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Started watching it last week. It is so good. I k ow a lot about Chernobyl already, and while they take a few liberties with actual facts it does a great job of making it all seem as deadly and horrifying as it actually was.
Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
I haven't yet heard a bad thing about this, just not sure where I can watch it. I'll add it to the neverending list!
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
I don't even have cable, dude, never mind the $15/month on top of basic cable that they'd charge me to get HBO
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
Started watching it last week. It is so good. I k ow a lot about Chernobyl already, and while they take a few liberties with actual facts it does a great job of making it all seem as deadly and horrifying as it actually was.
Exactly my thoughts.
Honestly this miniseries is beyond reproach.
Spoiler:
I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
I enjoyed the "dumbing it down for us" part, I already knew a lot about the incident but understanding it is something else. In retrospective this incident goes to show how mankind can willingly sacrifice for the greater good, more often than not those people are on the lower level of society, miners and workers.
For the show itself, I really appreciated that they did not try to fake Russian accents and stayed within an English confine, I think it gives much more liberty to the cast and make the series look less like a half-assed parody. The setup was good, the timeline wasn't confusing and again the cast was awesome especially Jared Harris, perfect choice.
My favorite part of the finale was the scene after the flashbacks (scientists: "we did everything right"). It was great to see what was the actual meaning of this line compared to the 1st episode.
Spoiler:
I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
50-31 BC Rome
1579-1601 Elizabeth I
1605 Gunpowder
1770-1826 John Adams
1876-1877 Deadwood
1910s Parade's End
1920-1931 Boardwalk Empire
1930s Mildred Pierce
1934-1935 Carnivale
1942-1945 Band of Brothers
1942-1945 The Pacific
1958-1972 From the Earth to the Moon
1973 Vinyl
1985 Angels in America
1986 Chernobyl
1999 The Corner
1999 Show Me A Hero
2000 Empire Falls
2003 Generation Kill
1979-2003 House of Saddam
2004 Tsunami: The Aftermath
2005-2007 Treme
2002-2008 The Wire
2012-2014 The Newsroom
2014 The Night Of
2018 Sharp Objects
What a wild shared universe
"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
I won't watch this show as it has already made me emotionally upset. My Hungarian hometown (Nyíregyháza) is close to Ukraine, so I am pretty sure we had our radiation dose in 1986. My older colleagues said that strawberrry was really cheap at that summer. And since we haven't known about for weeks what has happened and even if they say the opposite, somehow there are more cancer cases in Middle Europe and East Europe (Belorussia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania). And it is not just about unhealthy eating or drinking habits, but I believe the Chernobyl catastrophie played a role in the spreading of cancer, asthma and allergy cases.
"I was hoping for another day. Looks like we just got a whole lot more than that. Let's not waste it."
"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment."
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
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