Комментарии •

  • @markjohnson2079
    @markjohnson2079 10 месяцев назад +15

    "Then I'll do it myself..." - look up General Pikalov. Absolute legend from WW2 all the way until his eventual death.

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 10 месяцев назад +44

    Was horrified in more than one place in this series. I cried in more than one place in this series. Sometimes I did both in the same scene.

    • @kaeb11
      @kaeb11 10 месяцев назад +2

      The poor firefighters so sad and horrifying. The people on the bridge and children playing in the ash. 😰

  • @mrtveye6682
    @mrtveye6682 10 месяцев назад +24

    With all the super-hero-movies in mind we are flooded with these days, watching the scene near the end, when the 3 workers stand up and volunteer, that's a IRL super-hero origin story.

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 10 месяцев назад +38

    In this episode, there were a few things the makers of the show changed for various reasons. For one thing, the character who said that they should close off the city in the first episode and is evacuated in this one, did not exist...he was added for dramatic purposes. Also, the helicopter crash did not happen so soon after the explosion...it really happened months later in October, 1986, and had little to do with radiation. As I mentioned in my comment to episode 1, once you are done with the series, the History vs Hollywood article on the show is a must read.
    The reason for the stable iodine pills is that it fills up your thyroid gland with iodine, and since one of the main radioactive elements given off in a reactor disaster is radioactive iodine, it is important to prevent your thyroid gland from absorbing any of that. Having a large supply of iodine pills ready so that all the people that are exposed to radioactive iodine near a nuclear power plant is something that pretty much all other nations do as a standard safety precaution as part of their nuclear power program. The USSR did not have stable iodine pills available for the people exposed to radioactive iodine near and downwind of Chernobyl, this was because having iodine ready would be an admission that something could go wrong with the reactor, and there could be no admission of any potential problem with the RBMK reactor.

    • @rhinovandam
      @rhinovandam 10 месяцев назад +10

      The podcast from hbo with the director is amazing, he’s totally honest about what he changed or made up vs the facts, highly recommended. It’s on RUclips as well as podcast services.

    • @Big_Bag_of_Pus
      @Big_Bag_of_Pus 10 месяцев назад +1

      Just to clarify (and not that you said otherwise, but it should be absolutely clear): Pripyat definitely was closed off initially, with its citizens prevented from leaving and the phone lines cut. The assignment of this decision to one lone person on the Pripyat Executive Committee of the Party is what was made up.

    • @Markus117d
      @Markus117d 10 месяцев назад +10

      The helicopter crash doesn't have to do with the radiation in the show either, That comes from assumptions and not noticing the rotorblades hitting the crane cable, The hook and cable can be seen falling along with the helicopter..

  • @ImRivendill
    @ImRivendill 10 месяцев назад +17

    Things you usually don't want to hear: "Yay more Chernobyl!"

  • @ct5625
    @ct5625 10 месяцев назад +22

    One of my favorite scenes in this episode is when he returns to the hotel after finding out how bad it is and he goes to the bar.
    It's such a subtle scene but it's packed with meaning. He requests one of the glasses from the tray because they were upside down and less likely to be contaminated. This again shows the gravity of the situation and the fact that it's unknown territory. Logically he would have to understand that it wouldn't make any real difference, he was already exposed, but there was still a part of him thinking about the level of risk.
    And then the woman asks if it's anything they should worry about, and he says no. This shows the level of societal distrust. He'd just argued for the evacuation of the town, but he's still unable to tell someone they should leave. He becomes complicit through political force.
    It's such a great show, with so much amazing acting and so many amazing characters. Even the set design and score is perfect.
    Looking forward to the rest, but you should know it gets worse.

    • @ganthc
      @ganthc 10 месяцев назад +5

      That lady that asks is KGB. You learn that a bit later, and she was asking to see if Lagasov could keep state secrets.

    • @Grnademaster
      @Grnademaster 10 месяцев назад +1

      I believe the best scene in the series is when Harris and Skarsgård are in the hotel, and Harris exclaims to him that "Yes we are staying here! And we'll be dead in five years." Skarsgård's demeanor completely changes from this moment forth. His condescending and arrogance are completely gone afterward. This is the defining moment for his character, and it may be one of the best character developing moments in cinema.

  • @dansiegel333
    @dansiegel333 10 месяцев назад +5

    You’ve got an impressive knack for placing things in their wider context, drawing out the moral & existential dimension of what we are watching.

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 10 месяцев назад +16

    I think Chernobyl did alter world history. It was only a five short years later that the Soviet Union fell apart. Probably because of the huge expenditures related to this disaster.

