"Open Wide O' Earth" | CHERNOBYL | Episode 3 Reaction
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Around 18:54 instead of blurring the show y'all blurred yourselves 😂
LMAO 😂 whoops
@@HayloAndKiss hahahaha didnt even notice until i read this.
It's because of their tears blurring their eyes.
@@pickboaaLol, same here. I was concentrating on the Chernobyl video that I never noticed.
well, at least it was that scene, and not the dicks out scene LOL.
"Not shedding one more tear over this show" is a heck of a thing to say right before Ep4
and that's not even the end
@@daikikaminari6360 It's the end of that pledge for sure.
Sadly true. Sadly true
I wish I had 2 thumbs to give this comment.
Mmmmhhmmmm
The poor, sweet blonde girl is going to need therapy after episode 4. 😢
That episode is so soul wrenching
Sad but true.
Yeah, I saw the last reaction and I was like "oh she's sobbing at the ending of Episode 2 oh good golly geez this girl is not prepared for what 4's boutta bring 😭"
yeah, she picked the wrong episode to declare that no more tears will be shed.
Oh no, episode 4 :(
"I'm not shedding one more tear over this show"
Me: uh oh. (knowing what's to come still yet)
tear drowning mode initiated...
I agree it will not be one more tear, maybe one river is closer. @@cobrazax
The miner saying they're still wearing the hats makes me laugh every time. The line is funny, but it's also in character. It just seems like the exact kind of thing he would say.
Episode 4 is hard to watch but Episode 5 is one of my favorite episodes of anything I’ve ever watched. It’s incredible how well they tell this story.
I cannot wait to see their reaction to episode 5. It is one of the greatest episodes of television of all time.
Same, episode five is one of the best episodes of any show ever
This whole show is a masterpiece. From the acting to the music, everything is just perfect.
I agree. Part4 is tough.
I only got 3 wanks in that episode
@@epi4625 you know as soon as you say that to someone it doesnt become their greatest show of all time. Building hype for them
The nurses aren't protected "because they took the pills". The nurses are simply assuming the risks, any nurse that is pregnant or in vulnerable situation will not be assigned to those patients. But nurses are expected to take those risks in other situations as well, for example with deadly diseases.
Also, the iodine pills are meant to saturate your thyroid gland to prevent it from absorbing radioactive iodine which causes thyroid cancer. They don’t shield you from radiation in general.
That same thing even happened here in America in 2020 with Covid where nurses, operating with faulty or contrasing information and massive shortage of protective supplies, died at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than the general public. I don't know if the studies are out for '21 and '22 yet.
Nurses take risks, the families of nurses take risks, those risks are minimised but not eliminated.
They deserve more pay.
In addition people are not emmiting any radiation or if a realy low dose.
At 5:40 the “guy they’re talking to” is Mikhail Gorbachev the Leader of the Soviet Union and the man who ultimately dissolved it. One of the most powerful men in history who Voluntarily gave up his power and ended an era in history.
Why did he dissolve it
@@arminarlert1953 Because it was a failed state that was about to suffer a full on revolution by the satellite soviets. The SU had only kept existing with brutal oppression of the workers it claimed to protect.
@@arminarlert1953 He also realized that the Stalinist (i.e. communist) structure is not suitable for the new world that is embracing American-led capitalism. He (correctly) believed that a cooling of relations with the "winner" of the cold war is preferable to antagonism. Yeltsin failed to carry on this approach while ensuring Russian middle class stability for many reasons (including lots of alcholol), which evetually gave rise to the once populist Putin who sought to get back to Cold War relations...Leading to where we are today with Ukraine.
The dissolution of the USSR occurred due to a confluence of a flood of factors, influenced by actions of many, not just Gorbachev. Among multiple videos covering this see “Gorbachev's USSR: The Events That Led To The Collapse Of The Soviet Union”.
I've read somewhere that Ignatenko's condition in real life was much worse than what was shown in the series. He would choke with pieces of his own lungs and his wife had to pull the pieces out from his throat with her hand. Also Akiimov was way worse too, his tongue and face fell apart and he had to give his interview using morse code because he couldn't talk.
Don't ever be ashamed about crying over a tragedy like Chernobyl. A lot of people died and tens of thousands sacrificed themselves to prevent this from getting worse. They deserve your tears.
