"3.6 Roentgen: Not great, not terrible."

@@jackmorris303 Yeah the denial of so many people is terrifying. The line is stated just lays the atmosphere so well. Most of the people have no idea what it means and the ones that do understand there is nothing they can do about it.

No but I can hear it :)

The biggest part for me wasn't a line. After the explosion when Dyatlov was going along the walkway and saw the graphite on the ground straight away. Absolute asshole

@@jackmorris303 So..... just like 9/11 then, oh wait.

Very true. The whole idea of what happened there, the danger of Chernobyl and what radiation is, and what it can do in general, is a very scary and strange thing... When it comes to nuclear energy and radiation etc, its very unnatural when you think about it...its something that feels like we shouldn't be messing with. We were not really suppose to be able to do what we do. Its a weird idea that we can manipulate something on such a small and specific level and the result is so powerful and so potentially dangerous. Something we cant see, yet it literally alters our body and cells, ensures certain death if exposed to enough of it, and the damage it does it terrifying. You have seen the firefighters condition on the show I imagine, and heard the descriptions of how radiation kills you. Your body basically decaying from the inside. How can something we cant even see and feel do something so bad? And the show emphasizes all this in a very effective way. And allows us to experience it in a way that scares us. In a totally different way to how its done in things like horror books/films or in fiction overall. Things we create and make up in our heads for the purpose of being scary. But radiation is fiction, and Its how real it is that makes it even scarier. I think I find it unsettling and creepy more than 'scary'. But whatever it does, and however it makes you feel, it does it very well. I think for me this applies allot to the focus on the graphite that was littering the site, and just how dangerous each piece was. Ejected from the core itself and now laying on the floor and roof...the pieces were basically death itself, yet they just look like harmless rocks. Remember that quote ? that said something along the lines of "that roof is now the most dangerous place on earth". Thats a creepy thought. As well as showing just how bad it was, it also makes you realise just how much worse it could have been, how much more it could have effected and how much further it could have reached. It genuinely put the world at risk. As they specifically show in the series, with the threat of the water tanks exploding, spreading the radiation and destroying the other reactors on the site, and the radiation reaching the ground water etc as well as all this, with the radiation its also the permanence of it...considering how long the area will be unsafe for. That itself is very scary....once it happens its done and too late, it will be radioactive basically forever (thousands of years). Its hard to comprehend.

@Golden Eagle You don't want to do that.... Nuclear power is the best energy producing method we have...

@Golden Eagle Unplug your home from the grid and freeze in the dark

Comrade, whole SSRS era was like this. Most infuriating thing is to hear current Russian government condemn these series as inaccurate. By this you can tell same maniacs are running the show

@@SIMKAD4 The series are not only "innacurate". It's purest propaganda you can find. It's on the same level of stupidity, as the "Red Sparrow", but with great picture. Nothing more. If you believe this show (even if you know nothing about Chernobyl) you have some real problems...

Radiation is such an unsettling thing. The noise the geiger counter is making is from particles slamming into it's detector, and that detector is small. That'd be happening all over the side of your body facing it

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*Clickity clack you're going to crack*

When it maxes i think it sounds like a scream in a way

Not necessarily dying. If you immediately move away from the radiation your body can heal itself. Even Komrade Diatlov somehow (ironically) lived for years after the accident.

ScubaGirl - Same...Wtf were they thinking?!?!

Maybe it's proof that the emmies are paid off by Russia :^)

same girl...he shoulda got the golden globe AND the emmy...his acting was crazy good

Who won instead of him?

@@IAmJacksBalls Stellan Skarsgard, I think

The Harvinator truth

Zak Jansen exactly

@Zak Jansen the only monsters

the power plant was already failing but they did not want to replace or fix it because it would had costed a lot so money is the biggest evil that ever existed

@Zak Jansen If humans are monsters and you are a human that means that you are a monster

Now, if you'll excuse me... [vomits and passes out]

"Are you stupid"?

I didn't see the perspective, I was in the toilet.

@@mindlessdroid3630 lol nice. rumour has it he's still in the loo looking for perspective

@@DAGATHire bruh AAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah that’s probably my favorite scene in the show

Everything was perfect. I love how her reaction was immediate and she rushed to shut the window, then only open for a millisecond to get the sample. What a series.

Same.

