There is a monument dedicated to all of those workers and firefighters (aka liquidators) at Chernobyl. The inscription there reads, "To those who saved the world".

Everyone: episode 3 is so hard to watch Episode 4: hold my graphite

When someone ask "What was the most terrifying sound you ever heard ?", our answer might be same i think, A Geiger Counter's sound.

When Boris smashes the phone to bits.... it was such a huge catharsis for me. It felt like he was doing that for me and every other member of the audience. Scherbina grows so much over the course of the series. Also this series gives me so much hope. The tough hardened solider taking mercy on Pavel in the scene with the puppies. Scherbina and Legasov laughing. The women gathering to help Ludmilla. This series does show something deeply wonderful about humanity.

When you're able to induce such anxiety and fear in the audience with nothing but a radioactive roof and the "Bio-Robots" wearing Geiger counters, you know this is a cinematic masterpiece. Absolutely shattering episode.

An interesting fact my mom told me: The song sung during the animals' burial was about a man and a crow. The man sings to the crow that "you're not getting me" in the sense that the bird wants to feed on the man's corpse. What was not sang in the show was the last verse of the song. In the last verse the crow eventually gets to feast on that man.

"Comrade soldier. Youre done."

I was 9 when it happened and I lived in Warsaw, Poland only 700 km away from Chernobyl. I remember this fear very well. Especially, my mother, she was so worried about us, her children. The radioactive cloud hit us on April 28th. But, I also must say that our communist government reacted suprisingly responsible in the first days. Russians did not share much information even with their allies. So, our national nuclear detection network discovered that something really bad is happening. At the beginning, scientists were paralysed by the thought that nuclear war had started, but quickly discovered, that it must had been massive civil reactor accident. In few hours Chernobyl was identified. Special Committee was created (kind like in the series) with scientists involved. At first, they ordered that everyone (especially children) should take a doze of iodine to block the thyroid and prevent thyroid cancer (most probable from radionucleids emmitted). In just three days 18,5 mln citizens from endengared regions received necessary treatment (Poland was 38 mln total population). Government used almost all military reserves of iodine they kept in case of nuclear war. As there was also some risk of food contamination, government warned people not to drink fresh milk, eat berries or mushrooms etc. They imported massive amount of milk from the West for children (with help of Western authorities). As for us, our mother told us not to go out. The first day when we learned that there is a contamination, she ordered us to take out all clothes and gave us really hard shower. Then, we were forbidden to go outside for some days. All the windows were closed, curtains down and we could not get close to them. That was quite scary at the time, but in the end thankfully contamination in Poland was minor.

I like how you don’t hide your emotions and actually feel the pain in the series. Here, in Ukraine, we still get the ‘gifts’ of Chernobyl, the cancer rate is enormous.. Thank you for the reactions to the series. With ❤️ from 🇺🇦

You should check the real footage they have of the heroes who went on to the roof. It's on KZfaq and looks exactly the same as the way the show portrayed it.

Black raven, black raven, Why do you circle over me? You won't have your prey, Black raven, I'm not yours! Why do you spread wide your talons Over my head? If you hope for a game, Black raven, I'm not yours!

Our animals, our pets--we are their protectors, and we love them as children, and as those who don't have the cruelty and lies which are so often part of human life. To kill them, even when absolutely necessary, feels like an atrocity, a desecration even.

Finally, I was looking forward to it. Thank you guys, you are such beautiful couple. I love your reactions on Chernobyl. You are so sincere. Greetings from Vladivostok, Russia.

FYI, I'm NOT exaggerating this point at all. Chernobyl is by far the single best piece of cinematic artwork I've ever seen. This mini series took film making to a different place than I've ever seen it go before. We've had stuff like Titanic & Apollo 13 in the full feature-length film genre and Band of Brothers and From The Earth to the Moon in the mini series realm, but to me, personally, Nothing has ever come this close to giving people the true historic experience of a major global event the way Chernobyl has. It's one of humanities worst disasters and biggest mistakes, yet we've known less about the truth of Chernobyl than we've known about how JFK was assassinated and how NASA put a man on the Moon. It wasn't just important to finally tell the whole truth, but to expose what happened to a new generation of people who didn't even fathom the fact that they live in a world where a nuclear disaster of this scale and scope actually happened and is still being dealt with today and will continue to be dealt with long after they are dead. Great reaction videos so far. I'm looking forward to your finale video.

