Chernobyl (HBO) Mini- Series

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I really like this mini series

[twylyght]

Whoever did this really did their homework.  I knew almost nothing about the miners in this event.  I knew more about the firemen (and those accounts were pretty damn gruesome).

This series is really capturing in a stunning way just how so much of the USSR operated with respect to the body politik and the people it oversaw to outline the severe disconnect between the two.  I would hope that public education would include this series as supplemental education to help make history come alive for students. 

Too much of history has become some detached recollection of events without delving into the why and how things went down the way they did.  This would help take a lot of the MMQB mindset out of how history is presented these days.

[Ja Rhule]

Radiation basically melts you while alive.  One of the worst deaths you can imaging.  Miners were digging in over 120* heat by hand knowing they will get cancer and will be given zero support but they did it cause it needed to be done.

[Datawire]

We all know nuclear fallout is bad. However, to hear it spelled out that it changes your DNA, rots your organs and destroys your veins to the point that not even morphine can dull the pain is more grim than a Hollywood horror movie. Reality is much more terrifying.

The coal miner foreman was a needed character for this episode. We are so used to hearing so much bullshit from the bureaucrats he cut right through the fog of that and even brought some levity to the episode. "We're still wearing the fuging hats" got a chuckle from me.

The fireman's wife and baby are probably doomed. I don't understand why she exposed herself to her husband even after the admonishing warning from the doctor/nurse. Is she simply that naive? Or you find someone that loves you like the fireman's wife does. Then attend a funeral where the bodies are sealed into a lead box only to turn around and find a cement truck rolling up. At a funeral. Jesus.

 

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25 minutes ago, Datawire said:

We all know nuclear fallout is bad. However, to hear it spelled out that it changes your DNA, rots your organs and destroys your veins to the point that not even morphine can dull the pain is more grim than a Hollywood horror movie. Reality is much more terrifying.

The coal miner foreman was a needed character for this episode. We are so used to hearing so much bullshit from the bureaucrats he cut right through the fog of that and even brought some levity to the episode. "We're still wearing the fuging hats" got a chuckle from me.

The fireman's wife and baby are probably doomed. I don't understand why she exposed herself to her husband even after the admonishing warning from the doctor/nurse. Is she simply that naive? Or you find someone that loves you like the fireman's wife does. Then attend a funeral where the bodies are sealed into a lead box only to turn around and find a cement truck rolling up. At a funeral. Jesus.

 

Yeah the way she kept touching him really pissed me off because she never once considered the health of herself and her baby.. but then again love makes people do really stupid poo.

[Datawire]

I was wondering why she was holding his shoes at the funeral.

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At the morgue they said, "Want to see what we'll dress him in?" I do! They dressed him up in formal wear, with his service cap. They couldn't get shoes on him because his feet had swelled up. They had to cut up the formal wear, too, because they couldn't get it on him, there wasn't a whole body to put it on. It was all — wounds. The last two days in the hospital — I'd lift his arm, and meanwhile the bone is shaking, just sort of dangling, the body has gone away from it. Pieces of his lungs, of his liver, were coming out of his mouth. He was choking on his internal organs. I'd wrap my hand in a bandage and put it in his mouth, take out all that stuff. It's impossible to talk about. It's impossible to write about. And even to live through. It was all mine.

https://www.npr.org/books/titles/138350923/voices-from-chernobyl-the-oral-history-of-a-nuclear-disaster

[Ounce]

After episode 3 all I can say is death by radiation is some horrible poo.  So far the quality of the series is holding very strong.

[twylyght]

Sad that this series isn't getting more attention.  I could see something like this replaying in present-day China.

[Goondal]

Both sequences with the pets, especially the second one.  Completely devastating.

[Datawire]

After thinking about the last episode in contrast. The humans had to suffer an unimaginable horror because of the lack of euthanasia, but the animals are given the mercy of a quick death. I understand the hospital may have been uninformed about what the firefighters were going to go through but seeing the shape those men were in, truly a bullet to the head and a quick end would have been far more humane and compassionate. Maybe that was the intended message.

[The_Light_Brigade]

Such a good show.

[Anybodyhome]

I watched Episode 1 last night. Very well done.

The subtleties, like the kids playing in the ash (slo mo) as it rained down on the families watching the fire from the bridge, the bird dropping dead on the school sidewalk where the kids had just passed, were exceptional.

Looking forward to watching the rest.

[RealBitsOfPanther]

Really need to check this out. It's nice to know that it looks solid. 

[thefuzz]

Whew....just started this...great so far.  Looking forward to finishing ep: 2 tonight.