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It is really a great show. We lived close enough to Chernobyl that if the winds blew a different way we would have been seriously affected by it. And I remembe
by rdtsc 7y ago
It is really a great show.
We lived close enough to Chernobyl that if the winds blew a different way we would have been seriously affected by it. And I remember when it happened. The announcement on evening news (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWIIiTLbFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWIIiTLbFM). My dad saying "if that's what they admit to on the news, the situation is many times worse" and how we should all be very worried.
Then the refugees coming to our city, and how the locals had this irrational fear and hate toward them, thinking they were "radioactive" or brought "bad luck". The promises of new apartments for the liquidators, and how some, of course, never lived long enough to enjoy them.
Anyway, in the show, I think, they went above and beyond to make it authentic. Anything from the smallest details like the decor, clothes, the buildings, the things they say, the mannerisms, all of that. The lack of "Russian" accents, a common criticism I heard, never bothered me. Even the fictitious character of Ulana Khomyuk was very representative of what a woman scientist might have looked or behaved like. She reminded me of my chemistry teacher from high school.
- arethuza 7y agoI agree about how good it is - I don't think anything on TV has given me the same sense of existential dread since I watched Threads on the BBC when I was a teenager.
- andrepd 7y agoThreads is still on a completely different level. It depicts a catastrophic event, not a tragedy of modest proportions like Chernobyl.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoYeah, the winds blew in our direction. Shortly after, my family moved to Minsk, Later on, I had military training in radiation protection in post-Chernobyl Belarus, read the transcripts of Legasov's tapes and IAEA reports on Chernobyl. Chernobyl shadowed my life, but things turned out to be mostly OK. Back to the mini-series, even the faithful repoduction of the epoch is sometimes dumb. Notice the crystal clock on Gorbatchev's table. I had one like that at home, but I am pretty sure that clock would not sit on Gorbatchev's table. It's something people had at home, not in institutions. The sequence of events is roughly similar to what actually happened, but content is unnecessarily worse than the reality. For instance, the three divers that went through radiactive waters survied, one died many years later of a heart attack, one is retired and the third one is a director at the Energy and Coal Mining Ministry of Ukraine.
- mvid 7y agoDid you watch the end of the show? They explicitly mention that even though legends said the divers died of radiation, they didn’t, and two are still alive