Chernobyl (HBO)

[HuskyHawk]

I'm 3 shows in. Loving it. Just such a gripping story, and they made it very human. And the way the USSR operated was very effectively portrayed.

 

[traitor71]

Very enjoyable series. I was 15 when it happened, and like most 15 year olds, just didn't realize how serious it was. I started looking around on you tube and came across this video. It really is amazing how different the news was back then.

 

[CTMike]

For whatever reason I had it in my head that last night was the finale... glad to be wrong there.

 

[uconndoit]

Very enjoyable series. I was 15 when it happened, and like most 15 year olds, just didn't realize how serious it was. I started looking around on you tube and came across this video. It really is amazing how different the news was back then.

I'm the same age and I was living in Rome during that time. I spent all day outside the day its cloud floated over Italy.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm the same age and I was living in Rome during that time. I spent all day outside the day its cloud floated over Italy.

That’s good to hear.

 

[ZooCougar]

There is a Chernobyl Podcast that is really good that is hosted by one of those NPR guys and the Producer of the series. It delivers additional insights following each episode. You can find it in all of the usual places that podcasts are found. I highly recommend it.

 

[uconndoit]

That’s good to hear.

I have x-ray vision now.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Killer finale. I love how they left the breakdown of how the events unfolded leading up to the event to the last episode.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Dyatlov is a motherscalitoer. I don't know what ultimately killed him, but he deserved to die of ass cancer.

A lot of people had to screw up for Chernobyl to happen, but it did happen. The Japanese do just about everything right, and Fukishima still happened.

 

[Palatine]

Dyatlov is a motherscalitoer. I don't know what ultimately killed him, but he deserved to die of ass cancer.

A lot of people had to screw up for Chernobyl to happen, but it did happen. The Japanese do just about everything right, and Fukishima still happened.

They put a nuclear power plant on the shoreline in a tsunami zone.

 

[Mano]

Really just a great show all the way through. Absolute top flight stuff, even if it didn't follow the real life events 100%.

Thought this was interesting stuff:

What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong

The show’s creators imagine confrontation where it was unthinkable—and, in doing so, they cross the line from conjuring a fiction to creating a lie.

www.newyorker.com

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Really just a great show all the way through. Absolute top flight stuff, even if it didn't follow the real life events 100%.

Thought this was interesting stuff:

What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong

The show’s creators imagine confrontation where it was unthinkable—and, in doing so, they cross the line from conjuring a fiction to creating a lie.

www.newyorker.com

The writer overreacts to no one going on a suicide missions against the Soviet heirarchy. It is kind of hard to argue that the miniseries doesn't make everyone in the Soviet Union look beaten and defeated by an oppressive system. The writer of the article is complaining about individual lines of dialogue. While not precisely historically accurate, some Lagasov's testimony and the actions of Khomyuk are done in lieu of having a narrator. It works better if it is presented as dialogue, and I think that was fair artistic license. Lagasov was appropriately critical of the Soviets, so I think he should get a pass.

 

[Palatine]

Anybody going?

Tourists are flocking to Chernobyl thanks to HBO miniseries. Yaroslav Yemelianenko, director of Chernobyl Tour, said he expected a similar increase of 30-40 percent because of the show.

His company offers a special tour of locations depicted in the series, including the bunker where the initial decision by local officials not to evacuate after the explosion was made.

Tourists are flocking to Chernobyl thanks to HBO miniseries

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — The success of a US television miniseries examining the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant, and the ghost…

nypost.com

 

[Mano]

Apparently we were at fault for the whole thing:

Russia hates HBO's Chernobyl, decides to make its own series

We were huge fans of Chernobyl, HBO’s five-part miniseries about the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion. We weren’t alone, either; the series now has the—frankly, dubious—honor of being the highest-rated show on IMDb, having presumably bumped off The Shawshank Redemption. It has its critics, though...

news.avclub.com

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Apparently we were at fault for the whole thing:

Russia hates HBO's Chernobyl, decides to make its own series

We were huge fans of Chernobyl, HBO’s five-part miniseries about the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion. We weren’t alone, either; the series now has the—frankly, dubious—honor of being the highest-rated show on IMDb, having presumably bumped off The Shawshank Redemption. It has its critics, though...

news.avclub.com

Forbes has an op-ed that seems to argue that radiation is harmless.

It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe

Nuclear’s worst accidents show that the technology has always been inherently safe thanks to the high energy density of its fuel.

www.forbes.com

I don't know who is paying the writer, but the fact that he can make such ridiculous assertions and expect anyone to believe him says a lot about the quality of our public discourse today.

 

[Palatine]

Fire is inherently dangerous. There are 120,000 fire deaths per year according to the data center at Oxford. That number is down in recent years. To calculate the number of fire deaths during the history of the human race would be speculative but very, very high, millions and millions. But if man never "tames" (and I use the word broadly) fire, civilization never occurs.

Like all human endeavors nuclear power needs to be based risk/reward factors using reliable, real world information.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Fire is inherently dangerous. There are 120,000 fire deaths per year according to the data center at Oxford. That number is down in recent years. To calculate the number of fire deaths during the history of the human race would be speculative but very, very high, millions and millions. But if man never "tames" (and I use the word broadly) fire, civilization never occurs.

Like all human endeavors nuclear power needs to be based risk/reward factors using reliable, real world information.

Do you live next to a nuclear power plant? Why not?

 

[Palatine]

Do you live next to a nuclear power plant? Why not?

That has never been a consideration for me. Some people are afraid of their own shadows. Some are afraid to fly. I have found decisions based on fear are usually bad ones. As I said, decisions should be based risk/reward factors using reliable, real world information.

But to each, his own.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

They put a nuclear power plant on the shoreline in a tsunami zone.

C’mon, all things are equal

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I have x-ray vision now.

Sure, but have you grown a 5th eye yet?

 

[Palatine]

C’mon, all things are equal

Yeah, but it was still dumb. It was virtually inevitable.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Yeah, but it was still dumb. It was virtually inevitable.

Irony missed: UKR v JP, same same

 

[Palatine]

Irony missed: UKR v JP, same same

Won't be the first or last time.