"We're still wearin' the fuckin' hats" is such a great line at that moment. The smile it causes in the midst of all the horror in this episode is precious.
@Nybbl er don't want to be a hard person. I want to be assertive, capable, and dependable. Don't really see how putting myself in mortal danger is a prerequisite for those traits. But if it is I think I got that covered.
at 9:09 she said "I can see the Red Square .. it's beautiful" and of course that's not what she was looking at ... He promised that he would take her to Moscow one day, but she lied about the view to cheer him up. 😢
Another nice little touch: she tells him that she can see St. Basil's (Cathedral), which (at least in the show) she cannot. But she's not looking out the window when she says it. She's looking at him. And his name is Vasily, or Basil.
18:46 Am I the only one who thinks this lovely reactor looks striking similar to the fire-fighters wife? She not only looks much like her, I’m convinced she would have done the same. Tears😢
This story is personal to Alex Ferns who plays the lead miner, he believes a family member was one of the many unregistered victims caused by Chernobyl. His uncle worked for the Scottish water board and had to work outside, often in rain, despite raising concerns. He and his colleagues all died of cancer, none of them reached 50 years old.
I wonder how many people have died from cancer related illnesses which were brought on by the radiation that crossed Europe....If this had not happened ..would those people be alive today?.....would their cancers have stayed dorment?.....It is something I have thought about after I watched the series when it first came out. I lost my partner of 24 years to cancer in 2017....Would she still be here if Chernobyl had not happened?.....makes yeah think..certainly makes me think.... And like Ferns uncle, we are in Scotland.
@@Bodneyblue The likelihood of someone in Scotland being directly killed by Chernobyl is not impossible but incredibly unlikely, by the time the clouds reached us they had deposited 99% of anything that was in them and were fairly benign, the only reason they banned things like milk and cheese for a while is because they come from grass eaters and grass is where radioisotopes, if any, would find their way into humans. After checking livestock regularly they found radiation levels in them that were no higher than normal and so we got our dairy products back.
@@Bodneyblue Sorry to hear about the loss of your partner. It certainly makes you think, I remember seeing on the news at the time the radiation movement that crawled its way to Scandinavia and around to Scotland. My parents told me to stay in but I can't remember for how long. (I was based in South Wales at the time) It could be the cause of high rates of illnesses, or possibly just another factor that added to it to go with leaded paints/asbestos/general air pollution.
For every minute of every hour that reactor was left to burn out of control how much radiation was released into the earth's atmosphere. How many governments around the world or the countries directly effected especially in Europe covered things up .How many hundreds of thousands of people died of cancer as a direct result of this catastrophe.
Ep.3 and Ep.4 are quite horrifying, but the payoff comes in the finale. I couldn't stop watching. It's one of the most remarkable pieces of television ever broadcast in my humble opinion..
@@richmeister22 for me 3 was but 4 was bad also. 5 is just something so special, the way it's contrasted the way it's delivered, all the pay off from the previous 4 and how it loops back... just masterful story telling
For me it was this episode, episode 3, which was the worst. A fellow human being on a bed, looking like that…, I was in absolute shock. To be honoust, episode 4 didn’t come close for me, horror-wise.
"She was a fictional character" - yes, technically... you'll find out in the end-credits that the filmmakers acknowledge almost all of the 'licenses' they took. "She" isn't so fictional as an "amalgamation of numerous characters", a device to shorten introduction times, and allow the audience to focus on their deeds under a single mask.
Later, when you finish and you read criticisms of the show, the most harsh one is the Firefighter's Wife who was indeed pregnant and endangers hers and the baby's health. Her criticism was that the filmmakers 'never talked to me' and 'my husband didn't turn blue or transparent.'
@@ollietsb1704 Indeed. She freely admits that she was young and naively held on to the initial tale that the firefighters were merely poisoned by fumes and would recover, but it's not really noted that she worked tirelessly to try and maintain the morale of her husband and his crew as they were dying. I think the show did her a disservice in their portrayal, although it's kinda minor, to save onscreen time. No spoilers but there's a pithy moment later in the series where Lyudmila's fate becomes the topic of conversation in a discussion about the cost of lies, where the science is spiced with fiction to push the narrative. The irony is palpable...
Fictional is fictional. I know people want to justify her because the show is really well made. But she is so over the top best at everything with exaggerated ability and bravery.
@@ollietsb1704 They also portray her as getting sick and killing her baby due to her being close to her husband. However even though her husband was mortally affected by the radiation, he was not a source himself and couldnt make other people radioactive.
That's a lot of unnecessary words when just two will do. Those being "woke propaganda". It's ironic that HBO made a show preaching about the cost of lies while resorting to their own lies to support the politically desired narrative. The USSR felt their narrative was worth lying for too. That character makes this entire series an absolute joke.
A lot of the background music for this series was actually sounds from a running nuclear plant. The coal industry actually had a lot of power in the U.S.S.R. They had nuclear power but most of the Soviet Union was powered by coal so if those guys didn't do their jobs, the country would screech to a halt. That's why the Miners didn't take any shit.
The miners were very tight, very loyal to each other, and they were many. I don't know about the situation in the USSR, but in Romania where I'm from, the regime feared the miners. They feared that if the miners start a revolt against the regime, it will be bloody and the rest of the country will follow their example.
The real sad part is HBO had to tone down the effects of radiation sickness to be able to air it on TV. When the guys who have no problem airing Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers and The Pacific say you need to tone something down, you don't wanna see it!
They decided to tone it down so it didn't turn into a glorification of gore. They showed just enough to get the point across. Also, when Cassie said she'd just beg to die, the men did. The soviets knew they would die and could have euthanized them, they didn't. They deliberately kept them alive so they could study the effects of severe ARS. That is a special kind of messed up...
@@wemustdissent They didn't show Akimov when she interviews him. His face had rotted off his skull while he was still conscious. They also tone down some stuff from the next episode.
@@NiteOfTheWorld this is a good resource, though the understatement of certain elements makes me mildly suspicious of certain statements he made in comparison with other statements made by individuals who were not as directly involved with the State response, it's still valuable insight.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 how do you know his face had rotted off his skull if it wasn't said in the show? That doesn't sound like it was toned down to me.
Miners are ALWAYS tough mothers, no matter what they mine or where. No matter the language, no matter their life up until they became miners.......as soon as they take up that helmet and that pickaxe, they are among the most tough workers on this planet.
You should read the book “Voices from Chernobyl”. The real Lyudmilla Ignatenko tells her story about the explosion, her husband and her baby in that book. It was the first time I ever cried while reading.
I think this episode had my favorite line. When they are talking about the miners. " Don't lie to them. These men work in the dark. They see everything."
@@mscheese000 A good example is the whole 30 kilometre radius being completely destroyed if the molten material reached the water tanks. You can't make the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon by dropping molten material into water. In reality there would have been an explosion as the pressure rises, yes, but localised to the reactor. It would have certainly made an awful situation even worse, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as destructive as the script says.
This episode was the most important one for me because as terrible as the events were, there were countless people who faced pain, suffering and inevitable death head on to save others. I admire their bravery, I could not do that, I think.
That woman who stayed with her husband was a hero. She didn't know about radiation or what it was. She thought it was just burns. While the nurses didn't dare go near the patients much, she stayed and was there not just for her husband but for other men too and helped them eat and drink and stayed with them when they died. Yes she endangered her baby but she simply didn't know about radiation burns, almost nobody in the public did know much about how radiation affected people back then, or what it does to DNA.
Yes. It should remindes us to stop using Nuclear Fission reactors. We also have no idea what to do with the waste which is radioactive for thounsands of years.
The scene between Emily Watson and Jared Harris when he goes to collect her from the KGB was filmed in an actual KGB prison in Lithuania. The cell was sloped to be filled with water up to the knees, so that the occupant could never sleep.
HBO put out a miniseries years ago called “From the Earth To the Moon” about the Apollo moon missions. It was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Definitely worth checking out.
