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  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    depends on your tolerance for delusion and your knowledge of concrete

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I work with concrete

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Very much so. I never re-watched it, but it's very well done.

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    K I N O

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    2020 social conditioning primer

  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hell yeah

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah it's a great show
    Watch an actual documentary about chernobyl too though since the show is only loosely based in reality

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Absolutely. It doesnt overstay its welcome.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Absolutely. It doesnt overstay its welcome.
      It kinda does, if just barely. The mission to open the valve in the basement is essentially repeated with the "bio robots" chucking the graphite off the roof. I remember watching dudes be like "we have to send people to their deaths" and being like "I think we've been over this".

      They could have cut an episode from the series easily.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I skip the dog episode because it's cheap emotional impact
      They had to actually made up shit because like, 1 person died and that's it
      That's a filler episode 100%

  8. 9 months ago
    sage

    yes

  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sure but it's lib cringe

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Sure but it's lib cringe
      How so?

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    So good it's off the scales

  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Those poor dogs

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I give it a 3.6/10

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      this, not great, not terrible

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I want to walk across that when they're jiggling

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous
      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        What the hell is this thing called and why do they jiggle?
        What is it supposed to do/indicate?
        It's such a weird device. Nothing looks like it anywhere in the world.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          they are control rods for the reactor, they raise/lower to control the rate of the nuclear reaction.
          they only jiggle when shit is very wrong and probably about to blow up, like at chernobyl

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Barring whether that actually happened or not, those were the rod caps and they were "jumping" due to the pressure buildup from the heat. Closest example I think I can give is imagine how the lid of a boiling pot jiggles, now compare that to something that's around 800 pounds in each channel

            Interesting.
            Since I obviously don't know shit about nuclear reactions I never thought about what control rods even were. They were just words that went along with "nuclear power".
            Lucky for the engineers that gravity and weight does the hard work of controlling it then (after the math of the machine was done first).

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              I have to remind you that most nuclear plants are just steam-electric bust instead of using coal or gas to heat the water it's nuclear fission. We've never really "moved away" from reciprocating steam engines for more than two centuries since its inception.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >We've never really "moved away" from reciprocating steam engines
                yeah, we have. because they use steam turbines not pistons. steam turbines have been around for fricking ever bro

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah.
                I wonder if there will ever be a way to create power differently. It'll be wild but I doubt we'll live to see it.
                It's probably something that has to happen once governments stop being homosexuals and we finally power the whole world with nuclear energy and whatever else is already standing and still has support infrastructure like some dams and the healthiest coal plants.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Barring whether that actually happened or not, those were the rod caps and they were "jumping" due to the pressure buildup from the heat. Closest example I think I can give is imagine how the lid of a boiling pot jiggles, now compare that to something that's around 800 pounds in each channel

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's the big jiggler you uneducated hick

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    some of the best television that's ever been produced

  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    OP is asking questions that are not in his own best interest

  15. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    One of the greatest. Comfy, short, well directed, acted and written, no time wasted and to the point, very re-watchable.

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    a prime quality meme factory

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    which one is your favorite nuke disaster kino?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I only watched HBO's Chernobyl, tbh. Good enough for me. I remember that at the time Russia/Putin was seething and promised to deliver their own version of it (which is the true one, according to Putin). kek

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I remember that at the time Russia/Putin was seething and promised to deliver their own version of it (which is the true one, according to Putin). kek
        yeah they were apparently going to make their own series that showed the "truth" that the chernobyl disaster was actually some kind of CIA sabotage operation, I'm not kidding. It was so poorly received by the public that they walked it back then never mentioned it again.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >bullshit so obvious that even the Muscovite public won't believe it
          That's a new level of achievement.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Chernobyl 1986 is almost like capeshit compared to the HBO series. fictional hero character that rescues his coworkers and enters the radiation zone more than once....

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kino documentary

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      K19: The Widowmaker

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I watched Chernobyl and now am watching The Days. I am surprised at how badly nips handled it, 25 years later, in capitalist democratic country. I am half-way through The Days and it pisses me off how almost everyone is so fricking beta indecisive cuck with a bug-people mindset.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        That same thing happened with the Korean ferry

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          So much for muh high asian IQ

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      There's a BBC docudrama from the 2000s about Chernobyl that's pretty good

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Very. It's kino from start to finish, and isn't too long to where it gets boring or too short to where it feels like it leaves out too much.

  20. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes
    if you can get past the russkies speaking english

  21. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    goated show bruh

    prolly one of the better written historical docudramas

  22. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's kino dude, go watch and enjoy.