I really felt for Shcherbina this episode. He's in an impossible position and has obstacles in every direction which is what led them to make some extremely difficult but unavoidable choices. This series really is an intense, uncomfortable but necessary journey. Looking forward to your reaction to the finale.

The footage they used for the demonstration to the soldiers was real life footage of the liquidators

I love your reactions.I am from Georgia (a country that used to be part of Soviet Union). I was watching a tv program a few days ago about Chernobyl. 1619 Georgians were sent there as firemen, liquidators, nurses etc etc. 95% of these people died a few months after they came back. There was an interview with a lady who was 19 years old when they sent her there to help soldiers and anyone who needed medical aid. She is alive but has 15 various disease caused from radiation. She never married and had children. Her friend risked and got pregnant. The baby died 4 days later. The mother died soon after. By the way Bacho (Fares Fares) is a Georgian soldier :)

The saddest thing is that now the Communists (and we still have the Communist Party) demand that this series be banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. Too many hard and true moments are shown in this series. Well, and you, as always, thanks for the video!

Ive got 2 dogs who are like my kids, seeing this episode was hard on me as well. But i can certainly appreciate the gruff soldiers stance on not letting them suffer.

I read that people would hear dogs howling for days,other dogs who saw any kind of buses would run towards them( thinking that the owner is back). Not every soldier were as human as it's shown in the series- in the end there were a lot of drunks with guns in their hands,+ at one point the bullets ended... To know that there are many dogs,still...wandering alone,hungry,with barley any shelter,breaks my heart... Most of them won't pass the age of 4(the radiation levels now is very low,so they can be adopted). But there is some charity that helps them if enough people are donates... I was giving this charity: cleanfutures.org/projects/dogs-of-chernobyl/ to help the little fellas, if anyone wants to help out- DO IT!

I gotta say... pretty brave of you guys to face the internet's wrath and actually show emotion. You've earned all those views! This damned show just really affected a lot of people on a deeply personal level.

Recently my cat passed away about 5 months ago. I lay down with him for 4 hours while he peacefully breathed his last breaths. He had an amazing life, and for a cat to live 18 years is not bad at all, but when there were shots of cats during the cleanup, I just couldn’t hold it back. I burst into tears. This show is genuinely spectacular

One puppy was still alive when buried in concrete IN REAL LIFE. The director filmed the scene but didnt had the heart to put it in the final cut.

I listened to an interview (obviously, translated to English), and the person was saying that there were 3 types of people working in the cleanup on the rooftops. The first being people that did exactly what they were told, and was sent home when their dosimeters said that they were done. The second group being people who would ask others to go up on the roof carrying their dosimeter in their pocket, so that they could get out of there in 1/2 the time or less. And, if that happened, you just took the dosimeter, as that person was not going to be useful even if they went up there, so, rotate them out and get somebody that will work. The third, would go up on the roof, while “forgetting” their dosimeters back at camp; because, they were strong enough, they knew were now experienced with the task, they knew how to work with others on the rooftops, and they knew the layout, and felt that if they left, you would need 2 or even 3 replacements to do the same amount of work.

I love the change in sherbina. Such a hard line party man who had such disdain for legasov. Then in this one he’s glad to see him smile. Gets so mad at the party he smashes a phone. So well Acted but all Skarsgårds are vampires (and we’re all glad of it) so they have lots of time to master their craft. Next episode I found the hardest to watch but in a very different way than the other episodes. I’m very excited to see your reactions to it! Keep it up!

As a Swede I'm happy that you know who Fares Fares is.

If anyone is curious as to what we’re saying at 3:07 and 11:18 it is the following: 3:07 “Er det ikke Fares Fares?” “Isn’t that Fares Fares?" 11:18: “[Skal vi] pause den? Eller…” - “Nej, lad os bare tage den [nu]” “Should we put it on pause? Or…” - “No, let’s just do it [now]“

Kat is always so emotional when it comes to Ignatenko family. Pls, watch episode 5 till the end, and your heart will be happy.

Thank you for your reaction, with respect from Ukraine.

This episode was propably the most uncomfortable thing I have seen in TV-show, ever. Goddamn.

