[TV] Chernobyl - TV series

Normal Rob · May 17, 2019

Anyone else watching this? Superb so far, with a 9.6 IMDB rating to date.

Harold · May 17, 2019

Lovely bit of squirrel. Sorry. Can't get past the fact Martin is in it.

PILTDOWN MAN · May 17, 2019

yes enjoyed it so far

Beach Hut · May 17, 2019

Recording it at present, currently on S2 of the Handmaid's Tale.

NB on all 4 catch up Walter Presents has some outstanding foreign dramas, just about to start Mr Avila S2

Originunknown · May 17, 2019

Excellent but something missing without Russian language, it just doesn't feel right.

piersa · May 17, 2019

very enjoyable so far

Badger · May 17, 2019

Yes. Watched episode 2 a couple of days ago. Really enjoying it so far.

I remember learning about Chernobyl at school. I've always found it a fascinating (and tragic) story.

Normal Rob · May 17, 2019

Harold said:
Lovely bit of squirrel. Sorry. Can't get past the fact Martin is in it.

I don't know who that is, and it's bugging me.

pasty · May 17, 2019

Beach Hut said:
Recording it at present, currently on S2 of the Handmaid's Tale.

NB on all 4 catch up Walter Presents has some outstanding foreign dramas, just about to start Mr Avila S2

Ever watched Kaboul Kitchen? Loved that.

Pavilionaire · May 17, 2019

This is a superb bit of telly and lifts the lid on a story that was covered up at the time.

Apparently, you can do a bus tour of nearby Pripyat, a place where the whole town were evacuated never to return.

Goring-by-Seagull · May 17, 2019

Normal Rob said:
I don't know who that is, and it's bugging me.

The dad out of Friday Night Dinner.

Also really enjoying Chernobyl so far. It really is a fascinating event in history, I'm a bit of a nerd so have looked into it quite a lot over the years. Very good how they get across the details of the destruction and possible destruction, in a way that can be understood by people who aren't nuclear physicists

swindonseagull · May 17, 2019

Remember it well.. being based in Germany with the RAF at the time, each time an aircraft landed it was checked for radiation and decontamination as necessary.
The sand pits in the kids playgrounds were covered over ( as I assume they probably absorbed radioactive fallout when wet)

Normal Rob · May 17, 2019

Pavilionaire said:
This is a superb bit of telly and lifts the lid on a story that was covered up at the time.

Apparently, you can do a bus tour of nearby Pripyat, a place where the whole town were evacuated never to return.

I was wondering if there was any poetic license being used. If it's sticking to the truth, particularly the potential for a much, much larger incident ensuing (rendering Ukraine and Belarus (pop. 60m) uninhabitable for 100+ years) then blimey. And there was me seeing it on the news aged 13 and, whilst harbouring a little concern at the time, pretty much getting on with things.

Beach Hut · May 17, 2019

pasty said:
Ever watched Kaboul Kitchen? Loved that.

No I must have missed that and not on their catch up now

Pavilionaire · May 17, 2019

Normal Rob said:
I was wondering if there was any poetic license being used. If it's sticking to the truth, particularly the potential for a much, much larger incident ensuing (rendering Ukraine and Belarus (pop. 60m) uninhabitable for 100+ years) then blimey. And there was me seeing it on the news aged 13 and, whilst harbouring a little concern at the time, pretty much getting on with things.

No need for poetic licence. It's a fact there were four nuclear reactors on that site and there was a real chance that a steam explosion could have destroyed the remaining three, bad enough for three guys to go on a suicide mission to prevent it happening. If anything the series is underplaying the story.

Thimble Keegan · May 17, 2019

Pavilionaire said:
This is a superb bit of telly and lifts the lid on a story that was covered up at the time.

Apparently, you can do a bus tour of nearby Pripyat, a place where the whole town were evacuated never to return.

Correct, you can take a tour as I was there just before Easter and it was really interesting.

Also within the Exclusion Zone was a top secret radar base which was the most advanced of it's kind at the time. Obviously it had to be abandoned but that actual receiving radar is still there and it is huge.

But getting to roam inside the buildings in the ghost-town of Pripyat was something else and they took as close as they could to the remains of the reactor.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Westminster BHA

studio150 · May 17, 2019

Brilliant TV.

Just a coincidence but the effects of the fallout popped up in (another great series) Deutschland 86

Normal Rob · May 17, 2019

Thimble Keegan said:
Correct, you can take a tour as I was there just before Easter and it was really interesting.

Also within the Exclusion Zone was a top secret radar base which was the most advanced of it's kind at the time. Obviously it had to be abandoned but that actual receiving radar is still there and it is huge.

But getting to roam inside the buildings in the ghost-town of Pripyat was something else and they took as close as they could to the remains of the reactor.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Westminster BHA

fascinating stuff... https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html

BattFink · May 17, 2019

Really enjoying the series so far

I've been to the exclusion zone about 10 times now, (even got a chance to visit the power station & stand on top of reactor 2), have either caught the train in from Slavutych or stayed in Chernobyl town

Well worth a visit

Wilko · May 17, 2019

Went there last year, fascinating place and a trip well worth doing (as is a visit to Kiev)

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