Chernobyl... anyone watching?

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:23 AM

Truly amazing mini series. 5 episodes. The production design is remarkable, music brilliant, acting... etc etc etc.
The story of the ultimate price of state sponsored lies.

Highly recommend.

https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl

"Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries co-production from HBO and Sky, dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and of the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

Premiering May 6, and followed by subsequent episodes each Monday, Chernobyl stars Emmy-nominee Jared Harris (The Crown, Mad Men), Stellan Skarsgård (Melancholia, Good Will Hunting) and Oscar-nominee Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie, Breaking the Waves).

Chernobyl is written and executive produced by Craig Mazin (The Huntsman: Winter’s War) and directed by Johan Renck (Breaking Bad). Produced by Sister Pictures and The Mighty Mint as an HBO/Sky co-production, Emmy-winner Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones) and Jane Featherstone (Broadchurch) serve as executive producers while Johan Renck and Chris Fry (Humans) co-executive produce. Sanne Wohlenberg (Black Mirror) also produces.
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union suffered a massive explosion that released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe.
Jared Harris portrays Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet nuclear physicist. As part of the response team, he was one of the first to grasp the scope of the unparalleled disaster that occurred. Stellan Skarsgård plays Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina, who is assigned by the Kremlin to lead the government commission on Chernobyl in the hours immediately following the accident. Emily Watson portrays Ulana Khomyuk, a Soviet nuclear physicist committed to solving the mystery of what led to the Chernobyl disaster.

Writer, creator and executive producer Craig Mazin began researching the Chernobyl disaster in 2014, using a wide variety of materials, including several books, government reports from inside and outside of the Soviet Union and first-person accounts. He spoke to nuclear scientists to learn how a reactor works and interviewed former Soviet citizens to gain a better sense of the culture in 1986.

Chernobyl was filmed on location in Lithuania and Ukraine, with a creative team including director of photography Jakob Ihre (Thelma); production designer Luke Hull (Howards End); editors Jinx Godfrey (The Theory of Everything) and Simon Smith (Endeavor); costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Brooklyn); two-time Emmy-winners Nina Gold and Robert Sterne as casting directors (Game of Thrones); and composer Hildur Gudnadóttir (Trapped)."

Also on Hulu and Amazon Prime.

SECOND

Thursday, June 6, 2019 4:16 AM

Stephen King @StephenKing

It's impossible to watch HBO's CHERNOBYL without thinking of Donald Trump; like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he's a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power--economic, global--that he does not understand.
8:11 AM - May 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1134084923915145218

The craft behind “Chernobyl” is transporting — the dialogue, the visuals, the acting, the music. It excels as a horror movie, action film, political thriller, documentary, and fable. You hardly notice the show’s gutting message up to the finale, which is like a dagger you don’t sense until it pierces your heart and you gasp. But the creator and writer of the show, Craig Mazin, has been, like his central character, explicit in saying what it means. “We are now living in a global war on the truth,” Mazin told the Los Angeles Times. “We look at this president who lies, not little ones but outstandingly absurd lies. The truth isn’t even in the conversation. It’s just forgotten or obscured to the point where we can’t see it. That’s what Chernobyl is about.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/05/what-the-horror-of-chernobyl-revea
ls-about-the-deceit-of-the-trump-era/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:02 AM

Oh shit. I'm going to have to give it a go.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:12 AM

Nope.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Thursday, June 6, 2019 9:23 AM

NAH. It doesn't have enuf people of color.

*****

Do you want to see a really GOOD show on Chernobyl? Try National Geographic's 2014 documentary.

Another really good show which explains, moment-by-moment, how the disaster happened is "Seconds from Disaster"
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ev0kf or here

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JO753

Thursday, June 6, 2019 9:54 AM

Soundz good. I'll see it wen its available at the library.

Made a KoMIK based on it:

http://www.nqalf.com/CeRNOBL.html

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SIGNYM

Thursday, June 6, 2019 9:56 AM

Here's a better version of the Discovery Channel show. It goes into the history of the critical people in charge at the reactor and how their minute-by-minute decisions, poor communication between the reactor controllers and the feedwater people, led to catastrophe.

I like it because even tho its not fictionalized, I felt dread and horror knowing what was about to happen.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, June 6, 2019 6:02 PM

I watched 2 eps and I think its the best show on tv at the moment and the best series for a long while

the show is fantastic

The history is hard, morbid and brutal science stuff is fine because they break it down like a Discovery Nat geo show where they try expalin stuff like you expalin to a child, if you throw technical stuff at people watching they might not get it but you see it from the view of different cast / characters who slowly see what is energy power, they learn what is fission and radioactive decay, what kind of damage can be done to an animal or the human body, what is radiation, you learn all these things as the people on the ground might have been suddenly forced to learn about the disaster around them.

While it is bleak it could also make you think....Are we going to evolve or are we doomed. Why when we listen with our radio telescope why is there nothing out there in the stars, no alien life in the universe? Or is there a higher life but it no longer will talk to us as an 'intelligent' civilistaion? Is it the nature intelligence to be corrupted is it a destiny of civilistaions to invent things that eventually destory themselves, are we always going to lie and cover up? They who do this science say we can also collect almost limitless 'free energy' from the Sun and the Winds. So Why the Nuclear push and Is Nuclear power the answer to an 'Energy Crisis' is mankind ever going to make Nuclear 'Safe'?

I think this show is top level, its respecful, dramatic and truthful although it does have moments of hollywood tv drama it is also real and historical, it shows the idiocy, the corrupt nature of people and of Russian communist bureaucracy. The acting is top, the writing very well done, to score weird creepy soundtrack and the music and camera work complements the entire story. More scary than most horror because this story is based on reality the creeping dread atmosphere unfolding.

There is a real genuine feel to the series despite its drama, people might see Left or Trump or whatever in it but I don't really see any left vs right stage show politics. I see a government corrupt during a massive crisis that would wreck the town, the cities, destory lives of people and change the lands, although on the idea of left and right I do agree the socialist leftist USSR system was a terrible political system. Some talk about accidents and disasters like Three Mile Island, the Oil Spills, Fukushima but this historical Chernobyl still ranks as the world's worst man-made catastrophes, maybe its a lesson about cover ups the corrupt secrecy surrounding the disaster, great actors, great writing, great film work.

a great show

SECOND

Thursday, June 6, 2019 6:46 PM

The New Safe Confinement encloses the reactor and related debris for at least a century
http://bit.ly/CBechtel120

Within months of the 1986 disaster, Soviet crews contained the radioactive wreckage inside a temporary shelter, a 21-story-tall "sarcophagus." There were many gaps, and most of the sarcophagus wasn't secured to the underlying structure, leaving the enclosure vulnerable to leaking rainwater, settling, and earthquakes.

In the latter part of the 1990s, after we helped with a short-term fix to stabilize the sarcophagus, a Bechtel-led team designed what's known as the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure, the heart of a broader, longer-term Shelter Implementation Plan.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, June 6, 2019 6:56 PM

And AOC believes we can create tubes under the ocean for trains to travel internationally.

Good luck with the earthquakes, water pressure... Cthulhu.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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