Just watched Chernobyl for the first time. What did I think of it?
Also exactly how much of it was bullshit? Did they do a good job with accuracy? I don't know anything about the real events.
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It was mostly accurate, although the plant managers weren't as evil as the show made out, at least not according to Serhii Plokhy book
The portrayal of what radiation is and how it works is flawed and incorrect, but the portrayal of the USSR and how it worked is spot on.
Except the minister of coal, who in real life was an actual ex-coal miner not some schluby suit man
>When handling a subject I'm knowledgeable in, the show many many errors, but I thought it was was perfect on all the topics about which I know nothing
>the portrayal of the USSR and how it worked is spot on
Not really. The show made it seem like people in the Soviet Union were still getting shot for fricking up in 1986 as if it was Stalin's time, lol.
It was accurate in terms of people screwing up and making do with absolute trash equipment so they could win awards and get promoted, inaccurate in suggesting everyone was one wrong move from a gulag. Also the show played up hostility towards the US, when in fact American cancer doctors were flown out in the aftermath of the disaster and by their own accounts were treated extremely well and worked with their Soviet counterparts to save lives.
Lol, no. The OP pic is a perfect example if it. In reality the minister of energy had worked in the coal mines since he was like 15 and was greatly respected by the coal miners rather than some petty stuck up in a suit.
Cherbobyl was not a real event. It's something ((they)) want you to think happened so you're afraid
I wish they had just made this show about some fictional nuclear disaster. Instead they made the show a mix of accurate stuff with good production values and acting, but ALSO completely inaccurate stuff and total fiction, so people who don't know better might get the wrong idea about the real events.
They turned the Dyatlov character into such an over-the-top butthole that they might as well have had him twirl his mustache. Absolutely ridiculous.
For once I agree with the New York Times:
>“Chernobyl,” a five-part mini-series starting Monday on HBO (in coproduction with the British network Sky), takes what you could call a Soviet approach to telling the tale. This is incongruous, since one of the messages of the program is that Soviet approaches don’t work. But there it is: the imposition of a simple narrative on history, the twisting of events to create one-dimensional heroes and villains, the broad-brush symbolism.
>Of course the techniques of Soviet propaganda bore a lot of similarity to the techniques of Hollywood. And in “Chernobyl,” the writer Craig Mazin (“The Hangover” Parts II and III) and the director Johan Renck take an event unlike any other in human history and turn it into a creaky and conventional, if longer than usual, disaster movie.
-https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/arts/television/review-chernobyl-hbo.html
There was a Hangover Part III?
I fricking hate russians.
its gr8 m8
>I'm feeling a strong 3.6 on this reactor
The set design, costumes, props etc. wonderfully capture the ugly but rugged material culture of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the power plant itself.
That's all I will say))
Made up bullshit for shock factor, made by dying empires.
What empires? Take your meds schizo
The miners never got naked and a sad fact is that the plant never got hot enough to melt the concrete that it would leak to the ground and into the ground water like they thought it would so the miners all got cancer for nothing.
The femoid scientist replaced an entire team of male scientists. I guess I'm just glad she wasn't black.
the bullet points are true but it's obviously exaggerated for some dramatic effect. it's not a documentary
It is a show about how it is important to tell the truth but ironically, it is mostly a bunch of bullshit that is loosely inspired by the real events of Chernobyl. It distorts the real events for the sake of drama and to get the theme across.
so you mean instead of a documentary they made entertainment? what bollocks
I just watched it as well. I liked it. I assumed a lot of it was fairly inaccurate for dramatic effect but it was a good show.
It is easy for armchair critics to b***h abut but getting accurate ionformation from commie regimes is very difficult. Some of the corrections were not known until the miniseries was aired and responded to.
HBO did a very good but imperfect job. Which is 5/5 for any movie/ TV show.
I mean, they made it seem like the Soviet Union in 1986 worked like the Stalinist Soviet Union. That is kind of like making a movie about the US in the year 1900 and showing black people enslaved.
Question for any knowledgeable anons... Was the stuff about the molten material potentially melting down and hitting a water tank underground and causing an explosion that would knacker the remaining 3 reactors and frick up the whole continent exaggerated or realistic?
Pic unrelated.
dyaltov: this man is clearly delusional. get him to the infirmary.
I really liked the scenes with the sweaty naked miners. Pretty awesome.
It was pretty realistic expect the female scientist was actually a team of like 60 men.
Not joking.
>"Go ahead, start bannin'. You don't have enough bans for all of us. It'll be three days before we start dickypostin' again."
The writer did a podcast where he talks about some of the differences from real life and why they’re there.
I liked the part where they scaled back the dog scene because in the story before they poured the concrete they heard one wimpering and went to shoot it again but they had run out of bullets and just had to drown it in concrete. I can't remember if he says they didn't do it because it was so over the top people would call bullshit or not but I imagine that's part of the reason they decided not to