually slough off, if they live long enough. But seeing a face without its skin is a real bad time.

@sce2aux464

5 жыл бұрын

@Sovereign of Sabers- And he survived *eighty-three* days.

@philosopheriq2856

5 жыл бұрын

@Sovereign of Sabers where can i see the pictures

@nerissacrawford8017

3 жыл бұрын

I found a photo which is thought to be Akimov in the Moscow hospital number 6. And trust me, you don't want to see that, it's B&W but that's enough to give you an idea what it looks like in colour.

I cannot comprehend what I witnessed because it so fucking devastating and haunting. I’m in tears I’m shaking I’m shocked and slightly depressed. What and amazing episode.

@mk202

5 жыл бұрын

Pretti Nikki Yes. Tonight’s episode was terribly sobering and very shocking.

@AndromedaKai

5 жыл бұрын

To me the first episode left me the most shaken, the other two are just a series of oh no's and holy shits.

@AK-706

5 жыл бұрын

Pretti Nikki this was me during episode one. I had two panic attacks and cried

@FrostedSeagull

5 жыл бұрын

@ASK A CLASSY BLACK MAN Fukushima is way, way worse than Chernobyl. Fukushima has entered both the surrounding farmland and the ocean. The famous, or infamous "elephant's foot" is burning under ground. It has NOT entered the water table or soil. People think because thete were no casualties due to Fukushima its way safer. The Japanese have been more underhanded and insidious than the Soviet's. The U. S is aiding and abetting the Japanese lying.

@chrissydisibio2779

3 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack especially makes me feel very sad and hopeless and sick - in a good way obviously - they did such a good job on this series and the music

The makeup, special effects crew did incredible work. It is difficult to select the best words to compliment. It was incredible and yet horrific .

A lot of people say they are hooked on this show, but I feel like I was pulled in by a magnit. Almost every episode leaves me in tears, and I can never watch it in one go. The whole team did a marvelous job, did the story justice so far and the actors are absolutely incredible.

@Agarwaen

5 жыл бұрын

@ASK A CLASSY BLACK MAN Go back to school.

@QQ-og3ui

5 жыл бұрын

@@Agarwaen No- YOU need to WAKE THE FUCK UP.

I NEEED these deleted scenes.. if anyone finds them or knows where to see them please link me

*Boris* *Shcherbina:* The divers, the firefighters, the men in the control room... What does the radiation do them, precisely? *Valery* *Legasov:* At the level some of them were exposed? Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart. Skin blisters, turns red, then black. This is followed by a latency period: the immediate effects subside, the patient appears to be recovering - healthy, even... but they aren't. This usually only lasts for a day or two. *Boris* *Shcherbina:* Continue. *Valery* *Legasov:* Then...cellular damage begins to manifest: the bone marrow dies, the immune system fails, the organs and soft tissue begin to decompose, the arteries and veins spill open like sieves - to the point that you can't even administer morphine for the pain, which is... unimaginable. And then, in three days to three weeks, you're dead. That is what will happen to those boys.

@shanhussain6114

5 жыл бұрын

Scarier than any ghost story I've ever heard

@suzannetobin8583

3 жыл бұрын

The last word.....boys.😢

Contrary to popular belief those three individuals (the divers) survived. One of them died in 2005 (heart attack due in large part to the radiation exposure), while two are still alive. The international community should award these fellows and bring them to prominence they deserve.

The level this show is done is legendary, it's a must watch

@DerrenBrown100

5 жыл бұрын

I love the visuals. It's a masterpiece.

The guy who played KGB Director Charkov was absolutely brilliant..."Circle of accountability"... Such a great line!

What a horrifying episode! I was shaking my head the whole time. That poor firefighter how he died! And his pregnant wife, the amount of human suffering this disaster brought is unimaginable. This miniseries is just painful to watch. Riveting...