“Whoever they’re talking to…”
Mikhail Gorbachev guys
Lol this
@@davidpoole5595 I don't know why that's funny. how are people born 15 years after someone was Secretary General of a powerful union that doesn't even exist anymore... I mean, 1989 was an AMAZING year, historically, but... how old do you think these two are??? maybe if you're 40, certainly if you're 50, you should know, but... why are you LOLing this?
you get what I'm saying, right? we RECOGNIZE that the actor was made to look amazingly similar to Gorby, with forehead birthmark and everything, but could you recognize a photo of any world leader half-way around the world, who ruled fifteen years before you were born?
it's fun to laugh at others, but most of us should probably be laughing at ourselves, ya know?
@@evilchipmunk4090 relax, clown
@@evilchipmunk4090 same reason a person, of any age, should know who Mao Zedong is, or Charles De Gaulle, or Margeret Thatcher... by picture alone. It's a basic education of relatively recent history.
Lots of history happened before we were born, and we should probably know some of it, certainly from 20th century history. After all, we're not talking about some obscure figure from a thousand years ago, Gorbachev was a big deal, as was the USSR. It connects directly to what's happening in that part of the world right now.
That said... that they don't seem to know is to be expected, unfortunately. Culturally, we have the historical awareness of mayflies.
@@g.lowenklee2268 I guess what I'm saying is this...
I'm in my 50's, and although I know the identity and significance of everyone you listed, I couldn't possibly recognize every picture of everyone you say "a person, of any age, should..." in fact, my point is that elitism does precisely the opposite for you, personally, that you seem to think it does. as an astrophysicist, for example, I can easily solve complex mathematical equations that are impossible for many, but that does not make me a better person than them. furthermore, I do not have a specific set of physics or calculus ability that I feel you should be able to achieve, at a minimum. we ALL have gifts; we ALL have interests. we are ALL important.
exactly why do you arrogantly believe, that any person, "of any age, should know who Mao Zedong is, or Charles De Gaulle, or Margeret Thatcher... by picture alone." the amount of breathtaking egocentrism required for such a claim is ridiculous! do you believe that everyone should be able to SPELL Margaret Thatcher? you clearly can't! PLEASE consider thinking more, and consider typing less. laughing at others should probably not make you feel better about yourself. if it does, should we ask them if they can spell Margaret?
Poor Kiss obviously met the final boss of her makeup routine 😅
But I can't blame her. This series truly is something else.
1:58 Yes they did, because I'm still here. They saved tens if not hundreds of millions of lives including mine (I was 7 yo when this happened). Two of the three divers Ananenko and Bespalov are still alive. Baranov died to heart attack 2005.
I was hoping they would find this out after episode 5!
@@davenaldrich3985 I think they already watched all 5 episodes
fair point!
This show is all about bravery. for instance, I wouldn't be brave enough to show up to a coal mine in a powder-blue 3 piece and tell ANYONE "You WILL do this..."
LMAO!
For clarification purposes, the guy in reality was a former miner.
@@Neneset Yeah I'm sure it went much differently in real life than what was portrayed here. The producers made a pretty big deal about listing as many of those differences as possible, in the spirit of honoring Prof. Legasov's lesson about lies.
@@Annonymous0283745 The thing about lies is at the core of the show. Most people focus on the actual disaster, but that's "only" the backdrop for the actual message of the show - how lies will corrupt reality itself.
Or, in Legasovs words: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."
It's a very contemporary problem, and while the Soviet Union is no more, it has spread to most of society as part of infotainment, social media and the polarisation of almost all discussions.
I'm not sure if anyone has told this yet but one of the divers was actually interviewed by BBC about the show and on its accuracy. I believe it was Ananenko they talked to.
He cleared up sum things and said that none of them got any reward for the work. He simply said they just did what they had to do and who else could have done it, it was their job and they knew the place the best. He himself was on shift at the time and the other two was ordered by their manager to do it, so no random hero-volunteering-big-speech-moment like in the show lol.
Also no one clapped or cheered for them at the end like in the show. I still remember his answer about that scene: "It was just our work. Who would applaud that?"
Absolute madlad.
Kiss won't need to cry anymore, until they press play for Episode 4. She should get a sponsor from Kleenex. The visuals in this show were so well done, and I actually read they were mild compared to some of the actual images. Can't wait for the next 2 episodes and the next series they choose to watch.
Watch Chernobyl The lost Tapes, it's real footage the show is loosely based on it.
Yep, watched it.@@frankgunner8967
"Sponsored by Kleenex" definitely. This show is a brutal watch.
Oh, she’s going to cry some more after that episode. She’ll be crying at the end of episode 5 when they show old footage and accompanying facts.
@@JohnnyUtah15 "Accompanying facts", which are absolutely gobsmacking.