Generation Kill is another must-see HBO miniseries. It’s about the initial invasion of the Iraq War and how it was all one giant clusterfuck from the very beginning. Despite the morbid setting, it’s surprisingly quite funny. It’s been said that’s it’s the most realistic depiction of men at war and as a result, it can be a tough watch at times until you realize they don’t actually mean all the horrible things they say; it’s just their way of coping with the stress and anxiety of being at war. Oftentimes, the series feels so believable that you think you’re watching a documentary. I think the recent pull-out of Afghanistan makes the series even more relevant than ever before as America’s hubris is laid bare for all to see.
Though I agree that Generation Kill is an amazing series and it’s one of my favorite shows ever, I feel like it wouldn’t appeal to people who know little about the military and aren’t too interested about it.
The ending of this episode always gets me. The funeral scene is so powerful. It both conveys the helplessness of the ordinary people and the foolishness of the whole catastrophe. And it also speaks about the courage of those who knew they wouldn't come back, but still took their duty at heart and sacrificed themselves for the greater good. There are a few mistakes in the series like the idea that irradiated people are themselves radioactive. They aren't. The reason why they don't want to touch them and why they are protected by a plastic tent is because their skin becomes permeable and the first thing destroyed by radiation is immunitary system. If you contamine them with a bacteria, they will have no white blood cells to fight off the infection. It was done for dramatic purpose, but I think it misleds people.
I highly recommend the first season of True Detective. It's easily some of the best stuff put on TV and Mcconaughey's performance sticks with you. Then again, he was gifted a golden script. Each season is it's own self contained miniseries but only the first one is good and worth watching. It's REALLY good.
This was the most revealing and terrifying episode. The hospital scenes were so shocking I had to stop snacking. I still can't believe this show didn't win for best makeup. On a positive note the coal miner foreman was my favorite guy. He reminded me of a boss I had when I was a teenager, no BS serious kind of guy but witty and funny.
@@IdealUser That not a bad idea. But the two other seasons may seem like a waste of time after watching them out of order. You look back and think "damn those really sucked, I want that time back!"
You may not be interested, but one of the most impressive miniseries HBO ever made is about NASA's Apollo programme, From the Earth to the Moon. It's well worth a watch
Sharp Objects, Mare of Easttown, Watchmen, From the Earth to The Moon, Show Me A Hero,, Lovecraft Country, John Adams, Generation Kill, The Night Of, etc. - honestly, throw a dart at practically anything HBO makes and you're bound to be impressed.
Oh. Yes. Excellent. I say that as a Brit. It's fascinating to see the genesis of the USA. Paul Giamatti is one of my tastemakers - along with Andy Serkis and others. I'll watch anything they're in because I have come to trust their tastes in scripts.
I had a cousin who was a Liquidator in 1987..he passed from bad radiation sickness...But before my dad moved me and him to Germany...my dad moved us to Germany because when I was 6 years old when the Russian Army inavded my country Ukraine...I was a victim of the 2014 conflict..I seen a lot of stuff no child should see and because of that I developed Complex PTSD and Severe Depression...my uncle stayed and is part of the Ukraine Swat force and he guards the Entrance to Chernobyl and he goes into the Exclusion zone...
What isn't mentioned is that even if you somehow manage to survive the initial radiation, your immune system (bone marrow etc) is so ravaged that you don't have the ability to stave off infection that easily enters the body through the dead and damaged skin etc. Dyatlov was freakish in his ability to stave off radiation poisoning. He had previously had a relatively severe dose of radiation while working installing nuclear reactors in Soviet subs (it is claimed that his exposure led to his son's development of leukemia and eventual death, but this seems mostly conjecture), and despite taking a dose at Chernobyl that would kill ~50% of people, he recovered.
@@saviourself687 I like to think that him somehow surviving is the universe’s way of karmically punishing him by making him live with his guilt of his decisions for years instead of dying a quick death, but I guess that’s the cynical side of me.
Who else feels like Cassie and her sis are like good friends with whom you love to watch movies with? I got into the whole reaction thing seeing people react to Chernobyl, then I found Cass reacting to 1917. Now, she's reacting to Chernobyl. Full circle! Cass, you're the best!
I grew up in an industrial area I know some people like those miners. This is the best depiction of tough working-class people I have watched. May are not be very educated but literally can see through the bs and politically correct jargon like an x-ray.
The miners are a very particular breed, especially those who lived under the Communist regimes. The party treated them with suspicion, that's hinted in the series by the armed guards that accompany the Minister of Coal (even if in reality that particular guy was respected by the miners because he used to be one of them). The regime feared that if the miners start a revolt, it will be violent and the rest of the population will follow. That's why the miners are introduced with their leader making a joke about the regime. Any other person, even a career politician would have suffered dire consequences for even trying to attempt such a thing. Heck, even if someone reported that you might have made such a joke, you landed in prison, or worse. I know that because I lived under that regime.
Humor is so natural to humans that even concentration camp prisoners, faced with death that could come at any moment, joked about what they would be served for dinner or announced, among themselves of course, that they had no appetite.
Generation Kill is really good, although it's pretty rough in terms of language and stuff. It's based on a non-fiction book by a reporter that was embedded with a bunch of marines during the invasion of Iraq in 2002.
This is such a great series! When you get a chance, you should watch From the Earth to the Moon. Its another phenomenal HBO mini-series about the space race and the Apollo program to land humans on the moon.
@@colinkeanful S2 was pretty underwhelming especially when people were so hyped about S1. S3 overall was not bad. McConaughey was just on another level with his performance.
I'll add my voice in for the HBO miniseries "Generation Kill" about the recon battalion of the 1st Marine Division during the 2002 invasion of Iraq. Or, if you want a longer but still manageable show (36 episodes), take a look at Deadwood, an excellent HBO show about the camp-turned-town of Deadwood South Dakota during the mini-gold rush to the area in the late 1860s/early 1870s. LOTS of profanity, but very good storytelling and acting throughout the series.
Shows w/ multiple seasons aren't really tailored for reaction channels. Such a shame because Deadwood is one of the greatest television series ever made. Right up there w/ The Wire & The Sopranos. Shouldn't stop her from watching it on her own though. - Edit - also wouldn't call it a mini gold rush. The "Homestake Mine" of Deadwood was the largest and deepest gold mine in the United States and mined gold from its discovery in 1876 till 2002 (126 years).
+1 for Generation Kill. It would be very interesting to her reaction to it. It is the same formula as BoB and the Pacific while also being extremely different in tone.
@@tykellington based off the thousands of reaction channels, including most of the largest reaction channels on YT (Blind Wave, Normies, Nikki & Steve React, Married 2 the Real, Akasan, Brandon Likes Movies, etc) that all react to multi-season shows, and do so quite successfully, I'd seriously question the validity of your statement about multi-season shows not being good for reaction channels....but agree to disagree I guess. As for calling it a "mini" gold-rush, I'd agree that the gold vein discovered there was massive, but the rush to get to it wasn't nearly as large or as well-known/documented in American history as the California gold-rush of the 1840s (especially in what passes for history classes in American public education), which is why I called it the "mini" gold-rush. I guess "lesser-known" might be a better term for it.
This series has a podcast as well over spotify, so you can listen to the podcast of every episode to get more about the historic details they included or left out.
6:35 Pretty sure the woman spy is actually the woman who asked him in the bar if there was anything to worry about--so they were watching them even then, and if he hadn't lied, they would've reported it.
Deadwood and the Sopranos, while not miniseries, are peak television experiences from HBO. Two of the shows that truly pioneered and shaped the modern golden age of TV, and as far as I can tell almost nobody has reacted to them
@@oneilprovost2287 Deadwood ended prematurely but it was brilliant before it's time and ironically got bumped because the network was moving to "prestige television"... which was exactly what it was. It has since gained a cult following and modern audiences have grown to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is
I am a 52 yr old man and when this show aired originally I was glued and just as emotional as you are, this is the only show to make me feel unsettled in the last 20 years, and that 20 years ago moment was during the opening 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan
Just adding my voice to the From the Earth to The Moon miniseries, just remember that it was designed to be a continuation/supplemental to the great movie The Right Stuff, so if you haven’t you may want to watch that classic movie first. Also the John Adams miniseries is a good one as well.
