Not necessarily. Things like the babies absorbing the radiation from the mothers or the people themselves being too radioactive to touch isn't true. You had to stay away because you yourself could kill them as their immune system was failing. They also had to speed up some of the symptoms to increase the gravity of the effects and visually amp up some of the "decay" look of the body to be more visually impactful. But, it's a show, and they are honest with the things they changed to increase tension, just like the list of corrections at the end just to say "yes we know what really happened." Just like how the copter crash happened, but not in the circumstance they showed (doing a drop).
@iainsteele5737 Watch any number of videos where nuclear engineers or nuclear physicists reacted to Chernobyl. Heck, watch the video of an actual Chernobyl doctor reviewing clips and giving honest critiques on certain things they had to amp up or embellish a bit. Or not, it doesn't really matter. 🤷🏾♂️
The KGB couple that was following them, was the same couple that was at the bar asking him if they had anything to worry about. They have always been there, a d they were testing him immediately to see what information he would divulge to citizens.
That image of the firefighter (on the bed) is gonna haunt me forever. It's sad and horrifying, but I also appreciate that the makers didn't shield away from the awful reality.
of course, but I mean I'm glad they didn't just dab some paint on his face either...and say this is what radiation does to a human body @@iainsteele5737
The sheer body horror presented in this show almost seems too unreal to be possible... and that's what makes it so scary. It *is* real, and it's far more horrific than any fictional horror film could show. I can't possibly imagine what these poor men went through as they died, and we can only hope that humanity has learnt from this and doesn't make the same catastrophic mistakes so easily again so more people don't have to suffer the same fate. Then again, we never have been very good at learning from history...
Only the Soviets were insane enough to build RBMKs with no containment structures for generating power, as far as I know, nobody has ever made the same errors, so pretty much everybody else's nuclear power program has already learned all there is to learn from the Soviet nuclear power program.
When Lyudmilla hugs her husband Vasily in the hospital, I love how the camera pans around them with the sun light flashing. It's a way of showing in that moment Vasily is blasting his wife with the radiation he has, like a death ray.
After his contaminated clothing removed and him thoroughly washed, Vasily was no longer a threat to his wife. Radiation poisoning was not that well understood at that time. But no, Vasily was definitely not turned into a radioactive fuel rod. It was more of the other way round: as the radiation destroyed his bone marrow and immune system, it was rather everybody else being a threat for him, as he could not fight back the smallest infection.
The actress portraying Lyudmila the firefighter's wife is Jessie Buckley, an Irish actress and in the next episode you'll see Barry Keoghan, another Irish actor and both of them have been nominated for Oscars for their roles in two different films in the last few years.
You're doing amazing on your own. I really love your insights and your way of speaking. So much thought and clarity goes into everything you comment on.
@elric5371 did I say anything about why episode 4 is worse in my opinion? Nope. But here you are making a morality judgment. Sounds like projection to me.
@elric5371 animals are more innocent than people. However, it's also the baby dying, the people being used as human robots. Everything is bleak and cold.
Craig Mazin became a hit maker for HBO first this excellent mini-series Chernobyl. Then the adaptation of The Last Of Us. This mini-series is phenomenal this episode and the next are the most brutal and heartbreaking. And apparently in real life the radiation poisoning was much much worse, but they had to tone it down for the show scary😱
Something the makers of the show changed for entertainment purposes in this episode is the way the coal minister and coal miners interacted. The Deputy Minister of Mining met with the miners, and basically gave them 24 hours to be ready to go to Chernobyl...there was no humorous coal dust on the suit moment. The meeting between the Minster and miners is covered in the History vs Hollywood article I recommended...as is the fact that the miners did not work in the nude.
When I read a review of this show by a nurse that actually took care of some of these victims, she said they didn't look like they are portrayed in the film. She said it looked like the art department was given free rein and just went crazy. So, it may not look like they actually did, but it sure conveyed the horror of the situation to the viewers.
Fun fact, a lot of the score uses sounds found in an actual reactor! They use it to give it that constant sense of dread like when Jessie Buckley hugs her husband
I was the same as you... for some reason, I never watched this show when it aired even though every one of my friends was raving about it. Then it was available on the entertainment channel on a 10 hour flight to Tokyo. I binge-watched all 5 episodes on the flight there, and it horrified me. So much so that I binge watched all 5 episodes again on the flight home 2 weeks later. 2 days after that I went and bought the blu-ray box set. I've now lost count of how many times I've watched it.
"Chernobyl's Heart" is a 50 minute documentary that covers an area of Ukraine that has 2nd and 3rd generations of the people who moved away from that area. I recommend it so you have an idea of the actual fallout and the DNA deterioration that "could be" occurring. Also that there's been data collected about it long-term.
