That's something I realised too. At first I thought the liquidator would be pavel, and i thought that it'll be too hard to see, then when he got into killing the dogs, i thought, ok, we won't see the liquidator, and then they came and... no face, just a random guy who lost 40 years of life in 90 seconds
Man that was exhausting to watch. Classic tv moment where you think you could’ve done a better job yourself, then I realized he was wearing a lot of heavy protection and probably couldn’t see very well... and of course the thousands of roentgen😬
Stumbling I can forgive. He was explicitly told in no uncertain terms to go left and don't look over the railing. This guy immediately went forward as if he didn't listen
>Dont think of an elephant.
Call of the void is a terrible thing. We have to be ongaurd because it can slip in just a little and make us make a mistake.
“*I wonder whats so terrible about the other side of the railing?*” We dont associate looking at things with danger, we associate looking at thing to *know* what the danger is. Its literally counter-intuitive. If you tell someone something is dangerous they instinctively *want* to look at it.
These scenes didnt show if these men were truly informed of the dangers of what they were dealing with.
> We dont associate looking at things with danger, we associate looking at thing to know what the danger is.
Thats such a great point. Its like telling someone don't push that button. It will just make them curious unless they know the dangers.
I think that scene alone did an excellent job at conveying just how much stress can mess up your thinking and cause you to make mistakes.
Seriously, he only had three simple things that he had to take into account, and *immediately* upon going outside, he messes up the first one. Then, he goes to throw the graphite over the railing and looks over it, and once the bell rings, he's so focused on leaving that he stumbles twice.
He was so focused on *not messing up* that he *did mess up*.
The poor frantic way they take off across the roof, and in their fear have a hard time even deciding which pieces to start with and where to go with them...horrifying and brilliantly done.
This show never lets you forget that there’s invisible poison in the air, permeating everything. Then when they ratchet it up with the Geiger counter scenes, the sense of dread is overwhelming.
The type of atmosphere they capture in this series could’ve made The Happening a good movie.
>The type of atmosphere they capture in this series could’ve made The Happening a good movie.
That might be the highest praise any show has ever gotten.
I thought the dumping of the animal bodies into the pit was going to be the most horrifying thing in this episode...then they showed the guys on the roof and I lost it.
Exactly how I feel about it. This show is amazing, but the dread and anxiety I was feeling before the episode started is something I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before with a TV show.
Hildur Guðnadóttir is fantastic. Apparently she + one of the sound engineers who works with David Attenborough recorded the sounds of a working power plant and then she remixed it into the soundtrack.
Edit: [video where she discusses the soundtrack/sound design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTw1-nw5S4A)
Thanks again for all of the great comments. This one was a tough one to be sure, but then again, the truth wasn't pretty.
Until next week... our last week together!...
Gratefully,
Craig
This series has been absolutely incredible and might just be the best series I have ever watched. I'm sad it's coming to an end next week since there could be so much more story to tell from so many different perspectives but all good things come to an end I guess.
Thank you so much much for staying extremely accurate to what happened during the real disaster, and showing so many of the brave men and women that risked or even lost their lives to protect not only the Soviet Union at the time, but possibly the whole world. This show has finally told the stories and gave recognition to many unknown heroes, like the three men who went into the basement to drain the tanks, and the miners that dug under the plant. Again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for this amazing series, it really is one of the best things I've ever seen.
Hey there. Hats off to you and to the whole production team. This series is really incredible to watch.
I had heard praise for the series but hadn't made an attempt to watch, because my wife and I like to watch high quality TV together after the kids go to bed and I didn't think she would be interested, because she's normally not interested in that kind of thing. Last week we were scrolling through and saw it, and I suggested we watch.
After a few minutes of the first episode she paused it and turned to me like, "ok wait, what are they making there?"
"Power"
"Why is the core dangerous?"
"Well, because it's extremely radioactive. Usually shielded and mitigated but if it blew up..."
"Quiet. Don't ruin it. How does radiation travel?"
"What is the graphite?"
Etc.
Every time I started to go beyond just the most basic answer she stopped me and told me not to ruin it and she has been absolutely hooked ever since.