    • @seanrosenau2088
      @seanrosenau2088 6 месяцев назад

      Imagine the cost of replacing 'all of the liquid nitrogen in the soviet union'.

  • @2old4gamez
    @2old4gamez 10 месяцев назад +14

    Love your comment about the unseen antagonist. I've always felt that there's something very Lovecraftian about the horror of the situation.

  • @maksphoto78
    @maksphoto78 10 месяцев назад +2

    The firefighters' clothes are still in the hospital basement, and it's one of the most radioactive places in Chernobyl.

  • @xen0bia
    @xen0bia 10 месяцев назад +8

    In real life, those divers didn't even have flashlights at all, crank-up or otherwise, the radiation would instantly kill any electronic components, so they naviguated the entire place in total darkness. And they didn't volunteered, they were pretty much obligated to go seeing as they were the only ones who essentially knew the structure layout by heart. Oh and, if based on the Chernobyl incident you think the USSR was grossly incompetent, grossly negligent, grossly irresponsible handling nuclear power, then you really only know a fraction of it. Look into how they developed their own nuclear bomb, how they disposed of radioactive waste, the Mayak facility, the Kyshtym disaster and the subsequent Lake Karachay incident. I don't believe an inch-square of Russia isn't contaminated in some way, it's insane.

    • @BarryHart-xo1oy
      @BarryHart-xo1oy 6 месяцев назад +1

      The Soviet Union wasn’t the only country that was irresponsible and negligent in the handling of nuclear power and weapons.

    • @xen0bia
      @xen0bia 6 месяцев назад

      @@BarryHart-xo1oy Didn't say anything to the contrary, but the USSR/Russia is the crowned champion, absolutely.

  • @TheBestPirateDrake
    @TheBestPirateDrake 10 месяцев назад +5

    So the thermal explosion was not ever a real danger because it would be simply impossible to happen. Even if it happened it would not have been at the scale the we’re shown in the show. But it was a theoretical danger at the time and they would rather be safe than sorry.
    The 3 divers light did went off IRL, but they were so confident about the layout of the plant that they did it in the dark. I can’t even imagine doing something like that.

  • @Loki_Loki01
    @Loki_Loki01 10 месяцев назад +2

    the way this episode ends where it fades to black and all we can hear is the heavy breathing and detector going crazy just gives me chills everytime. Such a haunting way to end the episode, was well made.

  • @dachecker79
    @dachecker79 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was 6 years old, not far away from this place, in Romania ! I remember, we took Ionide-Pills, shut the windows and stayed at home inside for days !

  • @Juniper-z9v
    @Juniper-z9v 22 дня назад

    The mark of a good actor is not just the way they deliver the dialogue, but also their facial expressions and their body language. The actors in this series absolutely nailed it.

  • @Danjoker.
    @Danjoker. 10 месяцев назад +2

    I've never been more tensed watching a show.

  • @Col_Fragg
    @Col_Fragg 10 месяцев назад +3

    Sitting in the comfort of my living room watching this reaction on RUclips and just imagining how horrifying it would be to told I must evacuate with nothing but what I can fit in my small backpack never to return. One can only imagine the thousands of people for whom this horror was a reality.

  • @Varzaak
    @Varzaak 10 месяцев назад +5

    2 and 5 are my favs for obvious reasons as you will see later. That does not detract from the story of the other 3 because they are also superb. When I saw this I was awestruck over the details. Stuff like the Soviet trucks. The Soviet license plates on the vehicles. The uniforms of the differing mobilized civilians and soldiers. The background in general. You had the foliage or the lay of the land in the shots which totally mirrors Pripyat. The city itself. The nuclear plant rooms. Even small things in how they used comrade in addressing people in private or in a group. I had seen pictures of all of this in detail after the fall of the Soviet Union. I got lucky one time a few years ago on a science website (no clue what its name is now). Anyway, Chernobyl came up on their discussion board. You had several known scientists explain what that explosion did and what is still not released to the public. One such scientist from the CDC who saw the different time stamped pics of Ignatenko in Hospital 6 was that the movie was fairly accurate in how these men slowly liquified in what he had described. He said that the pics of Akimov in particular were so soul killing and emotional. He said it was probably the most gruesome set of pics he had ever viewed. Basically saying that if they showed him in Ep 3 in his unhidden form it would be a vomitfest. This is coming from someone in the CDC who sees gruesome from all over the world. I didn't feel qualified in any way to ask any questions because some of the back and forth was so in-depth that I almost felt inadequate just reading it. That was before this aired by 3 or 4 years. Its why I was both excited and fearful if they hit it out of the park. Car wreck, except of just not seeing just the wreck. That I was going to also see mutilated casualties and feel deep despair because I had read and seen eyewitness accounts that were translated.