@JakeTS1992

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone with acute radiation sickness would die like this. Hundreds, possibly thousands. The episode described it - you basically melt. Check out the case of Hitochi Ouchi - a japenese man who had serious radation poisoning and was kept alive. It's literally hell.

@Killjoy1204

5 жыл бұрын

@@JakeTS1992 I just checked it out and it was so horrible. I was about to eat lunch and was hungry but after reading it I lost my whole apatite. There are some fucked up ways to die but this one was the most excruciating and painful way to go.

@i4m3rr0r

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, don't Google Hisashi Ouchi. Don't.

Those miners were absolutely the best. So tough and hardworking.

@callmeludi540

5 жыл бұрын

Remember the scene where they ask for fans and they were never given one, they were like "ok lads lets take it all off! fuck radiation we gotta finish this within a week" they were the most passionate miners ive ever seen.

God bless that guy who decided to make this podcast - after each episode it makes an aftertaste to last longer...

Wow, what an episode, this series is on track to be one of the greatest in television history

Akimov's fate was a fright. When he went to the rooftop, knowing very well it was a bad idea, and looked down into the chasm- him turning around, showing his face red with radiation... just terror. I immediately thought that he is pretty much dead. But then the scene with Ulana Khomyuk at the hospital. My goodness. I understand that it wasn't the author's intention to make a horror-show, but I feel like there is no show more scary than Chernobyl, because it is (was, rather) real.

@lostinimaginaerum6085

5 жыл бұрын

It was Sitnikov. Akimov was the guy from the control room, he and Toptunov spent hours in the radioactive water to restart feedwater flow into the reactor.

@mpbiggame1010

5 жыл бұрын

@@lostinimaginaerum6085 oh yeah?! Damn, what a fck up

I'm trying to tell everyone I know to watch this show. I deserves a reception worthy of its quality.

@Demour77

5 жыл бұрын

If only it was avaliable in other countries :'(

@davidgabriel5125

5 жыл бұрын

@@Demour77 where are you from?

I was 8 years old when this happened and at that time we lived a little more than 100 km south of Chernobyl. I remember the holiday on May 1 very hot, everyone is outside, children play on the grass, happy families make a pic-nick. It was especially hard for me to watch this film ... I stopped every 5 minutes to gain strength for further viewing.😢😢😢

Now this dude can write. Take note HBO, more of this please.

@Xstation20

Жыл бұрын

HBO did take note. The Last of Us is epic.

Episode 4 cannot come soon enough. Major props and thank you to everyone involved in this production

@AndromedaKai

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to know the golden voice of fantasy KZread enjoys shows like this too ☺️

@bridge4

5 жыл бұрын

@@AndromedaKai Haha hey AK. Andromeda kai is such a sick SN btw

@lukevanderlande2488

5 жыл бұрын

Same here bridge4. Cannot wait. Huge fan btw 😁

Best docudrama since Band of Brothers. Perhaps better. Jared Harris is a revelation.

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

He was FANTASTIC in the terror, as well. Brilliant actor!!

@harrymonk70

5 жыл бұрын

Check out 'Madmen' and 'The Expanse' too for more Jared brilliance

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

@@harrymonk70 Sooo, i just took a quick look to see what else he s been up to, and it looks like he s been super busy. He has a movie and another series in post production (robert the bruce and carnival row), currently filming morbius AND preparing for the role of peter hamlyn in the movie the michael watson story. Fantasy, horror,, history, drama...the guy does it all, and does it beautifully! Three HUGE projects in 2019 alone?! 👀 Im stoked!!!

@SandWolf_

5 жыл бұрын

Duuude.. watch The Terror. He was a true revelation on that. I was converted on spot.

@intellq

5 жыл бұрын

Jared Harris is far from a revelation... Everything he did was brilliant. Fringe, Mad Men, The Expanse, The Terror...

The wife at the hospital... It's a hard scene. This whole hospital scene is very hard. A big nightmare.

This series is incredibly well made. I hope it wins tons of awards!