5:36 "I like that guy in charge"
That guy is Mikhail Gorbachev, the highest soviet leader at that time (and the last one). He was the most "human" out of all soviet leaders but still, he had to obey some communist doctrines to held it together. That's why some decisions might not make sense from western pespective but that's what communism was in practice - an art of political and economical bullshiting.
If anything, that's not communism.
@@AshanBhatoa is not it beautiful? If it's criminal, if it's like Chernobyl, if it's like Russia, then supporters of this criminal ideology simply say "That's not socialism/communism." You always have the shittiest excuse in your pocket.
My dear followers of this faith, there is not one country not a city, not a village and not a single street in which it has ever worked - there are only those who understand nothing but want to impose this crap on everyone else. If it doesn't work (what a miracle) we say as always, it's not communism and we don't mind continuing to screw people over.
@@AshanBhatoa Sure, it's not the textbook definition of communism, but it's what communism really is about. People are saying that real communism was never tried. And it's true. It never was and never will, because communism is not realistic.
He is bloody monsther
A few points of note:
Although Chernobyl is a fantastic show, it's not without its issues and one of the biggest is the implication that Lyudmilla is in danger from being around her husband. From my understanding of radiation, it is possible for the human body to absorb certain elements that can render it radioactive, but these emissions would not be high enough to pose any significant danger to others. As others in the comments have noted, whatever radiation Lyudmilla absorbed would have been from when she was trapped in Pripyat for three days with everyone else, not from tending to Vasily. The warnings of the hospital staff are historically accurate, radiation was not as well understood then as now, especially in the Soviet Union, but they are not scientifically accurate.
Also, the real-life Lyudmilla went on record objecting to the portrayal of herself and Vasily in the show, stating among other things that Vasily was always calm and dignified when she was with him, which was almost all the time. She also really did take care not only of him but the five other firemen in his room, which even the nurses and other staff were afraid and reluctant to do, they eventually resorted to ordering soldiers to do it, by her account.
For reference, 50 degrees Celsius is 122 degrees Fahranheit in that tunnel. In the end, they didn't need the heat exchanger, it was never even turned on, but many of the miners and others on site felt that it was far better to have it and not want it then the reverse.
The HBO makeup team actually came up with even worse and more realistic depictions of advanced radiation sickness, but it was decided it was too extreme for the viewers. Hence why we don't see Akimov's face. By the end he could only communicate with the aid of his wife.
The real-life Minister of Coal Shadov was nothing like his portrayal here, he looked like a coal miner in a fancy suit, because he was. He started off as a regular miner and as he rose through the ranks, he made numerous improvements to safety and other processes that gave him the eternal respect of the miners. When he told them what was needed, he was honest from the start and they agreed without any objection.
Thank you; this is an amazing show, but some of the inaccuracies (people with radiation poisoning aren't dangerous; they're incredibly vulnerable because they have no immune system) are pretty grating.
The reason Lyudmilla is holding her husband’s shoes in the end during the burial is because his feet were this grotesque mixure of bloated and liquefied and wouldn’t fit into the shoes.
Source: Tales from Chernobyl, the book this series is based on
I read it was a Russian custom or something
If everyone was as empathetic and sympathetic as you two, the world would be a kinder place I think.
Their parents did a good job with these two.
Compassion has a flip side. A mama bear has all the compassion in the world for her cubs, wanna step between and see how much she has for you?
The world world be a better place with more women in leadership roles.
@@ElectricRonin 85% of all female monarchs committed genocide. The language of power does not change with the gender of those who hold it. Grow tf up.
@@ElectricRonin There already are many, and they just perpetuate the same exploitation system as their male counterparts, Changing the people in power change nothing, the system absorbs them and if it can't it rejects them.
13:20 He obviously heard that you love him so not even 5 minutes later he showed you his... mining equipment
The thing to contextualize the miners and why they are how they are isn't just that mining is like any heavy industry and it's very definitely a team job- these guys and union leaders like your new friend were absolutely in positions of power- and they knew it. He's absolutely not bluffing when he tells the soldiers that they're not in control. Stahlin and his replacements all had very deep concerns about these men- because in the end, they provide something that your dreams of industrial power cannot live without. Coal, iron, all the spoils of the earth and the resources you need come from hard men like this.
They work in the dark, but they see everything.
I've watched so many reactions to this show, but yours is my favorite so far. This SHOULD make you feel emotional. It SHOULD hurt your heart. This story was an incredible tragedy and, at the same time, was full of "so many little heroes" and that's why people need to know the story.