  • @louhillen8254
    @louhillen8254 10 месяцев назад +2

    This series is incredible - I learnt so much. And the ignorance and also the sheer bravery……

  • @karenfamiglietti2040
    @karenfamiglietti2040 10 месяцев назад +1

    Just found your channel. I saw Chernobyl, and knew I had to watch along with you. I've watched this series 3 times. The acting, the cinematography, the darkness of it all totally draws you in. To think that it's a true story is absolutely frightening. Carry on watching, I'm going on the ride with you.

  • @del1655
    @del1655 10 месяцев назад +4

    Love your thoughts on the show! I don't know if you were nervous to do this series alone, but you're killing it.

  • @buddystewart2020
    @buddystewart2020 8 месяцев назад +1

    I wonder why people hope they're not gonna cry? What the hell is wrong with crying? The sacrifice made by many, don't they deserve some of my tears? I can't help but cry when I watch this.

  • @lunacouer
    @lunacouer 10 месяцев назад +1

    4:06 That was an important shot, all those clothes. They're still there and still highly radioactive. Unfortunately, people have taken some of them as "souvenirs" over the years 🤦‍♀ I guess they finally poured sand into the entrance ways to stop people from doing that.

  • @craigchalloner153
    @craigchalloner153 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is one of the most stunning hours of TV I've watched in recent years. Such a joy to watch this and Hill House in the same year was a treat.

  • @andidreyes5323
    @andidreyes5323 10 месяцев назад +1

    I was 4 years old when this happened. I lived...live in Missouri. I remember everything about it. My parents and grandparents were actually afraid. We're close to nuclear power plants. But the level of FEAR has never left my memory. It was on the news. Older kids, teenagers, adults were all talking about nuclear power immediately after the world learned about it. We knew they tried to hide it too. And at the time, I remembered my family being so proud that in our country...we were safer. Huh...now, I think it's just amounts of getting away with harming the areas peoples...and doing whatever will make the government the most money.

  • @Silver-rx1mh
    @Silver-rx1mh 10 месяцев назад +6

    God I adore this series, even though I still find it incredibly upsetting every.....damn......time I watch it.

  • @wackyvorlon
    @wackyvorlon 10 месяцев назад +1

    It’s worth noting that the failure experienced by Chernobyl is impossible with modern reactor designs.
    And, if you want a bad afternoon, look up what happened to Hisashi Ouchi.

  • @thyop89
    @thyop89 10 месяцев назад +1

    Potassium Iodide (iodine pill) helps protect against one type of radiative material (radiactive iodine) by blocking it from being absorbed by the thyroid. Unfortunately this is only one of many types of radiactive materials released and it will not save you in a circumstances like these.

  • @psilocyble3053
    @psilocyble3053 10 месяцев назад +5

    Great series with a great Tom to go with it.

  • @caroline4323
    @caroline4323 6 месяцев назад

    The actor playing Boris is brilliant because he looks exactly like a 1980ties Russian aparatchik.
    When I saw the actor talking about his role being himself I barely recognised him...

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you, Tom! ☢ Johan Renck did another exemplary job of directing.

  • @philipstroud6327
    @philipstroud6327 10 месяцев назад

    Even here in the uk the affects were felt, mainly in scotland, the north of england and wales, i believe nearly 10000 farms had their grazing land affected in the uk alone

  • @Dezimondo
    @Dezimondo 10 месяцев назад +1

    Chernobyl is so gripping and top tier imo. It's one of my favourite tv show. Btw I'm really enjoying watching your reaction/thoughts and I'm looking forward to watching the rest 👍

  • @loveitftw
    @loveitftw 10 месяцев назад

    I don't know if anyone mentioned this earlier but the divers didn't heroically volunteer for the job.
    Their managers told them to do it and they were scared of getting fired. They were not offered any extra money for it either. They were just "doing their job" bc "who else could've done it?".

  • @hahatoldyouso
    @hahatoldyouso 10 месяцев назад +1

    Such an impactful series, very well done.

  • @lizetteolsen3218
    @lizetteolsen3218 10 месяцев назад

    This is a growing horror series. You will have nightmares and you will cry. No shame--it is your decency being reflected as you respond to the series.

  • @mikedignum1868
    @mikedignum1868 10 месяцев назад

    This is where the fun begins.

  • @zombiTrout
    @zombiTrout 10 месяцев назад

    The music for this series is so ominous and downright creepy.

  • @krysa555
    @krysa555 9 месяцев назад

    The crew of the fallen helicopter was actually lucky. It was quick. A lot of the helicopters crews died during the next five years. Only few of them survive.