@gabyu

5 жыл бұрын

megatons of awards !

@Julietjeske

5 жыл бұрын

@ASK A CLASSY BLACK MAN You realize the filmmakers didn't cause the accident.

@igopr715

5 жыл бұрын

@ASK A CLASSY BLACK MAN Stop repeating your bullshit about the weather changing after this accident! What "millions of people" got killed and mutilated? WTF?

The firefighter scene haunts me every night. Playing cards with his colleagues, ignorant of the nightmare that is to come.

Thank you for this miniseries from Belarus. It happened here, but no so much information was spread here at all. I think, that this miniseries *should* be shown in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia via national television for the *truth* and how it was hard at all. For "usual" heroism of usual people and for shaming all "apparatchiks". Thank you very much.

To the liquidators and all who helped fix this disaster - thank you for your efforts and sacrifices. You all are amazing human beings. Thank you coal miners, thank you medical staffs, thank you scientist and the families that supported these people. Thank you firemen and your families. Thank you pilots, thank you to those I do not even know about that help or helped with all associated with this event.

Wow, so many brave courageous unknown hero's who sacrificed their lives for others and the greater cause. Amazing makeup work on the dying firefighters and Chernobyl workers. The effects of radiation are horrific apparently. This story is compelling and well written, I'm hooked. This series will win awards I'm sure, if it doesn't, something's wrong. Each episode gets better, love the podcast after each episode, so good. Peace.

@Teukka72

5 жыл бұрын

As someone who has read up on Acute Radiation Syndrome, I can say, yes, it can be that bad. And it can be even worse. And it can be three hours, three days, three weeks or three months until death. But death always comes, and it hurts beyond imagination the whole time you're dying.

This accident has always been in the back of our collective minds. I live in Norway and was 10 years old when it happened. We remember talk about mutations, reindeer and radioactive moss but who could fathom the tremendous effect this has had on Europe, and other parts of the world... Horrible, just horrible. I love this show. I never knew what really happened to the people working there and how they were affected. Thank you for showing the grusome truth.

the show itself is already terrifying. and what's more terrifying is that it happened in real life...

@Kintabl

5 жыл бұрын

It was less scary in real life. www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people/#61f5d33f41fc

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

m a r g a u x It is terrifying that it isn’t even 50 years and there is a lot of radiation still very active and harmful.

@MileRastovac

5 жыл бұрын

@@Kintabl it's a nuclear lobby propaganda ..

@Kintabl

5 жыл бұрын

@@MileRastovac LOL!

@martisl9652

5 жыл бұрын

Just as terrifying is that we re always just one button push away from hundreds of thousands of people dying in the same horrible way

Those coal miners went smiling to their death...utter respect...

@kaa6918

5 жыл бұрын

real talk, coal miners do this every day. it is not a healthy life or a wealthy one. most of our electricity comes from coal fired power plants

@Balnazzardi

5 жыл бұрын

Well lets hope that sooner or later we get rid of coal and other fossil fuels in energy prodcution entirely....we have to, there is simply no other choice. And that soon coal mining is thing of the past and any former coal miners would get some other, more healthier job.

@HUNTtheTRUTH1

5 жыл бұрын

Balnazzardi - No. There is more coal than we know what to do with. Too much to use. Coal can go miles deep in the earth. We haven’t even scratched the surface.