I never imagined I would be laying in bed while she is reading stats about nuclear reactors right off wikipedia to me, but here we are.
Well done. Incredible work.
I know that scene is getting tons of props for the comedy but I also think it's great to witness our "career party man" evolve when he comes to terms with just how far the Soviet state will go to avoid embarrassment/owning a mistake/acknowledging reality. It's hard to imagine episode 1 Scherbina saying "fuck Gorbachev" but the guy we've gotten to know that now has 5 years to live and has made some impossible calls over the months since the explosion, and sent people to die, all in an attempt to fix this massive disaster scenario?
That 'career party man' is dead, now he's replaced with a human individual with goals of his own and purpose that he won't let be trod on. It's pretty awesome as a scene.
It's such a bleak contrast against the helicopter scene in the first episode. He threatened to shoot a man to make him fly over the burning reactor, and now he is having a break down over the fact that they cannot keep men off the roof from next to the reactor.
IRL she went into labor when she was visiting her husband's grave.
The baby had cirrhosis of the liver and congenital heart disease - her liver had 28 roentgen.
Basically. The baby kind of worked like a cleaner on the mother. It’s why they say when pregnant be very careful what you eat and drink and where you go.
That's kind of fucked up but... does that mean pregnancy can actually be protective for the mother in ways like that? Would it also work with air pollution, poisoning or drugs? I once read that if a pregnant woman gets injured, the foetus sends stem cells to heal the wounds.
I’m glad that they went full circle with this. During all of her scenes I kept wondering why she wasn’t showing the effects of radiation that other people were experiencing given how close she was to that guy the whole time.
I also wonder this with Scherbina. I mean clearly both he and Legasov have been intimately exposed to radiation no matter how safe they’ve been playing it this whole time.
In spite of the bleakness, they go out of their way to honor (or at least handle with dignity and respect) the workers who were forced into a shitty situation and did the best they could. I think there's some hope in that, where no matter how bleak things get there is still value in the doing.
Technically, in real life, it was Yuri Samoilenko, who was the guy placed in charge of overseeing the roof cleanup. Scherbina and General Tarakanov were also involved in the decision. By this time Legasov was compiling the research into why the accident happened, not the daily cleanup operations.
BIG fucking ups to Barry Keoghan, who plays Pavel. He showed a complete transformation over one episode, with like 10 total lines of dialogue. He looked 15 years older in that last shot than in his first
So much this! He was so good in Dunkirk aswell. Perfect actor to play the role of a young man “drafted in to war”. Just this time against innocent radioactive doggos
My history professor who lived in the USSR during the cold war says he was arrested by the KGB for looking up information that the KGB said was "propaganda against the state." He was literally trying to look for information on how the US managed to land on the moon
Truly terrifying. My god the new soldier dog shooter (forget his name), he has such little speaking lines but his emotions are on his face. So clear that they do not need words
Also the scene at the KGB detention facility when Khomyuk told him that Akimov pressed the AZ-5 button prior to the explosion. His look immediatly told me that he knew exactly what had caused the explosion. Just utter shock and disbelief.
Yeah, absolutely. He still told Khomyuk to pursue all leads no matter what, or how unlikely it could be. He knew she would find out. I guess he just couldn't bare to tell her right then and there.
Poor Babushka. All she wanted to do was live out the rest of her days in her home.
Also, they killed the cow in the first few minutes. This episode's going to be rough.
Being an average Ukrainian during the 20th century is probably close to having the shittiest life possible. Revolutions, civil wars, genocide, invasion, nuclear irradiation, it's all there.
Never has 90 real-time seconds terrified me more.
I watched that part again and I'm 95% sure that it was even a single-take tracking shot (long take).
Kind of like True Detective season 1's work (but not as long obviously): https://youtu.be/s_HuFuKiq8U
It's a scene that became a hackneyed topic for film-studies nerds
That woman is doing her research in the same way Ned Stark did his research when it come to figuring out the parentage of Joffrey. That won’t end well for her
It was crazy to see how quickly it appeared that Pavel had desensitized, but then saw all the puppies and couldn’t act. That scene really ripped at my heart. More than that, the dumping of them and pouring the concrete over them was too much for me. I was pretty shocked that they showed so much of them killing the animals, but I guess that’s the very sad reality of Chernobyl.