  • @fester2306
    @fester2306 10 месяцев назад

    The general is one of my favorite characters, and he only has a few lines.

  • @applied__science
    @applied__science 10 месяцев назад +2

    Iodine helps protect'ish your Thyroid from radiation

  • @Frozen_Smoke1972
    @Frozen_Smoke1972 10 месяцев назад

    Stellan Skarsgård, Jared Harris, Emily Watson and Jessie Buckley just knock it out of the park in every scene they're in.

  • @ThefetchNZ
    @ThefetchNZ 10 месяцев назад

    When this happened I was a young boy in nz. We got THREADS. We got THE DAY AFTER. Then this happened. I had a suitcase under my bed with all my favourite toys and books. Like that would have made a difference. I’m still scared of this. As a kid no-one explained to me.

  • @hsmorg3640
    @hsmorg3640 10 месяцев назад

    The helicopter scene was actually because the helicopter hit a crane that was rebuilding the site

  • @Bambuzzsprosse
    @Bambuzzsprosse 10 месяцев назад

    Last video I recommended the Podcast by HBO following the episodes, this time I recommend to watch the actual footage from Chernobyl and compare it to the series.
    The helicopter crashing over the core for example is catastrophically more haunting when you see it happen for real.
    Iodine is given because in the explosion large amounts of radioactive iodines were released and the radioactive iodines would be absorbed by the human thyroid.
    So in order to block the possible docking-places in the thyroid the radioactive iodine could attach to, normal iodine is given which instead attaches to the docking-places.

  • @YouMe-ru6wi
    @YouMe-ru6wi 10 месяцев назад

    It's been 2 weeks since an upload, and only 3 episodes left I hope he finishes the series.

  • @ivetavolkova3975
    @ivetavolkova3975 9 месяцев назад

    hi from Latvia! We are still here ;)

  • @GemnEyes
    @GemnEyes 10 месяцев назад

    Toooom, you need to do more episodes in the video, it's not long enough and we have to wait another week? Gah!

  • @cupofcait
    @cupofcait 10 месяцев назад

    How much worse off everyone would have been if it hadn't been for the heroes who volunteered to go in. Devastating.

  • @christophgunster254
    @christophgunster254 10 месяцев назад

    Brace yourself for episode 3, Tom! It's gonna be intense!

  • @Shawn-st2lx
    @Shawn-st2lx 10 месяцев назад +2

    This series in general was actually quite kind to nuclear power, it more showcased the dangers of authoritarian governments like Communism and the dangers of a societal mindset of buying into state sponsored propaganda. Something happening right now in the west.

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 10 месяцев назад

      It's happening in Russia now. The West is totally ok in comparison.

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 10 месяцев назад

    Iodine pills bind with radioactive isotopes of iodine and help to flush them out of the body. They help, but they are not a panacea for all radiation poisoning.

    • @StarkRG
      @StarkRG 9 месяцев назад

      It's more that your thyroid can only absorb so much iodine in a given time period and flooding your body with stable iodine shifts the ratio of stable iodine to radioactive iodine in favor of the stable variety.

  • @Callimachus33
    @Callimachus33 9 месяцев назад +1

    Did we learn anything? Just look at the science denial during the pandemic, and tell me if we learned anything...

  • @cynthiaschultheis1660
    @cynthiaschultheis1660 10 месяцев назад

    Happened under Gorbachev...✌✌✌✌

  • @Senbonzakura776
    @Senbonzakura776 10 месяцев назад +1

    Totally great series.

  • @TheBestPirateDrake
    @TheBestPirateDrake 10 месяцев назад +1

    You can say we learned a lots of lessons from this accident, especially the nuclear industry, it is also the point where nuclear power began to truly decline after the three mile island incident in the us.

  • @Fibonacci64
    @Fibonacci64 10 месяцев назад

    Oh, just you wait ... It gets really heavy.

  • @asdfasdf7199
    @asdfasdf7199 9 месяцев назад

    incredible storytelling. if you're ever wondering whether one aspect or another is accurate, a safe bet is anything said by emily watson is nonsense lol.

  • @WestcoastAudiGuy
    @WestcoastAudiGuy 10 месяцев назад +2

    Don't let this paint the picture that nuclear energy is bad... Nuclear energy is safe, and is ultimately the solution to our energy needs (at least maybe until fusion reactors are viable).
    Wind and solar are not the solution.

    • @StarkRG
      @StarkRG 9 месяцев назад +1

      Nuclear was always a stop-gap solution that, had we transitioned to nuclear early, would have meant our current climate crisis wouldn't have come to pass. For the most part, wind and solar really are enough.

