Chernobyl | Official Trailer for the HBO Miniseries (HBO's got another one)

[TheDarceKnight]

I watched the first episode twice, incredibly riveting, well acted and phenomenally shot. I needed this after the dissappointment of that OTHER HBO flagship drama.
My one quibble is that the British cast was speaking with their British accents and that was a little jarring at first, but I got over it.

Same. I’m used to it now. Listened to the show runner. He said he debated the issue a lot, and for a while considered having actors do Eastern European accents on the show. He said in his experience sometimes actors doing those accents struggle or sometimes end up performing the accent just as much as if not more than their character.

He said he wanted the characters to be as authentic to real life as possible, and ironically by having them just use their normal voices that it felt more natural and authentic. He may have even said they didn’t have the budget to have enough vocal coaching for the accents to be good enough. I don’t remember.

And He says same as you...that he thought viewers would be weirded out at first but would get over it quick.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Sounds like i need to catch this at some point

Yes! As a little kid in the 90's I was really fascinated with nuclear power (from the big towers on the Simpsons where Homer worked believe it or not) and had to do a small report on 3-Mile Island and Chernobyl. I knew accidents happened but some of the shyt on this show here is so crazy I was googling hard after the show to find out if it was true or not. It is. Reality is truly scarier than fiction. I made it over 30 years on this earth and had no clue how close we were to an earth-changing event of massive proportions. I had no idea but apparently we were a couple days away from half of Europe basically being uninhabitable for hundreds of years.

The first episode is as tense and scary as any horror movie I've ever seen.

Hope you like it!

Show is trash and boring

I can see how some might find it boring. In some ways it's procedural but I think it's fascinating and scary. If it's the type of show or topic that someone likes then they're gonna be all in on it.

 

[Jax]

The things that Nuclear professor woman said would happened scared the shyt out of me, Europe would be devastated if that shyt exploded.

 

[Robbo]

The things that Nuclear professor woman said would happened scared the shyt out of me, Europe would be devastated if that shyt exploded.

I remember a teacher i had when i was in elementary, it was around '89 or '90.. mentioned something about the world could have ended in a nuclear accident a few years ago. I was trippin out back then, but i've always been fascinated with Chernobyl once i finally learned about it.

This show is nailing the emotion of it all.

 

[Jax]

I remember a teacher i had when i was in elementary, it was around '89 or '90.. mentioned something about the world could have ended in a nuclear accident a few years ago. I was trippin out back then, but i've always been fascinated with Chernobyl once i finally learned about it.

This show is nailing the emotion of it all.

I know they built something to contain the radiation, now I wanna know how they got there and what they did to stop the "fire".
Those poor people with radiation,cancer and shyt and all the malformations on babies

 

[Monoblock]

Really great show so far. The acting is impeccable. Crazy how that shyt happened. When that helicopter flew straight into the smoke over the core I was yelling at the TV like

Did no one not know how nuclear radiation works? Everyone was more worried about not delivering bad news to Gorbechav and the higher ups and bureaucracy than the 50K people who were getting hit with radiation poisoning.
I'm telling my age a little bit but I remember (I was very young) when The Challenger Exploded and this shyt happened in 86.

 

[Jax]

Really great show so far. The acting is impeccable. Crazy how that shyt happened. When that helicopter flew straight into the smoke over the core I was yelling at the TV like

Did no one not know how nuclear radiation works? Everyone was more worried about not delivering bad news to Gorbechav and the higher ups and bureaucracy than the 50K people who were getting hit with radiation poisoning.
I'm telling my age a little bit but I remember (I was very young) when The Challenger Exploded and this shyt happened in 86.

I think some workers on the plant knew but didn't even imagined the core was exposed like that.

 

[Monoblock]

I think some workers on the plant knew but didn't even imagined the core was exposed like that.

Yea they couldn't believe it exploded. The scene where it explodes in the background and the chic walks across her living room and the boom rocks her building.... These Russians some scumbags though man and just wanted to keep the illusion of power on the world stage and avoid embarrassment they cut off the town and wouldnt let anyone leave.

 

[Urbanmiracle]

Just re watched episode one. I didn’t appreciate the cinematography. What’s great is that they didn’t waste time to lead up the explosion. The whole series is about the aftermath of said explosion. Just beautiful work from the directors and actors.

That whole scene where the wife is going from the kitchen to the bedroom and you see into the distance. Wow..

 

[Urbanmiracle]

Sorry to double post but I dunno what’s more dangerous: the actual radiation or the fact that the soviets depicted here were soo in denial about the core exploding and possibly dooming us all. I was fukking 1 and half when this happened (1984) and I could have been growing up in a mad max dystopian nuclear winter over blind faith in a failing ideology.

Christ on toast

 

[Regular_P]

Imagine being presented with hard evidence that the reactor blew and still rallying around the lie in the name of the party. 5 minutes later dude is blowing chunks on the table. Communism is a bytch man.

Growing up in Zimbabwe this film exposes very well how cold war era communist institutions were run, everything is about the party and admitting failure is a sign of weakness. Everything is about protecting the image of the party and people. The engineer dude who kept on telling people that they did not see what they saw with their own eyes is a case in point.

Sadly in democracies such as this it happens to. Al parties care about is looking good to pander votes. So they will cover up whatever they have to to protect the party's good name. When they fukk up they find one fall guy to blame it on so they can distance themselves and the party from him.

Sound familiar? I'd think the difference is when you just have one overwhelmingly powerful party and no alternative. Anyways'm no expert. I know I could be wrong.

Was gonna say this^^^ in response to the first two posts. Just look at how Republicans in this country behave in regards to climate change, income inequality, health care, etc. This show makes me angry because I could see this exact same scenario and response happening here right now.

 

[Llcoolbay]

I would've forced the head engineer to come with me if he was still going to deny shyt wasnt serious in the first episode.

Mans came back with his face red as fukk puking his guts out and dude still insisted they needed to go back and pump the water

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Yea they couldn't believe it exploded. The scene where it explodes in the background and the chic walks across her living room and the boom rocks her building.... These Russians some scumbags though man and just wanted to keep the illusion of power on the world stage and avoid embarrassment they cut off the town and wouldnt let anyone leave.

I actually read an article about how the civilians leaving made things worse because they carried the nuclear fallout with them when they evacuated and spread it even more

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

That ending :guccihubie:
shyt was fire.

One of the best endings to an episode I've seen.

 

[KalKal]

I would've forced the head engineer to come with me if he was still going to deny shyt wasnt serious in the first episode.

Mans came back with his face red as fukk puking his guts our and dude still insisted they needed to go back and pump the water

The whole time I'm thinking "he doesn't deserve to get away with not having to go back in himself".