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Chernobyl - HBO/Sky *Spoilers*

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    #122
    pedatron
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭pedatron


    Wibbs wrote: »
    It'll be interesting to see what they make out of the cliffhanger this week of the three lads going under the plant to manually switch the pumps on.
    It's a staple of the story and dramas and documentaries to say they all died horribly from radiation sickness, but the reality is all three survived and two are still alive, one still working in the nuclear industry, the third chap died of a stroke or heart attack I believe, but years later and worked in the same industry until retirement.
    Here's his story. Needs an oul google translate from the Russian

    The preview for next week
    showed the three guys back outside and looking pretty ok which kind of took away from the cliffhanger this week.


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    #123
    pedatron
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭pedatron


    Jessie Buckley also in this show. Another Irish actress. Apologies if its been mentioned already. She plays the wife or partner of that fireman who gets exposed to radiation and is searching for him in hospital. Doing lots of great stuff!


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    #124
    Slydice
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    pedatron wrote: »
    Jessie Buckley also in this show. Another Irish actress. Apologies if its been mentioned already. She plays the wife or partner of that fireman who gets exposed to radiation and is searching for him in hospital. Doing lots of great stuff!

    She's doing great. I didn't guess she was from Ireland.


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    #125
    gandalf
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    Just watched episode 2, wow some excellent acting in it. Jared Harris is excellent but Stellan Skarsgårds face when he realises the gravity of the situation is striking.

    The end scene with the 3 lads descending into darkness is chilling.

    The music and the sound is a massive part of the narrative as well and is excellent. This is by a long shot the best TV I have seen this year so far.


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    #126
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Where can I watch this?


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    #127
    gandalf
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    zweton wrote: »
    Where can I watch this?

    Sky Atlantic or Now TV.

    I'm using the 3 month special offer membership I bought for NOW TV to watch GoT to watch some series on NOW TV. I watched Westworld Season 2 and then noticed that this popped up and watched it blind, and boy was I glad I did.


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    #128
    Anteayer
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    It's also on Sky Go


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    #129
    Tokyo
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    gandalf wrote: »
    The music and the sound is a massive part of the narrative as well and is excellent. This is by a long shot the best TV I have seen this year so far.

    Indeed. I found the use of the geiger counter clicks quite unsettling. Very akin to how the motion trackers were used in the Aliens movie to generate tension in the audience.


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    #130
    Hurrache
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    Very akin to how the motion trackers were used in the Aliens movie to generate tension in the audience.

    Exactly the comparison I thought.


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    #131
    2smiggy
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    it's good to listen to the podcast after, with the shows writer. Discusses the previous episode, with what was real, and with what they had to make up. Interesting stuff !!


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    #132
    plodder
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    Is it possible to download the podcasts as an mp3? I can't see a way to do it from youtube.


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    #133
    lawred2
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    really enjoying it

    and I believe they've stayed really close to real events which makes it all the more harrowing


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    #134
    ondafly
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    plodder wrote: »
    Is it possible to download the podcasts as an mp3? I can't see a way to do it from youtube.

    they are available as podcasts - currently listening to them on overcast, also available on apple podcasts and even podbean

    https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/u249z-8de2a/The-Chernobyl-Podcast


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    #135
    extra gravy
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    plodder wrote: »
    Is it possible to download the podcasts as an mp3? I can't see a way to do it from youtube.

    It's on Spotify if you have it


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    #136
    plodder
    Registered Users Posts: 7,140 ✭✭✭plodder


    extra gravy wrote: »
    It's on Spotify if you have it
    I can use spotify or youtube at home or in the car, but when I go for my lunchtime plod, it has to be old-school mp3. Got it off podbean.


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    #137
    Butson
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Butson


    Sensational TV
    Well done Sky + HBO

    Absolutely chilling stuff


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    #138
    mickdw
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    I cant believe this happened as recent as 1986.
    I was 7 at the time and while ive known of the event for as long as I remember, I always assumed it was something in the distant past.

    I also assumed the effects of the radiation would be much more damaging - confusion between atom bomb and radiation leak I guess. I honestly thought the firemen walking into the plant with the reactor burst open would be hit by an invisible force that would instantly kill.
    I thought the exclusion zone would be a wasteland but it looks perfectly normal apart from being deserted.

    Great show though.


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    #139
    Hurrache
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    Wildlife are actually thriving in the exclusion zone these days.


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    #140
    Hector Savage
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    Hurrache wrote: »
    Wildlife are actually thriving in the exclusion zone these days.