Just a little sidenote--- would you mind fixing the volume controls, as much youtube will let you. i live for your content....and just wanna enjoy as much as i can. im a canadian paraplegic.. (thoracic burst spinal trauma T9-T12 had to be removed and fused, and i live in my own little hell most days. I cannot even fathom how terrifying this invisible HELL must have been straight out of a night terror., or something from "Dantes Inferno"..... I pray as much as I can for these brave sacrificial men..first responders saved our world. God make it so, this can NEVER EVER happen again. okay, rambling over. Luv From Kara
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the scary thing is that they toned down how bad radiation poisoning is so they could show it in this episode
Not necessarily. Things like the babies absorbing the radiation from the mothers or the people themselves being too radioactive to touch isn't true. You had to stay away because you yourself could kill them as their immune system was failing.
They also had to speed up some of the symptoms to increase the gravity of the effects and visually amp up some of the "decay" look of the body to be more visually impactful.
But, it's a show, and they are honest with the things they changed to increase tension, just like the list of corrections at the end just to say "yes we know what really happened."
Just like how the copter crash happened, but not in the circumstance they showed (doing a drop).
@@DJKuroh my guy, their lungs melted through their rotten flesh, be quiet.
@iainsteele5737 Watch any number of videos where nuclear engineers or nuclear physicists reacted to Chernobyl. Heck, watch the video of an actual Chernobyl doctor reviewing clips and giving honest critiques on certain things they had to amp up or embellish a bit.
Or not, it doesn't really matter. 🤷🏾♂️
@@iainsteele5737no they did not LOL, you clearly know absolutely nothing about ARS.
@@elric5371 they did. end of.
The KGB couple that was following them, was the same couple that was at the bar asking him if they had anything to worry about. They have always been there, a d they were testing him immediately to see what information he would divulge to citizens.
That image of the firefighter (on the bed) is gonna haunt me forever. It's sad and horrifying, but I also appreciate that the makers didn't shield away from the awful reality.
the thing is, it was so much worse than that
of course, but I mean I'm glad they didn't just dab some paint on his face either...and say this is what radiation does to a human body @@iainsteele5737
There's a reason they didn't show Akimov's face at all ("We did everything right"), because he didn't have one.
I'd almost forgotten about...it until today. Ugh.
@@tchjdaednanother lie, he did have a face.
The sheer body horror presented in this show almost seems too unreal to be possible... and that's what makes it so scary. It *is* real, and it's far more horrific than any fictional horror film could show. I can't possibly imagine what these poor men went through as they died, and we can only hope that humanity has learnt from this and doesn't make the same catastrophic mistakes so easily again so more people don't have to suffer the same fate.
Then again, we never have been very good at learning from history...
Only the Soviets were insane enough to build RBMKs with no containment structures for generating power, as far as I know, nobody has ever made the same errors, so pretty much everybody else's nuclear power program has already learned all there is to learn from the Soviet nuclear power program.
That shot in the hospital...I can't. One of the worst things I've ever seen. RIP.
When Lyudmilla hugs her husband Vasily in the hospital, I love how the camera pans around them with the sun light flashing. It's a way of showing in that moment Vasily is blasting his wife with the radiation he has, like a death ray.
That isn't really how it works, of course, but I guess that's what the director wanted us to think?
After his contaminated clothing removed and him thoroughly washed, Vasily was no longer a threat to his wife. Radiation poisoning was not that well understood at that time. But no, Vasily was definitely not turned into a radioactive fuel rod. It was more of the other way round: as the radiation destroyed his bone marrow and immune system, it was rather everybody else being a threat for him, as he could not fight back the smallest infection.
The actress portraying Lyudmila the firefighter's wife is Jessie Buckley, an Irish actress and in the next episode you'll see Barry Keoghan, another Irish actor and both of them have been nominated for Oscars for their roles in two different films in the last few years.
Absolutely loving the reactions. We can only hope this never happens again.
You're doing amazing on your own. I really love your insights and your way of speaking. So much thought and clarity goes into everything you comment on.
Keep doing these reactions mate. This show is worth it.
Episode 4 says, "Hold my beer."
Episode 3 was worse, why on earth do animal lives matter more than human lives to you?
@elric5371 did I say anything about why episode 4 is worse in my opinion? Nope. But here you are making a morality judgment. Sounds like projection to me.
@@timothydeweese6931 you were inferring the animals which everyone seems to hold above human life for some bizarre reason.
@elric5371 animals are more innocent than people. However, it's also the baby dying, the people being used as human robots. Everything is bleak and cold.