And feel it. Because it's important.
Thank you for being open to the experience and for feeling it fully.
1.) At the end of episode 5, you find out the fate of those 3 men who opened the sluice gates...
2.) Despite the serious subject matter overall of 'Chernobyl', "We're still wearin' the f**kin' hats!" still cracks me up...
At least most of the dust from digging will settle quickly. Now bring in a giant fan, blowing radioactive dust into the air which you will breath in, and potentially stay in your lungs for months? years?. NO FANS! good call.
Back in the day when this happened, I was just your average 9 year old, living in the Netherlands. We had some severe measures taken; all milk from our cows had to be poured out, we couldn't eat spinach or kale that was planted and/or harvested from Dutch soil, and pharmacies started stocking iodine tablets - for, if I recall correctly, about 4 months. We actually got a massive radiation plume (the plume being massive, not the level of radiation). The radiation level being high enough to be dangerous if it'd accumulate in those products (which seemed to have some sort of affinity for it). Back then, what did I know, as a 9 year old, but it was the first time I've ever seen my parents somewhat scared. Later on in life when I got smart (well, okay, debatable...) and learned what exactly happened I realised we dodged a bullet.
Many people fear nuclear power because of disasters like this. It is important to remember that no western country uses an RBMK reactor. In the history of nuclear power, there have only been 3 major disasters. Nuclear power is remarkably safe and clean.
The issue is the scalability. It´s been safe and clean but it has the potential to wipe out a continent. No coal power plant or windmill will ever have that inherent risk, no matter how big.
Unfortunately the biggest power plant in Europe right now is at risk to be exploded by russian army
@@clarkmichaels822that is false. Look at all the wildfires caused by conventional power plants. A nuclear plant did not destroy Maui.
The fact is this particular type of reactor is dangerous. I literally lived on top of a reactor for 4 years.
@@havok6280the reactor type is not dangerous, they built it cheap is what made it dangerous. many "western" powerplants use almost identical cores and techniques. Today there still are 8 RBMK reactors working in Russia(Kursk Smolensk and St. Petersburg). With modified designs of course.
@@clarkmichaels822 That's a common misconception, nuclear power plants are actually safer than fossil fuel powered plants and modern reactors have multiple mechanisms preventing any kind of a disaster
In places like europe where there are no earthquakes or tsunamis they are pretty much untouchable
Hopefully soon the thorium reactor technology will get perfected and we will gain access to the next generation of even safer nuclear power (thorium is 3 times more common than uranium, it's safer to mine, can't be used to make weapons, produces 1000 times less waste while producing 100 times more energy and thorium reactors are meltdown proof)
There is a good reason why they don’t show akimov because what happened to him is horrific and almost indescribable. Although it has been said that what happened to him was a story about a different guy but I haven’t seen any evidence otherwise. Just beware what I’m about to say is beyond horrific. And please even take this story with a grain of salt.
A report and a photo I saw said this. His entire face was black and the skin on his face was rotting away and you could see the muscles in his jaw and mouth whenever he talked. His skin on his face and surrounding his eyes were disintegrating to the point where his eyes were bulging out of his sockets. I will never forget the photo that I saw. It is exactly as it was described. Radiation poisoning has to be without a doubt the worst way to die besides being flayed to death.
At the end of the episode, during the burial of the firemen, the actors are holding the real pictures of the Firemen who died at Chernobyl. Historically the firemen actually knew that something was wrong from the get go. The fire on the roof was dangerous because the roof was made out of tar that was flammable (which was a short cut that the builders used). the fire left unchecked would have spread to reactor building 3 and 2. The men knew this could get out of hand if it was not stopped. Their Battalion Chief (knowing it was bad) asked for volunteers only to go. All of the firemen got up and went. All of them died for this decision but those men put the fire on the roof out and saved the other 3 reactors.
well said. most ppl don't even realize that the plant had four reactors, not just one, with #5 & #6 being built, and ultimately a full dozen planned--but 5&6 were over half mile away from 1-4. (5 was due to come online a few months after unit 4 failed quite famously, and if I remember correctly, reactor 1 partially melted down 4 years earlier, in 1982, with other disturbing events two years later, in reactors 3 & 4, still two years before the event most ppl heard about in reactor 4, in 1986) if I remember correctly, mostly because of outside pressure following a turbine fire and subsequent failures, reactor 2 in 1991, then reactor 1, and finally reactor 3 in 2000, were finally shut down and years of decommissioning starting around 2013, or thereabouts...
the FOUR reactors of the complex have had a complicated and very disturbing history, much of which is completely unknown to most, and much of it happened long before 1986 when #4 failed. interestingly, the incident was SO expensive and embarrassing, that it probably was the most causative reason for the failure of the Soviet Union~~source, Secretary Gorbachev.