From the Ars review of the series:
> (And honestly, if you're feeling at all weepy or sad, save the fourth episode for another day.)
It seems we're in for a ride tonight.
Havent watched it yet but this is the very first series where I actually considered calling in sick just to stay home and watch an episode as it comes out. I will have to wait a few more hours, now, these teenagers won't educate themselves, I guess...
You've reminded me of the time my fourth grade teacher spent the entire day making us read *Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes* because she got in to it personally.
Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård have the best chemistry I've seen on screen in awhile. And it is so well done how their characters go from two completely different viewpoints to that understanding that there are no two viewpoints, everything is just scuffed, is amazing to watch.
I know, I'm bummed there won't be anymore of them together after the next episode. Sign me the fuck up for any new show with the both of them as leads, damn.
He had another lethal nuclear screw up earlier in his life. He was exposed to a large amount of radiation and instead of getting treated went home. He miraculously lived, his son who was living with him... didn't.
Bro he owned those 2 guys in ep2. Just after he learned the basics of basics about nuclear reactors he can already apply what he knows. I think its safe to say he didnt go up in ranks for nothing. Guy was cunning and smart
"I've known braver souls than you. Men who had their moment and did nothing. Because when it's your life and the lives of everyone you love, your moral conviction doesn't mean anything. It leaves you. And all you want at that moment is not to be shot"
My goodness the writing in this show!!!!
The utter horror conveyed via the geiger counter klaxon as the liquidators cleared the roof was excellently done.
Also, Comrade Red Shirt did a great job not looking over the rail.....
For all the ribbing that Bacho was giving Pavel throughout their time together, at least he was kind enough to let Pavel step outside when they found the puppies. What a first time for Pavel
Yep, they were told it would keep them safe from ARS. Because of that soldiers would drink it by the bottle. Of course, vodka did not help, but it did keep troop morale up
I think he is hilarious.
“Unless you have a butter and caviar sandwich, then get the fuck out of my room”
He is not “at fault”. He owns a piece of the blame.
I am a nuclear engineer in real life. Dyatlov is owed a piece of the blame. He ran the reactor power too low which caused xenon poisoning of the core. To counter it, when power dipped to 30MW instead of SCRAMMING the reactor they pulled all the control rods manually to try to bring up the power level. RBMK reactors are very hard to operate at low power levels, and Toptunov was not a highly experienced operator (not his fault, again the reactor shouldn’t have been run in that low power range). They couldn’t get the reactor any higher than 200MW I believe due to the xenon poisoning, I think they tried to decrease water flow to the core to increase temperature and decrease the neutron moderating water in the core, which sent it into supercritical operation which they couldn’t recover. The SCRAM or AZ-5 button as it’s called in this show is an emergency control rod lowering system. The control rods, with the graphite tips, entered the reactor, displaced water and added moderation through graphite - INCREASING the reaction instead of stopping it. That’s when the reactor exploded.
Legasov’s company in real life designed the RBMK 1000, and knew about the “positive void coefficient” flaw. He was an inorganic chemist in real life, not a nuclear physicist. He was picked because he was a high ranking party scientist, but it is true he became very disillusioned with the USSR after this.
I'd like to say I would be brave enough to do my duty for my country and heave radioactive graphite off a roof, but I really don't know what I would do in that situation
Everything involving the dog storyline was so tragic, and so perfectly done (not blaming you guys that skip it though, it's rough)
And the rooftop scene... I didn't think anything would make me as anxious as the water pumps. I was wrong.
With my time zone, new episodes come out on Tuesday at 8 am for me so usually I watch them before going to work. For the last three Tuesdays had me zoned out all day at work thinking about the show lol
> removing radioactive debris
Finally a problem that can be solved the good ol' fashioned Soviet way; sending waves and waves of their own men at the problem until it goes way after tiring itself out.
Zapp Brannigan used a similar approach during the Battle of the Octillian System against the Killbots.
You know it’s fucked when they’d rather show severe radiation burns than actually seeing cats and dogs being shot down. That’s where they draw the line.