    Yep, animals have relatively short lives, so cancer doesn't really matter.
    Even in the red forest they are thriving, and that area is still really hot.


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    #141
    Hector Savage
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    recyclops wrote: »
    ahh to be fair to the writer he even says on the podcast and in that article you quoted that whilst being heavily run by men the one aspect were the soviets could be viewed as ahead of its time is in science and medicine so having the composite character female makes sense.

    we could be cynical and say its nothing more than PC Nonsense but when you read the below quotes its makes sense that the character is female where as most others we see are male.

    "Very few women were ever in the kind of overall ruling political body of the Soviet Union," Mazin told TV Take. "But one area where the Soviets were actually more progressive than we were was in the area of science and medicine, particularly medicine. The Soviet Union had quite a large percentage of female doctors."

    Smithsonian.org wrote in 2013, "Between 1962 and 1964, 40 percent of the chemistry Ph.D.s awarded in Soviet Russia went to women" compared to America's five percent. And as of 2012, the U.S. still hadn't achieved that 50-year-old statistic. "

    "The 2014 study "Women's Participation in the Medical Profession" also noted how, "Russia differs from much of the West in that since the 1950s, women have comprised approximately 70 percent of the physician workforce."

    Actually yeah, after hearing the writer he does make a good point - good podcast too actually!


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    #142
    zweton
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    gandalf wrote: »
    Sky Atlantic or Now TV.

    I'm using the 3 month special offer membership I bought for NOW TV to watch GoT to watch some series on NOW TV. I watched Westworld Season 2 and then noticed that this popped up and watched it blind, and boy was I glad I did.

    What nights or has it finished already on sky atlantic?


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    #143
    The Specialist
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    zweton wrote: »
    What nights or has it finished already on sky atlantic?

    Tuesday night, episode 2/5 was on this week


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    #144
    Big Game
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    Best show I've seen on TV the last couple of years. Found the accents jarring in episode one but had got used to it by the second one.

    Soundtrack is excellent, really discordant and unsettling, you can nearly feel radiation seeping out of your telly.

    Was in my teens when it happened so remember it well and remember the drip-drip of information slowly coming out. Brought up a lot of talk about the Windscale accident at what's now Sellafield in the UK and was what a lot of cancers and birth defects along the east coast and particularly in Louth were blamed on. Nowhere near the same scale as Chernobyl but worth looking up if this show is interesting you.


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    #145
    how.gareth
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    Has Barry keoghan been in it already? I havnt seen him


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    #146
    The Black Oil
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    Drumpot wrote: »
    I also thought it was great showing how quickly Boris learned to trust Valery. "Why was there graphite on the roof", loved it when he called out the chancers who thought he was thick when he arrived.

    That was key. Nothing like some plain facts to sharpen the focus ahead of Party Official™ ballsology and soviet vision. I thought their interaction was as powerful as geiger counter aspect at the end. Boris had so few words and his response still conveyed an awful lot. Skarsgård stole the episode, really. I liked the scenes where Ulana had the brief stealthy phone call about the periodic table, visited the former shoe factory bloke and then later where she had the plans (figured out the water the thing) knowing exactly what was hitting the fan. Those brief moments like the guy with the baby in the hospital were chilling too.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

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    #147
    Itssoeasy
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    How is Anatoly Dyatlov depicted in the show ?


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    #148
    Itssoeasy
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    I've not seen this show so far but I get the impression it's very well made. My favourite I've ever seen on the Chernobyl disaster was the Zero Hour where they had Russian speaking Actors and did a good job of getting actors that looked as close to the actual people as they could.


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    #149
    2smiggy
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    how.gareth wrote: »
    Has Barry keoghan been in it already? I havnt seen him

    I think episode three is when he first appears


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    #150
    2smiggy
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    I've not seen this show so far but I get the impression it's very well made. My favourite I've ever seen on the Chernobyl disaster was the Zero Hour where they had Russian speaking Actors and did a good job of getting actors that looked as close to the actual people as they could.

    yes it is very very well made, only two episodes in and definitely worth watching


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    #151
    Jurgen The German
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    Excellent TV.

    For anyone that has in interest in the possibilities of what could happen in the event if a nuclear war, check out Threads. It's a 1980s BBC commissioned docudrama. It is as terrifying and sobering as any "horror" movie I've ever watched and I've watched a crap load of them. Its available through various other sources and Severin Films released it on blu ray last year.


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