19:22 They couldn’t show Akimov’s face in the show cuz in reality he basically didn’t have one. The radiation poisoning had made the flesh and skin on parts of his head decay or fall off exposing his actual skull
I have never laughed so hard during a Chernobyl reaction. At one point I was weeping AND laughing at the same time, Kiss had me crying and then I look over at Halo and then I cracked up. That is one for the books! Hey, after this? SEVERARNCE! Only 9 episodes! Oh please, Severance, it's mindblowing! Great cast. You guys would do amazing reactions to that one!
+1 for Severance!
Lyudmila Ignatenko, the pregnant wife of one of the first firefighters who died, says she never gave HBO permission to tell her story and claims she's had to go into hiding due to media harassment. She spoke to BBC Russian's Olga Malchevska in her first interview since the series aired.
The ‘guy in charge’ was Mikhail Gorbachev, the Premier of the Soviet Union. In the 1980’s, he was essentially one of the two most powerful people in the world, along with Ronald Reagan.
He just passed away within the past year.
"Not great, not terrible"
The wife of the firefighter was in no danger touching him she was only effected by the initial exposer. She went on to re marry and have children.
The miners being brave and talking back is real. They were low class workers but they couldn't easily be replaced so they could get away with a-lot more than other workers.
And the BS tolerance of such hardworkers is naturally quite low.
So... about those firefighters not looking so bad in the first hospital scene:
There is this thing called "Walking Ghost" phase of severe/lethal radiation poisoning: Where after initial syndroms there seems to be a period of recovery, even feeling great and vitalized. All before suddenly and drastically taking a nosedive and having those poor souls basically start liquifying from the inside. A real horror to behold.
That doesn't actually happen though. Radiation can cause organ failure and severe cancer, but melting from the inside out is creative writing. But it helps to convey the seriousness of the otherwise invisible damage that radiation causes.
That "revitalized" phase is the the body saying to us that he's ready to depart.
Damn did you watch the episode too?!
Does that happen in chemo therapy?
chemotherapy is a _completely_ different thing. chemo suppresses any rapidly-growing cells, including cancer, hair follicles and digestive tract lining@@MyCLAUDIO123456
I have watched Chernobyl easily 5 times. It's one of my all time favourite shows, if not the one.
Felt a lot of things during all those watching times. Anger, anxiety, suspense, horror, and mostly sadness. But I never shed a tear (although most probably deserved).
But...your reactions, for some reason gotta admit, made me cry like a baby. It's like the anguish is palpable within you two, it looks really sincere. And that's what every reactor should aim to generate in us. Congrats and keep 'em coming!
I still remember when I was a child that every year in autumn the TV news warned to pick mushrooms at your own risk. In the east half of Germany the ground is still slightly radioactive.
Not enough to hurt anyone or contaminate plants, but mushrooms absorb radiation from the ground very easily, so they were still considered a health risk.
In Germany. Over 1000 km away from Chernobyl and more than 20 years later.
really appreciate your honest reactions! i love during the miner scene when you said "mom & dad watch this", "blur it" ahahaha you guys are so cute!
Love how you respect and love mom and dad. I would have been squirming if I was watching with my parents. 😂
"I am not shedding a single tear more for this show"... that's a bold statement.
I've watched a lot of reaction videos to this series. This one so far has been one of my favorites, if not my overall favorite. That is because y'all pay attention to what is going on. (or at least when one isn't paying as close attention, the other is. And vice versa.) Its annoying when people make comments or have questions, that have already been answered. But some reactors get so wrapped up in their own reaction, trying to come up with good dialogue, they often miss things. But y'all catching things like the fact that the KGB following them were the 2 at the bar from earlier, which gets missed 90% of the time by other reactors. Or y'all recognizing the fact that the latency period that people go thru in radiation sickness, where they appear to be recovering, was the period that the firefighter was going thru when his wife first saw him. That is also missed. Y'all recognized the sick guy as one of the 2 from the beginning who had turned on the water. Somehow that gets missed as well. Keep up the great work. I do feel for y'all, because I know the next episode will be one of the more difficult ones. Keep those tissues handy. 🥺
The empathy of Kiss is really something to admire.