    I fricking miss the awesome chernobyl and terror threads on Cinemaphile

  23. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've watched it three or four times now. Never gets old. The court scene at the end is pure kinography.

  24. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The decision to amalgamate the hundreds of scientists and engineers into the one character was a bold and risky choice, but one that I think ultimately paid off and made the story easier to follow.
    Making it a woman was fricking stupid thoughbeit

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >amalgamate the hundreds of scientists and engineers into the one character
      I haven't watched it but that sounds awful.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm glad you two autists don't make tv shows.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was a perfectly acceptable compromised and the actress did more than alright.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >instead of making a bunch of 3 dimensional characters they just rolled it all into some super scientist who has all the mechanical, theoretical and practical knowledge on how to run a nuclear reactor
          Eh I dunno dude sounds kinda iffy, again I haven't watched it but.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Holy shit you fricking Black person just watch the show

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The actress is such a c**t too
      I saw some behind the scenes thing interviewing her and she was literally like "the men messed up so the female scientist has to come clean up the mess"

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Legasov was an amalgamation too dumbass. irl he was one of hundreds supervising the cleanup. He was also not the one to propose evacuating and ignored advice opposing the bullshit helo drops because he wanted to look good.

  25. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's pozzed bluepilled sjw propaganda. Tries to make it sound like a brilliant Mary Sue scientist hidden-figures her way into solving all the problems men couldn't deal with. Also pushes COVID misinformation like trust doctors and that kind of thing.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Also pushes COVID misinformation like trust doctors and that kind of thing.
      >First episode date: May 6, 2019
      Please get help you deranged homosexual

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >covid wasn't planned
        no u

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        You think it takes less than a year to organize a global pandemic that conveniently demonizes the idea of personal freedom?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >unsourced conspiracy everything
          jfc this is moronic maybe time for you carer to get your meds ready and put you to bed for the night

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Remember when you thought a cold was going to kill 10% of people and therefore justified global totalitarian measures?
            You're a moronic stooge and the way you pretend to care about evidence is sickening.
            have a nice day.
            Not him btw.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >t.didn’t take advantage of the free money and endless time to learn new things and go to new places.
              Ngmi

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you still cant acknowledge what is going on right now, you absolutely deserve what is coming next.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >you absolutely deserve what is coming next.
              oohhh scary you mean shit will just keep on keepin on like it always has? Or do you have some more super insider Q material to drop here that will totally make it all make sense?

              Anyway, yes OP, Chernobyl was kino and you should give it a watch

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Mary Sue scientist
      yeah, this show wouldve been a lot better if there was 20 additional scientists named boris or ivan that each had one line of dialogue.
      frick narrative flow and story structure, I want tedious historical authenticity

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        They should have cast a black woman. They turned down Thandiwe Newton even.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      At least they didn't put black people in it.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      accept this (You) from the Founders, may it keep you strong

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Threadly remider actual /misc/ liked this show because it showed how communism actually was and even named the holodomor genocide by name and these posts are dishonest disney shill cope because disney+ is getting its ass handed to them by HBO

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      They hated him because he told the truth

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      the schizo has arrived

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >8 hours later
        thank you for your service, keep us posted

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based.
      I heard people in work talking about hidden figures recently. They believed the movie is what happened. They think the woman with light skin and blue eyes had to go to the Black bathroom.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Forgot pic

  26. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >smoke is le bad

  27. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    10/10 kino

  28. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >written by the esteemed screenwriter of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie, and Identity Thief

  29. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's good, peaks in the 1st episode and this board likes to think it's the greatest thing ever, it's not but definitely worth watching

  30. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why does hollywood have a hard on for nuclear stuff these past few years?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because they want to push "green energy" as an alternative to fossil fuels and need to scare the sheep away from cheap and clean nuclear energy

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The left is heavy into the green energy grift and nuclear BTFOs all the solar/wind/bullshit they are trying to make into the new standard. Gotta make propaganda to keep people scared.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        How do you explain all the onions redditors trying to push thorium reactors, we all know they dont form their own opinions on this kind of stuff.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's delaying via pipe dream and removes some nuke group support and derails debate/cohesion within nuke. It's a tactic like: You can't have nuke power now, but you can have thorium/fusion/whatever else that doesn't exist some decades from now- so that's why you can't oppose my alternatives that are available now.

  31. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Russia bad
    >Lies (code for Orange Man) bad
    >Nuclear power bad
    >Scientists good
    >Doctors good
    >Women yaaaas

    It's like it was a comfy introduction to how the world turned in 2020. Now people realize covid was a joke, Trump will win in 2024, and Russia is fricking over nato in Ukraine.