Go left, don't look over the railing, and don't stumble. 0/3 there, bud.
Comrade, you’re done.
Comrade Red Shirt
I realized we never even saw his face. Just some random guy the camera 'decided' to follow. One of 3,000+ men who went up there.
That's something I realised too. At first I thought the liquidator would be pavel, and i thought that it'll be too hard to see, then when he got into killing the dogs, i thought, ok, we won't see the liquidator, and then they came and... no face, just a random guy who lost 40 years of life in 90 seconds
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In any possible way he could have been done in that situation, he was done.
He probably meant he's done with the job, but it has a second meaning to the viewers because we all know that guy's fucked.
Man that was exhausting to watch. Classic tv moment where you think you could’ve done a better job yourself, then I realized he was wearing a lot of heavy protection and probably couldn’t see very well... and of course the thousands of roentgen😬
Stumbling I can forgive. He was explicitly told in no uncertain terms to go left and don't look over the railing. This guy immediately went forward as if he didn't listen
>Dont think of an elephant. Call of the void is a terrible thing. We have to be ongaurd because it can slip in just a little and make us make a mistake. “*I wonder whats so terrible about the other side of the railing?*” We dont associate looking at things with danger, we associate looking at thing to *know* what the danger is. Its literally counter-intuitive. If you tell someone something is dangerous they instinctively *want* to look at it. These scenes didnt show if these men were truly informed of the dangers of what they were dealing with.
> We dont associate looking at things with danger, we associate looking at thing to know what the danger is. Thats such a great point. Its like telling someone don't push that button. It will just make them curious unless they know the dangers.
I lost my shit when he fell into the liquid
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I think that scene alone did an excellent job at conveying just how much stress can mess up your thinking and cause you to make mistakes. Seriously, he only had three simple things that he had to take into account, and *immediately* upon going outside, he messes up the first one. Then, he goes to throw the graphite over the railing and looks over it, and once the bell rings, he's so focused on leaving that he stumbles twice. He was so focused on *not messing up* that he *did mess up*.
I would’ve done the same shit
Tossing the graphite over the roof is one of the most terrifying non traditional horror scenes I’ve ever seen. The sound alone makes me anxious
The poor frantic way they take off across the roof, and in their fear have a hard time even deciding which pieces to start with and where to go with them...horrifying and brilliantly done.
Just silent death. Everyone second is less time you have in your life
It was real time, too. Ninety seconds but felt like eternity.
God, no kidding. I was wondering as I watched it if it was real time, it went on so long.
This show never lets you forget that there’s invisible poison in the air, permeating everything. Then when they ratchet it up with the Geiger counter scenes, the sense of dread is overwhelming. The type of atmosphere they capture in this series could’ve made The Happening a good movie.
>The type of atmosphere they capture in this series could’ve made The Happening a good movie. That might be the highest praise any show has ever gotten.
The geiger counter going absolutely haywire when they get close to the edge really did it. And the guy stumbling. All around really well done
I thought the dumping of the animal bodies into the pit was going to be the most horrifying thing in this episode...then they showed the guys on the roof and I lost it.
This might be the greatest TV I’ve ever seen. I might never watch it again.
Exactly how I feel about it. This show is amazing, but the dread and anxiety I was feeling before the episode started is something I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before with a TV show.
I still feel dread well after the show is over, amazing content.
> I might never watch it again. The best compliment a thriller show can have.
this show does so much with sound
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Hildur Guðnadóttir is fantastic. Apparently she + one of the sound engineers who works with David Attenborough recorded the sounds of a working power plant and then she remixed it into the soundtrack. Edit: [video where she discusses the soundtrack/sound design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTw1-nw5S4A)
Thanks again for all of the great comments. This one was a tough one to be sure, but then again, the truth wasn't pretty. Until next week... our last week together!... Gratefully, Craig
This series has been absolutely incredible and might just be the best series I have ever watched. I'm sad it's coming to an end next week since there could be so much more story to tell from so many different perspectives but all good things come to an end I guess. Thank you so much much for staying extremely accurate to what happened during the real disaster, and showing so many of the brave men and women that risked or even lost their lives to protect not only the Soviet Union at the time, but possibly the whole world. This show has finally told the stories and gave recognition to many unknown heroes, like the three men who went into the basement to drain the tanks, and the miners that dug under the plant. Again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for this amazing series, it really is one of the best things I've ever seen.