@Balnazzardi

5 жыл бұрын

@@HUNTtheTRUTH1 Its not freaking about how much we have IT, the point is that in order to slow down global warming/climate change we MUST stop using fossil fuels as energy source, including coal

@codstoryteller1395

5 жыл бұрын

@@Balnazzardi nah, if there is one thing we learned from this show, it is that if you pretend there is no problem, the problem will go away. I mean the global warming we get now is an equivalent to a chest x-ray, so if any of you are overdue for a checkup... /s

This epic show is a visceral blend of characters that you are completely invested in, of horror but also of laugh out loud comedy and then one minute later utter dispair. It’s an emotional roller coaster

All these scenes you talk about would be great as deleted scenes for extras on a DVD release

The portrayal of Luda was among the most sublime, inspiring things I have ever watched, and this was before I read up on her story. The actor so captivated me, showing Luda's composure under unimaginable duress, a sense of humor under the most despondent conditions, but with a strength I could only hope to emulate if I were in that situation. I really am amazed that there are actors like Jessie Buckley, such an incredible portrayal here of the strength of a woman's love for someone...

I think Khomyuk finding out Toptunov was only 25 years old and the chief engineer made her question the level of expertise in the control room that night.

@alexandriafell6129

5 жыл бұрын

True but there were people essentially "higher ranking" than him in the control room that night. So in a sense yes he had massive responsibility at a young age but was also following orders. The different aspects of what happened both between the personnel involved and the reactor itself are what make this topic so fascinating.

@nortons7040

5 жыл бұрын

Khomyuk is a fictional character. So all her story ark is pure fiction.

@fw5532

5 жыл бұрын

Norton S I completely understand she is fictional...like Craig explained in the 2nd podcast. The story has to shed light on the fact that this disaster happened due to lack of expertise. Expert would have known 1. The cores were supposed to be shutdown completely prior to running the test 2. Emphasized stronger safety procedures They put that scene in there to explain how it was missed I want to be clear that I’m not blaming the people operating the control room. It’s obvious safety procedures were missed, but the outcome should not have been an explosion that popped the cap off the core. The main reason was due to the bad design of the reactor. It should have been more forgiving to its operators. It was the denial behavior by Dyatlov, lack of leadership from superiors, government coverup, etc. - that turned this into a disaster

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

@@fw5532 Well they shut up quite few safety mechanizms, And ignore some procedures,.... They didnt know everything to know about reaktor they operated, well state secrets and that graphite on tips of control rods didnt help either,....

@nortons7040

5 жыл бұрын

@@fw5532 "I want to be clear that I’m not blaming the people operating the control room." I blame them - as a child who lived near Prypyat' and whose both parents worked on that Nuclear Plant. It was a miracle that my father decided to not go to work right after the explosion, but my sister went to school that day. All because of those who was in charge, who were "operating the room", tried to cover up the scale of the disaster. I blame them not for that experiment, which was obviously ordered from Moscow, Russia, but for their cowardice and their lie even to their co-workers. Partially "thanks" to them we weren't evacuated right after the explosion. Yes, it was incompetence - of those who designed the reactor and those, who ordered to conduct that experiment. But there was else a cowardice and lie of the local "bosses". My mother was sent back to the station in May as a "liquidator" (she was part of the administrative personal) and she told me, that there was still lie about the level of radiation, that the soldiers who cleaned graphite from the roof were almost unprotected (them, as well as firefighters and miners are all died from the radiation sickness), and she and her co-workers even didn't receive iodine. It was actually worse for the people who lived and worked there than it is shown in this series. Another layer which is not shown here - both the Ukrainians and the nearby Belorussians are not "Russians" thereby the Moscow bosses and their local managers behave such terribly. We were like Indians or Africans in the 19th century USA for those Russians and their bosses from Moscow - hence the experiment and the delay in evacuation. Creators of the series totally missed this perspective. Nevertheless this is the best non-Ukrainian documentary about Chornobyl' I've saw so far. But fictional parts are just authors perspective which shall be accepted with precaution as outsiders opinion rather than truth.

what is this "miners were tough." miners ARE tough. everywhere. throughout history and the present. without question. we do not value them enough.

@jmchez

5 жыл бұрын

From Russia to China to Chile to the USA, miners put up with stuff that would make any other workman whine and quit. As far as it can be said of anyone in the Soviet Union that they were free, the miners were the citizens with the most freedom because they did not take any bullshit.