The Right Stuff is great. But I seem to remember they made this series shortly after Apollo 13 (the movie). Wasn't it an extension of that rather than The Right Stuff?
@@orarinnsnorrason4614 Sort of. I think the idea to do it was inspired by working on Apollo 13 but it's not strictly speaking an extension of it in the sense that you have to see one to enjoy/understand the other. It can even be a bit confusing if you have, as not only are there several characters that are played by different actors in both, there are a couple of actors who are in both but playing different characters. The same is true of The Right Stuff as well, there are some characters in that that are played by different actors in both Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon, and at least one actor who's in Moon and Apollo but portraying different people. I'd definitely recommend all or any of them though.
@@orarinnsnorrason4614 You are correct. Ron Howard, director of Apollo 13, also produced From the Earth to the Moon with Tom Hanks. It is directly linked to his film as it describes the Apollo space program. The Right Stuff was about the Mercury space program.
"is he gonna die?" i don't mean this in a disrespectful way at all, but i honestly envy people like you. u seem like a kind soul- take care of yourself
@@Hunter4042012 it's sweet. but through the years I've realized my anger towards people, in this area, stems ffrom envy. my upbringing was harsh so it makes sense
You are weathering this better than I originally expected. I have been a subscriber for some time and in that time you have become more seasoned to this type of thing and I mean that in a good way.
The reason Lyudmila is holding her husbands shoes is because in real life when they dressed his body for the funeral his feet were so swollen that they couldn't get his shoes to fit and he was buried barefoot. Also if you're into the HBO miniseries stuff, a severely underrated show is The Night Of that basically where Riz Ahmed got his start
@@phila3884 There is a documentary about what really happened, and the true events are way more fucked up and gruesome than what is depicted in the series.
4:30 "I feel like it's gonna take years.... to clean up." You have no idea how right you are. The cleanup is still going on today, and will continue for the foreseeable future.
The thought that keep going through my head when watching this: "This happened. This really happened. Not to these characters, but to someone real; it happened".
My grandmother worked at the institute of biophysichs in Minsk when the explosion occured. And they also located the rapid increasing of radiation background in the city. The first assuption was that something has hapenned with a "training reactor", that was located at the facility "Sosny-2 (Pines-2)" in 10-12 kilometers (6 miles) away from Minsk. She told me, that next day she meaured the radiation emiting from the clothes she weared the day before, and it was so high thta she just throw it away. Ananenko, Baranov and Bespalov avoided major consequenses of their heroic act under the reactor. Baranov died in 2005 because of heart issues, Ananenko and Bespalov continued their work in variuos nuclear institutions in USSR and later in the Ukraine. Ananenko retired in 2018, Bespalov is still working, in 1992 he even came back to the station for a while, it is still operational. In 2019 all three of them were awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. P.S. I live in Minsk, on the street named after Vasily Ignatenko
The three men who went into the basement lived a long and happy life afterwards. Two of them are still alive. One still works in the nuclear industry. One died of heart failure at 65, heart failure not uncommon among chernobyl liquidators, but it should also be noted that heart disease in general is high in the former soviet union, due to a combination of alcoholism, poor diet, smoking, stress and other stress factors. Life expectancy, especially among men, dipped noticeably after the fall of the union across the former soviet union.
You should watch "From the Earth to the Moon." It's the HBO miniseries Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg did prior to "Band of Brothers." It's about the Apollo moon missions, and it's fantastic.
Thank you. As always an interesting and insightful reaction, and I too am one of those watching "Chernobyl" because I saw you had reacted to it. I know a lot of the general facts as I was in grad school in '86 when it happened. I picked up a Washington Post most days then to try to follow along, but information dribbled out of the USSR slowly, and the news wasn't always reliable. And now uncontrolled wild fires seem to be spreading low level radiation through the region, as far as Kyiv.
The amount of pain those firefighters must've gone through would most likely be worse than any pain you'd imagine. I feel sorry for the souls who died there.
Not so fun fact about the guys that had to into the water: they had no flashlights in real life. They were expected to navigate to the valve and back using only their memories and sense of touch. Edit to add: there's a great 5 part podcast series about the making of the show and they go into detail about some of the creative liberties they took. It was on par with the show IMO. It's called the Chernobyl podcast.
Really makes you understand why it needed to be plant workers, to be able to know the layout well enough to make their way in the dark, otherwise they could just have sent someone else with a map or instructions on which numbered pipe to follow.
Well also thankfully they actually lived quite long lives. There was a rumor that they all died like 3-4 days after they went in but that apparently isn't true nor was the water up to their waist. It was only up to their knees from what I have read.
I have watched this series many times all ready. Really remembering news from my childhood about that. Im from Finland and Chernobyl is 1500 km away from us, but part of Finland where im from got hit by radiation from there. It was scary back then.
The three volunteers actually lived for quite a few years after the event, one of them died in 2005 from some heart related issue, the other two were alive at the time of making of the miniseries and the Ukrainian president awarded them for their heroism.
I have to say I was looking forward to this reaction more than any other so far. In fact I have actually gone on and watched all of the episodes off the back of your first reaction. I knew this would be hard for you it was for me too, those poor men. I can not wait to see you react to the final 2 episodes of this. Love your channel. At the moment my favourite watch on RUclips
Other commentators probably mentioned this already, but at the end of this series there is a sequence with videos and photos of the real people and facts about them. It is an important part of watching this series. I mention it so you won’t miss it. I remember this event like it was yesterday because the news covered it a lot and slowly began to realize how big a disaster this was..for all of us. If I had one thoughtful moment of praise and prayer for the Soviet Union, it would be the Soviet people who fought desperately to save us all in this event.
I'll repeat my recommendation for the Tom Hanks produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. Start with his film Apollo 13, then watch the series. Educational and inspirational. You've had enough tragedy for a while
@@PopcornInBed Zero Hour - Season 1, Episode 1 - Disaster at Chernobyl aired 2004 filmed in Chernobyl Reactor 3 ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=zero+hour+chernobyl+disaster interview with a plant worker.... The Chernobyl disaster - the severe days ruclips.net/video/nbCcutzXzYg/видео.html&ab_channel=andree965 This film ^^ shows the terrifying images captured by the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko on scene at Chernobyl those dreadful days in April 1986. Shevchenko later died suffering from the radiation he exposed himself to. Although his name is not among the official casualties of the accident, this last tragic film of him keeps his name alive forever. Chernobyl - Official list of the 31 direct deaths ruclips.net/video/F2gnooj2xac/видео.html&ab_channel=djmixsound
@@PopcornInBed INSIDE CHERNOBYL REACTOR 4 CONTROL ROOM | Full Power Plant Tour ruclips.net/video/rh7gXlXqI64/видео.html&ab_channel=ForgottenWondersUrbex
@@PopcornInBed Footage of Chernobyl Reactor 3 being shutdown in 2000 and the the "" AZ-5 "" button being activated.... ruclips.net/video/rh7gXlXqI64/видео.html&ab_channel=ForgottenWondersUrbex
@@PopcornInBed Interview with Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov, ex deputy chief engineer of Chernobyl NPP after he was released from prison in 1991. ruclips.net/video/qpLEm8KosMg/видео.html&ab_channel=JutiHark%C3%A1lyfi
On the bright side, if I remember correctly, the body horror is over. There's none of it in the last two episodes. But there's still some other bad stuff in the 4th so you're not out of the woods yet
"I feel like it's going to take (many) years to clean up". They just finished encasing the plant in a second concrete sarcophagus five years ago. Cleanup is expected to be around 43 years from now, after which the nuclear waste stored inside is expected to last roughly another 60.