Hi, guys! Thanks for your reaction. I was born in Ukraine although now I live in Israel. At the time of the Chernobyl tragedy, I was only 2 years old, so naturally, I don't remember that. But my mum told me that after the explosion she took me for a walk and I was eating mulberries in our garden. I felt bad and had to be hospitalized for a week. At first, nobody knew the reason but later it turned out that those mulberries were radioactively contaminated, even though I lived almost 460 km far from Chernobyl. I'm looking forward to your reaction to the final episode where everything will be explained.

10:08 - “Comrade soldier. You’re done.” I took that not in as his job is done, which is what the man saying it means, but that he’s “done” in the sense that his life is over. His life is done...or finished.

I also have to say I am amazed that you even recognized Fares Fares. I myself am from Sweden so I am very familiar with him, Stellan Skarsgård that play Boris Shcherbina, also the director of this show Johan Renck is also Swedish. Btw some interesting facts about Boris Shcherbina he supervised two disasters in a 2 year period. First Chernobyl in 1986 and then the Armenian earthquake in 1988. That earthquake killed between 25 000 and 50 000 people, in 2017 an estimate of 38 000 dead was made. Also between 31 000 and 130 000 were injured.

I have been casually following your reviews of Chernobyl. What I’m particularly touched by is how you watch each episode with such sensitivity and care for the subject matter. You let yourselves be affected by the tragedy in each, and it’s a blessing for us as viewers to be able to witness.

Wow, I didn't expect to tear up during the discussion, but that quote about dogs/pets and their love 😢 Also can't imagine what people like Pavel had to endure. The fate of the animals is sad, but the people having to carry out the deed is even more so. And there were hundreds of thousands of them... I love your reactions and discussions, I'm happy that through Chernobyl I found your channel. I will watch more stuff, you got me.

I've been looking forwards to your reviews for every episode! You two have great discussions and emotional reactions to the series, it's just great! Can't wait for the grand finale!

There is a podcast where the creator talks about the series, it is on Spotify.

My uncle turned 70 this year. Back in 1986 he was conscripted as a truck driver for Chernobyl. So, he use to drive one of those lead-shielded trucks inside the Zone. Although our state gave him very small reward for what he did, I've never seen him whining about it. He threats that task as a duty to the state. He still doing fine given his age.

Well done! Absolutely sincere and heart felt. Damn it Kat, you have to stop crying (I'm a 20 year hardened military guy and you brought tears to my eyes...Again) Sonny, you are spot on, domesticated dogs are born with an innate attachment to us (humans). Some of us humans can't form any attachments given a life time! Any words understate the heroics of these men. The whole thing is had to wrap your head around. Thanks for a wonderful post...LUV...TC

You two are very genuine and deserve more subs. Greetings from Canada. Raptors are champions!!

I knew you'll make great reaction video and you did! I feel so much sorry for Kat when she heard about the baby who died protecting her mother(I couldn't stop crying after that and I'm 30 yo man-ex cop who saw some pretty grim and horrifying stuff). That girl is buried beside her father, btwm which is also very sad and touching. I love your emotions, so true and compassionate.

This show is hard to watch. We feel everthing that the charecters feel. And that makes it the best show that can possible be. The world is a harsh harsh place.....

I remember playing in the rain on May 1st 1986 and how our parents panicked when they saw the news that evening. They told us to shower and scrubbed us like crazy. I like you guys. You're smart and nice people. All the best!

This episode just broke me. Between the futile attempts at using ‘robots’ to those guys clearing the graphite off of the roofs, but that dump truck scene was horrific. You two show genuine emotion. I cried right with you. This miniseries is done incredibly well. It brings on the feels big time. I love ur reactions. Thank you.

Seeing you guys getting sentimental with this episode sent me feeling just like when I saw this chapter for the first time, Nice reaction!

Duga radar in the background - nice touch! :D

It´s great to see your reactions and how you get involved in the history, Thank you. Don´t miss the last episode, it´s worth it.

thank you for being so brave and sharing your emotions in such a profound way. I was right there with you. I believe this 5 episode series will be shown to be some of the most powerful television ever produced. liked/subscribed.

Finally! I've been waiting for you to react to this episode. 😊 Poor animals though. Also, the roof scene is most heartstopping 90 seconds in any show ever.

I admire the purity and rawness of your emotions. This show spurred me to learn as much as I could about Chernobyl. It’s more frightening than anything I’ve ever seen.