@jmchez

5 жыл бұрын

From Russia to China to Chile to the USA, miners put up with stuff that would make any other workman whine and quit. As far as it can be said of anyone in the Soviet Union that they were free, the miners were the citizens with the most freedom because they did not take any bullshit.

Such a haunting series! Kudos to the composer, that music makes everything feel so eerie.

The unsung MVPs of the episode was the coal miners. #NoFucksGiven

@edgehodl4832

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, but the three divers were also heroes, firefighters too, almost everyone there is a hero,such epic people in this disaster

@callmeludi540

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone was a hero even the nurses, firefigthers.. they were all suffering from the unknown considering little was known of radiation that time.

Chernobyl and pripyat will become very popular with tourism because of this show.

Comedy writers are making such good thrillers at the moment Charlie brooker with Black Mirror, Jordan Peele with Get out, Us (and kind of the twilight zone though a little underwhelming) and now Maniz the writer of scary movie and the hangover with this masterpiece!

The people themselves are not radioactive. A nurse who took care of the victims fact checked this section of the show. She did not harm her baby being with her husband. Her being in Pripyat alone harmed her baby.

The whole production is of such a high quality. The actors and actresses have all nailed their performances (great script and direction). If this series doesn't sweep the awards I'll be amazed.

I am from Ukraine (Cherkasy), it is 300 kilometers from Chernobyl. Thank you to the authors of the series. Very realistic!

@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676

5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever visited? What's it like if you have?

@smotretvseru

5 жыл бұрын

@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 you can see it in google street view

@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676

5 жыл бұрын

@@smotretvseru I know. It's pretty cool.

Just when we are about to forget what a travesty to the world the Soviet Union was, this series comes along to show how that experiment was a complete and abject failure, but also to remind us how wonderful the people of that former country were when it came to bravery, loyalty and self-sacrifice and how the government, whether Czarist or Communist, would make decisions to perpetuate their power regardless of the cost of the people.

@TheStarBlack

5 жыл бұрын

Many western governments do the exact same thing. Don't be fooled into thinking our leaders are any better. They're not.

@ZRJZZZZZ

5 жыл бұрын

True, but we can do something when we learn of the lies

Thank you for making the best show I've seen in my life. Thanks to you, thanks to my country(Lithuania) that contributed greatly within your series. I can't recommend this enough to my friends or even my parents. It is them, that had relatives which were involved in Chernobyl's further cleanup operation. Absolutely perfect casting. Each character is unique and their personality is reflected brilliantly. In that regard, you have no competition. Just compete with yourselves because we are hungry for more :)

@vladabuba

5 жыл бұрын

How are your relatives now?...

@rukascool

5 жыл бұрын

@@vladabuba They got cancer later on in their lives. Those who did, also had mentioned about friends of friends which received acute radiation sickness lethal dose. Those distant friends had, as they recalled, skin falling off. I didn't know them personally because at that time I wasn't even born yet. Though once my parents told me, it shook me a bit. So many people were involved in this disaster.

@robertnicholls9917

5 жыл бұрын

@@rukascool Yes, this wasn't that long ago. Many parents/grandparents today are still alive to tell the story. Most are from age 45 to their late 80s.

This episode moved me so much I wrote my first online review about it....I just had to get out what I witnessed. It left me shocked and horrified like no episode I've watched has ever done. I had to pause and take a breath when I saw Vasily in his final state :(

@saskianagel3529

5 жыл бұрын

same here. The scene totally got me. I'm not easy to shock but it just hit me right in the feels..To imagine this was real

-"I am the Senior Reactor Control Chief Engineer of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant". -"Senior Engineer! How old are you?" -"25" This dialog, plus all those conversations in jail cell, are amazing! We are looking at how little by little the world learned about the catastrophe and how USSR was trying to cover it up! I mean, really, by the and of episode 5 we all will know the truth. IT does not really meter, what official excuse the Soviets will give to the world in the end (gave)! Great job, HBO and STAR! Thank you!

