I'm watching it as the episodes come out...and I'm LOVING it! superb acting and very well written. I'm also listening to the related podcast :-) this is one of those shows that make tv history (in my opinion) . Thanks for the interviews BAFTA guru

@@natural91LC I agree with you 100%, especially about making tv history. I've never been so gripped by a series. It's horrifying because it really happened. Episode 3 had the most horrific scene I've ever seen and I'm 51 and have seen a lot of horror films.

Yes. Brilliant show and actors!

My family and I are watching and each episode rips our guts out anew. It is compelling, horrifying, and tragic to have a glimpse into the trauma the Ukrainians suffered, and all of Europe.

It’s such a good series. I’m loving it.

*Graphite

I was going to say the last season of GOT deserved a 3.6 but actually it was pretty terrible.

@@capo328 I see what you did there:-)

@@samarvora7185 I see graphite on the floor.

@@GreyWind You're delusional. There is no graphite on the floor. Get yourself to the infirmary.

"Good work everyone else, nice try, terribly sorry about the timing, but we're just all out of BAFTAs."

Golden Globe?

So true

They will probably give awards to Game of Thrones, like always, popularity wins awards

@@leoprese0 you cant say chernobyl is not popular

Agree, they both actually played great! Emily played wonderful as well but I don't like the idea of creating fake character just to satisfy some group of people(we all know who they are)

@@alexrybkovsky4648 I don't look from this point. I understand that it is a dramatization. So I'm fine with historical inaccuracies. The problem is that at that time I didn't see a lot of bright Soviet scientists to compare Legasov and Khomyuk. But I've seen a lot of Soviet bosses and party chiefs. And Shcherbina in "Chernobyl" is very genuine.

@@alexrybkovsky4648 Fake character, yes. However that character was composed of several scientists (some of them were women).

Alex Rybkovsky it’s nothing like that at all. The character was there as a composite of hundreds of Scientists (Scientific community in general) that worked behind the scenes in solving this problem. I have no Physics knowledge (though I did take high school Chemistry), but I would imagine Chernobyl would be a good subject studied in Physics courses in Universities and Colleges, because of the well documented real world effects.

@@victorx4648 ..Стеллан - это отпад головы!! Я 74года, помню всё тоже. Блин, Стеллан - просто наш человек!) Отличная работа!

Which it was already after episode 2. Now, i love the show, but concluding best of all time before it's all said and done, is kind of dumb. This show is indeed really well made, and quite realistic, has superb acting, and i thought episode 2 was a 10. But, it's quite normal for a "underdog" show to receive a lot of love, and especially when it releases in the midst of the dumpster fire which was season 8 of GoT. Some people are voting Chernobyl high as a middle finger to GoT. It's the small low budget show up against the mammoth. Chernobyl needs to really show off some serious skills in the last episode to be consider better than Band of Brothers, which is without a doubt the best tv mini series ever made. If we bring in seasonal shows as well. Is Chernobyl really better than The Sopranos, Deadwood, Breaking Bad and The Wire? No. But it is indeed a great show so far.

@@FabledGentleman i think the ratings show that the series hit a special nerve. chernobyl isnt that much in the past and nuclear energy is still a thing so more people can relate to the subject. i mean... the most of us have, at least once, seen a nuclear power plant. near my hometown was one... people like what they can relate to.

It is absolutely deserve this

Well deserved. It is a masterpiece.

OFF ALL TIME!

Whatabout the Razzies?

Oh shit.

Maybe they can show in the theater so it can be up for a Oscar?

Its a mixed bag; I would say its a pretty harsh critique on russian government but a tribute to the russian/ukranian people.

Totally agree, this will win a lot of awards.

I can't stop laughing thinking about this!😂

Rat Sallad kinda agree. Sad, init. But I also feel like these kind of actors take so much pleasure and pride from the fact that they’re matured and cultivated character actors and no one recognized them as they move from roles to roles, a sign of a really great chameleon. No stardom would ruin them like these young actors fresh from drama schools and flung into fame unprepared.

Their relationship is one of the only bright spots in this series. The series is great, but so dark, but the chemistry between these two is awesome.

@@safespacebear Very true. When they hugged I smiled a little. The whole story is so BLEAK.

Stellan Skarsgård plays a detective in "River."

He does a classic character arc and all portrayed by a class actor. The scene where Legasov says they've both got at best 5 years to live representing the "peak" of that arc. Skarsgards non verbal acting is a masterclass.

Agreed!! Emily Watson was amazing too!

"We need a new phone!" :)

Familly of genius Him : Chernobyl and more Son 1 : Vikings and more Son 2 : Castle Rock + It and more Son 3 : True blood amd more

father to the crazy clown, Floki the boat maker and Eric the vampire lol

3.6.... it not great but not terrible

I'd give it 15000/3.6

Its not 3, its 15000

Masha would give it 12000

Firman Rosidi the Germans would give it 2000/3.6

I'm not here for bromance or anything. Just more scenes with these two together. Their amazing chemistry in 5 episodes is better than a friendship built over a season or more.

All the actors were amazing.

I loveeed seeing them become true allies

He DID sound russian.