@@forrestgump5959 Being a Communist and running a Fascist type government. You wouldn't DARE step out of line. A Commissar would have you in KGB custody very fast.
Not HBO but another AMAZING mini series is the German series Generation War (originally "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter"). It's WW2 from the point of view of a group of 5 young German friends and it is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking and I love it every bit as much as Band of Brothers
I'll suggest another true event series, Manhunt: Ubabomber. Might not be as climatic as this series, but a good telling of the search and capture of Ted Kczynski.
A great mini series that I highly recommend is The Terror, season 1. It is based on the Franklin expedition that went in search of the northwest passage in the 19th century. Terrifying, gripping and absolutely immersive. Definitely a great show to check out! Also, produced by Ridley Scott and the lead actor is also Jared Harris (Legasov)
"I have that sick feeling again." She's in shock. Take her to the infirmary. It's just the feed water. I've seen worse.
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There's lots of bits in this that I love from a film-making perspective like where it cuts to the window outside the hospital when Mr Ignatenko says to Mrs Ignatenko can she see Red Square and St Basils and it just shows this oddly framed corner of a hospital building, not even a nice angle of the building, not nicely framed to the 2/3rd rule or anything just what you'd see out that window. And she says yes.
Someone else mentioned that there's another bit buried in that dialogue; he asks if she can see St. Basil's. She looks at him as she says "yes". Vasily is the Russian variation of Basil.
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@@michaelccozens Interesting, yeah I can sort of see that now. No idea if that is what they were going for. In one way it's like the only other famous Moscow landmark so they would say it, then again it's right next to Red Square so if you can see Red Square you can see St Basil's so why would he ask? Then again it IS him asking, if she looked at him and said I can see St Basils then maybe, but the way round it is phrased it doesn't make as much sense for him to ask unless he was asking her if she thought he was a saint... I sort of assumed it meant he was religious even though that was banned in the Soviet Union, and that just being able to say you can see it was better than most would get.
Generation Kill would be a great HBO miniseries to watch. It's basically the modern Band of Brothers, set in the Iraq War. Lots of hilarity and tragedy is had.
@@Meine.Postma Well those are not opposing statements. And GK is about an invasion. But I agree with your point, which is what make contrast between the shows even better. BoB is greatest generation heroics, in GK our protagonists are the spearhead of an illegal war of aggression.
Awesome review!! I grew up during the 1970s in NE Ohio and watched the Perry nuclear Power Plant being built in Perry, Ohio, along the shores of beautiful Lake Erie roughly 40 miles or so from Cleveland. Think that plant went on line sometime early 1980s. You can see it from various distances. Can remember that everyone was a bit worried about any possible "accidents" after the movie "The China Syndrome" came out and what had happened at Three Mile Island in 1979. Anyway, whenever I go home just got to drive by that plant for nostalgia reasons.
Generation Kill is worth watching. Different from Band of Brothers and The Pacific, not as much action or intensity, but definitely funnier if you’re not shy about modern-day Marine Corps humor. Definitely highlights the difference between the soldiers/Marines of old to modern day guys.
I remember when it happened. In parts of Sweden, you couldn't pick mushrooms and berries. The Sami people in the north had to kill their reindeers. I was at a funeral in the north of Sweden where a woman died of Cancer. It vas 2017 and they still related her cancer to the Chornobyl accident.
I love that all the reactions to this episode by RUclipsrs of a certain age demo and how they don't INSTANTLY get what's up with the KGB when they're on their "walk."
Yeah, I’ve noticed this with other younger reactors, on this show & some movies as well. It’s weird, all the telltale things that are just understood by boomers & GenXers, yet go over millennials & GenZ’s heads. Ultimately, I think that’s a good thing.
There is actually a memorial at the Chernobyl site for the firefighters and liquidators called “ monument of those who saved the world”
It's not that big, but very impressive.
And it's actually true. They literally saved the world.
Heroes, all of them
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Sadly, when I was in the army, if I'd been offered a detail that included only 5 minutes of work, I'd have leaped up and said 'HELL YEAH!!! I'M IN!!!'
Almost every city has a monument to the accident liquidator
Cassie "I have that sick feeling again."
Take her back to the Infirmary. She is still delusional!
She’ll be fine. I’ve seen worse.
Not great, not terrible.
@@BammerD Hehehe, good one!
It's probably just from the feedwater
The Cherenkov effect, completely normal phenomenon
"We're still wearin' the fuckin' hats" is such a great line at that moment. The smile it causes in the midst of all the horror in this episode is precious.
Those miners are the level of manliness I strive for. Don't put up with ppl BS, rise to the occasion and get things done.
@Nybbl er don't want to be a hard person. I want to be assertive, capable, and dependable. Don't really see how putting myself in mortal danger is a prerequisite for those traits. But if it is I think I got that covered.
at 9:09 she said "I can see the Red Square .. it's beautiful" and of course that's not what she was looking at ... He promised that he would take her to Moscow one day, but she lied about the view to cheer him up. 😢
In reality they actually could see Red Square from his hospital room. You can read her full account in the book “Voices From Chernobyl”.
Another nice little touch: she tells him that she can see St. Basil's (Cathedral), which (at least in the show) she cannot. But she's not looking out the window when she says it. She's looking at him. And his name is Vasily, or Basil.
Well duh lol you just described the scene?
18:46
Am I the only one who thinks this lovely reactor looks striking similar to the fire-fighters wife? She not only looks much like her, I’m convinced she would have done the same. Tears😢
This story is personal to Alex Ferns who plays the lead miner, he believes a family member was one of the many unregistered victims caused by Chernobyl. His uncle worked for the Scottish water board and had to work outside, often in rain, despite raising concerns. He and his colleagues all died of cancer, none of them reached 50 years old.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that. That is terrible
I wonder how many people have died from cancer related illnesses which were brought on by the radiation that crossed Europe....If this had not happened ..would those people be alive today?.....would their cancers have stayed dorment?.....It is something I have thought about after I watched the series when it first came out. I lost my partner of 24 years to cancer in 2017....Would she still be here if Chernobyl had not happened?.....makes yeah think..certainly makes me think.... And like Ferns uncle, we are in Scotland.
@@Bodneyblue The likelihood of someone in Scotland being directly killed by Chernobyl is not impossible but incredibly unlikely, by the time the clouds reached us they had deposited 99% of anything that was in them and were fairly benign, the only reason they banned things like milk and cheese for a while is because they come from grass eaters and grass is where radioisotopes, if any, would find their way into humans. After checking livestock regularly they found radiation levels in them that were no higher than normal and so we got our dairy products back.
@@Bodneyblue Sorry to hear about the loss of your partner. It certainly makes you think, I remember seeing on the news at the time the radiation movement that crawled its way to Scandinavia and around to Scotland. My parents told me to stay in but I can't remember for how long. (I was based in South Wales at the time) It could be the cause of high rates of illnesses, or possibly just another factor that added to it to go with leaded paints/asbestos/general air pollution.
For every minute of every hour that reactor was left to burn out of control how much radiation was released into the earth's atmosphere. How many governments around the world or the countries directly effected especially in Europe covered things up .How many hundreds of thousands of people died of cancer as a direct result of this catastrophe.
Ep.3 and Ep.4 are quite horrifying, but the payoff comes in the finale. I couldn't stop watching. It's one of the most remarkable pieces of television ever broadcast in my humble opinion..
Agreed. for me 4 is the absolute worst. No spoilers, but you know.
@@richmeister22 for me 3 was but 4 was bad also. 5 is just something so special, the way it's contrasted the way it's delivered, all the pay off from the previous 4 and how it loops back... just masterful story telling
I agree, episode 4, was the worst. I can watch almost anything, but 2 times in episode 4 I had to fast forward cause I knew what was coming.
@@marciflint6060 Me too. 4 is the hardest episode, to date I've never seen every minute of it.
For me it was this episode, episode 3, which was the worst. A fellow human being on a bed, looking like that…, I was in absolute shock. To be honoust, episode 4 didn’t come close for me, horror-wise.
