Chernobyl on HBO

[Anonymous]

The final episode was fantastic. So glad we watched the series.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking forward to this series. I went to Chernobyl last summer and walked through the abandoned village of pipiyat (or whatever it’s called). It was super interesting!

Hmm. You visited but don’t recall the name? I’ve never been and I can remember the name. I remember the name of the random chicken place we got chicken from on a road trip last year, passing through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed that all in all only 4000 people died.

Source? I think it's hard to pinpoint how many people died over the years.

It’s probably a lot higher—some think it might be close to 100k

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking forward to this series. I went to Chernobyl last summer and walked through the abandoned village of pipiyat (or whatever it’s called). It was super interesting!

Pripyat. Somehow, after watching this series, I’m surprisingly angry that you visited and don’t even know the name of the place. “whatever it’s called” seems so disrespectful.

[b]

I have travelled to over 100 countries, I apologise for not knowing the exact spelling of you city. I’m sorry you are angry.

[Anonymous]

*the city, not you... clearly spelling is an issue for me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking forward to this series. I went to Chernobyl last summer and walked through the abandoned village of pipiyat (or whatever it’s called). It was super interesting!

Pripyat. Somehow, after watching this series, I’m surprisingly angry that you visited and don’t even know the name of the place. “whatever it’s called” seems so disrespectful.

[b]

I have travelled to over 100 countries, I apologise for not knowing the exact spelling of you city. I’m sorry you are angry.

Different PP. "Your city"??? Dude no one has lived there in 30 years. I think its because it is the site of tragedy. One should kind of have a good idea about the names of places where great human tragedies occurred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking forward to this series. I went to Chernobyl last summer and walked through the abandoned village of pipiyat (or whatever it’s called). It was super interesting!

Pripyat. Somehow, after watching this series, I’m surprisingly angry that you visited and don’t even know the name of the place. “whatever it’s called” seems so disrespectful.

[b]

I have travelled to over 100 countries, I apologise for not knowing the exact spelling of you city. I’m sorry you are angry.

Different PP. "Your city"??? Dude no one has lived there in 30 years. I think its because it is the site of tragedy. One should kind of have a good idea about the names of places where great human tragedies occurred.

[b]

It was a typo which was corrected immediately after the post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking forward to this series. I went to Chernobyl last summer and walked through the abandoned village of pipiyat (or whatever it’s called). It was super interesting!

Pripyat. Somehow, after watching this series, I’m surprisingly angry that you visited and don’t even know the name of the place. “whatever it’s called” seems so disrespectful.

[b]

I have travelled to over 100 countries, I apologise for not knowing the exact spelling of you city. I’m sorry you are angry.

Different PP. "Your city"??? Dude no one has lived there in 30 years. I think its because it is the site of tragedy. One should kind of have a good idea about the names of places where great human tragedies occurred.

[b]

It was a typo which was corrected immediately after the post.

I have travelled extensively as well—and I wouldn’t refer to such a place as “whatever it’s called.” That’s akin to: “this summer I had the most amazing time walking thru that abandoned concentration camp at Ashwertz, or whatever it’s called. It was super interesting!”

[Anonymous]

I’m behind so I suppose I’ll find this out soon enough, but I thought the “accident” was an intentional experiment and that’s one of the reasons they didn’t evacuate quickly - because the point was for the government to see how it affected people?

A friend visited. She took a picture of herself in the mirror with black light that showed yellow marks splattered on her from the tour. Seems insane to me but she loves to travel and is apparently a risk taker. I could not.

[Anonymous]

^^ patience—watch all the episodes, and your questions will be answered. Don’t let anyone ruin it for you.

[Anonymous]

The most harrowing part of last night was when they said that everyone who had been on the bridge, watching the fire that night had died.

I also really appreciated how they followed up with the facts or explanations for each character.

[Anonymous]

The last episode was great and I was gratified to see that they noted the three men who went into the water to open the valves all survived, and two are alive today. (Earlier, in episode two or three, the implication was they all would die, which is contrary to reality!)

I do wish they had a little more about the people on the bridge, besides basically saying it is believed they all died, but I guess the lack of records or official death toll makes that impossible.

I lived thru the aftermath of 911 in lower Manhattan, and there was a serious deep concern about air quality — not radiation but asbestos and other particles. Our apartment was inspected for dust etc., and there is still a health registry that tracks the health of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

At the same time, firefighters were at the front lines here as in the Chernobyl disaster, and charged into danger to protect us all, and fell ill. And US officials (including the then epa chief, as I recall ) did play down the health risks in the interest of getting the city back up and running. Still, far from the secrecy and paranoia of the soviet state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The last episode was great and I was gratified to see that they noted the three men who went into the water to open the valves all survived, and two are alive today. (Earlier, in episode two or three, the implication was they all would die, which is contrary to reality!)

I do wish they had a little more about the people on the bridge, besides basically saying it is believed they all died, but I guess the lack of records or official death toll makes that impossible.

I lived thru the aftermath of 911 in lower Manhattan, and there was a serious deep concern about air quality — not radiation but asbestos and other particles. Our apartment was inspected for dust etc., and there is still a health registry that tracks the health of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

At the same time, firefighters were at the front lines here as in the Chernobyl disaster, and charged into danger to protect us all, and fell ill. And US officials (including the then epa chief, as I recall ) did play down the health risks in the interest of getting the city back up and running. Still, far from the secrecy and paranoia of the soviet state.

When they mentioned that all the fire fighter gear is still in the bottom of the hospital because it's still too radioactive to move, that also drove the danger home.

I don't think you can equate particulate matter with radioactivity in terms of health, but I guess only time will tell.

[Anonymous]

Jared Harris' character did a good job explaining the specifics of what happened in layman's terms. The little pieces of blue and red paper were effective without being too cheesy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jared Harris' character did a good job explaining the specifics of what happened in layman's terms. The little pieces of blue and red paper were effective without being too cheesy.

I love that they waited until the final episode to explain how the disaster happened. They could've easily showed it to us in the first episode, but I like the discovery process that they took us down on the last episode. It was the biggest payoff for me.