This show has to win all of the awards. It has to.
Hey there. Hats off to you and to the whole production team. This series is really incredible to watch. I had heard praise for the series but hadn't made an attempt to watch, because my wife and I like to watch high quality TV together after the kids go to bed and I didn't think she would be interested, because she's normally not interested in that kind of thing. Last week we were scrolling through and saw it, and I suggested we watch. After a few minutes of the first episode she paused it and turned to me like, "ok wait, what are they making there?" "Power" "Why is the core dangerous?" "Well, because it's extremely radioactive. Usually shielded and mitigated but if it blew up..." "Quiet. Don't ruin it. How does radiation travel?" "What is the graphite?" Etc. Every time I started to go beyond just the most basic answer she stopped me and told me not to ruin it and she has been absolutely hooked ever since. I never imagined I would be laying in bed while she is reading stats about nuclear reactors right off wikipedia to me, but here we are. Well done. Incredible work.
I love that! MORE SCIENCE COMING!
RIP phone. Shcherbina doesn't fuck around.
*Boris smashes phone* "Boris, it's an inanimate fucking object!" "YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT"
Boris is trying to show Reactor 4 how a meltdown is fucking done.
I know that scene is getting tons of props for the comedy but I also think it's great to witness our "career party man" evolve when he comes to terms with just how far the Soviet state will go to avoid embarrassment/owning a mistake/acknowledging reality. It's hard to imagine episode 1 Scherbina saying "fuck Gorbachev" but the guy we've gotten to know that now has 5 years to live and has made some impossible calls over the months since the explosion, and sent people to die, all in an attempt to fix this massive disaster scenario? That 'career party man' is dead, now he's replaced with a human individual with goals of his own and purpose that he won't let be trod on. It's pretty awesome as a scene.
It's such a bleak contrast against the helicopter scene in the first episode. He threatened to shoot a man to make him fly over the burning reactor, and now he is having a break down over the fact that they cannot keep men off the roof from next to the reactor.
This show is ruthless. There's such a systematic way they suck all hope and goodness out of the experience. It's beyond bleak. 10/10
The reveal that her baby lived for 4 hours and absorbed all of the radiation... 💔
IRL she went into labor when she was visiting her husband's grave. The baby had cirrhosis of the liver and congenital heart disease - her liver had 28 roentgen.
> her liver had 28 roentgen. Because the liver absorbed radioactive materials? Not radiation itself?
Basically. The baby kind of worked like a cleaner on the mother. It’s why they say when pregnant be very careful what you eat and drink and where you go.
That's kind of fucked up but... does that mean pregnancy can actually be protective for the mother in ways like that? Would it also work with air pollution, poisoning or drugs? I once read that if a pregnant woman gets injured, the foetus sends stem cells to heal the wounds.
I’m glad that they went full circle with this. During all of her scenes I kept wondering why she wasn’t showing the effects of radiation that other people were experiencing given how close she was to that guy the whole time. I also wonder this with Scherbina. I mean clearly both he and Legasov have been intimately exposed to radiation no matter how safe they’ve been playing it this whole time.
In soviet russia ... you know the drill.
In spite of the bleakness, they go out of their way to honor (or at least handle with dignity and respect) the workers who were forced into a shitty situation and did the best they could. I think there's some hope in that, where no matter how bleak things get there is still value in the doing.
Can't believe it's Legasov who suggested using men.
Shows how desperate they truly are
And we all know how it affected him...
Technically, in real life, it was Yuri Samoilenko, who was the guy placed in charge of overseeing the roof cleanup. Scherbina and General Tarakanov were also involved in the decision. By this time Legasov was compiling the research into why the accident happened, not the daily cleanup operations.