Agree with you i really hate reactor who speak just for the sake of speaking and dont even put attention to the movie
Wonderfully observed. I just wish folks did less "prepping" or "get tissues" because its not like you got prepping and probably won't appreciate being told "what to expect" about any film/series/book or piece of serial story content...
"i'm not shedding one more tear over this show." those of us who know what's coming: "you're gonna need more tissues"
Kiss: "I'm not shedding one more tear for this stupid show!"
Me, knowing what happens next episode: *nervous whistling*
A whistling that may attract dogs..you know what I mean? 😅
Love your reaction. Love the passion and emotion. Thanks for sharing.
I love the reactions of both of these two 😂
One really feels the emotion and wears it on her sleeve, the other internalizes the emotions she’s feeling as much as possible and is motherly and supportive. The 2 best types of reactors/reactions that you want when you’re sharing a movie/show/song with someone.
Hope they keep reacting to stuff!
'What does that mean?'
'That it was built wrong?'
Kiss calls it in episode 3. Champion. ^_^
Loving watching this with the two of you. A person who can not cry or can not care enough to cry is incomplete. Its not embarrassing. It shows you have humanity. You're reacting to a reactor.. there's irony in there somewhere. Peace
To give some idea of how far the radioactive fallout from this travelled and lasted sheep farmers around Scotland which is around 1,300mi(2,100km) from Chernobyl for many years it effected our sheep and only stopped in 2010
"I'm not shedding one more tear..."
She may drown in tears next week. I'm not ruling it out
I don't blame you for not having much to say besides crying. Crying is an appropriate response to this story. I know this is months too late, but keep in mind that the world got through this. But it's very good to know the severity of the emergency and the level of sacrifice so many made to get us all through it. They are true heroes and deserve to be remembered.
The reactions of you two to this show are excellent! You react both to the humanity and emotion of the show, as well as to the details of what is being shown. Such a contrast with so many other reaction videos where people are just blabbering through it all or trying to show-off how much they know and getting half of it wrong. This is a show about the bravery of ordinary people ... when the time comes. Despite all the darkness, it is about hope.
Think of those 3 guys who operated the valves. They are without exaggeration of the biggest heroes in history. Saving literally 50+ million people.
The miners did a very good job, however we now know that it wasent needed becouse the Lava inside the reactor never reached the lower pad so the heat exchanger they installed wasent needed. But ofc they wouldent have know that back then and the risk was just to high to roll the dice. This ep hits hard as will the next so just be sure to stock up on tissues.
"I'm not shedding one more tear for this show"
Ep 4: "Are you sure about that?"
5:39 the guy in charge is Gorbachev
14:41 Nah, he was not one of the three water guys, he was in the control center. And if you don't shed a tear to this series, you are cooold! Love your reactions! Thanks for the uploads! 👍
'I like this guy in charge, whoever they're talking to.' Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. One of the most famous and influential figures in Cold War history.
Is that an actual Gorbachev quote regarding the leadership of the disaster mitigation, or is it just more Hollywood "artistic license", like that Khumyuk character that was created out of thin air to fill some bourgeoisie western "womens' lib" checkbox?
@@Felamine
* this show was not produced by Hollywood
* I strongly doubt the Gorbachev quote is authentic
* Khomyuk was not created to tick a women's lib checkbox, she was created for sheer convenience to keep the cast at a manageable level; having said that, there there were many female scientists, doctors, and nuclear engineers who worked at Chernobyl & Pripyat
I hate to be pedantic but it's "union of soviet socialist republics"
@@PV1230 oops yes,. my mistake.
21:08 when one piece of tissue won't be enough, let's hit the roll hard !
First time I laughed watching Chernobyl.
Stay strong Clarissa that's gonna be a bumpy ride !
The "I told you I'd show you Moscow" line plays like pure Hollywood, but it happened.
Chernobyl was filmed at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant it`s sister plant it to had an issue some years before....
she said no more tears 😢 oh dear...
Sometimes crying is the only possible and appropriate response.
19:10 Akimov, they did not show his face, because it had literally melted to the bone in some places.
Just.. mentally prepare yourself for episode 4, it's the hardest to watch.
I find this one to be the most emotional, but you're right that most people struggle with 4 the most. The one on the left in particular is going to be devastated.
Lies. Nothing can prepare you for Episode 4....
"I'm not shedding one more tear over this show" ... proceeds to watch the one with the doggies.
I have truly been enjoying your reactions to this spectacular mini-series. It is very genuine and heartfelt, a sentiment that I am sure would be appreciated. I do hope you finish off the series, though the last two episodes are arguably even more heart-wrenching than what you have seen so far, incredible as that may sound.
