Chernobyl TV Show

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Anyone watching the miniseries on HBO? I always been interested with this story, but it's crazy watching what so many of those people went through. Definitely worth checking out.
I have not. Is this a documentary series?
I find that region so very fascinating...

Do they get into how the local animal population have been faring?
I mean... they're there and thriving, but are there... things going on?

Nothing like movie stuff, but anything?
If not then... that's even more interesting!
 

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Sorry.. I should've posted the trailer in the original. It's not a documentary and so far nothing on the animal population. After 2 episodes it's touched on the politicians and their 'mis' handling of such a catastrophe.. not sure how true to the actual events, but there seem to be only a select few who understand the gravity of the situation.

 

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Sorry.. I should've posted the trailer in the original. It's not a documentary and so far nothing on the animal population. After 2 episodes it's touched on the politicians and their 'mis' handling of such a catastrophe.. not sure how true to the actual events, but there seem to be only a select few who understand the gravity of the situation.


Oh... Oh.
That's good.
I like this.
 

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Sorry.. I should've posted the trailer in the original. It's not a documentary and so far nothing on the animal population. After 2 episodes it's touched on the politicians and their 'mis' handling of such a catastrophe.. not sure how true to the actual events, but there seem to be only a select few who understand the gravity of the situation.


I started to watch the first episode, because it looked amazing, but lost interest very quickly. How can you make a show about a nuclear meltdown boring, even while the plant is burning? I keep meaning to try again, but just don't have the urgency.
 

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It's been brilliant, extremely well done.

They've done a great job of showing not only the drama, horror, and lunacy of the disaster aftermath but in addition offering insight into a society deeply rooted in institutional subservience to the notion of a state that could literally do no wrong. Pretty cool stuff.

As a former power industry employee i'm pretty well acquainted with the Chernobyl disaster, but man, the transition from written words to dramatic viewing is pretty crazy.

Fools and heroes in abundance.

My only complaint was that they appeared to skip over the actual accident itself, which was ok i guess, but i was disappointed in not seeing that depicted as well. However.. it appears the filmmakers will not disappoint. From the preview after last weeks episode it looks like that will be revisited down the line. Very cool.

In addition anything Stellan Skarsgård ever appears in should always be given at least a cursory look.

HBO man, keeps delivering.
 

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I absolutely love it, I keep tellin people Im actually lookin forward to Mondays for the next few weeks lol.....I dont think Ive ever looked forward to Mondays since I stopped watchin WWF/WWE about 18 years ago lol......other than our once a season MNF games lol.....
 

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"Do you taste metal?" That's an attention getter.

I vaguely remember this during my high school years, but not so much the story of its handling and impact.

So far, the show is really delivering.
 

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I have not. Is this a documentary series?
I find that region so very fascinating...

Do they get into how the local animal population have been faring?
I mean... they're there and thriving, but are there... things going on?

Nothing like movie stuff, but anything?
If not then... that's even more interesting!
There was a TV series called "River Monsters" where they traveled around the world catching giant freshwater fish. They did have an episode where they got permission to fish in and around Chernobyl, even in the cooling ponds. They were trying to catch one of the giant catfish, there weren't any disfiguring mutations or any thing like that, but the growth was stunted and had high levels of radioactivity. The fish populations looked like they were doing well, numbers wise, but growth rates and lifespans have been affected.

Seems like I've seen a couple other shows that have gone there to examine wildlife and it was pretty interesting.
 

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There was a TV series called "River Monsters" where they traveled around the world catching giant freshwater fish. They did have an episode where they got permission to fish in and around Chernobyl, even in the cooling ponds. They were trying to catch one of the giant catfish, there weren't any disfiguring mutations or any thing like that, but the growth was stunted and had high levels of radioactivity. The fish populations looked like they were doing well, numbers wise, but growth rates and lifespans have been affected.

Seems like I've seen a couple other shows that have gone there to examine wildlife and it was pretty interesting.
I've enjoyed River Monsters!
I like that white-haired guy...

He did an episode over there? Oh...
Oh.
I am so finding this.
 

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I've enjoyed River Monsters!
I like that white-haired guy...

He did an episode over there? Oh...
Oh.
I am so finding this.
It was a great series, Jeremy (can't remember his last name) was a tough dude, the guy survived a plane crash, all kinds of tropical diseases, cuts, bites stings, hellish weather and conditions.
 

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It was a great series, Jeremy (can't remember his last name) was a tough dude, the guy survived a plane crash, all kinds of tropical diseases, cuts, bites stings, hellish weather and conditions.
Good show. I'm watching this tonight.
 

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I've watched the first 3 episodes and so far, it's been pretty good, but I didn't realize that Chernobyl was located in England. Or is there just an inordinately large population of English, Irish and Scots in Russia? It's a little weird to have so many with such heavy Brit accents when it's taking place in Russia.
 

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I've watched the first 3 episodes and so far, it's been pretty good, but I didn't realize that Chernobyl was located in England. Or is there just an inordinately large population of English, Irish and Scots in Russia? It's a little weird to have so many with such heavy Brit accents when it's taking place in Russia.
They had a tidbit about this topic on their podcast.

Speaking on the show's official podcast, Craig Mazin said: "The decision not to use Russian accents was a big one that we made early on.

"We had an initial thought that we didn't want to do the 'Boris and Natasha' cliched accent because the Russian accent can turn comic very easily. At first, we thought that maybe we would have people do these sort of vaguely Eastern European accents - not really strong but noticeable.

"What we found very quickly is that actors will act accents. They will not act, they will act accents and we were losing everything about these people that we loved.

"Honestly, I think after maybe one or two auditions we said 'Ok, new rule. We're not doing that anymore."

 

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Absolutely incredible from start to finish. Truly an epic piece of art in such an intense dark, emotional, and dare I say Ominous way. Jared Harris is winning an Emmy for sure. Probably Stellan Skarsgard as well.
 

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I started to watch the first episode, because it looked amazing, but lost interest very quickly. How can you make a show about a nuclear meltdown boring, even while the plant is burning? I keep meaning to try again, but just don't have the urgency.
add some ufo's causing it.
then aliens taking over.
and an army of mutants rising out of the nuclear meltdown stuff.
 

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I've enjoyed River Monsters!
I like that white-haired guy...

He did an episode over there? Oh...
Oh.
I am so finding this.
I love that guy...wish he'd go after the Loch Ness Monster.
 
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