@@timothydeweese6931 animals are no more innocent than humans.
I like this channel because it always feels like you catch some scene beats and themes that others don't.
It's really one of the best series ever made. This shows just grabs you immediately and it keeps the same intensity all the way through.
Cinematically yes, historically no, all it did was create a fan base who were fed a whole bunch of lies about a historical event.
When you said you hoped we don't lose anybody I thought "Uh-oh, he's going to have a tough time with this episode".
Craig Mazin became a hit maker for HBO first this excellent mini-series Chernobyl. Then the adaptation of The Last Of Us. This mini-series is phenomenal this episode and the next are the most brutal and heartbreaking. And apparently in real life the radiation poisoning was much much worse, but they had to tone it down for the show scary😱
Something the makers of the show changed for entertainment purposes in this episode is the way the coal minister and coal miners interacted. The Deputy Minister of Mining met with the miners, and basically gave them 24 hours to be ready to go to Chernobyl...there was no humorous coal dust on the suit moment. The meeting between the Minster and miners is covered in the History vs Hollywood article I recommended...as is the fact that the miners did not work in the nude.
The moment you realise the leader of the miners is Trevor, Little Mo's abusive husband in Eastenders🤯
He was also the Riddler’s second victim (the commissioner w the rat trap on his head) from Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman.”
When I read a review of this show by a nurse that actually took care of some of these victims, she said they didn't look like they are portrayed in the film. She said it looked like the art department was given free rein and just went crazy. So, it may not look like they actually did, but it sure conveyed the horror of the situation to the viewers.
The coffins are zinc, btw. We all assume lead when we see this, but apparently zinc.
Savenkov, Popov and Lelechenko were the only ones buried in a lead coffin, the rest in Zinc and no they were not buried in concrete either.
Fun fact, a lot of the score uses sounds found in an actual reactor! They use it to give it that constant sense of dread like when Jessie Buckley hugs her husband
It’s such an incredible show that I keep having to remember that Craig did this and the Last of Us. The writing just so fantastic in both.
I was the same as you... for some reason, I never watched this show when it aired even though every one of my friends was raving about it.
Then it was available on the entertainment channel on a 10 hour flight to Tokyo.
I binge-watched all 5 episodes on the flight there, and it horrified me.
So much so that I binge watched all 5 episodes again on the flight home 2 weeks later.
2 days after that I went and bought the blu-ray box set.
I've now lost count of how many times I've watched it.
Thanks, Tom! ☢ Johan Renck directed this one, as well.
Awwww - too short - need longer reactions for this incredible series!
Agreed...the edit is so short, it's hard to grasp sometimes exactly what he's reacting to without the context: without rewatching the show.
Yeah many other reactors on RUclips have much longer reactions to this show. His edit is way to short he could have made it a bit longer.
"Chernobyl's Heart" is a 50 minute documentary that covers an area of Ukraine that has 2nd and 3rd generations of the people who moved away from that area. I recommend it so you have an idea of the actual fallout and the DNA deterioration that "could be" occurring. Also that there's been data collected about it long-term.
10:05 KGB is more like FBI than CIA.
11:51 they doctors. 70 % Soviet doctors is women.
Great reaction.
Great reaction Tom...brace yourself for the next one... that's all I'm going to say.
Wait until you see the “90 seconds on the roof” scene.
You have to see Star is Born!
Hey man, where is episode 4.
Just a little sidenote--- would you mind fixing the volume controls, as much youtube will let you. i live for your content....and just wanna enjoy as much as i can. im a canadian paraplegic.. (thoracic burst spinal trauma T9-T12 had to be removed and fused, and i live in my own little hell most days. I cannot even fathom how terrifying this invisible HELL must have been straight out of a night terror., or something from "Dantes Inferno"..... I pray as much as I can for these brave sacrificial men..first responders saved our world. God make it so, this can NEVER EVER happen again. okay, rambling over. Luv From Kara
KGB IS LIKE OUR CIA. & NSA
MI6 IS LIKE OUR FBI & HOMELAND SECURITY
The killing of all animals was awful, too!!😠😡😠😡😫
Not as bad as humans.
Next episode when?
If you want to know about what the NKVD/KGB did, you'd better be ready for some serious shocks. Especially what the NKVD did for Stalin.
Will you be watching the final five episodes? It gets more intense.
Damn, even shorter than the first two? There’s so much greatness in this episode :/
When is Ep 4???? ❤❤❤
thank god Gorbachev/sensible was a reasonable man.
Why are these reactions so short? 😢
Hope you and Shaun haven’t fallen out