Chernobyl
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- PonyBoy2
wow... this show is really 'that' good?
As ‘Game Of Thrones’ Ends, HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Quietly Becomes IMDB’s Highest Rated Show In History
- only one way to really find outernexbcn
- ha... just started ep 2... ep 1 def. got my attentionPonyBoy
- nostalgia+ nobody actually knew in the other half of europe what happened and this:
https://twitter.com/…sted - 52,000 people liked it.robthelad
- raf0
- Is that in response to my post, raf? If so - and I admit I'm no nucular syentist, but I thin kyou need at least a couple of orders of magnitude greater activityNairn
- ..than even the darkest, baddest bit of the scale there (which seems to top out at 1000)Nairn
- A since thanks to the Pyrenees!!OBBTKN
- "A sincere..."OBBTKN
- No Nairn, this thread just lacked a "too close to home" infographic treatment.raf
- Today they say here while radiation in the air increased 550K-fold, the dangerous ones: iodine, cesium + some other radioisotopes' gamma only increased x3.raf
- raf0
A noticeable increase in thyroid disorders (mostly Hashimoto disease in women) in East Europe has always been attributed to the Chernobyl disaster.
It is now disputed whether it is a direct effect, or could it have been caused by mass-administered Lugol's iodine.
In Poland, some 18 million people, mostly children drank Lugol's iodine when the contamination was discovered.
- Bennn4
Plutonium is "the most toxic substance known to mankind"
- Nairn0
Anyone got a decent source on this assertion that Europe would've been rendered an unihabitable wasteland had Chernobyl really shit the bed?
All I could find was rebuttals, eg. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true…
- Read the same thing long ago, can't find the source now...OBBTKN
- pr2-6
Since so many of you love to waste away your brains on HBO's fictitious interpretation of reality, let me steer your to a great book about the Chernobyl disaster. Reading it you won't be giving into simplistic Hollywood interpretations; instead of banality of most obvious feelings, you will be exploring thoughtful and great literature and as a side benefit, won't be looked down on by guys like me for willingly letting mass culture steering your understanding of reality. Winner!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc…- Hey, I've not travelled by rail since Rob Lowe's Atomic Train.see_thru
- how about your fictitious interpretations on socialism? do we look down on you?hotroddy
- hot, go ahead try from you "mounting" of 3 pages thick mountain.pr2
- And here I thought I was too full of myself.
Thanks pr2!deadsperm - Looks like a good book thoughsarahfailin
- Read this a few months back. https://www.chemistr… the HBO series doesn't seem that far off to meJerseyRaindog
- mg330
Watching it and pretty riveted by it. I've seen some people complain about it being British actors speaking English, but does anyone really want to watch that in Russian with subtitles?
If the show is pretty accurate, holy hell the denial they were in from the outset. It was the first major nuclear accident anywhere in the world though, right?
It's just full of dread and so eerie.
- There was an accident in kyshtym in 1957 which was nearly as serious https://en.wikipedia…JerseyRaindog
- US knew about it but chose not to disclose it as they were trying to get the public used to the idea of nuclear power and didn't want the negative press.JerseyRaindog
- Gnash0
I've yet to watch the show but this twitter thread has made me move it to the top of my watch-list.
Although I'm sure that pr2 has more direct and personal experience that easily dismisses this comrade's perspective
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" I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media..."
- teh0
Anyone got a number for the comrade count?
- 31 dead liquidators (directly caused by the disaster) + 4000 later death from cancer etc. Interestingly, all 3 suicide divers lived til 2000's.drgs
- Not that many deaths, when you think about it (9/11 had more), but could have been million times worse, with whole of Europe being uninhabitable for centuriesdrgs
- Two of the divers are still alive today, one died of a stroke or something in the 2000's.raf
- colin_s0
this is wonderful but everyone speaking in traditional english is strange. like, would doing russian accents be considered condescending or something? and obviously they wouldn't perform in american english, so traditional is just how it was decided for US viewership to both accept as foreign but still understand?
that's the one thing that distracts me - especially when the radio broadcast, or whatever, is obviously from the USSR but lacks subtitles ... everything else has been quite wonderful.
