Chernobyl

Pleasant viewing it’s not. But in terms of capturing a time and place, the five-part miniseries succeeds on every level. ... HBO’s extraordinary retelling of what went down in Pripyat and the then Soviet Union at large is its own reward for now -- and a certain multiple trophy winner during next year’s awards season.

Chernobyl is a series where you will have to remind yourself to unclench your jaw and un-tense your shoulders while watching it. It is heartbreaking and intense, and a hell of a thing to watch the day after Game of Thrones. But it’s also necessary.

Chernobyl really is a horror movie: not just about errant technology, but also a maleficent portrait of an ideology that denies the existence of error.

It doubles as a warning about who pays the cost when the hard facts of science butt up against political agendas, whether decades ago on the other side of the Iron Curtain or here and now. Some bad decisions have half-lives that last for centuries.

One cannot commit to watching “Chernobyl” without understanding how tough this viewing experience is. At the same time, the performances turned in by Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jared Harris are passionate and nuanced enough to compel the tough viewers to gut out the squeamish parts. And this story is vital enough to make one hope the world has a lot of tough viewers.

There’s precious little humor, pitch-black or otherwise. Some will call this a bit of a slog. They won’t be wrong. But this five-part autopsy has more on its mind then just recreating a snapshot of IRL horror in the name of attracting subscribers and awards-season kudos. Yes, you may raise your eyebrows regarding the pedigree of those telling this story. Yet both they and the cast innately understand how this accident was able to metastasize into something that almost decimated a continent.

Director Johan Renck take an event unlike any other in human history and turn it into a creaky and conventional, if longer than usual, disaster movie.

This is my favroite tv show. In my opinion, there is not a single down minute of the show or a time where I thought I wanted to turn this show off, or this could was not needed in the show. I don't think there will ever be a "perfect" show, but these 5 episodes of TV are the closest that I think we will ever come to a perfect show.

****

Debo ser idiota, por que todo el mundo adora esta serie y a mí me pareció aburrida hasta decir basta, y mira que el tema me llama la atención. Supongo que debería volver a verla.

A mixed bag of a series with multiple faults attached to it. Craig Mazin is an idiot that blatantly lied about current political landscape in regards to reactor meltdowns. Claiming that Chernobyl is the worst nuclear event to happen AND ONLY time a meltdown happened in the initial podcast before this series was released... when **** is the most current, and the worst nuclear event(s) were Bikini Atoll, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan has covered up dumping radioactive water into the ocean, and the radioactive dust that has been spread throughout Japan. Everybody that lives there, or stays there temporarily is being exposed on a daily basis, and will inevitably develop cancer, thyroid issues, and the possibly of mutations. Extremely relevant with the happenings at ****, but the idiot of a director, and anti-Soviet stances severely hurt this miniseries. There is a blatant disregard to the evil deeds the USA and Japan have done and that affects this rating immensely. Politics aside Episodes 1, 2, and 5 contained the best aspects, and contained the horror, despair, and the important bits that you could probably attribute to modern events. It is a shame that this show seems to portray a dire situation in a negative light with criticism of handling a national emergency that the west had no involvement with, therefore they should have held their tongues.

deception of scriptwriters, and substitution of concepts. blackened everything, people, country, life. the memory of people smeared with dirt. it would be a pity if anyone believes in this false film, and so does not know how it was. the film speaks at the end of hiding the truth, and they themselves deceived all viewers