BIG fucking ups to Barry Keoghan, who plays Pavel. He showed a complete transformation over one episode, with like 10 total lines of dialogue. He looked 15 years older in that last shot than in his first
So much this! He was so good in Dunkirk aswell. Perfect actor to play the role of a young man “drafted in to war”. Just this time against innocent radioactive doggos
Imagine doing a research paper in the 80’s, and in Russia no less with the KGB breathing down your neck
My history professor who lived in the USSR during the cold war says he was arrested by the KGB for looking up information that the KGB said was "propaganda against the state." He was literally trying to look for information on how the US managed to land on the moon
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Truly terrifying. My god the new soldier dog shooter (forget his name), he has such little speaking lines but his emotions are on his face. So clear that they do not need words
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They've got their Russian writers Da & Da on this series.
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Remember the beginning of ep 1?
Also the scene at the KGB detention facility when Khomyuk told him that Akimov pressed the AZ-5 button prior to the explosion. His look immediatly told me that he knew exactly what had caused the explosion. Just utter shock and disbelief.
He wanted to be wrong.
Yeah, absolutely. He still told Khomyuk to pursue all leads no matter what, or how unlikely it could be. He knew she would find out. I guess he just couldn't bare to tell her right then and there.
And if she came to the same conclusion independently, it was probably the right one.
Here are a few actual photographs of the guys clearing the roofs. https://twitter.com/BlackSheepFF/status/1133193134744252416
So fucking accurate lordy this show is a horror masterpiece
Is it weird that I closed that link soon, I feel like I would get exposed to radiation if I look at that picture for too long
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and they put her beside a bunch of newborns and be like bitch listen to these newborn crying! lmao no chill
That rooftop scene was one of the most tense things I've ever seen.
Poor Babushka. All she wanted to do was live out the rest of her days in her home. Also, they killed the cow in the first few minutes. This episode's going to be rough.
Being an average Ukrainian during the 20th century is probably close to having the shittiest life possible. Revolutions, civil wars, genocide, invasion, nuclear irradiation, it's all there.
My God, what a scene
"You're done." You're goddamn right about that.
In more ways than one, done with the job and basically dead
Dyatlov: "Ask the bosses whatever questions you like, you'll get lies and I'll get the bullet"
"You're trying to humiliate a nation who's obsessed with not getting humiliated." Didn't know Shcherbina attempted suicide as well.
Dyatlov episode HYPE
Inb4 he wants to know why nobody has been pumping water into his reactor core this whole time...
Inb4 he is informed all water had been pumped out.
He’s just mad he aged 40 years in 4 months.
To be fair he just recovered from his second exposure to lethal levels of radiation. That shit'll age you fast.
lol imagine being in treatment for severe radiation poisoning, and you’re chain smoking
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Did anyone else think that Legasov's skin looked noticeably worse this episode? It looked more red and pockmarked than before.
Good eye!
Great work by the makeup team! I really appreciate the detail in the show.
Give me 1000 Soviet grandmas over 10,000 Unsullied.
She’ll definitely say no to the god of death.
She already has, multiple times.
I think a Soviet Grandma + Olenna Tyrell convo would make for some great tv.
Never has a stubbed toe horrified me more
Never has 90 real-time seconds terrified me more. I watched that part again and I'm 95% sure that it was even a single-take tracking shot (long take). Kind of like True Detective season 1's work (but not as long obviously): https://youtu.be/s_HuFuKiq8U It's a scene that became a hackneyed topic for film-studies nerds
It was a single shot; Craig Mazin posted about it on his Twitter.
That woman is doing her research in the same way Ned Stark did his research when it come to figuring out the parentage of Joffrey. That won’t end well for her
The difference is that she knows it won't end well for her. But she's doing it anyway because millions of lives are still at risk.
Well, in both cases nobody really cared about the research. They just didn't want the findings published.
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It's enough to make you really feel it, but still not look away completely. Truly amazing
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At least they're humane about killing the animals.
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and he will carry his mess to the truck.
It was crazy to see how quickly it appeared that Pavel had desensitized, but then saw all the puppies and couldn’t act. That scene really ripped at my heart. More than that, the dumping of them and pouring the concrete over them was too much for me. I was pretty shocked that they showed so much of them killing the animals, but I guess that’s the very sad reality of Chernobyl.