Idk why but some Swedish people can be really good in pronunciation of russian letters. Look at Pewdiepie

russian here, losing my mind over how good that sounded

Lol he even said Boris right. Cuz most non-Russian people pronounce it as BÓris, which isn’t correct. BorÍs is the way you’re supposed to say it, like Skarsgård here :)

Both of them have an excellent russian accent! As russian, I wonder it. And other actors and people who made this mini-masterpiece deserve any high awards!

I was born in August 1986 in East Germany. My parents told me how worried they were regarding my health (Mom is a nurse by the way). And I feel grateful beyond my words ...

When he dropped the plate I wanted to give him a hug more than anything

And Boris stands up and overruled the court: "Let him finish". I cheered in my living room.

100% agree!

You should watch Homecoming. Also a miniseries, also very, very good.

They have both mentioned that the script was GOOOD. So with d&d it was lazy writing...

@@user-mf6bt2dh8o Such a shame. First 6 seasons were phenomenal, but the incredibly dissapointing ending tipped the scales for me, emptied my mind to be filled again with genius of Chernobyl.

Haha 😂

LMAO:))) That show was great until very last season lol:)))

Yeah Chernobyl is very good, but it's already over :(

Jared Harris stole Robert Downey Jr's movie on as Moriarty on Sherlock Holmes. He was oustanding, every time I see him now, I know I will see an amazing thing. He was good on Mad Men, but I loved him on Mad Men when I re-watched It after sherlock holmes

Jeff Young no “the” in “travel to Ukraine” please :)

Ragnarok it’s not grammatically correct. “Not unlike almost” is though you russian troll. Putin huylo

Had a Russian bride, eh ?? ;-)

yea, the visuals are probably the best thing about this series. im not sure how or where they filmed it exactly, but the environment and the way people look is spot on ussr 1980-s

It’s the Where Eagles Dare switcheroo: exactly how Lew Grade conned Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood to be in the film with each other.

You want to call them out for being duplicitous, but when the end result was so damn good, you really can't...

you're overreacting so go fuck yourself.

@@reianvase6683 aw is the baby mad? Awe youw dwagons better

All the scenes they are togheter are amazing

Same!

3.6...not great, not terrible.

It’s not a rating of 3, it’s 150000.

HAHAHAHA

Means the highest too. :))

You can do better than recycling dialogues.

Whenever I finish an episode of Chernobyl I find myself very upset, so I watch clips of Stellan in Mamma Mia. Two very VERY big contracts.

You should check series River with him, amazing performance

@Benito Riggio I couldn't believe he played General U.S. Grant in Lincoln. I had already seen the movie when I found out he was in it and had to go look. He completely disappears into the character. Loved him in Mad Men. His character was simultaneously pathetic and hilarious.

Skarsgaard is one of those actors I never recognize. It’s odd.

also the pervert from Nymphomaniac

"They gave the propaganda number, it was never going to work." It was a real turning point in his character arc.

‘I DON’T GIVE A F--- I WANT THEM TO HEAR! TELL THEM, TELL THEM!’ ... ‘We’ll need a new phone’

TELL FUCKING GORBACHOV!!! TELL HIM!!!!

Not Only Ukrainians but all Soviet Union people. Millions

Definitely not entirely historically correct.

@@Wilantonjakov go on.

@@Wilantonjakov nothing major, they moved some stuff up the timeline like the helicopters. They downgraded how people actually looked like affected by the radiation. Some of them had no flesh on the bone in somw parts, 3/4 of their faces melted down, walking corpses literally.

@@DrRhyhm You're right, nothing major. I actually think that Toptunov looked like a walking corpse, and even more so, Ignatenko (firefighter.) They didn't show Akimov, but apparently he was the worst, with half his face melted away. However, there were a few things, most notably the way the Soviets acted was not very believable whatsoever. First of all, in the first episode, that radiation burn from the firefighter picking up graphite- wouldn't happen that quickly. It would start to eat away at his skin 12 hours - 2 days later. Just a little nitpick. Also a nitpick is that there was no thick black smoke above the plant after the explosion. The big one (which was intended) was the fabrication of Emily Watson's character, Khomyuk (I think that's how it's spelled?) Historically, she didn't exist. She was made to represent the many scientists that helped Legasov. The one I have the most problem is the portrayal of the Soviets themselves. In Episode 2, the Central Committee member Boris Shcherbina threatens to have Legasov shot if he doesn’t tell him how a nuclear reactor works. There are a lot of people throughout the series who appear to act out of fear of being shot. This is inaccurate: summary executions, or even delayed executions on orders of a single apparatchik, were not a feature of Soviet life after the nineteen-thirties. By and large, Soviet people did what they were told without being threatened with guns or any punishment. In the episode where the miners are recruited, it is made out like the Miners actually had more power, socially, than the 'minister for coal'. The soviets were cruel and calculated but they never acted like fools. The 'minister for coal' was literally a pushover. In reality, every Soviet minister would have their way or there would be consequences. More often however, we are supposed to believe that the three men who were put on trial-and especially one of them, a particularly unattractive villain by the name of Anatoly Dyatlov-are to blame. We see him strong-arming younger, better men into actions that will ultimately lead to catastrophe. All because, it seems, he wants a promotion. But in reality it wasn’t the carrot of a single promotion, or even several promotions, and it wasn’t one nasty and abusive boss. It was the system, made up primarily of pliant men and women, that cut its own corners, ignored its own precautions, and ultimately blew up its own nuclear reactor for no good reason except that this was how things were done. The viewer is invited to fantasize that, if not for Dyatlov, the better men would have done the right thing and the fatal flaw in the reactor, and the system itself, might have remained latent. This is a lie. I loved the show, but there were definitely historical inaccuracies and these are some of them. Again, nothing major, but notable nonetheless.