Wouldn’t want “misinformation” to get out. 😉

The line about how it *couldn’t* be Chernobyl because it would have to be split open, followed by no one picking up the phone really drove it in.

Chemical plant disasters can be just as bad, if not worse. Look into the Bohpal disaster. Scary stuff, and caused by the exact same thing. Greed and corner cutting.

@@mrtwister428 Finally an intelligent reply on youtube. Yes the possibility of releasing noxious gas into the surrounding atmosphere is a very real one but the safety precautions put in place so make the odds of it happening very slim. There was a guy I used to work with and he had to have his hand removed due to touching a container that was 400 below zero. His hand stuck to it and fused with the metal and all because he didn't wear a glove. Thanks for that I remember someone saying to me about Bophal years ago but forgot what it was called. Hope you're well mate and take care

@@sij6169 thank you! Yeah, Bhopal was so terrible precisely because it was a plant in India, and the Western company running it didn't really care about safety, and let multiple systems fail, as well as not following standard safey, such as not keeping any more of the extremely reactive and deadly chemical then you need on site at any one time

The aftermath of Bhopal Gas tragedy was worst. The storage of Methyl-Isocyanate (MIC) on site was kept secret. When first affected patients were taken to nearby hospital, doctors didn't know what they were looking at. When they called govt officials or plant maneger they didn't say what was it. After the situation got worse, first they told it was Ammonia, a little later they told it was Phosgene . Doctors firstly treated the patient based on these two gases which worsened them. Later an unknown phone call was received saying it's 'MIC' and hung up. But sadly, no one in the hospital knew what 'MIC' was.

The scary thing in working in any of those situations is humans. Humans can cut corners on safety equipment through greed. Or worse, you can spend all the money and have a nearly perfect safety protocol and a human can say, "Oh, we just skip steps 2-11. I've been doing it that way 30 years and nothing bad happens. It's just unnecessary steps."

Exactly my thought, turned out to be much better concept.

Then showing the events leading up to the explosion in the last episode still had the same impact.

If you thought that you didn't know anything about the event did you. They should make another based on the nuking of Japan it would be more harrowing then grave of the fireflies.

@@GreatSageSunWukong I kindda want them to dig at subject less historic. Like the invasion of iraq on false nuke accusations. or the annexation of Crimea

the1onlynoob Aren’t both of those events historic?

Ludymilla's face screamed to me "My country 'took' my husband from me "

even more so, because you know that it is real. his corpse is still encased there, right this moment. so is the corpse of khodemchuk. the sarcophagus is his mausoleum. reality is the scariest there is.

@@jellied1755 Who said he was buried in some random field?

@@jellied1755 it was implied that he died in Moscow, right? Since his wife was informed that he's moved/treated in Moscow.. And at one point, the wife lied about being able to see the red square & the Kremlin from the hospital room.

@@jellied1755 Preety sure that was located in Moscow. Unless you think they ferried the highly radiated corpses all the way down to Chernobyl?

That's actually incredible. The score always made me feel so uneasy and tense so that explains alot!

Oh sweet gods is it actually?? That's awesome! Horrifying but... Still.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I have now read about it, too, and I think it isn't entirely sounds collected from a nuclear reactor, but that isn't so important. Just thanks.

It was brilliant

You're confused. That wasn't graphite.

@@TheJotaroKujoits probably burnt concrete or something

@@TheJotaroKujo it was graphite, concrete, steel ... basically everything that was into the roof and the reactor was on the roof that one of the reason it was so irradiate

@@aoki6332 He was joking by quoting Dyatlov :)

Exactly. I've watched countless documentaries about the disaster, those just mentioned the facts and I acknowledged them. After seeing this show (I watched all the episodes in one go) I understood much more what those numbers or facts mentioned in the documentaries meant.

Depends on who wrote the history book you read.

It was also a lot more detailed, expansive, thorough, explained more about how things worked or happened; plus, you're learning how to feel about those things, in order to learn even more about them

K Baum he should’ve faked passing out

Why couldn't they just have given him a mirror on a stick :'(

@@cebruthius In that case he needs a very, very long stick

@@Foxblaker754 The biorobots had a chance as long as they didn't look over the edge

if you want to feel less sad, the guy in real life did it without being forced to, to report back to fomin what he saw so no one else would have to do it.

The word I think you're searching for is "reincorporation" and this show is masterful at it.