"She was a fictional character" - yes, technically... you'll find out in the end-credits that the filmmakers acknowledge almost all of the 'licenses' they took. "She" isn't so fictional as an "amalgamation of numerous characters", a device to shorten introduction times, and allow the audience to focus on their deeds under a single mask.
Later, when you finish and you read criticisms of the show, the most harsh one is the Firefighter's Wife who was indeed pregnant and endangers hers and the baby's health. Her criticism was that the filmmakers 'never talked to me' and 'my husband didn't turn blue or transparent.'
@@ollietsb1704 Indeed. She freely admits that she was young and naively held on to the initial tale that the firefighters were merely poisoned by fumes and would recover, but it's not really noted that she worked tirelessly to try and maintain the morale of her husband and his crew as they were dying.
I think the show did her a disservice in their portrayal, although it's kinda minor, to save onscreen time. No spoilers but there's a pithy moment later in the series where Lyudmila's fate becomes the topic of conversation in a discussion about the cost of lies, where the science is spiced with fiction to push the narrative. The irony is palpable...
Fictional is fictional. I know people want to justify her because the show is really well made. But she is so over the top best at everything with exaggerated ability and bravery.
@@ollietsb1704 They also portray her as getting sick and killing her baby due to her being close to her husband. However even though her husband was mortally affected by the radiation, he was not a source himself and couldnt make other people radioactive.
That's a lot of unnecessary words when just two will do. Those being "woke propaganda". It's ironic that HBO made a show preaching about the cost of lies while resorting to their own lies to support the politically desired narrative. The USSR felt their narrative was worth lying for too. That character makes this entire series an absolute joke.
A lot of the background music for this series was actually sounds from a running nuclear plant.
The coal industry actually had a lot of power in the U.S.S.R. They had nuclear power but most of the Soviet Union was powered by coal so if those guys didn't do their jobs, the country would screech to a halt. That's why the Miners didn't take any shit.
@@patgray5402 Not really. Most countries who have nuclear power also heavily rely on coal.
@@twohorsesinamancostume7606 And yet that makes it even more ironic.
The miners were very tight, very loyal to each other, and they were many. I don't know about the situation in the USSR, but in Romania where I'm from, the regime feared the miners. They feared that if the miners start a revolt against the regime, it will be bloody and the rest of the country will follow their example.
There’s something wonderfully one-of-a-kind about her reactions.
That is so kind, thank you!
because they're so genuine.
The real sad part is HBO had to tone down the effects of radiation sickness to be able to air it on TV. When the guys who have no problem airing Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers and The Pacific say you need to tone something down, you don't wanna see it!
They decided to tone it down so it didn't turn into a glorification of gore. They showed just enough to get the point across.
Also, when Cassie said she'd just beg to die, the men did. The soviets knew they would die and could have euthanized them, they didn't. They deliberately kept them alive so they could study the effects of severe ARS. That is a special kind of messed up...
??? in what way did they tone it down exactly?
@@wemustdissent They didn't show Akimov when she interviews him. His face had rotted off his skull while he was still conscious. They also tone down some stuff from the next episode.
@@NiteOfTheWorld this is a good resource, though the understatement of certain elements makes me mildly suspicious of certain statements he made in comparison with other statements made by individuals who were not as directly involved with the State response, it's still valuable insight.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 how do you know his face had rotted off his skull if it wasn't said in the show? That doesn't sound like it was toned down to me.
"We're still wearin' the f*ckin hats." The miners were tough muthers
Miners are ALWAYS tough mothers, no matter what they mine or where. No matter the language, no matter their life up until they became miners.......as soon as they take up that helmet and that pickaxe, they are among the most tough workers on this planet.
You should read the book “Voices from Chernobyl”. The real Lyudmilla Ignatenko tells her story about the explosion, her husband and her baby in that book. It was the first time I ever cried while reading.
OMG same! First time crying while i was reading a book
@@juancabezascaceres There's a BBC interview interview of her
I think this episode had my favorite line. When they are talking about the miners. " Don't lie to them. These men work in the dark. They see everything."
The most terrifing thing on this miniseries is that 80% of waht audience see actually really happened.
The best storyes is written by life itself.
see, what happened in the director's delusional imagination, you wanted to say?)
@@2012Ragnvald So you're saying a significant portion of this series is made up? Such as what?
@@mscheese000 I'm pretty sure they're joking
even scarier is that the effect and stuff were actually described as even worse then the already terrible effects we see
@@mscheese000 A good example is the whole 30 kilometre radius being completely destroyed if the molten material reached the water tanks. You can't make the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon by dropping molten material into water.
In reality there would have been an explosion as the pressure rises, yes, but localised to the reactor. It would have certainly made an awful situation even worse, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as destructive as the script says.
This episode was the most important one for me because as terrible as the events were, there were countless people who faced pain, suffering and inevitable death head on to save others. I admire their bravery, I could not do that, I think.
That woman who stayed with her husband was a hero. She didn't know about radiation or what it was. She thought it was just burns. While the nurses didn't dare go near the patients much, she stayed and was there not just for her husband but for other men too and helped them eat and drink and stayed with them when they died. Yes she endangered her baby but she simply didn't know about radiation burns, almost nobody in the public did know much about how radiation affected people back then, or what it does to DNA.
That final scene with the funeral is so brutal. The music, the visuals, the cement slowly covering the coffins, it’s so depressing.
Yes. It should remindes us to stop using Nuclear Fission reactors. We also have no idea what to do with the waste which is radioactive for thounsands of years.
Another great HBO Miniseries is "From the Earth to the Moon" produced by Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
But John Adams first.
She needs to watch Apollo 13 first...
@@thomast8539 Yes to both. Two of the best HBO has to offer. From the Earth to the Moon is nice of pace, from all of the depressing stuff though.
Absolutely. That one was great.
Well anyway
The scene between Emily Watson and Jared Harris when he goes to collect her from the KGB was filmed in an actual KGB prison in Lithuania. The cell was sloped to be filled with water up to the knees, so that the occupant could never sleep.
HBO put out a miniseries years ago called “From the Earth To the Moon” about the Apollo moon missions. It was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Definitely worth checking out.
Generation Kill is another must-see HBO miniseries. It’s about the initial invasion of the Iraq War and how it was all one giant clusterfuck from the very beginning. Despite the morbid setting, it’s surprisingly quite funny. It’s been said that’s it’s the most realistic depiction of men at war and as a result, it can be a tough watch at times until you realize they don’t actually mean all the horrible things they say; it’s just their way of coping with the stress and anxiety of being at war. Oftentimes, the series feels so believable that you think you’re watching a documentary. I think the recent pull-out of Afghanistan makes the series even more relevant than ever before as America’s hubris is laid bare for all to see.
Must watch!
Generation Kill is one of my favourite shows of all time. It's so good
Though I agree that Generation Kill is an amazing series and it’s one of my favorite shows ever, I feel like it wouldn’t appeal to people who know little about the military and aren’t too interested about it.
Thanks for the tip.👍 I'll look it out
Yes, Generation Kill, and also Generation War...a German 3-parts serie on the lives and relationships of 5 young people from Berlin during WW2.
The ending of this episode always gets me. The funeral scene is so powerful. It both conveys the helplessness of the ordinary people and the foolishness of the whole catastrophe. And it also speaks about the courage of those who knew they wouldn't come back, but still took their duty at heart and sacrificed themselves for the greater good.
There are a few mistakes in the series like the idea that irradiated people are themselves radioactive. They aren't. The reason why they don't want to touch them and why they are protected by a plastic tent is because their skin becomes permeable and the first thing destroyed by radiation is immunitary system. If you contamine them with a bacteria, they will have no white blood cells to fight off the infection. It was done for dramatic purpose, but I think it misleds people.
I highly recommend the first season of True Detective. It's easily some of the best stuff put on TV and Mcconaughey's performance sticks with you. Then again, he was gifted a golden script. Each season is it's own self contained miniseries but only the first one is good and worth watching. It's REALLY good.