I like how he describes the Russian surveillance state as "Orwellian" as if Animal Farm and arguably 1984 weren't literally criticisms of the soviet state

Awesome series so far. Chilling, haunting, terrifying yet facinating. The first series I've watched for many a year whereby I cannot wait to see the next installment.

"We have to pursue every possibility, no matter how unlikely..." Moriarty almost quoting Sherlock Holmes.

What stood out in this episode was the dichotomy between the head miner who wants only the truth and won't tolerate any bullshit and the head of the KGB who doesn't care about the truth and only wants to hear narrative.

The miners were fucking awesome in this episode.

This show will catch on as a classic, it just may take some time.

I was only 7 when this happened. It was very early spring and very unusually warm. I was with my mam and smaller brother at sea side near Rīga, Latvia in first week of May 1986. At that moment the radiation cloud slowly passing by over our heads to Sweden. It was necessary to drink iodine pils later on. Since that year, every spring, my upper arm skin cracks. Every spring and even now. It slowly heals till August. There is one deeply emotional moment in this episode that symbolised the life in USSR and all the consequences. That was perfect picture of water leaking faucet. They all leaked in every home. I don’t know who are behind this episode, this should be person who deeply understands life in USSR.

@stephenthomas3493

5 жыл бұрын

Armands Sakne I was the same age but in Canada...I don’t think I understood what happened.

Thanks for making this show and the podcast trust me it’s really appreciated

Thanks for another incredible episode. The respect you've shown to everyone who was involved especially those who suffered the most is humbling

It is interesting Mr. Mazin should mention Dyatlov's denial of the seriousnessness of exposure to radiation...I have noticed the same cavalier attitude towards the effects radioactivity exhibited in the posts written by those professionals working in the nuclear industry, civilian or military. It's kind of chilling to read the cumulative long term effects downplayed thus.

@MajorKeys714

5 жыл бұрын

I've also engaged with some of those nuclear advocates online who want to minimize Chernobyl & start comparing to chest x-rays. It's not about banning it, it's about acknowledging the power & being vigilant about safeguards, which corporations will skirt when profits are at stake. Just look at Boeing 737.

@steverogers8163

5 жыл бұрын

There's an article over on Propublica about worker safety at Los Alamos. Suffice it to say it sounds like managers are deliberately keeping poor radiation reading records for the purpose of denying insurance coverage to workers once they present symptoms that probably came from working with radiation day in day out for years. Ass covering knows no borders.

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

Well when i was browsing YT i came acros one funny video kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYmildBsqszJfqg.html Its comparison dosage received on chernobyl visit, Thorium beach in brasil wisit, and transatlantic flight(from europe to brasil and back) it is realy worth watching

@TheStarBlack

5 жыл бұрын

You should read the Wikipedia page on Chernobyl. The nuclear PR machine is still working away.

i love the fact that these podcast are as informative as the episodes. Thank you so much guys!

I was a 4 y.o. kid in 1986 and lived in Kyiv in 200 km away of Chernobil. Noone knew that day what kind of disaster happen.

@sergeontheloose

5 жыл бұрын

Chornobyl is 110 km from Kyiv. Привіт з Києва.

I am so grateful for the BTS insights these podcasts deliver because that knowledge makes rewatching each episode more impactful (if possible because the first viewing is devastating enough).

I think this kind of miniseries that essentially is a very long film is one of my favorite forms of entertainment. It isn't restricted by a film's length, nor a traditional TV series' episodic nature. It's the perfect sweet spot for telling interesting and focused stories without sacrificing detail and character.

thank you for the film, with respect from Russia.

@kainhall

5 жыл бұрын

surprised Putin lets you guys watch this..... i hate the tension between our countries.... i hate that Putin figured out how the internet works before we did (as a computer science major and huge fucking nerd.... almost jealous!) i hate the propaganda.... on both sides i hate a lot of shit about this situation "cant we all just get along?" idk man..... school told me this bullshit ended when the wall came down..... it didnt...

