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Highly Recommend: HBO's Chernobyl


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2019 May 13, 10:21pm   1,001 views  5 comments

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Very well made. Both in the direction and the writing. Just the vivid portrayal of life in Gorbachevian USSR it portrays should earn it an Emmy alone. (filmed on site in Ukraine and Lithuania for Pripyat/Chernobyl.

Side note: Evacuation scene with 1950-style buses looked like it came out of George Pal's War of the Worlds, too. It was that good.

Then there is how they didn't hold back on displaying how the communist hierarchy could not deal with accepting the reality of the situation, starting at the party level at the plant itself. Like it was a whole bunch of white male AOCs were running the show.

And this is all just from the first two episodes so far.

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1   WookieMan   2019 May 14, 7:27am  

Is this like a legit documentary type series? Or is it kind of fictionalized in a sense? I'm going to look into tit (sorry, your avatar gif). Being serious. I've watched a few one off, one hour or so shows on the whole Chernobyl episode and it's a very compelling story.
2   rocketjoe79   2019 May 14, 9:33am  

I can't even think about this - the helo pilots who dropped concrete to entomb the reactor were all dead the moment they flew over from rad poisoning. But they kept flying anyway. There were many heroes among the dead.
3   WookieMan   2019 May 14, 10:01am  

rocketjoe79 says
But they kept flying anyway. There were many heroes among the dead.


If they said no to the mission wouldn't they still be dead? (Insubordination) It was a lose/lose situation on their part, but not sure they're hero's. Let me know if I'm wrong.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 May 14, 11:15am  

rocketjoe79 says
I can't even think about this - the helo pilots who dropped concrete to entomb the reactor were all dead the moment they flew over from rad poisoning. But they kept flying anyway. There were many heroes among the dead.


Even sicker are the nuclear scientists who volunteered to get close to the core to see what had happened. They definitely knew they were dead men but did it for !!!SCIENCE!!!.

Damn Chernobyl ruined nuclear power for decades.
5   kt1652   2019 May 14, 11:23am  

Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps'
www.youtube.com/embed/xj5LCz4vVcc

Sacrifice zones must expand at any cost.

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