Chernobyl

[NannaNoodleman]

Bloody hell! We've just watched episode 1. That was intense.

I'm a bit shocked.

Lonecat- can you link to a wish list?

List link. I bought pants, socks and reusable bags. When the children are here they are taken to the dentist, optician and receive medical checks and return with a years worth of vitamins.
Thus is the link to the main charity that explains how little these children have and how difficult their lives are.

That last one was intense.
I would definitely like to help the Wooly Hugs for their Chernobyl projects. I feel very moved to help in any way I can.

The puppies 😢😢😢

The last episode was amazing, this should win every award going, I was gripped, shocked, tearful, amazed and everything in between

The last episode was incredible. I've just finished it and feel stunned. I was 24 when it happened but this series has finally helped me to understand exactly what occurred.

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It was so good.

That last episode is horrific/amazing/heart breaking... the details of how it played out.

The epilogue ... all of those people on the bridge, the miners, the conscripts!

That last episode was probably the most intense piece of television I've ever watched. I feel stunned. We've sat in total silence since it finished.

Devastating.

This series surely has to win a hatful of awards. So, so good.

Best drama I’ve watched in a long time. I recommend the podcast too. I was only 10 when this happened so a lot of it passed me by, it’s just shocking to see how it all happened.

Amazing series. Deserves to win every award going.

Paul Ritter and Stellen Skarsgaard were fantastic. In fact they all were. Great casting and superb acting.

Such a devastating thing to happen, was very upsetting to watch. Those people who gave their lives to save millions.

I felt truly humbled

That final episode was a masterpiece. Brilliant acting all round, brought all the strands together and finishing with what happened to them all in real life. Couldn't have been done any better.

@ExpletiveDelighted couldn't agree more

That last episode was brilliant.

Can't believe I didn't realise the 'bad' guy in the control room was the dad from 'Friday Night Dinner!' 😆

I can't stop thinking about them all. I've got the podcast cued up to listen to on the way to work this morning. Then I think I want to watch the whole series again.

Can't believe I didn't realise the 'bad' guy in the control room was the dad from 'Friday Night Dinner!'

Same. He's such a brilliant actor. I always recognise him from something but can never put my finger on it til I look him up.

As for Chernobyl, I think it's one of the most amazing pieces of drama I've ever seen. Well done to everyone involved.

Astounding television. Jared Harris, on his own, in the middle of an empty bathroom, acted his socks off.

The other actors were all amazing too, and the soundtrack. The sequence with all the workers only allowed to spend 90 seconds on the reactor roof is one of the most quietly horrific scenes I've ever seen on the screen.

They say in the podcast how it was essentially ‘lucky’ that it happened there, as they had a population of people who would do what they were told, give their lives, for the community and the Party. And the culture of ‘counting lives’ so that 3 people to save millions was not even really a consideration.
If it had gone worse at 3 Mile Island, or Windscale, the US/UK governments would never had made these sacrifices and shit would’ve GONE DOWN

Its was quite powerful to know that even Gorbachev himself admitted that Chernobyl was the likely cause of USSR collapsing.

The series was hard hitting all round and the cast were amazing.

It really highlights human naviety and arrogance.

Legasov commiting suicide really got me though.

I was surprised at the final episode did not go into any further details of what happened, the sarcophagus, then the second one that was placed over the plant.

And what became to the main players (some of whom lived til a good age)

But those thousands and thousands of conscripts who paid with their lives, such a tragic consequence of Chernobyl.

The programme on the whole was very accurate, but the cast was superb, and it will win many awards.

The Midnight at Chernobyl book (which I mentioned before) is truly terrifying.

The scene between Stellan Skarsgard and Jared Harris outside was sublime.

@Toodamhottoday, I thought they might mentioned that too but on one of the podcasts the writer says that he wanted to focus on telling the true story of the incident and the human reaction rather than the story of the reactor later on as that had been done before in several documentaries.

It makes sense and I think to go into that would've taken away from the human story.