Chekhov's gun: any part shown or mentioned should have a propose later.

As someone who has a little bit of background in nuclear physics, the way they revealed the danger of the graphite was one of the most memorable parts of the series, because it allowed me to experience the horror exactly like Legasov did when he was reading the report. When they first showed the chunks on the ground, my thoughts were: "Huh, what's that black stuff? Graphite maybe?". Then when the firefighter started screaming in pain, my understanding of nuclear reactors finally kicked in and the full scale of the horror dawned on me. "Oh no, it is graphite. Graphite that was inside the reactor. Oh no. Oh god no. All these men are dead and they don't even know it."

It's indirect foreshadowing.

When the nurse who tells the firefighter's wife which room he is in, she asks her if she is pregnant, to which she replies no, and we don't think much of it. Then a few episodes later she visits her husband just before he dies and tells him he's going to be a father. I thought that was the best example of this.

The only thing I wish was different about Chernobyl is that actor getting more screen time.

​@ShutTheMuckUp I was all of 12, going on 13, when Chernobyl happened. I remember seeing on the BBC 6 o'clock news the thin wisps of smoke coming from the broken reactor, and a quick snapshot, a single blurry frame, of a single patch of cherry red: the actual reactor, open to the air, still burning away, whilst the helicopter pilots, risking their lives in trying to drop kgs of sand and boron, but trying to hit such a small target, even from a helicopter, hundreds of feet above, especially with the mass swaying due to the pendulum effect, made worse by the prop wash of the main blades, made it next to impossible to hit. In fact, in all the sorties carried out, not one hit the exposed reactor directly. But it spreading around what would nominally be the 'biological containment vessel (a RBMK reactor doesn't have one ...) did, in fact, help, as, as far as I can tell, it drew a lot of bulk heat, but in a way that concentrated that heat lower down in the reactor vessel, where the fuel that wasn't vaporised, as the air rushing in met the superheated graphite and metal, resulted to the second, largest blast, of a thermic reaction, not an atomic one. What fuel was left behind melted, that, in contact with the concrete, and all the sand that was packed around the reactor vessel, as a kind of biological containment, melted together to form a lava like substance, that made its way through the ductwork beneath. It was that which made people fear that the highly radioactive substance would hit the now full 'bubbler' tanks - presumably designed to let naturally trapped air in the circulating heat exchanger, and condenser cooling water, escape, where full due in part to the cracked pipework, and the gallons per minute being poured on by the firemen - risking a thermal explosion, resulting from the radioactive lava hitting all that water possible, that was calculated to maybe be large enough to reduce all of the city of Chernobyl to dust, and destroying the still working 2-3 other reactors built yards away, causing huge destruction to the Warsaw Pact nation ... But all of that series could be summed up in that one single scene of that reactor technician being basically forced, by an armed guard no less, to go up near the massive vent 'chimney' ... and peer over the edge ... One of my few criticisms is that they made the smoke much thicker, and denser than it actually was, as seen from footage taken by camera crews on the Soviet helicopters, monitoring the radiation via probe through an open door. By still, that mournful expression his held tillted towards the concrete floor, his face bright red from both the ionising radiation, and the literal heat. How he just didn't jump straight in to that hell's pit, I never know ... But it is the following shot that, to me caps it all off ... There he is, sitting on a creaky old wooden chair, in a bunker designed against an American nuclear attack, thinking about everything, or perhaps nothing, save how long he may have to live, whist the two senior persons in charge of the powerplant of all four reactors, yell soundless words at him, with the backdrop being that quiet solo voice against remixed sounds from an actual working nuclear reactor ... him just staring ahead, barely moving except for a slight tremble, seeing, but not observing; listening to their ranting without hearing ... he knew he was a doomed man, no matter what they screamed at him .... Of course he saw the open reactor; his 1st degree burns are proof of it ... but the two plant managers still wanted to deny it ... because RBMK reactors don't explode ... Unlike the famous 'Suicide Squad' sent to find, and open a valve gate, whom volunteered, he was 'volun-told', with the likely threat of being shot dead if he didn't ... with the irony being that the bullet would've been quicker, cleaner, and less painful, than a face full of ƴ and fast neutron radiation spewing out. In the few seconds of staring into that pit, he would've recieved more than a lethal dose of radiation poisoning, in Severts (Sv). 4.5 to 6 Sv is usually considered a lethal dose; he likely recieved somewhere between 8 - 9 Sv in those few short seconds ... ... but I guess suicide was seen as an example of Western decadence, and his wife wouldn't receive any death benefits, nor his pension, had he lept over the edge ...

