Chernobyl miniseries - coming to Sky and HBO in May 2019

[Quint]

Great how the recreated real footage!

 

[Nitefly]

Enjoyed the series. Not the best thing I’ve ever seen but very enjoyable.
I liked that they had Trevor from Eastenders as the head of the miners. Kept thinking he would freak out and want to pour gravy over everyone. Instead he just got naked...

That’s what happens when you send Trevor to a nuclear disaster: Chernobyl fallout.

 

[Converge]

That’s what happens when you send Trevor to a nuclear disaster: Chernobyl fallout.

Mwahaha. He’s certainly let himself go a bit in more ways than one!

 

[adam cool dude]

Mwahaha. He’s certainly let himself go a bit in more ways than one!

Technically he got fitter as Chernobyl predates getting it on with the Slaters!

 

[PlacidCasual]

Well I’m up to episode 4 now and I’ve mighty impressed. Beautifully filmed, great cast and a solidly paced plot. Really captures the tension and the loss so well. Everything a good mini series should be. Sky should be so proud of this production, shows some real maturity as a production company.

 

[Subzero85]

Entire 5 episodes were a great watch, really enjoyed it, make up and visual effects of the first responders and the plant workers effects from the radiation was horrifying

 

[adam cool dude]

Well I’m up to episode 4 now and I’ve mighty impressed. Beautifully filmed, great cast and a solidly paced plot. Really captures the tension and the loss so well. Everything a good mini series should be. Sky should be so proud of this production, shows some real maturity as a production company.

Nothing to do with sky it is HBO who did it.

 

[roge8014]

Nothing to do with sky it is HBO who did it.

It was co-produced by Sky and HBO (along with 3 other organisations)

 

[Adnams Drinker]

Binge-watched this over the weekend. Yes, it's a dramatisation, but it's incredibly well-made and just straight-up one of the most engrossing and grimly fascinating things I've ever seen.

All the more chilling because it's dealing with an event that actually happened in my lifetime - I was 16 and in my first year at sixth-form when the reactor blew.

 

[robfosters]

Documentary on Sky Atlantic tomorrow at 9pm. The real Chernobyl.

 

[Junglist]

Documentary on Sky Atlantic tomorrow at 9pm. The real Chernobyl.

It was really interesting and again drove home how much worse this could have been

 

[Dougsnake]

Documentary on Sky Atlantic tomorrow at 9pm. The real Chernobyl.

Thanks for the heads up on that was interesting to see and hear from some of the real survivors

 

[tom_e]

Documentary on Sky Atlantic tomorrow at 9pm. The real Chernobyl.

I'd forgotten about this, going to give it a watch before the clan get home this evening.

 

[caff]

Fascinating series, very well made, solid acting. Some incredible stories told within it, especially the work of the divers and miners to prevent what could have been a truly global disaster. You can only admire their courage.

 

[Diddums]

I've always been absolutely mesmerized by Chernobyl. I didn't want to watch this because I feared it would have Hollywoodified the story with little reminder to how bad it really was. When I say mesmerized, I can remember reading books and watching videos on it yonks ago, despite it happening when I was two years old.

Boy did it deliver. What is arguably one of humanity's saddest moments and largest screwups in history has been done justice. They didn't cover the cold war / propaganda aspect and the political motives behind keeping it quiet but in comparison to what it did bring to light, it was pretty much a side story. A few little details threw me off but they were for the greater good and didn't really detract from the whole story, so I can't complain.

I've also learned so much already, naturally I need to verify every little detail due to my fascination with it and my ridiculous obsession with poking holes in everything but it's a 10 for me.

Absolutely spectacular and extremely sad at the same time.

 

[Sankari]

So... I'm keen to see this because it's HBO and their production values are outstanding, but the poor science is bugging me like hell, and I'm worried that it'll ruin the whole thing.

Plenty of knowledgeable people have already picked it to pieces, but Thunderf00t's analysis is arguably the best:

I'm not a particularly scientific person, and even I could spot the laughable errors identified in the first 2 minutes of this video.

 

[VincentHanna]

You should read the comments on that video, for once they are accurate.

He is misinterpreting what the show is getting at, and in a very condescending and annoying manner

 

[ZG002]

Show is accurate to the subject matter at the time, that's the science they believed and was reported back then. So show is correct for period.

The fact some of what was believed back then has since been proven incorrect doesn't mean the show is an incorrect representation of the incident.

Guys just jumping all over it for clicks.

 

[Diddums]

Agreed, he’s really coming off as a bit of a bell end to be honest. As many point out in his comments, what we know now is vastly different to what they knew then, and he’s applying today’s logic and lessons to a disaster which is literally described in the show as “the first time something like this has happened on this planet”.

@Evangelion you’ll be selling yourself short by not watching it, the lessons taught and the accuracies far, far outweigh the inaccuracies.

 

[Sankari]

Show is accurate to the subject matter at the time, that's the science they believed and was reported back then.

No it's not. Nuclear scientists of the time knew perfectly well that nuclear power plants don't explode like nuclear bombs. Chernobyl happened in the 80s, not the early medieval era.