Absolutely brilliant
Only now did I realize, that this series reunites Stelland Skarsgaard and Emily Watson, both in Lars Von Triers Breaking The Waves. :)
This was the most revealing and terrifying episode. The hospital scenes were so shocking I had to stop snacking. I still can't believe this show didn't win for best makeup. On a positive note the coal miner foreman was my favorite guy. He reminded me of a boss I had when I was a teenager, no BS serious kind of guy but witty and funny.
I would recommend True Detectives. Only the season 1 though. It's really the just best TV possible.
Yes! The other seasons were disappointing but the first...amazing!
Just start with the other 2 and end on the 1st. Makes the others better viewing.
@@IdealUser That not a bad idea. But the two other seasons may seem like a waste of time after watching them out of order. You look back and think "damn those really sucked, I want that time back!"
It's pretty much a mini series with a complete story in 8 episodes. It's even better than Chernobyl for me.
Season 3 was excellent as well. But nothing like the first one.
You may not be interested, but one of the most impressive miniseries HBO ever made is about NASA's Apollo programme, From the Earth to the Moon. It's well worth a watch
I have that series on DVD, it’s fantastic 👍🏻
I remember my parents watching it when it came out.
@@annamariepowell9162 I remember watching it when it came out. I guess I’m showing my age.
I would also strongly recommend "True Detective" season 1. It's a 10/10.
Bro, if she cried at Chernobyl, True Detective (especially 1st season) might be too heavy.
Sharp Objects, Mare of Easttown, Watchmen, From the Earth to The Moon, Show Me A Hero,, Lovecraft Country, John Adams, Generation Kill, The Night Of, etc. - honestly, throw a dart at practically anything HBO makes and you're bound to be impressed.
When you're done with this masterpiece I'd highly recommend John Adams, another amazing HBO mini series.
I second that John Adams motion! It’s excellent tv.
That is a very good series
Seconded.
Completely agree.
Oh. Yes. Excellent. I say that as a Brit. It's fascinating to see the genesis of the USA. Paul Giamatti is one of my tastemakers - along with Andy Serkis and others. I'll watch anything they're in because I have come to trust their tastes in scripts.
I am so glad you are sticking it out and continuing to watch the series. Bravo!
I had a cousin who was a Liquidator in 1987..he passed from bad radiation sickness...But before my dad moved me and him to Germany...my dad moved us to Germany because when I was 6 years old when the Russian Army inavded my country Ukraine...I was a victim of the 2014 conflict..I seen a lot of stuff no child should see and because of that I developed Complex PTSD and Severe Depression...my uncle stayed and is part of the Ukraine Swat force and he guards the Entrance to Chernobyl and he goes into the Exclusion zone...
18:26 The end of the episode with the music is very beautifully sad.
Every one's talking about From Earth to the Moon. But as a side quest to watch that I'd recommend Apollo 13.
I second Apollo 13, one of my top five favorite movies. It is almost perfect.
I recommend history buffs. Apollo 13 for the most part is also very accurate.
Oh yes! Apollo thirteen Is a must!! I'd watch it before the series though, spoilers and all that!!
"...so paranoid in this type of regime."
Oh, sweet summer child.
Radiation like that causes your cell walls to break down, you pretty much melt from the inside out and there's nothing they can do about it.
What isn't mentioned is that even if you somehow manage to survive the initial radiation, your immune system (bone marrow etc) is so ravaged that you don't have the ability to stave off infection that easily enters the body through the dead and damaged skin etc.
Dyatlov was freakish in his ability to stave off radiation poisoning. He had previously had a relatively severe dose of radiation while working installing nuclear reactors in Soviet subs (it is claimed that his exposure led to his son's development of leukemia and eventual death, but this seems mostly conjecture), and despite taking a dose at Chernobyl that would kill ~50% of people, he recovered.
@@saviourself687 I like to think that him somehow surviving is the universe’s way of karmically punishing him by making him live with his guilt of his decisions for years instead of dying a quick death, but I guess that’s the cynical side of me.
Who else feels like Cassie and her sis are like good friends with whom you love to watch movies with?
I got into the whole reaction thing seeing people react to Chernobyl, then I found Cass reacting to 1917. Now, she's reacting to Chernobyl. Full circle!
Cass, you're the best!
I grew up in an industrial area I know some people like those miners. This is the best depiction of tough working-class people I have watched. May are not be very educated but literally can see through the bs and politically correct jargon like an x-ray.
The miners are a very particular breed, especially those who lived under the Communist regimes. The party treated them with suspicion, that's hinted in the series by the armed guards that accompany the Minister of Coal (even if in reality that particular guy was respected by the miners because he used to be one of them).
The regime feared that if the miners start a revolt, it will be violent and the rest of the population will follow. That's why the miners are introduced with their leader making a joke about the regime. Any other person, even a career politician would have suffered dire consequences for even trying to attempt such a thing. Heck, even if someone reported that you might have made such a joke, you landed in prison, or worse. I know that because I lived under that regime.
The best thing about this series beyond the science is the moments of humor. They still took time to have them act like humans do in these moments.
Humor is so natural to humans that even concentration camp prisoners, faced with death that could come at any moment, joked about what they would be served for dinner or announced, among themselves of course, that they had no appetite.
Generation Kill is really good, although it's pretty rough in terms of language and stuff. It's based on a non-fiction book by a reporter that was embedded with a bunch of marines during the invasion of Iraq in 2002.
This is such a great series! When you get a chance, you should watch From the Earth to the Moon. Its another phenomenal HBO mini-series about the space race and the Apollo program to land humans on the moon.
Yes yes yes! But start with the film Apollo 13, then watch the series
First season of True Detective. Masterful television
@@colinkeanful S2 was pretty underwhelming especially when people were so hyped about S1. S3 overall was not bad. McConaughey was just on another level with his performance.
I'll add my voice in for the HBO miniseries "Generation Kill" about the recon battalion of the 1st Marine Division during the 2002 invasion of Iraq.
Or, if you want a longer but still manageable show (36 episodes), take a look at Deadwood, an excellent HBO show about the camp-turned-town of Deadwood South Dakota during the mini-gold rush to the area in the late 1860s/early 1870s. LOTS of profanity, but very good storytelling and acting throughout the series.
Shows w/ multiple seasons aren't really tailored for reaction channels. Such a shame because Deadwood is one of the greatest television series ever made. Right up there w/ The Wire & The Sopranos. Shouldn't stop her from watching it on her own though. - Edit - also wouldn't call it a mini gold rush. The "Homestake Mine" of Deadwood was the largest and deepest gold mine in the United States and mined gold from its discovery in 1876 till 2002 (126 years).
+1 for Generation Kill. It would be very interesting to her reaction to it. It is the same formula as BoB and the Pacific while also being extremely different in tone.
@@tykellington based off the thousands of reaction channels, including most of the largest reaction channels on YT (Blind Wave, Normies, Nikki & Steve React, Married 2 the Real, Akasan, Brandon Likes Movies, etc) that all react to multi-season shows, and do so quite successfully, I'd seriously question the validity of your statement about multi-season shows not being good for reaction channels....but agree to disagree I guess.
As for calling it a "mini" gold-rush, I'd agree that the gold vein discovered there was massive, but the rush to get to it wasn't nearly as large or as well-known/documented in American history as the California gold-rush of the 1840s (especially in what passes for history classes in American public education), which is why I called it the "mini" gold-rush. I guess "lesser-known" might be a better term for it.
This series has a podcast as well over spotify, so you can listen to the podcast of every episode to get more about the historic details they included or left out.
The producers of Chernobyl also had a 6-episode podcast, where they would discuss every episode, and it was really good.
6:35 Pretty sure the woman spy is actually the woman who asked him in the bar if there was anything to worry about--so they were watching them even then, and if he hadn't lied, they would've reported it.