While terrifying, this show constantly highlights the best of humanity. So many selfless souls left in the ashes of history.
I saw the series a couple of years ago. Viewing your reactions made me remember my own feelings when viewing the series myself. All the information about this catastrophic event given in the series - and the political atmosphere around it - is kind of 'unbelievable' but it REALLY happened. Thank you for the genuine reactions !!
This is where understanding @3:33 radiation and contamination helps. The firefighters were largely contaminated from dust, dirt, and debris. This was removed when their clothes were removed so they were washed off. Three types of radioactive particles: Alpha is a helium atom and is stopped by a piece of paper, Beta particles are electrons and are stopped by aluminum foil. Gamma rays are most energetic and require least or concrete to stop. The firefighters were dosed with MASSIVE amounts of all three types and absorbed more through inhalation and ingestion. Meaning Alphas and Betas inhaled or swallowed are ALL being absorbed in the body. The gammas are largely exiting and. It being absorbed by the body.
Of all the Chernobyl reactions on RUclips, this is by far the weepiest.
16:40 this cracked me up xDD massaging your forehead from the stress
"Not shedding one more tear over this show" Oh boy, that's gonna age like milk after Ep.4
My father was a firefighter. He studied at the fire school together with those firefighters who extinguished Chernobyl. 1982 year of release. He knew many of them personally. Today this school has received the status of an academy and is called Chernobyl Heroes Fire Safety Academy.
I want to clarify a couple of points. First: temperature. Uranium-235 heats up when it comes into contact with air and can even burn. Therefore, in real life, fuel cells at nuclear power plants have a coating: aluminum, zirconium, boron. That's why in the last episode it was extinguished with sand. Reactor No. 4 contained more than 50 tons of uranium. And as Valery said in the last episode, 5,000 tons of sand and boron are needed. But sand cannot stop the half-life process instantly. So all this mass of metal and sand inevitably warmed up. In the series it was called "lava". A very precise definition. And yes, the temperature of this lava was about 2000 degrees Celsius. Even the concrete from which the building is built will not withstand such a temperature.
That's why divers were needed. There were huge water tanks in the basements of the building. Water was needed for the reactor cooling system. And these tanks were filled. And now imagine: lava heated to 2000 degrees met with a huge mass of water. Result: explosion. That's why the divers dived in the basement: to pump water out of the tanks. By the way, the water in the basement wasn't cold either. About 60 degrees. Quite normal boiling water. Also radioactive.
The third episode focuses specifically on the cooling of this lava. That's what the tunnel and liquid nitrogen were for. And of course the miners who dug this tunnel. Manually. And no, it's not a joke. Because the building survived the explosion. All load-bearing structures are broken. Heavy machinery, when used, creates a vibration from which the building can simply collapse. Therefore, only manually. Of course, the miners were not naked, but the temperature in the tunnel was really like in the Sahara.
Special praise for Hospital No. 6. The way nuclear power plant workers and firefighters died... Bravo. Very close to reality. The transformation of the irradiated body, the so-called "radiation burns", is especially plausible. And yes, the pain is really unimaginable.
The next episode will be devoted to "cleaning". And spoiler alert: it will be even worse.
Really do love you both for sharing your emotions. This is a major historical event and there is a lot to think about. Hope tube doesn't hate on me for being verbose.
That scene of the concrete pouring over the coffins is just such a gut punch for me. You said it - they're exiled, forever isolated from the Earth we all belong to.
So just to clarify why they say she can't touch him.
It's not to protect her, it's to protect him. One of the things that happens when you receive that much radiation is your immune system shuts down, so the slightest thing can kill you. He's not radioactive or anything and the baby would not be harmed if she is standing near him or touching him as long as he isn't contaminated. Which he wouldn't be because by then they would've washed him.
"Weiners everywhere"😂😂😂
Classic line😅
18:13 "Mom and Dad watch this", such a US American reaction - lovin' it 🤣😂 Be careful US Americans, European shows aren't censored (why would they be...).
Tysm for understanding the media culture in America and not automatically calling us prudes 😂💕
@@HayloAndKiss It's all good big love from Sweden!
"I'm not shedding one more tear over this show."
Little do they know that the next episode is the hardest, but it does get better after that. There are answers and a ray of hope.
exactly. they are going to be drowning in their own tears for the next episode.
but at least after that it stops being so horrid.
"I'm not shedding one more tear over this show." Hoo boy. Everyone who's seen the next episode will know.