I think my favorite is 6:47 I remember screaming at my TV: "don't hug him! are you stupid!" This is the moment i understood the real power of the invisible killer and how people miscalculated the size of the disaster. The entire storyline with this woman was very stressful for me. I was constantly afraid for her life.

​@arturodelarosa4394 she was pregnant and baby died instead of her if I remember correctly

@@adrienlibert960 Yeah she is based upon a real life person, don't know how but the baby ate all of the radiation instead of her. By hugging him she unintentionally and unknowingly killed her own baby, adding another level of sadness to the story.

i took a 2-day break between the first and the second episode, and that came from someone who binge watch tv series in one go. it was just a lot to take in.

@@Looo0007 I Also had to take a break it was hard to watch

Lol same I felt like I was going to end up breathing radioactive dust through the screen

it felt like i was under water,withe only the huge pressure and panic to go along

I had to pause multiple times in-between scenes because I just needed some time to process what I just saw

They didn't have the time (or the interest of doing so) with all the events going on. And as you said, it's a great thing they didn't try to put a love story other than Lyudmila and Vasilya.

When the characters spend so much time figuring out *what* happened before dealing with the issue at hand, or when someone else deals with the issue, it gives us the vague hope that the immediate next step is fixing the problem and stopping the disaster from happening. On the show, however, the disaster is still being dealt with and people are dying left and right before Legasov knows how exactly Dlyatov managed to blow up a nuclear reactor; before and after that, everyone is focusing on mitigating the effects

One of the most historically accurate programs I have watched every scene in Chernobyl happened in real life exactly as it was shown

No one watches a tv show for the fucking romance. When a show focuses on that shit it KILLS the immersion. People don’t act like that… well maybe 15 year olds…

@@syzionaurifex5383 that's literally objectively not true... maybe you don't watch shows for romance but it is an insanely popular genre for many demographics. youre being very broad but clearly only talking about one kind of show, so let's be serious here

Couldn't agree more on that. Seeing tragedy from that distance conveys a great feeling of powerlessness/ helplessness, coupled with whatever guilt they might have been feeling watching the consequences of the orders they had to give the pilots

It also gives more weight to a previous scene where Boris wanted to fly the helicopter directly over the roof to get a better look but was stopped by Valery

Yes, the helicopter is seen from a distance and from a couple of different angles. It is hidden by the smoke from the smoldering pile, reappears for an instant, then goes down. If I remember correctly, there's no big explosion. It just drops off the screen, insignificantly.

​@@cweakley it happened like that in real life after the meltdown! it actually happened when they were trying to execute what happened in the scene

My favorite scene was, when Dyatlov said: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

His look when Legasov tells him they'll both be dead in 5 years... You can tell he immediately believes him (as he says later), and that he probably in that moment understands the full severity of the disaster

haha chernobel quote meeme XD

@@depthsofabjection man you're a killjoy . Get a life.

@@tonysoprano2927 gg ez

There is no graphite on the roof because it is not there. Listen to the voice of reason.

I give this one a lick to the elephants foot out of 10. mmm spicy.

It's fake because RBMK reactor don't explode, your delusional go to infirmerie!

@@borissenda vomits, apologizes, passes out.....from radiation....

@@brianjungen4059 completely normal phénomène,that gastroenteritis!!

He saw it... but he could not see it.

It seems denial and lying was common in USSR. Deny a thing on a large enough scale and the thing ceases to be a problem or even to exist. So of course the instinctive first reaction of the administration was to be in denial but luckily they switched to being honest about the catastrophy relatively quickly so they were able to clean the mess. I'm quite impressed and glad how huge amounts of resources USSR ended up dumping in the cleanup.

Dyatlov: I saw graphite. Also dyatlov: It wasn’t THERE!!

Damn...

Okay, that last one would have me bolting from the room and cuddling with my cats.

Oh yeah they talked about some of those on the podcast. I’m glad they didn’t show the one operators injuries, and instead showed the scientists reaction, though.

I can now say for sure that my soul is broken. It will never be fixed again. I just.. I fucking love animals. I have a cat and I love him so much. He is my world. I will never be fixed again. I don't want to see those scenes ever. I loved the series, but I will NEVER want to see them. I fucking hate this world.

