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[TV] Chernobyl - TV series
- Thread starter Normal Rob
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Or possibly 93,000. The overview at the end of the episode made chilling reading.
A superb series which deserves a run on one of the main free to air channels to gain a wider audience,
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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That is one of the most powerful series I've ever seen.
Lyndhurst 14
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Agree with all the previous comments - a stunning and chilling series, HBO and Sky really delivered on this one. One piece of good news at the end amongst all the gloom was that the firefighter's wife went on to have a son having been told she could no longer have children.
I didn't realise that the nuclear physicist Ulana was a fictional character until I saw the notes at the end - there was an interesting article in the New York Times by a writer who visited Chernobyl in 2014 about this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/arts/television/chernobyl-hbo.html
I didn't realise that the nuclear physicist Ulana was a fictional character until I saw the notes at the end - there was an interesting article in the New York Times by a writer who visited Chernobyl in 2014 about this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/arts/television/chernobyl-hbo.html
***cough*** THE PODCAST ***cough***
Richy_Seagull
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What an utterly superb TV series. Gripping as it is horrifying.
ManOfSussex
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A brilliant, brilliant series.
In case you didn't see it on Sky News yesterday, there was also a brilliant report piece broadcast yesterday visiting the surviving hero miners who worked at Chernobyl back in 1986 and their reaction to the TV series - it's on Youtube below.
In case you didn't see it on Sky News yesterday, there was also a brilliant report piece broadcast yesterday visiting the surviving hero miners who worked at Chernobyl back in 1986 and their reaction to the TV series - it's on Youtube below.
The Kid Frankie
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I am hoping following the huge critical acclaim that this will be the first of many real life mini-series. While there are a lot of brilliant fictional series they always seem to end poorly or run out of ideas meaning they get cancelled without much warning. You can't get better than real life - truth is always better (and stranger) than fiction.
On that note I have just watched the first episode of Netlfix new drama When They See Us, which is based on the Central Park jogger case in 1989. Again a lot of effort has gone into recreating what happened as true to the actual events as possible. One episode in and it is very very good - on a par with Chernobyl easily.
On that note I have just watched the first episode of Netlfix new drama When They See Us, which is based on the Central Park jogger case in 1989. Again a lot of effort has gone into recreating what happened as true to the actual events as possible. One episode in and it is very very good - on a par with Chernobyl easily.
Hungry Joe
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Absolutely, incredible TV. I knew a lot about Chernobyl but every episode left me utterly floored still. The finale was just stunning.
The director of Chernobyl is Johan Renck - AKA Stakka Bo
My mind is officially blown.
My mind is officially blown.
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The Clamp
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An outstanding series. Not just a telling of the events but an insight into the communist mindset.
I’d only repeat what’s already been said on this thread but agree with the praise.
Jared Harris is such a good actor. That face, the conflict and resulting pain just etched into his features. And I admire him for the fact that he has never played up to who his Father was. He has just slowly and steadily built his own career.
Landmark television. Very, very good indeed.
I’d only repeat what’s already been said on this thread but agree with the praise.
Jared Harris is such a good actor. That face, the conflict and resulting pain just etched into his features. And I admire him for the fact that he has never played up to who his Father was. He has just slowly and steadily built his own career.
Landmark television. Very, very good indeed.
The Clamp
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I binged When They See Us. It’s very good. It gets a bit “baggy” and repetitive in the middle but it’s very good indeed.
The Clamp
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How interesting. A very creative mind obviously. Fantastic. He’s got very good skin.
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DumLum
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Looks like Russia are going to make their own version blaming it on the CIA.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48559289
Have to agree about the insight into communist mindset, people go on about a cover up but it was not really a cover up more a blind belief this could never happen in Soviet Russia and pure incompetence.
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Haven't see any of this yet (just read this thread only) but how much is fiction, and how much is fact.. ?
I'm intrigued to compare it's 'facts' to the film Pandora's Promise (which I know was funded by the pro-nuclear lobby) but raised some interesting points like the Chernobyl reactor was pretty much housed in B+Q warehouse building, and like [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] quoted a 31 deaths figure (which PP also says is the EU/WHO official figure)
I'm intrigued to compare it's 'facts' to the film Pandora's Promise (which I know was funded by the pro-nuclear lobby) but raised some interesting points like the Chernobyl reactor was pretty much housed in B+Q warehouse building, and like [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] quoted a 31 deaths figure (which PP also says is the EU/WHO official figure)
Argh - Why you no listen?
The Podcast in conjunction with the programme, is a must.
I'll give you a clue as to your specific request.
The writer tells us much of Finchies dialogue isn't scripted, it's the words his character actually used that were recorded at the time.
That's just one snippet.
Normally cos it's you.. and nobody listens to you..
BUT actually, as you said here 'should listen to podcast in conjunction with' and that''s not imminent, but my query is/was.
midnight_rendezvous
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Superb television. Best series I have seen for a while. I never realised how much sacrifice was made by the ordinary Russian people. It also goes to show the lengths a Gov't would go to in order to hide, play stuff down and ignore the experts. To some extent, you can see similarities to what is happening today with regards to climate change.
warmleyseagull
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It is one of the best series I have ever seen. Spent weekend at Pripyat a year ago, sobering experience. This backed up a lot of the story we were told, and in a very forthright way.