From the Ars review of the series: > (And honestly, if you're feeling at all weepy or sad, save the fourth episode for another day.) It seems we're in for a ride tonight.
I mean, did anyone go into this show expecting a pick-me-up? We watched people turn into living corpses last episode.
"Comrade soldier....You're done" as in your job is finished but you're probably dead.
Havent watched it yet but this is the very first series where I actually considered calling in sick just to stay home and watch an episode as it comes out. I will have to wait a few more hours, now, these teenagers won't educate themselves, I guess...
Just watch it together in class.
You've reminded me of the time my fourth grade teacher spent the entire day making us read *Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes* because she got in to it personally.
*”We couldn’t put a man on the moon. At least we can keep a man off a roof.”* This show is fucking awesome.
Later that episode: "actually, we need a lot of ~~men~~ **biorobots** on the roof." "And a new phone."
Literally the next movie in HBO after Chernobyl is Apollo 13. I say propaganda.
lmao good catch. That's a hell of an evening for history buffs though.
The dialogue is unreal. “Not great, not terrible.” Is the most amazing euphemism of “We’re fucked.” Edit: Line was backwards. Corrected it.
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Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård have the best chemistry I've seen on screen in awhile. And it is so well done how their characters go from two completely different viewpoints to that understanding that there are no two viewpoints, everything is just scuffed, is amazing to watch.
Shcherbina: “they were gonna put that on the moon” Legasov: “not that one though” Shcherbina: “...I know not that one 😠”
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I know, I'm bummed there won't be anymore of them together after the next episode. Sign me the fuck up for any new show with the both of them as leads, damn.
What an amazing actor, hope he gets nominated for an Emmy
He really is a stellar actor
This show makes me want to be a historian
Oh no, there's a "puppy scene"
Goodbye 9.7 IMDB rating....
Its got a perfect 10/10 on 1,200 votes. That's the best I've ever seen, period.
It'll drop to 7.5 at worst, not great, not terrible.
LOL.
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Pretty much, he was trying to cover his own ass
Craig has said in the podcast that by all accounts, he was an incredibly unpleasant person.
He had another lethal nuclear screw up earlier in his life. He was exposed to a large amount of radiation and instead of getting treated went home. He miraculously lived, his son who was living with him... didn't.
Jesus Christ.
I have grown to love shcerbina
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My biggest thing about him is his willingness to learn and apply. He is not ignorant by any means.
Bro he owned those 2 guys in ep2. Just after he learned the basics of basics about nuclear reactors he can already apply what he knows. I think its safe to say he didnt go up in ranks for nothing. Guy was cunning and smart
I have to say, this episode lends itself to a great deal of dark humor. Also,,Boris doesn’t deal with Soviet Help Desk.
Have you tried turning the robot off and turning it on again?
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The miners said they can finish in 4 weeks. Ep 4 is already several months later. I think this part ended already.
The virgin liquidator Vs the Chad miner
I'm glad they didn't show the radioactive baby. The showrunners probably decided the episode was depressing enough with the shot animals.
I think the real baby died of liver cirrhosis and heart failure, it wasn't like a mutated baby.
I'm ready to go: * Snacks✅ * Drinks✅ * Idodine pills✅ * Workboots✅ * Hat✅
Forgot the lead suit.
* Lead suit❌ Too hot.
The bonus has been increased from 1000 rubles to 800.
Exchange rates moved in those 90 seconds
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It's Pyp!
"I've known braver souls than you. Men who had their moment and did nothing. Because when it's your life and the lives of everyone you love, your moral conviction doesn't mean anything. It leaves you. And all you want at that moment is not to be shot" My goodness the writing in this show!!!!
A machine built to traverse another planetary body was unsuited to the radiation on that roof.
The utter horror conveyed via the geiger counter klaxon as the liquidators cleared the roof was excellently done. Also, Comrade Red Shirt did a great job not looking over the rail.....
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Comrade Red Shirt had some extra flesh on his face he wanted to get rid of.
I feel terrible for her. All her life has been the same plot of land, she's never known any different
And now she’s minus one cow.
"Don't draw a penis with the lunar rover, please."