@@Leechwife I absolutely agree my eyes were watering reading about those cats and i had to go check on mine immediately. This is soul crushing

Damn. Thanks for telling.

I know this comment is 3 years old, but with everything going on, I hope you and your family are safe.

My mother was 16. I'm glad you have memories with yours!

It was a great argument that governments have no right to force people to leave when they don’t want to, even if their lives are in danger.

@@slobiden.2593 arguably the soldier shooting the cow proved that. That the Soviets may have had good intentions but their execution of law is always heavy handed and needlessly brutal if it means "doing the right thing".

I thought the soldier was going shoot her instead of the cow.

@@DatcleanMochaJo The cow was already marked for euthanasia, due to being within the 30km zone.

The moment the soldier shot the cow, I burst into tears and had to pause the episode. The visual side of the show is so accurate (even though I was born in Poland in 92) that it just hit me in that moment all at once. And I feel like in any other show the scene would have ended with the soldier leaving the old lady alone and told the others he shot her instead, but no, this is not how real life works.

Yeah, it gave me a claustrophobic feeling and with a feeling scared on dark environment, it's scary as hell

Also it shows what would have happened if the main characters DID fly over the core. They would have died, and this scene makes it clear and makes it clear for Skarsgards character.

The helicopter crash is based on real even, slightly different timeline. The video of the real footage is accurate to how it was portrayed in the series.

Ionut Pogacean yes, I know.

But the Helicopter didn't crash on the 2nd day. In fact it didn't crash until may months later. I hate this show because it changed allot of the facts around. Legasov NEVER tesitfied at the trail, he had nothing to do with the trial. He also never said "What is the cost of lies?". My issue is if they wanted to remain accurate, then they should have done so, not just change the facts around. Either stick to the established facts or get out.

@@cf105cp Depends on what your goal is. If you want to state a fact make a documentary. This was meant to show the suffering and despair caused by the incident and the rotten nature of the Soviet Union and that it did well.

The music was made entirely using sounds from an abandoned nuclear reactor!

@@Newt.--.Jaeden source?

@@RicardoPierotti. The composer talking on a radio show about it

I love the soundtrack. I've only cried once listening to music and it was listening to the bridge of death.

Yes, exactly.

But that didn't happen in reality though..... His wife (leydumila) said he was very calm.

The burial is dark

@@maralm5103 While that is true, I assume the change is more artistic license and visual shorthand for “he is getting f{}cked up by radiation and it’s only going to get worse from here”

Dont forget the evacuation announcement "Vnimaniye, Vnimaniye!"

The sounds (enhanced by the relative lack of sights) in the flooded basement scene is a good example, pure horror show there

🤣 good one

hahahahaha.... I really laughed out loud reading your comment

You didn't see any dislikes

@@bplup6419 LOL xD

Edmund Piunow no they are wishing that this guy had a thesaurus.

They sourced original soviet era fabrics to make the costumes, as well as props from the era, wallpaper and dishes from the era, and paid extra attention to making everything as true to the time period as possible. -- This was to pay as much respect to the people of the time as possible, and because they knew people who had grown up at the time would be watching.

If only the coal production minister looked like a real person and not some gay yuppie

They copied that from the BBC drama. HBO took a lot of inspiration from that drama.

Very common, actually. In my family all women were MDs and scientists. The only good thing that came up from this regime is a true gender equality in a job market. Women still were expected to take on all usual household responsibilities, though...

@@iralubarsky1726 also it was not humantarian decsions they just needed every workforce they could get there hands on on to keep up with the West. The higher ups were still male dominated.

@@Siegberg91 First of all, it's ok by me if the outcome was that women could get the same exact education and professional experience. It started long before the arms race. Lenin opened first kindergartens to "free" soviet women from their domestic prison right into a different kind of prison. But from what I very vividly remember and know is that quite a large number of women, especially after WWll, eventually came to hold high professional positions. The politics were male dominated, along with the army, but in terms of women being financially independent, the situation was much better than in the USA and most of the European countries back then. Of course, the salaries were very low, and there was not enough new housing being built in the cities, so women and man had to rely on their parents to help with raising kids and share their rooftop with them.

Came here to say this. Thank you!

