New docudrama miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine that's due to air next month on both HBO and Sky. Trailer looks fecking epic with that soundtrack.
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Television Chernobyl (HBO/Sky drama series)
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New docudrama miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine that's due to air next month on both HBO and Sky. Trailer looks fecking epic with that soundtrack.
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The trailer sure looks powerful.
Like the look of this, Jared Harris and Adam Nagaitis are both in this, they were the stars of the show in The Terror, so hopefully that's a good sign.
One of the most interesting events in modern history. I'll definitely be checking this out.
Yeah The Terror was really good, so I'm hoping this will be even better than that.
Posted the trailer in the "recommend me a TV show" thread, looks really good and it's HBO so fingers crossed.
Looking forward to this, will defo be watching it the coming week! 
Looking forward to this. It's got Jared Harris, famous for Resident Evil 2 as you all know, Emily Watson (Crusade in Jeans), Stella Skarsgard (Mama Mia) and many others. The cast listing is a little vague on who is playing the Stalker though, but I'm sure whoever they've got is decent.
This is good stuff. Not a new story, but one that should be retold.
This trailer caught my attention. Good sub for when Game of Thrones finishes
Very intense first episode - got that line between documentary and drama right. Good work from Sky/HBO so far.
What are the dragons like?
Deformed and riddled with cancer...
I'm really interested in this, as I've worked on nuclear facilities before, so it's something that I've got a bit of knowledge on.
Ablaze (by Piers Paul Read) is an excellent nonfiction book for anyone interested in the disaster.
I read that as nonce fiction at first...
Sold!
This is on my watch list , only 5 eps , so will binge watch it all.
Already got ep 1 but I think I'm gonna do the same and binge watch it like I did with The Terror.
First epi was amazing and the acting was top class.
Hagadblawwaa Monsteeerrr!
Good to see Lane Price doing well.
Good to see Lane Price doing well.
Still gotta watch the Terror.. Argh
Absolutely great first episode.
You should. It's a 10/10 series for me. And this feels like its spiritual successor.
I enjoyed it , well worth watching.
Counting the days until The Terror hits Hulu. Would cost me 25$ to watch right now...
Chernobyl/GoT crossover — Pripyat' pioneers are marching to the school, dragon drops dead from the sky behind them.
You definitely need to man!
Thought the first episode was great. Something else to look forward to for the next month after GoT is done!
Absolutely fantastic first episode. Great setting and tone. Great acting.
Close to my heart as well as my grandad was a ‘liquidator’ when the disaster struck. As were many men from Soviet Union to be fair.
Close to my heart as well as my grandad was a ‘liquidator’ when the disaster struck. As were many men from Soviet Union to be fair.
Was thinking of watching Chernobyl but didn’t bother, will give it a look based on the reviews in here.
As for The Terror , I thought it was way way too slow and gave up on it, what actually happened in the end?
Don’t forget to spoiler it.
Definitely concur, but the intro of that Communist bureaucrat who incorrectly describes the amount of radiation that the first responders would be receiving looks as though the whole dramatic element will even be increased. That actor is Stellan Skarsgård, someone who I have considered as an elite actor for decades, especially since Timecode, a movie with four different storylines all shot in one take & played simultaneously in a screen cut into four sections. It was impressive.
When was that written, soon after or later on? Both timeframes would definitely have different impacts on the book, even a nonfiction one.
It’s bloody scary to think how close Europe was to becoming a nuclear wasteland.
What is even scarier is that the Soviets most likely would not have disclosed the true nature & scope of the disaster if not for the Swedes having detected very high amounts of radiation in the atmosphere & none of their plants were the culprit. They initially asked the Soviets about any issues they were having, the Soviets denied any plant issues. The Soviets also buried a small story about a fire at a nuclear facility deep inside Pravda to satisfy disclosure. It was only when the Swedes threatened to go to the IAEA a few days after the disaster did the Soviets start to come clean.
If the winds didn’t take the radiation over Sweden but kept it mostly over Warsaw Pact countries, who knows when the truth would have come out. It would have been after 1991 when the facts would have started to come out en masse, but I think even the new Russian government would have tried to resist full disclosure due to embarrassment & fear of having to pay reparations.
The US military was aware of the disaster two days after it occurred due to Keyhole satellite imaging, but we didn’t want to be the first accusers lest we would have had to disclose operational ability of the KH-11 satellites, our elite spy satellites at the time. We did not want to divulge the fact that a KH-11 could determine the brand of a golf ball from outer space, but we would have had to if we submitted evidentiary documents to the IAEA, UN, etc.
Thankfully, the Swedes were the detectives who quickly solved the case & saved potentially hundreds of thousands of lives I. Europe.
1993, according to Wikipedia.
I haven't finished the Sopranos yet. Is this any good?
Only one episode out so far but I haven’t seen any negative reviews about it all. From critics or from posters here.
So it could've been a Coventry type thing, where we knew something was coming but did not want to divulge our sources?