@user-or2oy9hh7s

5 жыл бұрын

kain hall, we look through the VPN and headphones, so the neighbors didn't call the KGB.

@user-or2oy9hh7s

5 жыл бұрын

kain hall, if the neighbors don't call the KGB, their little baby will be an orphan. so headphones + VPN.

@aumelb

5 жыл бұрын

@@kainhall as much as it may be surprising to you, movies, TV shows or books don't get banned in Russia. 'Chernobyl' was not broadcasted on regular TV channels but it is available to stream and download online. Besides, this series didn't show any new facts that weren't easily available before to anyone who cared to learn. The Russian authorities may not be very pleased with this series but there's nothing much they can do about it.

@Ololodin1992

5 жыл бұрын

@@kainhall My 5 cents as a Russian resident. Just so you know, Mikhail was trolling you :) The reality is, aside from the whole "Death of Stalin" shebang (a lot of bullshit went down with banning the screenings as far as I know), the works of art from abroad are never *really* banned with the exception of materials considered 'extremist' (which, to be fair, some of them are, like videos distributed by ISIL). We're not Iran or China by any stretch of imagination. The state propaganda though is very, very real. 'Chernobyl', for instance, was unequivocally panned by pro-kremlin channels and outlets, like Russia 24, but that hardly surprises anybody. It *is* real and it gets everywhere, including minds of multitudes of people, sadly. There is this whole sense of painting 'the west' as an enemy, down to the claim that 'they' make bad movies with lots of lies, and we're allegedly making art. The Russian state-sponsored cinema has basically gone to shit, since the entire narrative became 'Our rebuttal to the West', which is basically "Let's try and mimic Hollywood with all these fancy SFX, but without actual understanding of what makes these movies work". There are still good films made in Russia, but those are mostly not sponsored by the state. The state meanwhile is going out of its way to silence those who critisize this state of affairs, and while it certainly can't always brute force its way like in the USSR, it still applies pressure on the vocal opposition via police, court cases, back-channel threats, propaganda etc. The situation with the freedom of speech has gotten far worse since 2000, even more so since 2012, and, sadly, gradually keeps declining. I do have hope we'll get over it eventually. So, yeah. Cheers.

SOOO GOOD!!! WISH there were MORE than 5 episodes!!!

@mikiqex

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think there's room in the story for a season two, unless you call it Fukushima and in that case it will be about how nuclear disaster should be handled, which wouldn't be that immersive.

@NoName-zg2sn

5 жыл бұрын

Badenxx Baden no there will only be one they want it to be short and sweet

Its essential to listen to the podcast after each episode to get the full picture.Each is a different side of the same coin.Brilliant production

OMG what an epic episode!!!

This show totally took me by surprise. Best show on tv so far this year.

We need more short docudramas like this. This is how you make a show!

@Balnazzardi

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, I hope they would start producing more stuff like this. Although real-life stories like Chernobyl, atleast not on that scale are that common (luckily)

Is anyone else except me just OBSESSED as a result of this show. I need to know more. It’s just fascinating.

@zeugens

5 жыл бұрын

yeah dude me too. I'm watching and reading everything about the show and chernobyl

Similar sacrifices were made at Fukushima. That aspect of sacrifice has always fascinated me.

@steverogers8163

5 жыл бұрын

One of the stories (no idea if its true) is that when they needed people to go to high radiation zones the older employees volunteered to go in place of the younger ones. The idea of course being they had already lived full long lives.