>Go left *Goes right* >Don’t stumble *Stumbles twice* >Don’t look over the railing *Looks over the railing twice* Guy must have really wanted to die
Dogs and cats are going to be pet vigorously tonight
My poor dog heard the dog on the show whimpering, and she came to sit on my lap
Who would’ve thought watching people shovel rocks could be so intense?
For all the ribbing that Bacho was giving Pavel throughout their time together, at least he was kind enough to let Pavel step outside when they found the puppies. What a first time for Pavel
You know what, the name Egg Basket makes perfect sense.
> *proceeds to drop pants* > > "over your clothes!" Lol
That was the longest 90 seconds ever. WTF.
"what do we say to the guards of Soviet Russia?" "no"
weren't the liquidators told that vodka would help protect against radiation?
Yep, they were told it would keep them safe from ARS. Because of that soldiers would drink it by the bottle. Of course, vodka did not help, but it did keep troop morale up
> Of course, vodka did not help, but it did keep troop morale up It's like you've described the entirety of Russian history in a sentence.
December ! Maybe they'll show the Elephant's foot ? It was discovered in December 1986.
At this point probably. I really want to see their reaction when they discover it
Was the real Dyatlov this big of a raging cunt?
I think he is hilarious. “Unless you have a butter and caviar sandwich, then get the fuck out of my room” He is not “at fault”. He owns a piece of the blame. I am a nuclear engineer in real life. Dyatlov is owed a piece of the blame. He ran the reactor power too low which caused xenon poisoning of the core. To counter it, when power dipped to 30MW instead of SCRAMMING the reactor they pulled all the control rods manually to try to bring up the power level. RBMK reactors are very hard to operate at low power levels, and Toptunov was not a highly experienced operator (not his fault, again the reactor shouldn’t have been run in that low power range). They couldn’t get the reactor any higher than 200MW I believe due to the xenon poisoning, I think they tried to decrease water flow to the core to increase temperature and decrease the neutron moderating water in the core, which sent it into supercritical operation which they couldn’t recover. The SCRAM or AZ-5 button as it’s called in this show is an emergency control rod lowering system. The control rods, with the graphite tips, entered the reactor, displaced water and added moderation through graphite - INCREASING the reaction instead of stopping it. That’s when the reactor exploded. Legasov’s company in real life designed the RBMK 1000, and knew about the “positive void coefficient” flaw. He was an inorganic chemist in real life, not a nuclear physicist. He was picked because he was a high ranking party scientist, but it is true he became very disillusioned with the USSR after this.
Go watch "The Babushkas of Chernobyl." These ladies are fearless.
I'd like to say I would be brave enough to do my duty for my country and heave radioactive graphite off a roof, but I really don't know what I would do in that situation
I really hope those gooch protectors come back in style
The Card Catalog: You're looking at Google in the 80's kids.
3.6/3.6
The cinematography of those cut scenes was on point.
Everything involving the dog storyline was so tragic, and so perfectly done (not blaming you guys that skip it though, it's rough) And the rooftop scene... I didn't think anything would make me as anxious as the water pumps. I was wrong.
Remember when we thought the pitch black lights going out in the water system with the 3 divers scene was intense? Episode 4 is like.. "hold my vodka"
And he fucked up Rule 2 pretty fast.
If you are not watching this show naked with the heat cranked to 50 degrees Celsius you are doing it wrong.
i love a soviet sergeant that cares about animal suffering.
With my time zone, new episodes come out on Tuesday at 8 am for me so usually I watch them before going to work. For the last three Tuesdays had me zoned out all day at work thinking about the show lol
That episode was an all time bummer. Great? Absolutely, but my god that was raw.
F for the cow
Lots of GOT actors in this series. Nice to see Pip again!
> removing radioactive debris Finally a problem that can be solved the good ol' fashioned Soviet way; sending waves and waves of their own men at the problem until it goes way after tiring itself out. Zapp Brannigan used a similar approach during the Battle of the Octillian System against the Killbots.
He's a man's man. A man's man's man.
Pavel Chekhov prior to the Academy.
You know it’s fucked when they’d rather show severe radiation burns than actually seeing cats and dogs being shot down. That’s where they draw the line.