Ira Lubarsky Lol gender equality doesn’t mean much when both gender’s are treated like absolute dog shit

@Hal 9000 You must be so much fun at parties

@Hal 9000 but at least it is anti-nuclear. So probably one or two awards, heavily sponsored by Greenpeace.

@Hal 9000 Khodemchuk was woke. Appropriate soviet techniques should come to the fore.

Haven't you people been keeping up? It's nominated for like 35 Emmys. Also, the show isn't really anti-nuclear.

Hal 9000 you are totally right. Even while watching it I was just thinking “this is so fucking good but i just know some left wing cry babies will spend all day crying on twitter about the lack of LGBTQPKLDFGHAKDNC and minorities. Or some other beta male journalist will write an article titled “Chernobyl - The racist HBO show”

marine stationed in the ussr? when and where was this?

@@vincentlaw5663 Probably West Germany, for whatever reason some US troops were allowed to cross the gate into East Berlin in the later stages of the Cold War.

Embassy guard maybe

@@vincentlaw5663 not exactly sure what year, sometime before 1983 (he was in the bombing in Beirut) in Estonia.

when creators aren't motivated by commerical aspects, but by the work itself; they tend to do their best work.

Scary movie is also a masterpiece.

@@kb4903 I agree!

Well, you need to build yourself a name before you can pitch a project like this to any studio. You need to prove yourself, before anyone lets you do what YOU want with THEIR money. This show is no amusement. From a business perspective that is highly dangerous. Big chance to lose a lot of money that you will not have for the next project(s).

Just like Jordan Peele went from goofy comedy to horror/thriller movies.

Ahmed Alwazir There is no such thing as 'weak' in chernobyl.

@@livethefuture2492 you're Goddamn right.

Their emotiobs are weak

I found episode 5 excellent, especially the beginning showing life in Pripyat before the disaster. It was very poignant. I found the episode where they are shooting the dogs the slowest, (think it was episode 4) but was important part of the story and there were also excellent parts of that episode.

and for how it (finally, precisely at the right moment) puts all those pieces, all those fragmented perspectives from the previous episodes, together, and after you've experienced it from up-close from all angles, it reveals the gloriously horrifying full picture and view of the whole thing.

CocoCandii tied!

CocoCandii I think it helped it was only 5 amazingly crafted episodes. Each one is different and each one is fantastic in its own way.

CRUSTYDOGTAINT I still have to watch it. I’ve not had the time since I got a full time job a few years back 😂

I haven't watched it yet but I pretty sure it won't top The Wire 🤷🏾‍♂️

@@axelfoley6520 I love The Wire, and I agree it's very hard to match. As a 5 hour miniseries Chernobyl is pure art - if you appreciate The Wire you will also love Chernobyl.

What a strange comment

This is especially made clear in the first scene in the first episode and in the trial in the last episode. Conveying the disaster as the realization of the cost of lies extends the event to a more metaphorical symbol of corruption, lies, and propaganda - and how those affect entire populations even when they don't know it.

That would be so, if the show did not lie. I speak russian and was born in post soviet country. They did not seal off the city or cut phone lines, people were evacuated from Pripyat by the end of 27th and in the coming days from provinces nearby. There were no armed men when the minister came to the coal miners for help, there are accounts of people who are still alive who watched Chernobyl and said that it was not true. Ministers in those industries normally came from the workers, they had respect. No one would act like that. The news of the disaster were on TV and Radio. People volunteered days after knowing that their comrades were dying in the hospitals and they closed the sarcophagus. Hunting society took out all the animals. The real tragedy in betrayal is how those people were treated after the disaster. State funded care dissipated in the years after, they didn't get proper treatment, did not get adequate government benefits. One of the coal miners who was there said that first death that came after were suicides - people could not handle being a burden, being in pain. Then the illnesses came and took a lot of his friends, those who could afford care in post Soviet times is doing okay. Most is not okay. Chernobyl is so good in technical terms, in the way things look - takes me to my childhood. But it broke my heart that they made Dyatlov the evil man, he was not. It was not his fault, they used the wrong reactor that was not industrial and the chief engineers memo about how the reactor should be utilized in order to work industrially and not cause this was ignored because people in the government structures did not understand atom and how it worked; not because they were evil or didn't care... it is humans fault, but it was not deliberate. Dyatlov posted an hour long video in KZfaq explaining what was going on that day, but he is not alive to defend his honor anymore.

