HBO’s Chernobyl (2019)

[jpmuscle]

Watching episode one now and thus far it’s excellent. Admittedly I geek out on anything Chernobyl related so I have high hopes for this docu-series.


Also lol @ everything Soviet socialism related.


Decent collateral info for those interested

http://www.world-nuclear.org/informa...-accident.aspx


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[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Wife was actually interested in it.

Is it about how bad and crazy things got, how people got screwed and it was covered up?

[jack crab]

I watched. Fascinating.

How much is dramatized, and how much is documentary-ish?

The problem with shows like this is that one watches the show and thinks they know what actually happened.

[jpmuscle]

I watched. Fascinating.

How much is dramatized, and how much is documentary-ish?

The problem with shows like this is that one watches the show and thinks they know what actually happened.

That I’m going to research more on but if nothing else at it’s core it’s man suffering because of hubris which is made all the more amusing thanks to soviet idealism.


Muh act of god, Muh destroyer of worlds, but set in the context of haphazard Russian state bumbling and ego.



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[bp7178]

On the same note, one of the better documentaries I have watched on Chernobyl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjOJlHULsaM&t=4s

A trailer for the HBO series...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9APLXM9Ei8

[Alex V]

Yeah... been there done that... literally.

My Dad was supposed to be part one of the military reservists who were pulling security duty for the May Day parade in Kiev. He had to bribe his way out of it. A few months late, as a Captain in the Soviet AF and an engineer he was ordered to report to Chernobyl, bribed his way out again.

Not sure how much I want to relive this. It took me years and a move to the US to feel safe walking on grass. I remember watching kids play in piles of autumn eaves and think "yup, they are gonna die soon" not a normal thought for a 7 or 8 year old.

On the same note, one of the better documentaries I have watched on Chernobyl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjOJlHULsaM&t=4s

Agreed. Best documentary I have seen thus far.

[Honu]

was going to come here write about this sat down to watch it last night so far very good

have read watched a few documentaries on them some with interviews of some of the survivors that were there that was done some time ago so not sure if they are dead now

going to have to watch the link to this other one

intriguing stuff since the mindset is so radically different and the arrogance of the main guy in charge from real interviews and of course the state and party shows how the brainwashing was so deep and wide etc.. and is still going on
for sure a who you are is the soviet way but then the who you are gets you killed or put to hard labor
our country its the who gets you there and then you become teflon where nothing ever happens

that youtube link here did not know how much the French denied anything ! but does not surprise me of the French and their idiocy

[Arik]

Yeah... been there done that... literally.

My Dad was supposed to be part one of the military reservists who were pulling security duty for the May Day parade in Kiev. He had to bribe his way out of it. A few months late, as a Captain in the Soviet AF and an engineer he was ordered to report to Chernobyl, bribed his way out again.

Not sure how much I want to relive this. It took me years and a move to the US to feel safe walking on grass. I remember watching kids play in piles of autumn eaves and think "yup, they are gonna die soon" not a normal thought for a 7 or 8 year old.



Agreed. Best documentary I have seen thus far.

I remember that. We lived an 8hr/375 mile drive from there.

My parents used to have chickens and a greenhouse. Remember them talking about possibly stopping using both. I was 6-7 at the time. Don't mind watching it though it was so long ago that whole parts l of my life doesn't seem real. Even thinking back every once in a while it feels like I'm remembering a movie I saw a long time ago

[Alex V]

I remember that. We lived an 8hr/375 mile drive from there.

My parents used to have chickens and a greenhouse. Remember them talking about possibly stopping using both. I was 6-7 at the time. Don't mind watching it though it was so long ago that whole parts l of my life doesn't seem real. Even thinking back every once in a while it feels like I'm remembering a movie I saw a long time ago

It's just odd to think back at that time. I should have been playing Cowboys and Indians, but instead I was recreating the radiation detectors I would see the soldiers using on the news out of toilet paper tubes. Like what kind of messed up kid does that? lol I am sure I will end up watching the HBO mini series once I read all the reviews. Just don't want to get pissed if it is inaccurate, so I will lay it finish, then take a look.

[chuckman]

I don't have HBO so I can't watch it, but let us know if they talk about how many people were affected. They put out so many conflicting numbers that I don't think anyone knows the truth.