This episode scared me FR. Watching these young men slowly die painfully while their loved ones can't do anything. Can't even imagine what sadder things really happened
"I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS... THERE'S LITERALLY WIENERS EVERYWHERE"
You guys need to get that on a t-shirt.
I may never stop laughing 😂😂😂
One of the main themes of this series, which you've probably noticed by now, is how the Soviet Government -- a communist government that practices a centralized command structure -- works. How their society works. Chernobyl is the driver of the series, but what is being put on display is Soviet society and government. When you ask, "Why did they do X?" or "Why was this allowed?" or "Why did they say that?" The answers are all because that was life in the Soviet Union. This series shows both the good and the bad. It tries to be evenhanded, or I think it does, but when you look at how things were there and remember, if you're old enough, how things were *here* in the West, you can see how far behind the Soviet Union is in so many ways. It was all the people there knew, and they did their best to survive, just as they're doing to this very day.
My father spent his childhood in a small town Alekseevka, 700km away from Chernobyl. They had toxic rains and mushrooms that were never growing in that area suddenly coming up in thosuands all over the place for 3 years after the fire. In school they were immediately given iodine pills and were told to take them daily a few times a day with regular medical check ups. And that was seven hundred kms from the power plant.
They didnt want to give them fans because when you breath in the radioactive dust, it accumulates in lungs, hence making you "dangerous". You basicly carry the radioactive particles with you
i love how they got to see the weenies everwhere. lololol
I am really enjoying your reactions. I know it’s been hard for both of you.
Don’t avert your gaze from things that are terrible or uncomfortable. They are the reality of the world, and deserve to be seen and beheld for the sake of those who lived through it.
This affected us all the way over here in the UK.. hundreds of thousands of sheep had to be destroyed because they became contaminated by eating the radioactive grass. We still have some farms contaminated with caesium 137
There is another Chernobyl Doc by HBO filmed around 10 years earlier in the Reactor room of Chernobyl and interviews with survivors... the 3 in the water ? on where they got out.
My ex girlfriend is from Lithuania, her brother in law said one day his dad was sent to Chernobyl never to come back... They were true heroes who paid the price of the USSR's incompetence
"THERES WEINERS EVERYWHERE, I CANT"
😅😂😅😂😅😂 you two are so cute
"MOM AND DAD WATCH THIS"
IM DYING 😂😂😂
To both the ladies on this channel "God bless her for her sweet compassion".
Form 'a tale of two cities' by Charles Dickens.😢😢😢😢
The very end of this episode really got me.....I haven't cryed this hard in awhile
Regarding radiation impact. It was pretty well understood by scientists for ~70 years, since radioactivity was discovered. Marie Curie, one of pioneers in studying radioactivity (two Nobel prizes) died because of illness, caused by it. And people continued to study it for years and years. Heck, they had plenty of material for their study after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it's not enough to study and understand it, you have to prepare and make all right measures to reduce impact to minimum in case of emergency. And many of common people were simply not informed enough, not to mention any training.
I get so stoked each episode
Bloody hell, I just made myself watch this show about a week ago and I'm binge watching it over and over ever since. This is a pretty damn great show with just a very few flaws. I am Hungarian, this happened not that far away from my country. I was 4 years old. Any footage I see of Pripyat always hits me hard. We have many similar looking neighbourhoods in the country as there was a Socialist regime here back then. Just imagine how would you feel if you were told you had to leave your home, and you have less than an hour to pack your most necessary belongings. Due to some invisible enemy you can never be rid of. Not a single tile fallen off of the roof, not a single window broken, not a single house collapsed or burnt down, as it was said in a Hungarian documentary made 3 years after the catastrophe. And you still have to leave your home. The ultimate unthinkable.
Akimov was documented as having a strong will to live and recover. He'd wanted to walk around, but was unable to do so. His bodily decay was so bad that his flesh had slid off his legs "like an old sock" per the records. By the time he'd died, his face was indeed "gone" to the point that his skull was nearly visible.
The guy in charge was Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow, the last president of the sowjet union. The is also a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work to end the cold war.
He also survived a coup by hard line communists the end his freedom & peace politic.
I really appreciate your thoughts on what Lyudmilla did in this episode. I've seen many reactors call her stupid and hate on her, but you're right that she doesn't really know the gravity of the situation. Plus, it's the love of her life--how could she not be by his side? Yes, she was told not to be there, but you're the first reactors I've seen that really have empathy for the choices she made.
This... is not the punishment for stupidity.
Maybe death in a slasher horror.
But there are worse things than death, and _no-one_ deserves them.