@@vertworldart Thank you for sharing. But you wrote that ministers in the industries came from the workers, yet at the end you write that the people in the government structures didn't understand the scientific issues. This seems like a contradiction. I agree that anyone in government should come from working in the field for many years, and should not receive benefits or authority from anything besides merit. Cough, Hunter Biden, cough...

@@Torgo1969 Ministers were career politicians that came from humble roots. We in modern day have ministers responsible for military matters that never served a day in any of the branches. Same applies to USSR. These high ranking politicians that are in charge of whole Industrial Sectors often enough have been career politicians that have been climbing up in the political ladder for decades and while the people under them have all the knowlage. But when shit hits the fan the politicians often enough lack the ability to see the real scope of the unfolding tragedy and people under them have tendency to under report the threat until it's so clear that it drown out any other alternatives.

Agreed but there are many scientific inaccuracy

I give it a 15000/3.6

@@RahulKumar-ng2gh isn't that a good thing?

@@aayushdas19 Woh sorry, I want to write inaccuracy. on quora a physics scientist from UCB has analysed it.

Rahul Kumar dude u can’t be scientifically dead accurate when telling stories. There’s documentary for that stuff

😢

ignatenko?

@@jsmedia3729 yes! Natalia.

@@jsmedia3729 Lyudmilya I believe

Yes, her whole storyline was so intense for me, watching her pregnancy progress knowing what would probably happen. I cannot imagine the feelings of loss, a husband and then a child.

Yea. I think the memes are kinda forced, because the series is so popular right now.

I mean the memes are not great, but not terrible...

@@livethefuture2492 🤦‍♂️😂

Until you read the comments...

@@livethefuture2492 The memes are actually significant.

It even has its own droning theme in the music. It is, with the system of the soviet union, the true villain in this

I know how It had happened and most of the shows I try to put myself in their view, always asking how are they feeling, most of the time I cant capture('cause the acting are so, meh) but in Chernobyl, I could feel the wife worrying about her husband, the scientist being forced to lie to the residents of the town, the nurse trying to save as many firefights as they could without even knowing the consequences

The show doesnt make it. It portrays what are the extremes of one of the most basic natural phenomena, and what happens when you mess with it without enough precautions.

Radiation being entire unnoticeable, yet so deadly, *is* what makes it so terrifying I'd say.

Radiation is truly scary, the show only showed that, it didn't make it.

You know what is more scary than radiation? Human stupidity! The whole damn show, is basicly about how stupidity cause this horrors. Radiation itself isn't the villain here, without the radiation from the Sun, we wouldn't be here, theres medical equipment that use radiation to save lives, so in essence, radiation save more lives, than than kill. What really kills people is human stupidity and ignorance.

and in games radiation can GiVe yOu SoMe BuFfS iF yOu GeT lUcKy

that's a matter of personal preference. Statistically people prefer a smoth transition to the ad, that's why every youtuber is paid more to do so.

@@bionmccool Especially if it's done in a funny way and/or the transition is so smooth that you have to give it up to them for how smoothly they segued.

Better yet, put a link in the description. If I care, I’ll click

That was also for the reason that it is nearly impossible to get to know all of them in only 5 episodes. That would be to confusing and you would spend more time trying to remember who is who than actually paying attention to the story. With that many characters the show would need to be several seasons to give the audience enough time to get to know all the characters. So to create a fake character to represent many real ones is in this case a brilliant thing to do.

@@kingwacky184 Legasov was a real person. It was the lady (of whom I do not remember the name) who was made up to represent many people.

@@noahmay7708 That is what I said. I never said Legasov was fake I said it would be to difficult to remember all of them in just 5 episodes you would focus more on who is who that is why they made her. I never said Legasov was the fake character.

It is _the_ best decision, because now whenever she’s on screen and speaking, I picture the bus/roomful of scientists she represents speaking in unison like legion And I think that’s funny

Both the virus and radiation could be considered an invisible enemy

It was the most watched show in China during the height of the pandemic.

Idk if Brovid-19 is quite on par with Chernobyl

ngl that's kinda dumb

Insanely dumb

the soundtrack itself is great. Also the usage of just sounds instead of music (sounds of a nuclear reactor in some cases) made it so goddamn good and fitting.

Just the fucking cracking of the Geigercounter in the Rooftop-, the Basement-, so many scenes around the reactor

I agree. And thank you!