Deadwood and the Sopranos, while not miniseries, are peak television experiences from HBO. Two of the shows that truly pioneered and shaped the modern golden age of TV, and as far as I can tell almost nobody has reacted to them
it's hard to react to over 100+ hours of television
@@Klayhamn You just aren't trying hard enough
That is odd, now that you mention it... Deadwood I think was a little more niche, but The Sopranos was a cultural phenomenon.
The Wire.
@@oneilprovost2287 Deadwood ended prematurely but it was brilliant before it's time and ironically got bumped because the network was moving to "prestige television"... which was exactly what it was. It has since gained a cult following and modern audiences have grown to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is
I am a 52 yr old man and when this show aired originally I was glued and just as emotional as you are, this is the only show to make me feel unsettled in the last 20 years, and that 20 years ago moment was during the opening 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan
Just adding my voice to the From the Earth to The Moon miniseries, just remember that it was designed to be a continuation/supplemental to the great movie The Right Stuff, so if you haven’t you may want to watch that classic movie first. Also the John Adams miniseries is a good one as well.
The Right Stuff is great. But I seem to remember they made this series shortly after Apollo 13 (the movie). Wasn't it an extension of that rather than The Right Stuff?
@@orarinnsnorrason4614 Sort of. I think the idea to do it was inspired by working on Apollo 13 but it's not strictly speaking an extension of it in the sense that you have to see one to enjoy/understand the other. It can even be a bit confusing if you have, as not only are there several characters that are played by different actors in both, there are a couple of actors who are in both but playing different characters. The same is true of The Right Stuff as well, there are some characters in that that are played by different actors in both Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon, and at least one actor who's in Moon and Apollo but portraying different people. I'd definitely recommend all or any of them though.
Yeah. I've seen both. The difference in characters/roles didn't bother me much. The story/events is what I was after, not the characters per se.
@@orarinnsnorrason4614 You are correct. Ron Howard, director of Apollo 13, also produced From the Earth to the Moon with Tom Hanks. It is directly linked to his film as it describes the Apollo space program. The Right Stuff was about the Mercury space program.
The Right Stuff also focused on the X-Program which was a precursor to the Space Programs.
"is he gonna die?" i don't mean this in a disrespectful way at all, but i honestly envy people like you. u seem like a kind soul- take care of yourself
lol
It is always fascinating coming across people that are so sheltered and don't understand the world very much.
@@Hunter4042012 it's sweet. but through the years I've realized my anger towards people, in this area, stems ffrom envy. my upbringing was harsh so it makes sense
I admire her gift to feel so strongly when people are in pain. I wish I could feel the same, but I guess I'm hardened, unfortunately.
@@emilen2 yea, it's nice to see. why do u think this is? (being hardened)
Check out “From The Earth To The Moon”, an HBO miniseries about the Apollo Moon missions. It’s excellent.
And Apollo 13.
I was going to suggest that as well
And, if someone prefers realistic but _fictional_ depictions, For All Mankind is a fantastic show.
I was going to suggest the same thing. I LOVE that miniseries!!
You are weathering this better than I originally expected. I have been a subscriber for some time and in that time you have become more seasoned to this type of thing and I mean that in a good way.
2 Episodes down. You are hard core. Yes, next episode is super tough, but you’ll make it through. I salute you!!!
Count me in as one of those who saw you were reacting to this and decided to give it a try for myself. Thanks!
Generation Kill would definitely be on my list of miniseries to watch. Only 7 episodes :)
YUP!!! *eats crayon^
Only accurate show or movie about Iraq that I have seen honestly.
I always confuse Generation Kill and Generation War, but both are great shows.
Yes it’s my favorite I also recommend it
@@jarheadjew06 Are you mocking the Grooming Standards...
The reason Lyudmila is holding her husbands shoes is because in real life when they dressed his body for the funeral his feet were so swollen that they couldn't get his shoes to fit and he was buried barefoot.
Also if you're into the HBO miniseries stuff, a severely underrated show is The Night Of that basically where Riz Ahmed got his start
You should try watching The Terror. It's another HBO 3 parter, and it features many of the actors from this series.
that’s a good mini series it’s kind of similar to master and commander
Yes, It has Jared Harris and is a great story based on true history with a supernatural element woven in. Gross in parts but really well done.
@@phila3884 There is a documentary about what really happened, and the true events are way more fucked up and gruesome than what is depicted in the series.
4:30 "I feel like it's gonna take years.... to clean up."
You have no idea how right you are. The cleanup is still going on today, and will continue for the foreseeable future.
The thought that keep going through my head when watching this: "This happened. This really happened. Not to these characters, but to someone real; it happened".
My grandmother worked at the institute of biophysichs in Minsk when the explosion occured. And they also located the rapid increasing of radiation background in the city. The first assuption was that something has hapenned with a "training reactor", that was located at the facility "Sosny-2 (Pines-2)" in 10-12 kilometers (6 miles) away from Minsk. She told me, that next day she meaured the radiation emiting from the clothes she weared the day before, and it was so high thta she just throw it away.
Ananenko, Baranov and Bespalov avoided major consequenses of their heroic act under the reactor. Baranov died in 2005 because of heart issues, Ananenko and Bespalov continued their work in variuos nuclear institutions in USSR and later in the Ukraine. Ananenko retired in 2018, Bespalov is still working, in 1992 he even came back to the station for a while, it is still operational. In 2019 all three of them were awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
P.S. I live in Minsk, on the street named after Vasily Ignatenko
True Detective Season 1. Best mini series
The three men who went into the basement lived a long and happy life afterwards. Two of them are still alive. One still works in the nuclear industry. One died of heart failure at 65, heart failure not uncommon among chernobyl liquidators, but it should also be noted that heart disease in general is high in the former soviet union, due to a combination of alcoholism, poor diet, smoking, stress and other stress factors. Life expectancy, especially among men, dipped noticeably after the fall of the union across the former soviet union.
You should watch "From the Earth to the Moon." It's the HBO miniseries Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg did prior to "Band of Brothers." It's about the Apollo moon missions, and it's fantastic.
But John Adams first.
Thank you. As always an interesting and insightful reaction, and I too am one of those watching "Chernobyl" because I saw you had reacted to it. I know a lot of the general facts as I was in grad school in '86 when it happened. I picked up a Washington Post most days then to try to follow along, but information dribbled out of the USSR slowly, and the news wasn't always reliable. And now uncontrolled wild fires seem to be spreading low level radiation through the region, as far as Kyiv.
I love this channel, and I’m so excited for you and your willingness to watch some uncomfortable but very good stories.
The amount of pain those firefighters must've gone through would most likely be worse than any pain you'd imagine. I feel sorry for the souls who died there.
Not so fun fact about the guys that had to into the water: they had no flashlights in real life. They were expected to navigate to the valve and back using only their memories and sense of touch.
Edit to add: there's a great 5 part podcast series about the making of the show and they go into detail about some of the creative liberties they took. It was on par with the show IMO. It's called the Chernobyl podcast.
Really makes you understand why it needed to be plant workers, to be able to know the layout well enough to make their way in the dark, otherwise they could just have sent someone else with a map or instructions on which numbered pipe to follow.
Well also thankfully they actually lived quite long lives. There was a rumor that they all died like 3-4 days after they went in but that apparently isn't true nor was the water up to their waist. It was only up to their knees from what I have read.
I have watched this series many times all ready. Really remembering news from my childhood about that. Im from Finland and Chernobyl is 1500 km away from us, but part of Finland where im from got hit by radiation from there. It was scary back then.
Just as a curiosity in european football, 2004 Balon d'Or winner Andriy Shevchenko was one of the evacuated childs in the nuclear power plant accident
From Earth To The Moon is an incredible HBO mini series
The three volunteers actually lived for quite a few years after the event, one of them died in 2005 from some heart related issue, the other two were alive at the time of making of the miniseries and the Ukrainian president awarded them for their heroism.
shhh leave that for the epilogue
I also saw you react to ep1 and decided to watch it. You helped me open my eyes to what really happened. Thank you.
