• Chernobyl (HBO) Mini-Series V.1 Megathread
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Don’t let Pavel see this
I think it's absolutely worth it. But Gore doesn't bother me at all. It doesn't seem heavy or in your face at all to me. There's maybe.. 30 seconds (from memory) or less total screen time of the radiation poisoned men. What you see is skin that appears badly burned. It's red, welty, oozy, missing in some places. The worst of it is brief. I think it does a good job of showing the horror without being disrespectful. It shows you what you need to see to get an idea and then let's your brain do the rest.
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We are dealing with something that has never happened in this kitchen before.
Just started watching, finished episode one. Hair raising.
I just watched episode 4. How do I cope with what I saw?
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If this next episode is going to detail the accident minute by minute then I can't wait to see it. I was a bit miffed when the first episode didn't show what actually happened and started just as the shit hit the fan.
After literally just doing my Nuclear Reactors exam three days ago, time to finally give this a watch. I'm honestly interested as to how accurate they get it.
I mean we had a nuclear engineer in this thread praising it soooooo There are some liberties taken to make it compelling viewing and to make it work for TV, but overall it's a realistic depiction of what happened, which is why it's earned so much praise
Someone told me it had it a weird anti nuclear slant, but so far it honestly seems pretty on point so I'm not sure what they were talking about. Makes up for GoT being so disappointing
It's more anti-coverup than anti-nuclear. Chernobyl could've been avoided if the flaws in RBMK reactors had been fixed.
It's only anti-nuclear insofar as it shows how bad it can get when things go wrong, but it never seems to push a narrative that nuclear power is a bad thing. As Solokiller said, it's more critical about the negligence, denial, and poor response in the immediate aftermath than it is about anything else.
Yeah, the producer/writer has said he is pro-nuclear, and what he wants the show to do is not be an indictment of nuclear power, but to show how Chernobyl was really a human disaster rather than a nuclear power disaster.
The writer and producer Craig Mazin I think mentioned in one of the after-episode podcasts that he isn't anti-nuclear in any way and it isn't his intention to portray nuclear energy as negative - the whole point of the mini series is to show the cost of systemic lying and covering up the truth.
https://youtu.be/X98XATRGLEc someone uploaded this so thank heck
Starting watching it, holy shit it's fucking terrifying. Imagine if something like that really happened.
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There is an accompanying Podcast that you're suppose to watch after each episode that I HIGHLY recommend where the creator goes into detail over what happen IRL and when they differed from the truth, why. For example Ulana Khomyuk whom you will learn about in Ep2 isn't a real person but simply a composite character to represent the dozen of nuclear experts under Legasov. You can find these podcasts on most podcast related sites such as NPR, YouTube, Spotfiy, etc.
Well... i have to tell you something
I'm going to need some hot, spicy memes for those particular scenes. Radioactive hot.
Was curious about how accurate the makeup FX was for those afflicted by radiation sickness, and ended up googling Tokaimura nuclear accident and Hisashi Ouchi (exposed to a 17 Sievert dose). Turns out, they're extremely accurate. Graphic images are available, almost regret checking.
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thanks but no
"Is that a smile I see?"
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Why can't I ever not go and check shit I read on the Internet out. That story is pure nightmare fuel. Poor fucking guy.
The mistakes that caused accidents like Chernobyl and Tokaimura were actually huge and obvious. Chernobyl resulted from retarded reactor design. Tokaimura resulted from horrifically under-trained staff completely ignoring procedure and handling nuclear materials using only stainless steel buckets.
Reading through this thread got me to watch Chernobyl. I'm prepared to be wrecked.
To be fair a lot of the lessons learned from those mistakes have helped to prevent more accidents. A single moderately large fuckup can prevent a planetary scale disaster.
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