Chernobyl: Abyss
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story. From TMDB
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60 of 205 · most liked firstWhat TV shows are absolutely worth watching?. I haven't been watching much in terms of actual shows for a good while, then while listening to a podcast a host casually mentioned they had rewatched Chernobyl, how it still holds up, that there's a reason it got as much acclaim as it did, etc. So I thought I'd give it a go and wow, loved it (still one episode left to watch). Had me thinking, what else have I missed out on? What are some "absolute cinema" TV shows that still hold up and and are…
unlabelledView post →CHERNOBYL, is, in my opinion, very good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
unlabelledView post →Also I can't stop being amazed that Craig Mazin, who previously had been known for such films as Super Hero Movie and Scary Movie 4 pulled off something as incredible as Chernobyl. Guess I should probably watch The Last of Us...
unlabelledView post →Is there a better horror movie than the first episode of Chernobyl, or rather a more frightening stomach turning one. Gets me every time.
unlabelledView post →The main joke of this movie - writer/director of 'THE LAST OF US' and 'CHERNOBYL!' 😲 was essentially "After a decade of this genre being popular (X-Men in '99 to Spider-Man3, essentially) it's kinda all played out, huh?" ...it released in March 23, 2008 - basically *one month* before 'IRON MAN'
unlabelledView post →The movie opening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is closer to the Chernobyl disaster than it is to today.
unlabelledView post →*watching Aliens and noticing the alien hive architecture as well as it's location under the colony reactor and wonders if it was a reference to the elephants foot at Chernobyl* In fact, the film opens with a scan of blue light similar in color to cherenkov radiation.
unlabelledView post →3/ 'Dirty Harry. Igor Gomelsky' retorts that this is the level of understanding that you get when "you studied the history of the Chernobyl disaster from the film by Dani Kozlovsky. Dear Mother!" (The 2021 movie Chernobyl: Abyss is a factually challenged 'patriotic' take on the disaster.)
unlabelledView post →It's not a movie, but it's a 5 episode miniseries so CLOSE ENOUGH HBO's Chernobyl It is depressing and horrifying and full of senseless human loss But it is also full of human brilliance and perseverance in the face of one of the most terrifying things on the planet I love it
unlabelledView post →If you ever get in a rut and think you can never adapt and improve, just remember that the same guy who wrote Scary Movie 4 (2006) also created goddamn Chernobyl (2017).
unlabelledView post →I hope in the third Sisu movie we find out the old man caused the Chernobyl explosion because someone made a mean comment about his dog.
unlabelledView post →The Chernobyl disaster happened only THREE MONTHS before the film was released so while an interesting coincidence it was DEFINITELY not a reference
unlabelledView post →A lot of the Chernobyl HBO series is people hanging out in the dark and looking at stuff while creepy music plays because how you gonna film radiation
unlabelledView post →Finally gotten round to watching Chernobyl and nobody warned me that the first episode is the scariest horror movie I have ever seen ever.
unlabelledView post →This was animated in Kyiv as the USSR disintegrated into chaos and Chernobyl fallout was raining from the sky. With that context the unhinged quality of this movie really makes sense.
unlabelledView post →As someone who knew people who lived through the death of stalin period irl that movie is a hoot. I feel like all movies about messy historical events can be graded on a scale with "Chernobyl" on one end and "Death of Stalin" on the other and it's whatever is in the middle that's insufferable.
unlabelledView post →Didn't hate the new Seinfeld movie. Mediocre, but not the celluloid Chernobyl that the first critics saw. letterboxd.com/daveweigel/f...
unlabelledView post →From the HBO show Chernobyl. It's really well made and worth watching.
unlabelledView post →We were just watching “Coraline” for our “Hallowe’en Film“ of the day and my 18yo exclaims,”can you pause it?! I think that guy is wearing a Chernobyl liquidator medal!“ Just a random factoid burned into my kid’s brain for some reason? “Uhh,how did you know that?” “I read a lot about Chernobyl“.
unlabelledView post →“Every frame of this film serves as evidence in the case of the unprecedented war crime — the occupation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. We use this footage not only as the basis for future legal proceedings, but also as a way to rethink documentary filmmaking.” — Oleksiy Radynski, Director
unlabelledView post →When he was dropping bits of Cruz lore during the 2016 election, he was only known as the guy who wrote some of The Hangover and Scary Movie films. Chernobyl was quite the departure.