About The Babushka & The Soldier scene: cruel as it may seem, he pouring out the milk was doing her a favour. Milk was one of the big radiation dangers after Chernobyl. That is how especially the children became affected by radiation after the accident. How did milk become radioactive? After the accident, every _surface_ was covered by radioactive dust and aerosols. Grass has lots and lots of surface area, so _grass_ essentially became a radiation catcher. Cows are big animals, and grass does not contain much energy. So cows eat _lots and lots_ of grass, and effectively gather up the radioactive contamination on their pastures and concentrate that in their bodies. And then humans come and milk them... Even in 2018, it was reported that some cows in the worst affected areas are producing milk that is more radioactive than regulation permits, so the milk gets destroyed as it cannot be used.

There is a like 7 minute video on youtube about HBO Chernobyl vs reality where he put HBO Chernobyl footage next to reality footage you should watch that after you finish watching this show. You will find that the HBO tv show is scary similar to the reality footage. It had me in tears. The title for that video is called "HBO's Chernobyl vs Reality - Footage comparison" I would love it very much if you did a reaction video to that video. It is 7 minutes long so I think you should be able to have the entire video without cuts in the reaction right?

one interesting fact for the roof scene: Many of the rooftop workers actually worked longer there than others, they tricked the system to protect less experienced members from going up there. How they did it was quite easy; each worker had a small dosimeter on his chest that would measure the dose they got, you hd to stop working on the roof when that dosimeter reached around 25 Roentgen (Rem) often enough these workers either did not go up there with their dosimeter OR they took the dosimeter of someone else up there.

Kat & Sonny Your reactions to this video especially about the animals was very moving..... the whole reaction here is so touching when you both explain . Thank you (hugs) !

That shot of the old woman in front of the dead cow is one of my favourite shots in the whole series, I don't even know why. The desolation of the image and how it's conveyed is incredible. I know everyone's saying it but the artistry in every aspect of this series is amazing. Love your guys' reactions!

You're the only ones who do this the right way. Looking forward to you're reactions to episode 5.

Man this episode, and Scherbina's frustration boiling over to the point where you can hear him cursing loudly in the background and smashing that phone. Damn. When you watch episode 5, as people have already suggested keep the ending so much more footage to watch.

A little fact The scene on the TV at 9:10 are original footage from 1986

Great back drop of the early warning system near Pripyat. This was used for the wall in Divergent!!

I was crying quietly with you, as you talked about the innocence of animals. When Kat thanked everyone who risked themselves to save everyone else I cried harder. These were true heroes. So many people it’s hard to comprehend the number who suffered for us.

Thank you guys, you are the best. And you have big hearts and clear minds. God bless you my scientists!

I like how this show is willing to display the gruesome slow deaths of the people exposed radiation, but when it comes to killing dogs, it was still off-screen (thank god!)

This ep is really shattering. The show is superb. Thanks for the reactions!

My memory of Chernobyl is when I was playing in the sandbox when the rain came over my city in Sweden, very close to the nuclear power plant that got the first warnings about radioactivity “Forsmark”. Swedish government still takes readings on wild boars. And one thing I kinda do not like is that my area has one of the highest suicide rates in Sweden.

Hi from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Thank you for such a touching reaction and sincere sharing your internal feelings. This series is a huge step towards understanding between people all over the world. Feel like we are becoming closer emotionally through miles, years, legacy, language. My best friend died this year in his 34 from cancer and most likely the fact that his father was an active participant of those events in Chernobyl as a volunteer made that happened. He had no chance and time to see the series and your reaction video, but I’m sure he would be touched and would be thankful otherwise. Keep making such a great videos and good luck!

Just watched all four of these episodes. Really like your channel and hope to see lots more. Thanks

Actually in Soviet Union was 60 nuclear power reactors of different designs, and 16 of them were RBMK - the most powerful 3200MW, other designs were less powerful 3000MW and lower.

Greetings from Germany! Once again, I really like your reaction videos, especially those on Chernobyl, which made me subscribe 😊 This one was really tough to watch for me, I'm looking forward to other reactions after this 🙂

Nothing is more horrific than knowing how dangerous something is, and knowing the Geiger Counter was going haywire on the roof like that, it’s just that feeling of true dread.