  32. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's only 5 or 6 episodes
    i need to go back and binge it someday that im drinkin cuz i havent warched it since it came out

  33. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    no it's typical American red scare trash

  34. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is something the McCarthyists would actually be proud of making. The miniseries itself is full of fabrications.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The miniseries itself is full of fabrications.
      like what?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        like communism being bad

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        For one, the existence of Emily Watson's character and painting Dyatlov as an butthole of a boss. He was known to be strict but not whatever the frick they did with the show.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm talking about factual errors, very obviously the woman character was made for filming practicality. What exactly is so mccarthy-like about approximating real events to make them filmable?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Another one is that virtually all the "science-men" were in conflict with the "bureaucrats". Another one is the coal miner scene where the Minister of Coal was caricaturized as someone well-above the coal miners when in reality he was one himself and his workers liked him. Also the radiation damage, while gruesome as well in real life was greatly exaggerated for the series.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              The workers seemed to like him well enough in the show. The welcomed him into the brotherhood of coal with their coal bath they gave him.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        The way that it portrays radiation as if it were communicable is wrong. It's been a couple years since I watched it, but there's a scene in which one of the wives of the fire fighters supposedly catches a dose from her dying husband who was in the thick of it on the night of the accident. If he was radioactive enough to give his wife a near fatal dose in the few hours they were together then he wouldn't have been alive. The show goes on to say that her in vitro baby "filtered" all the radiation out of her and saved her life. This is moronic for several reasons, but most of all because she didn't have internal contamination (moreso than anyone else living in Pripyat), her radiation dose was from proximity to irradiated men. Radiation is energy, it can't be filtered out, only shielded.

        The whole show is like that in its inconsistent and often inaccurate but suitably terrifying depiction of nuclear radiation.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The way that it portrays radiation as if it were communicable is wrong.
          Just shut up you stupid piece of shit.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Someone who's been sitting in the hospital for days does not have radioactive material still on their skin moron. Their clothes have been removed and they've been washed. The radioactivity of bodily fluids is minimal.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            They explicitly externally decontaminated the men from the fire brigade. The internal contamination that they suffered would have been mostly in the lungs and to a much lesser extent in the GI tract. All of that contamination is self-shielded by bodily tissue. My point is that if they were loaded with a hundred Curies apiece or whatever, they would be dead long before they could kill anyone around them.

            t. nuclear reactor operator. I know more than you.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              to be fair to the show, it's possible that the hospital staff was not fully informed about the effects of radiation and how to treat it. They do have a scene where it's explicitly established that the hospital doesn't have any medication or anything for treating people exposed to radioactive material, i.e. the soviet state did not have any plans or procedures in place for a nuclear catastrophe. I mean they didn't even have those plans for the reactor staff let alone a nearby hospital. I would bet that depiction is actually true to the real historical event too.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >it's possible that the hospital staff was not fully informed about the effects of radiation and how to treat it
                Oh absolutely, I agree. They were not equipped at all to treat radiation sickness and there was no plan in place for a disaster on this scale. The sentiment that "reactors do not melt down in the Soviet Union" was definitely a factor in this. They didn't plan for a worst case, because even discussing the worst case scenario was tantamount to treason. I would say as someone who has read the NATO/IAEA case file on Chernobyl, and has operated reactors, and majored in the history of the USSR when I went to college after my time in the nuclear navy, the show gets all the broad strokes right. It's just those fearmongering bits about radiation and nuclear power that it leans into propaganda.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >They didn't plan for a worst case, because even discussing the worst case scenario was tantamount to treason.
                >whole nation prepped for nuclear war and dealing with fallout
                >all people including kindergarteners have state issued gas masks ready
                oh wait
                >majored in the history of the USSR
                that expains your stupidity

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The show goes on to say that her in vitro baby "filtered" all the radiation out of her and saved her life.
          that line did stick out as ridiculous to me as well, I think the intended or at least correct way to do that would have been to say that the baby died because children and infants are way more at risk from radiation exposure than adults. no idea why they made it sound like it was filtered or whatever.

          there was another line that was clearly dumb as well, one of the briefing scenes where they are talking about the water tanks exploding, the woman says that they estimate that the steam explosion would be 5 megatons or some shit. Obviously that number is complete bullshit because only a hydrogen bomb could have that kind of yield, it was so dumb that I decided to look into it.
          Apparently, the show came up with that number based on a record from one of the soviet scientists at the time. The scientist apparently did actually give a figure for the explosion being comparable to 5 megatons despite that clearly being impossible, but apparently experts now assume that what he meant was that the radioactive contamination would be comparable to the fallout of a 5 megaton bomb, not the blast radius, since chernobyl was like a gigantic dirty bomb.