3.6 roentgen? Well thats not great but not terrible either .

a billion trillion billion bullets...

@Raga Dely THERE IS NO GRAPHITE ON THE GROUND!!!! do you want the KGB to remind you of that??

NapoleonBonaparte - I swear this show has many meme-worthy moments... "THIS MAN IS DELUSIONAL. TAKE HIM TO THE INFIRMARY"

Nick Hunter billion trillion bullets? I DONT SEE IT. He’s delusional, take him to the infirmary.

Yeah right? To be honest I ship them a bit hahaha

Not sure that would have happened in reality.... Maybe it did 🤷‍♀️

@@ThelemaTherion haha :D you know what, that's kind of sweet actually

@@irishcountrygirl78 You're right...but I hope it did, it's just such a nice gesture

@@missylissy200 l just don't see that happening with them being a Russian Scientist and politician lol... Maybe 🤷‍♀️. It would have been lovely yes.

That makes both of us

Damn. I've never made the connection between Richard Harris and Jared Harris. Amazing. It makes a lot of sense. Brilliant actors.

Also It’s father

Quinlan IM FLABBERGASTED

Don't forget he's also Pennywise's dad. Damn, what a family.

Viktoriya Padurya согласен, просто потрясающе!

Is it true that russians making their own version of Chernobyl?

@@hemantagarwal6279 Yes we have. Serial called "Moths". Tons of videos, documentaries also available on youtube. This serial from HBO is fine, costumes, decorations, acting are - very very well done. A lot of things in series off course far away from truth but main idea is to show how bad socialism/communism is. And i didn't get the main point of series... I'm looking forward to watch HBO serials with truth about 9/11 or about "incident" at Three Mile island nuclear plant on 1976 for example.

Виктория. Вы называете сериал Masterpiece. в некотором роде -да, но вот это посмотрите - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZqhhruSup6xYqM.html

HEMANT AGARWAL, unfortunately, yes

Not to mention the directing and cinematography.

Errol Badenbroek the female scientist is actually fake, HBO added her to represent all the “hidden” scientists who helped out. I loved that addition btw

.....hes delusional, take him to the infirmary

Yeah 1000%

And Mad Men. He joins the show in the second season iirc.

if u wanna watch Valery Legasov tryna manage a ship while gay Vasily Ignatenko evolves into the villain watch The Terror

Belter Loader. The Expanse

Terror is amazing, but the book was better!

what are you talking about? You can clearly hear his Swedish accent when he acts in Chernobyl.

MrErikxxon I noticed a different accent here too

It's only slightly different. I think in Chernobyl he's using a British-Swedish accent while his normal one is more American.

This is his real accent, Swedish not American!!

His English is TERRIFIC whatever anyone may say. Fools non natives without a single problem.

stellar skateboard

He damn well should 👍

Do these guys look like the wheren't alive in '86?

Great for the generations born decades later. To reteach and never forget.

Agreed the whole way around - have you watched "Breaking The Waves" with Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård? That's a trip and a half

Where can I find the podcast?

@@cynguzman itunes, podcast apps, hbo website, youtube. Definitely worth listening to

Not even in Yugoslavia.:))

And then he looks outside the window and sees the Soviet children running around in the street, just a few kilometers away from the open nuclear reactor. One of the many moments of absolutely *perfect* visual storytelling in the show.

@@MrConstantine02 Good nowdays with PC games and children on safe in their rooms. :)))))

Since it's television, it would be an Emmy.

A little premature happiness for what was to come next 😔

At least somebody (from all this "enlightened" commentators' posse) got it right here - kudos! And Hell with all this "Art Nuevo" pro-Ukrainain [Uestern] bias!

закрой рот, коммунист херов. какие "советские граждане"....

Советскии граждане, потому что СССР была настоящая страна и они в ней жили. Люди которые говорят что ликвидаторы были Советскими гражданами не коммунисты - они лишь соблюдают закон причинности, который вы похоже не понимаете. Так вот вам примеры: я вышел из дома, значит я снаружи дома; я живу в стране, значит я гражданин этой страны. Я понимаю что вы думаете что одна война, которая длится с 2014г, автоматически удаляет всех которые работали над АССР-скими проектами и не были Украинцами, но увы так настоящий мир не работает.

Lies.

This is how an RBMK reactor core explodes...Lies

If you stall the reactor, just press choke (az 5)

Им всё равно, к сожалению . . .

heynong man

Which moment?