@marianmarkovic5881

5 жыл бұрын

@@steverogers8163Yeah when it was on trouble, actualy it was penzist from nuclear industry, who walunteered, saying, we used work there, we know place etc, and we wont breed children. Also Scale of Fukushima was nowhere near chernobyl. Fukushima in the end melted down, lava burn trouth Container and as far as i know was stopend on concreete pad below reaktor,.. nut it didnt blow up. It is trouth that radioaktive Iodine and Cesium escaped when they needet went out Reactor container which was overpressured and it was risk of rupture,... Also as decontamination zone continues many evakuated now can safely return to Fukushima surroundings

@sandal_thong8631

2 жыл бұрын

@@steverogers8163 I thought that would be the case in the previous episode for the divers, but no. I guess the plant operators ("engineers") were young like the 25-year-old.

Probably everyone wonders what happened to the baby. We know from memoris of Lyudmilla (the young wife) that while she was born looking healthy, she was hopelessly irradiated. Natasha as she was named, had cirrhosis of liver and died after a few months.

@joeymerk3706

5 жыл бұрын

Damn. How tragic..

@tripmax1

5 жыл бұрын

They might still tell us in the last two episodes about her and the baby! Very sad! :(

@mohamedashian604

4 жыл бұрын

And they told her that she would never have Children ever again but miraculously she did have a kid they still live to this day

This Series is So Addictive. Hopefully you guys gets some awards and nominations. Sad to what happened at Chernobyl. But this is Very Captivating.

Watching this episode my thought was this is a real case for euthanasia. Too horrible to die this way. Beyond belief what these people suffered.

@Dee8Bee

5 жыл бұрын

Sovereign of Sabers I think at that point I would begged for the bullet or a pillow over my face. That slow death is just torture..

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Annette Pora I felt the same. I don’t support assisted death... these men suffering and medical did not know how to help them... It seemed humane to put them out of their horrific pain. They couldn’t do injections , but the doctors could sever nerves/brain stem .

@peterpain6625

5 жыл бұрын

@@Blue-hf7xt Sure you can. Eyesocket. If there is a will to grant mercy there is a way.

@Blue-hf7xt

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Pain Yes, I just don’t know if I could do it. In this Country, Russia, no one does anything without being ordered to do it.

@Balnazzardi

5 жыл бұрын

You could always put the victims into artificial coma at very least to ease their suffering and passing...

I really enjoy this podcast, I love getting to hear the thought process behind this wonderful mini series. Thank you for giving us a real and genuine retelling of a tragic disaster!

I was crying in the end....

Thank you HBO. I am from Ukraine in my family. There are liquidators. I am very pleased to know that the countries of the first world have to do with the tragedy of the third world countries. removed all at the highest level of scenery and clothing at 99% match. mentality is not entirely in the Soviet Union, he was even worse. P.S. Thank you for this wonderful series. It perfectly shows me once again that our country is now fighting with Russia and is suffering for the fact that there would never be more experiments like this in my beloved country ....

Each episode has a line that sticks out to me: 1) yes, we will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight. 2) you are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before. 3) these men work in the dark, they see everything. 4) these are the most important 90 seconds of your life. 5) every lie incurs a debt to the truth; sooner or later, that debt is paid.

Hollywood and Film makers/writers in general could learn a great lesson from this series and that is The TRUTH is stranger than fiction. I am enjoying this series because of it.

Try to imagine being one of those miners...the choking air, the brutal heat, the radiation, confined space...absolutely hellish!

@ksotar

3 жыл бұрын

In fact underground it was much safer in terms of radiation.

@Justanotherconsumer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ksotar only reason they were able to do it at all.

The most informative, interesting, sad, horrific mini series and Podcast ever! We all knew of this when it happened, but no one knew the real truth of what went on. Thank you for making this.

the series are amazing so far, a grateful thank you to the creators and hbo for bring this to the public.

Because of this show ive researched Chernobyl, how an RBMK Reactor works, Uranium and its Isotopes, Ionizing and non-Ionizating Radiation...also the biological process of Radiation on the human body. Thank you for this show.

@dynamicworlds1

5 жыл бұрын

Seen Scott Manley's video on a more detailed breakdown of how the core exploded?