I have to say I was looking forward to this reaction more than any other so far. In fact I have actually gone on and watched all of the episodes off the back of your first reaction. I knew this would be hard for you it was for me too, those poor men. I can not wait to see you react to the final 2 episodes of this. Love your channel. At the moment my favourite watch on RUclips
Other commentators probably mentioned this already, but at the end of this series there is a sequence with videos and photos of the real people and facts about them. It is an important part of watching this series. I mention it so you won’t miss it.
I remember this event like it was yesterday because the news covered it a lot and slowly began to realize how big a disaster this was..for all of us.
If I had one thoughtful moment of praise and prayer for the Soviet Union, it would be the Soviet people who fought desperately to save us all in this event.
I'll repeat my recommendation for the Tom Hanks produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. Start with his film Apollo 13, then watch the series. Educational and inspirational. You've had enough tragedy for a while
The next episode is the toughest, but still extremely good. Then he last episode after that, is one of the best I've ever seen
When you get the chance I would love for you to see the second terminator movie. Its one of the greatest of all time.
My sister and I are watching it tonight!!!
@@PopcornInBed Zero Hour - Season 1, Episode 1 - Disaster at Chernobyl aired 2004 filmed in Chernobyl Reactor 3 ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=zero+hour+chernobyl+disaster interview with a plant worker....
The Chernobyl disaster - the severe days ruclips.net/video/nbCcutzXzYg/видео.html&ab_channel=andree965
This film ^^ shows the terrifying images captured by the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko on scene at Chernobyl those dreadful days in April 1986. Shevchenko later died suffering from the radiation he exposed himself to. Although his name is not among the official casualties of the accident, this last tragic film of him keeps his name alive forever.
Chernobyl - Official list of the 31 direct deaths ruclips.net/video/F2gnooj2xac/видео.html&ab_channel=djmixsound
@@PopcornInBed INSIDE CHERNOBYL REACTOR 4 CONTROL ROOM | Full Power Plant Tour ruclips.net/video/rh7gXlXqI64/видео.html&ab_channel=ForgottenWondersUrbex
@@PopcornInBed Footage of Chernobyl Reactor 3 being shutdown in 2000 and the the "" AZ-5 "" button being activated.... ruclips.net/video/rh7gXlXqI64/видео.html&ab_channel=ForgottenWondersUrbex
@@PopcornInBed Interview with Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov, ex deputy chief engineer of Chernobyl NPP after he was released from prison in 1991.
ruclips.net/video/qpLEm8KosMg/видео.html&ab_channel=JutiHark%C3%A1lyfi
Mare of east town BLEW ME AWAY. It's one of the best I've ever seen. Just like Chernobyl.
Who wants to see her react to "Das Boot"
(One of the greatest war movies of all time)
The divers actually lived a long time. I believe as of 2015, two were still alive, one passed in 2005 of a heart attack.
On the bright side, if I remember correctly, the body horror is over. There's none of it in the last two episodes.
But there's still some other bad stuff in the 4th so you're not out of the woods yet
"I feel like it's going to take (many) years to clean up". They just finished encasing the plant in a second concrete sarcophagus five years ago. Cleanup is expected to be around 43 years from now, after which the nuclear waste stored inside is expected to last roughly another 60.
And this was under Gorbachev. Can you imagine if it happened under Brezhnev.
was it the one smashing the shoe?
@@forrestgump5959 Do you mean banging his shoe on the table at the UN? That was Khrushchev.
@@HemlockRidge Yes :)
what was Brezhnev famous for?
@@forrestgump5959 Being a Communist and running a Fascist type government. You wouldn't DARE step out of line. A Commissar would have you in KGB custody very fast.
Not HBO but another AMAZING mini series is the German series Generation War (originally "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter"). It's WW2 from the point of view of a group of 5 young German friends and it is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking and I love it every bit as much as Band of Brothers
I'll suggest another true event series, Manhunt: Ubabomber. Might not be as climatic as this series, but a good telling of the search and capture of Ted Kczynski.
Yeees
Really? I found it really good at some episodes, and very repetitive in others. It may be better with 3-4 episodes less
A great mini series that I highly recommend is The Terror, season 1. It is based on the Franklin expedition that went in search of the northwest passage in the 19th century. Terrifying, gripping and absolutely immersive. Definitely a great show to check out!
Also, produced by Ridley Scott and the lead actor is also Jared Harris (Legasov)
A favorite one of mine is a mini series called generation kill
Gotta hand it to the makeup crew. They made it absolutely horrifying to see him in the hospital like that
"I have that sick feeling again."
She's in shock. Take her to the infirmary. It's just the feed water. I've seen worse.
There's lots of bits in this that I love from a film-making perspective like where it cuts to the window outside the hospital when Mr Ignatenko says to Mrs Ignatenko can she see Red Square and St Basils and it just shows this oddly framed corner of a hospital building, not even a nice angle of the building, not nicely framed to the 2/3rd rule or anything just what you'd see out that window. And she says yes.
Someone else mentioned that there's another bit buried in that dialogue; he asks if she can see St. Basil's. She looks at him as she says "yes". Vasily is the Russian variation of Basil.
@@michaelccozens Interesting, yeah I can sort of see that now. No idea if that is what they were going for.
In one way it's like the only other famous Moscow landmark so they would say it, then again it's right next to Red Square so if you can see Red Square you can see St Basil's so why would he ask? Then again it IS him asking, if she looked at him and said I can see St Basils then maybe, but the way round it is phrased it doesn't make as much sense for him to ask unless he was asking her if she thought he was a saint...
I sort of assumed it meant he was religious even though that was banned in the Soviet Union, and that just being able to say you can see it was better than most would get.
Generation Kill would be a great HBO miniseries to watch. It's basically the modern Band of Brothers, set in the Iraq War. Lots of hilarity and tragedy is had.
BoB was for a good cause, GK is about an occupation.
@@Meine.Postma Well those are not opposing statements. And GK is about an invasion.
But I agree with your point, which is what make contrast between the shows even better. BoB is greatest generation heroics, in GK our protagonists are the spearhead of an illegal war of aggression.
Awesome review!! I grew up during the 1970s in NE Ohio and watched the Perry nuclear Power Plant being built in Perry, Ohio, along the shores of beautiful Lake Erie roughly 40 miles or so from Cleveland. Think that plant went on line sometime early 1980s. You can see it from various distances. Can remember that everyone was a bit worried about any possible "accidents" after the movie "The China Syndrome" came out and what had happened at Three Mile Island in 1979. Anyway, whenever I go home just got to drive by that plant for nostalgia reasons.
I also highly recommend Mindhunter on Netflix. But that might be too long. Either way, check it out if you haven't already. Best Netflix original imo.
It's like pushing the breaks on your car to stop it, but instead of stopping, it accelerates it to a point of explosion.
Generation Kill is worth watching. Different from Band of Brothers and The Pacific, not as much action or intensity, but definitely funnier if you’re not shy about modern-day Marine Corps humor. Definitely highlights the difference between the soldiers/Marines of old to modern day guys.
I’m loving your channel! You watch a lot of my favorite stuff, I love seeing your reactions, thanks for the great content!
Generation Kill!!! Hands down next HBO watch
I remember when it happened. In parts of Sweden, you couldn't pick mushrooms and berries. The Sami people in the north had to kill their reindeers. I was at a funeral in the north of Sweden where a woman died of Cancer. It vas 2017 and they still related her cancer to the Chornobyl accident.
I love that all the reactions to this episode by RUclipsrs of a certain age demo and how they don't INSTANTLY get what's up with the KGB when they're on their "walk."
Yeah, I’ve noticed this with other younger reactors, on this show & some movies as well. It’s weird, all the telltale things that are just understood by boomers & GenXers, yet go over millennials & GenZ’s heads. Ultimately, I think that’s a good thing.
the 3 guys that went to pump the water actually lived pretty long
2 of them are actually still alive!