  35. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    reddit trash

  36. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    IMO true detective s1, Chernobyl and succession are the best shows of the last decade or so

  37. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, 10/10. Some of the best television ever made.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      They ended up living irl

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        So did pretty much everyone who worked on the cleanup. Most of them didn't even have a significantly increased risk of cancer.
        The whole "lava reaching the water table and rendering half of europe uninhabitable" was never a serious thing either

        They played the risks up a lot in the show in general

  38. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    All you brain rotted idiots complaining about le Mary Sue character also know the simply epic climax speech also didn’t happen, right? That it was added to make a piece of entertainment entertaining? If you are so hung up on muh accuracy go read a textbook about it you dorks.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's just seething russians mad about a negative depiction of the soviets.

  39. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    again, what is so mccarthy about this? they had the coal guy in a suit instead of a blue collar shirt? who cares? these are the dumbest nitpicks I have ever heard lmao
    > Also the radiation damage, while gruesome as well in real life was greatly exaggerated for the series.

    so those people didn't actually die? spare me the bullshit

  40. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  41. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This and Band of brothers are great. Mare of East Town and sharp objects are good.
    Any others that don't suck?
    Queens gambit, haunting of hill house and 112263 were gay.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Generation Kill.

      I wanted like House of Saddam but it was just trash, they took something that could have been an awesome story and just made it garbage

  42. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Srs answers only:

    Why do Russians have such a disregard for human life?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      they have lived under one authoritarian regime or another for centuries, and authoritarian regimes like that are constantly propagandizing about the individual's duty to work, suffer and die if necessary for the advancement of the state.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        all of russian history has been being assraped by regime after regime, they're all depressed. probably the group of people that has had it the worst

        fatalism to the extreme

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      all of russian history has been being assraped by regime after regime, they're all depressed. probably the group of people that has had it the worst

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        but if you ask them it's always someone else's fault

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      *Ukrainians

  43. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good show

  44. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a solid 3.6

  45. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's one of the greatest tv series ever made

  46. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Days is also alright

  47. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ah yes, a historical event recounted by HBO. What could possibly go wrong?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Were you expecting from a tv show?

  48. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    That part where the 3 dudes heroically volunteer for certain death to go into the radioactive water to shut off some valve is kinda ruined by the knowledge all of them IRL lived long lives with no radiation sickness at all

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was expecting someone to question if they actually did it or did they turn back and just say they made it all the way. They made it seem so important you cant just take some peasant who didnt want to die for others' word.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well there's no question they actually did it because if they hadn't, there would've been a huge steam pressure explosion

  49. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Chernobyl posting was a fun time.

  50. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Great show. It's fiction, but entertaining and well made fiction.

  51. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    great show, worth a rewatch. Rewatch as in skipping all the belarus woman part and the dog shooting part with the heroin addict actor.

  52. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It’s a great show. The one thing I did find funny was at the end when they reveal that everyone was based on a real person except for the scientist woman who was clearly shoehorned in out of need for a female character.

  53. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    absolutely not. cringe asf

  54. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm told it's no more kino than a chest x-ray.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      More kino that 800M chest x-rays shooting invisible bullets through your body for 10,000 years.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The idiots gave them the propaganda numbers!

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          RIP Joker. He was never going to work.

  55. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    watch pic related too

  56. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The best thing on TV in at least a decade. It’s a 5 episode horror movie. The Soviet Union is Jason.

  57. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's about how much communism sucks, 10/10.

  58. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Best miniseries of the century, up there with the greatest
    >b-but le womyn!
    Yeah you're a genetic dead end, we heard the first 300 times

  59. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Watch Chernobyl
    >Tell my friends
    >They tell me I'm delusional and I didn't see anything

    🙁

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's pretty good.

  60. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It should be "what is the cost of lying"

  61. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    ABSOLUTE FRICKING KINO

  62. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oppenheimer wishes it could approach this level of quality.

  63. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.

  64. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >a watch
    Many.

  65. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    not great not terrible, if you have developed enough taste you'll be progressively more disappointed as each episode introduces more and more worthless noise to the story
    had it not been a miniseries it'd have turned into capeshit quick

  66. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The first few episodes are undeniable kino. If only material like this was more common

  67. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    100% great kino

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