steve said, about CHERNOBYL: This is truly horrific
notkristie responded: Please, expand upon that, steve!
I remember where I was when I heard about Chernobyl. I was curious about this, but know nothing. The trailer wasn't great, though.
What sucks? ----
Chernobyl is "horrific," in the sense that events -- 1986 explosion at a nuclear power plant in the then-USSR's Ukraine -- were tragic, terrifying, at first denied by leaders who then struggled to deal with the destruction and radiation cloud and its poisoning effects near and far.
The series (ep 5 of 5 runs Mon 3 Jun on HBO) is a joint US/UK production and it is a well-produced and well-acted dramatization.
So it's not the show that "sucks," to use your word, notkristie -- it's what the show is about that did.
The events as played out were harrowing, so it is not an entertaining show. Rather an educational, philosophical, dramatic and disturbing one. Excellent, yet hard to watch because the issues raised are and remain problematic.
I had to join a Facebook HBO Chernobyl Fans group to have a forum for processing the episodes with others, as I had been watching alone. The group has participants who lived in Ukraine, or Sweden, or other places affected by the radiation and the failures and delays of communication and education, and their first-person accounts are another useful feature of the group.
In sum: Chernobyl is well worth watching. Don't binge it. Watch and then take some time to deal with what you saw. My take.
@notkristie . Exactly what salleygarden said. The sheer scale of the attempted cover up, the fact the public were so blissfully uninformed (& so unaware) of the dangers & what was really happening is staggering. I used the word horrific as the effects of the explosion are recreated in all their grim detail to the point that when I got to episode 4 (I watch one per week) I was almost in tears with what the event had led to as the Communist party leadership finally were given the real picture as to the lasting damage, the evacuation area's "real" size & more. It's not easy to watch by a long chalk &, as Salley says, don't binge it.
steve said, about CHERNOBYL: This is truly horrific
notkristie responded: Please, expand upon that, steve!
I remember where I was when I heard about Chernobyl. I was curious about this, but know nothing. The trailer wasn't great, though.
What sucks? ----
Chernobyl is "horrific," in the sense that events -- 1986 explosion at a nuclear power plant in the then-USSR's Ukraine -- were tragic, terrifying, at first denied by leaders who then struggled to deal with the destruction and radiation cloud and its poisoning effects near and far.
The series (ep 5 of 5 runs Mon 3 Jun on HBO) is a joint US/UK production and it is a well-produced and well-acted dramatization.
So it's not the show that "sucks," to use your word, notkristie -- it's what the show is about that did.
The events as played out were harrowing, so it is not an entertaining show. Rather an educational, philosophical, dramatic and disturbing one. Excellent, yet hard to watch because the issues raised are and remain problematic.
I had to join a Facebook HBO Chernobyl Fans group to have a forum for processing the episodes with others, as I had been watching alone. The group has participants who lived in Ukraine, or Sweden, or other places affected by the radiation and the failures and delays of communication and education, and their first-person accounts are another useful feature of the group.
In sum: Chernobyl is well worth watching. Don't binge it. Watch and then take some time to deal with what you saw. My take.
Oohhhh, now I feel pretty silly. I had taken steve's comment as the show not being good. Yeah, Chernobyl itself, awful. Show good.
I generally admire any show/film that requires serious processing because that is an indication that it's challenging. Now I will pay more attention and research it a bit to see if I can handle watching it.
Glad it's well done. From my misunderstanding I thought maybe they'd made it into a Blockbuster style action show with cheesy love interest side plots.
I'm currently bingeing the 3 seasons on HBO Go before I do the movie. Don't know how I managed to miss this before
the writing is brilliant. such dialog! it's becoming a lost art. i watched the series on the original run. the movie is not disappointing! about halfway through...
& Dylan (who hates just about everybody) has just delivered the best line in the history of Casualty
“Jade. I’ve got a job for you. Erm, possibly you might be able to prevent me committing a murder. I’ve a patient in cubicles…erm.. Magdalena?… Ringbinder? I don’t know. She’s completely barking. Wish washy, pinko-liberal, touchy feely, moon-gazing, tree-hugging, spoon-bending loon. You get the general idea”