Chernobyl (4 Viewers)
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clint van damme
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Yes. Decent
fernandopartridge
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What channel?
mark82
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One of the sky channels.
skybluetony176
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Sky Atlantic. One of the best dramas on TV in a long time.
Covkid1968#
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Struggled to watch it as soon as the blast happened.... I suppose it’s a compliment when I say it was a bit too real for my liking....
ajsccfc
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I'd been looking forward to it and it's been just as good as I'd hoped, I feared some kind of disaster movie feel but they've tried to make it as natural as possible. HBO do a podcast along with each episode that I'd recommend to accompany it, goes into more detail about parts of the story
Mcbean
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I am on episode two - very well done - grim story fit those involved but most very true - met a guy who went on a view trip to Pripyat last year - a guide took him round with a meter - as some places still way over and a gun - seems some people have gone feral and like to shoot visitors - pictures were really interesting - just a place frozen in time - some people never moved and despite living in the no go zone survived a full life - can recommend the documentary on putting the concrete cap on a couple of years ago - hats off to the guys who went down to check the sluices - quick certain death
Sky Blue Pete
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Can’t get it on virgin
Mcbean
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Take a look at Google maps - you can see the cap and the remains of Pripyrat - look at the accompanying pics
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ccfctommy
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ajsccfc
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Unless the last episode shits the bed this is going to take some beating as the best series of this year for me. One thing that I really like the show pushing is the selfless heroism of so many of the people for scant reward (although the lads who put the flag up after the cleaning process was complete got a bottle of Pepsi each)
I always wanted to visit Pripyat and Chernobyl but I think this has changed my mind, I'd feel a bit too much of a voyeur.
I always wanted to visit Pripyat and Chernobyl but I think this has changed my mind, I'd feel a bit too much of a voyeur.
clint van damme
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Biorobots!
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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Yes, the first episode is quite dark but stick with it. I didn't quite appreciate how absolutely horrific this was and how close we were to an absolute global catastrophe many times worse than actually transpired.
Mcbean
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Got two episodes to watch but that is / was good news as those chaps were so brave
dutchman
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Fair point. I can usually tell after a few minutes whether I'm going to love or hate a show and very seldom change my mind.
fellatio_Martinez
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I can't remember ever feeling so uncomfortable watching a TV show. It's brilliantly made and captures what I imagine was the feeling of the time which was horror, paranoia and confusion. The scene where the pregnant wife is comforting her husband in hospital while he lies literally melting into the bed is something that will stay with me for a while.
The series does get better as it goes on. Oddly enough the first episode is the slowest and that features the actual explosion.
Some minor gripes. Why do they all speak with English accents? Surely even asking the cast to put on generic eastern European accents would have helped with the realism. It's an odd decision in an otherwise very authentic show.
The series does get better as it goes on. Oddly enough the first episode is the slowest and that features the actual explosion.
Some minor gripes. Why do they all speak with English accents? Surely even asking the cast to put on generic eastern European accents would have helped with the realism. It's an odd decision in an otherwise very authentic show.
Tommo1993
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I think I heard Emily Watson attempt it a few times. Don’t know what I made of said attempt. On the whole, absolutely brilliant show, the ratings do not lie.
ajsccfc
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The writer did an accompanying podcast and said that if everyone's attempting the accents there's a danger of them veering towards 'Boris and Natasha' stereotypes and then lose a lot of what they are trying to convey. To be honest I barely noticed it except for when the miner boss rocked up with his strong Scottish accent.
fellatio_Martinez
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I assumed that was the case but then why didn't they employee Ukrainian actors? I know I'm being picky and it doesn't really matter.
Haha, that guy played mad Trevor in Eastenders years ago. There's quite a few ex soap actors in it.
skybluetony176
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Got to be one of the best things I’ve seen on TV. Loved the ending where it shows pictures of the actual people involved and told their personal stories a little.
Mcbean
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Just spoke to a Ukrainian guy I used to work with - they have not shown it on Ukrainian tv yet but will do shortly . The Russians are apparently filming another version where the fault lies in a CIA plot as they are not that chuffed by the success of the series .At the time my friend who lived in Kiev says that he and his friends were taken to a version of Butlins in Crimea right in the South although it was 3 months after the disaster . He said that at the time it was very lucky big time that the winds were in the right direction or the effects would have been felt much further .
fellatio_Martinez
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So the 12 other scientists that helped at Chernobyl were erased from the show and replaced with a female character that never existed.
Welcome to 2019!
Welcome to 2019!
fellatio_Martinez
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I read that but I think it's just historical revisionism for the sake of putting a woman on screen.
Why not feature the women that helped in the closing credits or simply have scenes where the scientists at Chernobyl call female scientists for help?
They could have handled it better rather than just taking a hatchet to the main players for the sake of representation.