One of the best

No thanks, I prefer not to die tonight

R Welp. Let’s just say it wasn’t the radiation that destroyed my liver.

YO, I KNOW THAT GLORIOUS THUGS COVER WEN I SEE IT

Watch thunderfoots video and you'll see how much fearmongering this show is. Wish I could like it but with all the lies and false drama it no longer has integrity.

The shows integrity is well in tact. For those who are intellectually capable, and open minded with no agenda, its widely understood that the purpose of the show is artistic portrayal of the real event with historical accuracy to the point where in some aspects, facts are replaced or changed in a way to best support the artistic portrayal of other aspects of the event but without sacrificing integrity. Its a show about real events. Not a documentary, or an educational video. To say it's fearmongering is so far beyond ridiculous... U have an agenda. Ur not gonna hide that cuz ur too stupid to.

No, its not. Over exaggerated documentary thats what this is.

@@i_megaman_i8079 He's delusional, send him to the infirmary.

@@i_megaman_i8079 calling this piece of propaganda fiction "documentary" would make it a huge favor. It does not contain a single fact put right.

​@@StelzCat Sure thing. Its meant to shock, not to tell the truth.

LogiKaiser yeah but like everything else seems believe

You want to wittness the suffering of the radiation patients and the mass murders of starving stray pets again, 'cos once wasn't enough.. rrright..

Every Day is Rex Manning Day watching this series was a helluva experience

Same

I did notice how Lovecraftian the show felt. People dying in excruciating ways but the details only being briefly shown and people with little to no knowledge on what is actually happening trying to sort everything out.

Daniel Dyson the fear I feel when absorbing cosmic horror was the same from Chernobyl. If you’re reading cosmic horror. You as the reader know what the threat is. As a viewer we know already what Chernobyl was (to an extent) The scene which I use as a good example is when they open the reactor core door and stare into the exposed core. We know full well they’re dead. 0% chance of survival. The bridge scene is another example. A better one. They’re being showered in radioactive dust and we as the viewer know the magnitude of what’s happening. The other scene being the actual flashback. Seeing the reactor stall and drop rapidly in power. When we know it WILL skyrocket and explode. That’s not cosmic horror. But the fear it draws upon is very similar. There’s a game called Elite dangerous. Seeing a black hole in that game with the lights off and headphones on is eerie.

@@slobiden.2593 never encountered a black hole in ED yet. I'll try to find one and experience it. From what you described it seems to be a similar experience to those lighthouse stars

That speech he gives...to get volunteers to turn the water off. Just amazing acting writing directing.

better to do a series about usa betraying Poland in 40s and american war crimes on Poles

I can't find it anymore through net chaff to look up the details, but they mentioned that were they to do another series like this, that they had another industrial tragedy (I forget which one) in a different country in mind.

@@waterloo32594 dont write about things u have no clue about. educate yourself about usa-soviet deals in 1941 which guaranteed protectings poland's state from pre war. just a few months later usa betrayed poland by supporting soviets after soviets broke the deal by invading neutral iran. also educate yourself about american bombing Polish civilians in Poland in 1944 to help stalin in destroying poland. it was another betreyal. another one was when usa cut off ties with poland and supporter soviets agent, bierut, as representant of poland. usa was by far worse than nazis and brits combined.

@@makorek Could you please state an article supporting your claim because I just went about the whole wiki of US-Soviet relations and couldn't find anything.

shorgoth congratulations! What’s your book called, and what’s it about?

But more it shows the government

I will, thank you, Chained_Down_Django

For an added challenge, add when he says "objective" or "subjective".

@@watchableraven3517 Did you mean "added challenge" or "alcohol poisoning"? XD

@@neuralmute They're the same if you go far enough with it.

I was looking for this comment. XD

Yes, a masterpiece

I can't bring myself to ever watch it again...

nope, I can't have my soul destroyed again by that movie

its commie propaganda. Its polonophobic. dont watch it

@@makorek please tell me how is it polonophobic? I'm polish, watched this movie just recently and can't find one polonophobic thing there.

Lakshitha Dinusha the microphone movement was actually not in the script, and was put in because it just worked.

I noticed all those things …. most people paying attention would have.

A fact that is also pretty chilling is that he killed himself at 1:23:45. The exact same time as the explosion at Chernobyl