    • @jollyrayda
      @jollyrayda 7 месяцев назад

      www.youtube.com/@WestcoastAudiGuy Nuclear energy is safest when we leave it where it belongs - *OFF* planet, in our sun. It's 35 million kilometres away and can _still_ kill people with radiation (I come from a sunburnt country, check our melanoma mortality rates some time). Living on a giant island continent, it makes way more sense to use wind and solar and hydro when we have 34,000 kilometres of coastline and numerous places that are roasted by sunlight for most of the year - lots of energy and no risk of any potential bad nuclear event (and before you argue - *NO* nuclear will ever be 100% safe, if only through the human error factor, and the dangers presented by a nuclear failure are EXPONENTIALLY worse than if a wind turbine loses blades or a solar farm has some panels catch fire). We might have been very clever by splitting the atom, but we're not clever enough to actually respect the power it brings.

  • @canucksfan9332
    @canucksfan9332 3 месяца назад

    You should listen to the companion podcast Chernobyl. You’d love it

  • @andreapaiola
    @andreapaiola 10 месяцев назад

    The probable thermal explosion in this show is grossly overestimated, but maybe is it true that at that time was so reported... so that the State do what to be done.

  • @GrandmaKeith
    @GrandmaKeith 9 месяцев назад

    The real helicopter crash was due to hitting a crane.

  • @simplementeuno5037
    @simplementeuno5037 10 месяцев назад

    SOS GRANDE "JULIAN ALVAREZ"

  • @wickamo
    @wickamo 10 месяцев назад

    What do you mean if this actually happened. It did happen. Yes they are adding a lot of personal individual story, but these are the ways that those in control reacted and caused the entire thing to be so much worse.

  • @patrickpeterson9873
    @patrickpeterson9873 10 месяцев назад

    New to channel have you considered the movie Alien

  • @seanrosenau2088
    @seanrosenau2088 6 месяцев назад

    Everybody talks about the puppies being liquidated. Nah. This episode is the worst one because of one line. 'You are dealing with something that has never before occurred on this planet'.

  • @brazyfilmo3121
    @brazyfilmo3121 10 месяцев назад

    You gotta react to the wire tv show.

  • @jamiewilliams6529
    @jamiewilliams6529 10 месяцев назад

    I did happen. This is real

  • @michaeltucker5881
    @michaeltucker5881 10 месяцев назад

    It looks like you have not watched Audition the Japanese horror movie.

  • @arielquarante
    @arielquarante 10 месяцев назад

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @thrillalova1212
    @thrillalova1212 10 месяцев назад

    Please react to the movie,”What Lies Beneath”👍👌

  • @MovieSteve1999
    @MovieSteve1999 5 месяцев назад

    "Tell enough lies and you'll believe them"
    Today's politics.

  • @Riya15789
    @Riya15789 10 месяцев назад

    react the conjuring 2 movie

  • @Sondog600
    @Sondog600 10 месяцев назад +3

    Come on man, finish off the series.

  • @cynthiaschultheis1660
    @cynthiaschultheis1660 10 месяцев назад

    How about INTRO
    PLAY VIDEO
    RECAP AT END🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @cynthiaschultheis1660
    @cynthiaschultheis1660 10 месяцев назад

    TALKING OVER LINES ONLY CAUSES MORE INTERRUPTIONS IN VIDEO THAT YOU MISS!!!!!😫😡😠

    • @billhutchinson6318
      @billhutchinson6318 8 месяцев назад

      Yeah! How dare you react to what you're watching!

  • @Waterford1992
    @Waterford1992 10 месяцев назад

    Yes all the characters in this series are real except for Emily Watsons character who is there just to fulfill the diversity quota

    • @DonnaCPunk
      @DonnaCPunk 10 месяцев назад +5

      I think she's an amalgam of dozens of other scientists who worked on the problem.

    • @wackyvorlon
      @wackyvorlon 10 месяцев назад +4

      She’s there because in reality more than a hundred scientists were involved. It was an enormous undertaking, they’ve created her to serve as a composite character.

    • @Waterford1992
      @Waterford1992 10 месяцев назад

      @@DonnaCPunk Yes she is and most of the scientists were men and they did not want another straight white male on their cast so they cast her.

  • @jayroi1814
    @jayroi1814 10 месяцев назад

    Dawn of the Dead 1978 when? :D
    Watch the US theatrical cut for a first watch, the extended cuts especially the extended mall hours fan-edit are great but not for a first time watch

  • @summersammich1324
    @summersammich1324 10 месяцев назад

    Sher-Noble