- it's not strange considering who's making the show and who the audience ismonospaced
- I just think that such a notable story wouldn't get the same traction for viewers if it used subtitles.mg33
- I do find the whole "english" accent as "foreign" funny though. That is used a lot in shows.monospaced
- READING SUCKS! :Dmg33
- It was the right decision. A whole series with subtitles make no sense.Bennn
- right but why not english with a russian accent?colin_s
- ^ I would blame Jennifer Lawrence for that one... if done poorly (red sparrow) it's probably even more distractingbogue
- Russia adopts american shows by dubbing them to their language, so you can watch it in Russian laterdrgs
- Personally I think there's nothing more annoying than when actors talk english with a russian / german accent in movies. Fuck that.haga
- Ramanisky21
- They would go in groups of 2 to 3 men for only up to 90 seconds at a time.Ramanisky2
- yep, its crazyBennn
- Such a crazy system.PhanLo
- lemmy_k0
Why is it that they had to kill all of the animals? Did I miss something?
- They were irradiated and needed to be culled so it wouldn't spread.Vandal7
- Gotcha. Thanks.lemmy_k
- Still seems a bit silly. What about all the soldiers getting irradiated? Will they get a bullet next?sarahfailin
- grafician8
https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud…
This guy on twitter posts reviews about how authentic this show really is so far...
- Nice findmaquito
- Read that earlier today .. very cool.Ramanisky2
- and what better way to post it than in 280 character long chunks on Twitterdrgs
- @drgs he reviews it scene-by-scene, tweet-by-tweet. Just so you guys know, most of what he says applies to most East-European countries under communismgrafician
- really interesting, thanksFax_Benson
- and there were people here so quick to write it off as biased and inaccurate without even seeing a single second of itmonospaced
- ernexbcn8
- https://independenta…pr2
- PR guy is such a frustrated guy...tank02
- teh1
We will have to wait 30 years for a story about Japan's?
- PonyBoy3
- Yeah. That episode had some funny lines and little set pieces. I like the sarcastic animosity between Legasov and Boris.Fax_Benson
- and the mine crew bossFax_Benson
- Miner boss was tops. It was funny, but like everything in that show it's tinged with sadness.PhanLo
- and with some of the heaviest moments so far it was almost a relief to see dozens of naked minersGardener
- Ramanisky24
- hells yea. Excellent work. So gruesome.dopepope
- Watching on my train ride homemg33
- mg33 you’ve been warnedRamanisky2
- This! I was shouting at my TV. I couldn't believe when she put his blistery purple hand on her belly. HOLY FUCKsarahfailin
- Holy fuck indeed, that episode was heavy duty. The ignorance of the people higher up the chain and the cover up is where a lot of the real horror is.PhanLo
- UUUUUGH, is this viewable anywhere other than HBOGo or whatever??elahon
- also that woman's hair. 80's + Russia = ¿sarahfailin
- pr20
The show is as historically accurate as Santa Clause visiting baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
- Milan0
A Hollywood show about a disaster in the USSR, brought to you by the guy who made Hangover 2. Must be very accurate, objective and unbiased...gtfo
- it's entertainment, not a history lesson ffsmonospaced
- but if you're dismissing its accuracy based on nothing more than who and where this is made, then you're not being fairmonospaced
- Milan, tell us how it really happened comradeernexbcn
- zaq0
As someone who lived in the area affected by Chernobyl I am afraid to watch it.
- I think the area is much bigger. 4 women in our street got Thyroid cancer, including my mother. Its a typical radiactive pollution cancer. We'll see over ->tank02
- 30 years if there was spike of stats. I live in Belgium by the way. My theory is Germany, Belgium and Holland where also affected by the nucleair windstank02