Finally. Waited for a long time))))))

I am still left surprised even after a WHOLE year remembering that the scene on the rooftop was actually shot 90 SECONDS on the dot to give the most accurate perspective. Truly remarkable !!!

14:20 EXACTLY, and also they are here to teach that and help humans learn

Your thoughtful analysis is beautiful.. thank you

I had to write a 10 page paper on the psyche of soldiers during and after wartime. One man said that his soul literally left his body and when he got home it wouldn’t go back in. He said it didn’t want to be in the body of a murderer. Imagine that level of disassociation just to get through.

One of our neighbors was a "liquidator" at Chernobyl. He wasn't asked if he wants to go there. Since he came back he constantly wears a hat to cover his head from the sun and he told us to stay away from the rain, because there were radioactive dust particles in the rain.

Let's hope that we'll never get a second season. 😢

I remember I was in college when this happened. At the time we really didn't get a lot of information about it, just that it was very bad, far worse than the Russians were letting on. I remember it was years later that I found out they were doing a "safety test" - and did some more research into this "nuclear nightmare" and found out more and more about it. It is a remarkable, fascinating part of history!

When the Kat looks into the camera, there is a feeling that she sees through the monitor and looks directly into her eyes, it is a thrill of consciousness ))

Such a heartbreaking and yet at the same time wonderful reaction. You two are the best!

Finn Bálor reacting to Chernobyl? I'm ALL for it! Great reaction, guys.

Fares Fares. Great actor. Also leagsovs smile. So good and Stella Skarsgård. Rly good sceene acting during the lunarobot scene

That was a tough episode to get through. It was heartbreaking. The cleaning of the roofs was fascinating. 3,000+ men in 90 second increments, but they did it!

Yeah so it was Fares Fares! I was unsure at first and for some reason could not find the info when googling but now I did so it is :D

One more episode for you two. Episode 5 , in my opinion, is about the legacy of Chernobyl. The series started strong and ended strong...great script, acting, ...everything. At the end of the episode, I like how they show us a homage of images and information. It was a good idea to tie it in.

It was so godly deep and eerie when the chief of those bio robots said comrade solider you're done , and that's it they didn't give us info just left it for interpretation cuz maybe it meant you're done for job or done for good..

That was a tough one. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Really looking forward for you guys final episode reaction. :D

This is a very hard episode! I understand you. I cried when I saw the puppies. It is so unfair that animals always suffer from people

Kat and Sonny, I absolutely love your Chernobyl videos. Congratulations on your success!! Huge new fan of yours. 😁👌👍 Paul UK

I think this episode was the hardest of the 5 to watch, even harder than 3. As emotional as any, considering I love my cats more than any human! I feel you Kat. The best line was from Boris "We can put a man on the Moon, at least we can keep a man off a roof". But unfortunately, as we all know...

such a great show! cool to see you react to it!

This episode broke me 😢great reaction as always.

For respect for the show and people's who experience it..... Thank you for ur reaction

The 15 minutes of black screen in the end should've been fixed by now. It may take some time for it to update though. Total brain fart on my part, sorry guys! / Sonny

This is the episode I almost couldn’t watch. Seeing all those dogs get killed was heartbreaking.

There's a switch that flips in your brain under certain circumstances. When something has to be done, that must be done, that no-one else will do for you, or instead of you, and you physically can. Things like uniforms and orders ease the rationalisation, because they tell you that you are now in this category of people who do this thing, but that isn't the most important factor. Just being faced with something that has to be done, now, by you. You face the emotional and psychological consequences later, unless you're a sociopath.

Y'all are THE BEST. Howdy from Texas! Kat, hope your day got better.

I really like your reactions and yours emotions . My emotions is just only anger and hate , because I feel this system from inside. I don’t have words say how crazy this system been . Greetings from Latvia Latvia 🇱🇻

When I watched this episode, I was amazed by the detail. If you zoom in on then vehicle that delivers the German robot, you’ll see that the license plate begins with Y. This is the IRL way that license plates of the German military look like.

Love your channel! Been watching you two since GoT season 8. You have great chemistry and good potential as a humbled real reaction couple. Hello from Boise, Idaho in the USA. If you ever come visit the great northwest, let me know and i will hook you up with some great outdoor adventures. Thanks for taking time out of your lives to share your videos with us! I am at my desk every morning watching these and loving it :)