unlabelledView post →rewatched CHERNOBYL over the weekend. What a gripping story because of how evil and corrupt the govt was and how resilient the people were. So many lessons to learn from this tragic event. My ★★★★★ review on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/8rMCl5
unlabelledView post →this dude’s CV pinballs around maybe more than George Miller – Scary Movie 3, Chernobyl, The Last of Us and
unlabelledView post →Apr 26th 1986 - There was an explosion at the #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Depicted in the award winning HBO TV Mini Series, Chernobyl (2019), and used as a plot device in the none award winning horror movie Chernobyl Diaries (2012) 📽️📅 Depicted in Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
unlabelledView post →Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, many kinds of life-forms moved in and thrived. One in particular stands out. @ScienceAlert has more on the wall-clinging black fungus that seems to be living its best life: https://flip.it/IaTtz7 #Science #Chernobyl #Nature
unlabelledView post →Getting upset that a movie didn't make money for Warner Bros. at the moment is like warning a Chernobyl worker that they shouldn't smoke mid-meltdown because it's bad for their health.
unlabelledView post →What was the last movie or show you watched in 2025? Chernobyl. Seen it so many times, still hits as hard as the first time I watched it.
unlabelledView post →Didn’t the guy who’s making this show and Chernobyl come from like a DATE MOVIE background or something? That rocks
unlabelledView post →As @derekgottliebphd.com and I unpack in our podcast Control Room, the Chernobyl disaster stemmed directly from the corners the Soviet nuclear industry cut to save to money, even as they were claiming the facilities were safe. podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/c...
unlabelledView post →Today, Movie Slate talks about the fantastic 1993 HBO series "Chernobyl" - askmovieslate.tumblr.com/post/7491849... Excellent series. #AskBlog #WebComic #Chernobyl #MLPOC #Pony #Unicorn
unlabelledView post →"what American event would you make in the style of Chernobyl" they already made it, it's called Margin Call, and no movie so poignantly illustrates how capitalism is designed to devour itself whole
unlabelledView post →Happy 59th Birthday to the great Emily Watson, Oscar/Emmy-nominated British film, stage, television, and radio actress, acclaimed for her breathtaking roles/performances in BREAKING THE WAVES, ANGELA'S ASHES, GOSFORD PARK, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK; and CHERNOBYL, and more.
unlabelledView post →Immediately after I finished rereading it, I learned they're making a movie of Devil in the White City—and while I'm excited about any adaptation, I am disappointed that we're not getting a full-scale HBO miniseries. (The folks who made Chernobyl would crush it!)
unlabelledView post →I get we're at a point in time where people this age do actually like video games, so we are going to see things like Zach Cregger want to make a Resident Evil movie, but like, since Chernobyl, he's done TLoU, wrote a Borderlands script that may or may not have been the one filmed, and now this.
unlabelledView post →Multi-award-winning photographer and film-maker Seiichi Motohashi, 85, who documented everyday lives in #Japan and the impact of the 1986 #Chernobyl disaster on villages, has died of old age, his family announced this week. May he rest in peace. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
unlabelledView post →me: to chill out a bit I'm going to watch The Hunt for Red October (1990), the only good Jack Ryan movie which I've loved since I was ten years old the Red October's cryogenic plant: *breaks down* me: welp apparently Chernobyl is my new comfort watch, get rekt Comrade Dyatlov
unlabelledView post →Just watched the deepwater horizon movie and, like Chernobyl, there is something so incredibly powerful about people climbing into hell to save others from it. Manmade casualties by people who don’t care cleaned up by those who care with every fiber of their being.
unlabelledView post →And maybe instead of watching the ‘bird man’ movie about Alcatraz.. he should watch the hbo show Chernobyl/how many deaths were covered up by the Soviet Union 🤷🏻♀️
unlabelledView post →I swear if I see Timothee Chernobyl cast as Link in that movie I’m burying my switch
unlabelledView post →If you like the focus on bureaucracy in Chernobyl then check out The Days on Netflix. It's about the Fukishima disaster. Not as good as Chernobyl but nothing is. This is also why I think Shin Godzilla is the best recent Godzilla movie. It is a commentary on Fukishima.
unlabelledView post →The incredible thing is, the film is probably kinder on the Klingon incompetence that caused SPACE Chernobyl than was the case with the Russians in reality.
unlabelledView post →I'm in that part of the shorts algorithm where it's just showing me movie clips so I think I need to watch Chernobyl today
unlabelledView post →#2SongsSameTitle Here We Go 🍃 Q-Tip & Chiddy Bang youtu.be/rbsdifdFRFU?... 🍃 Arab Strap youtu.be/eMLluLqpE9w?... 🇸🇪 Because I didn’t learn until today that Stakka Bo aka Johan Renck was a music & film director (Chernobyl, Bowie, Beach House etc) youtu.be/TRH35PWLC-c?... #MusicChallenge
unlabelledView post →Had the weirdest dream, a Michael Crichton-style movie where a post-apocalyptic future sends someone back to the Chernobyl disaster to drop an antimatter charge into the reactor just as it explodes. It prevents the bad future but creates our timeline instead. Weirdly awesome. In a Congo way.
unlabelledView post →And finally, my last shot of the day before the light disappeared (or perhaps my Kodachrome film was starting to cop radiation from Chernobyl which I didn't yet know about), here is single car Redhen 418 at Midlunga station - displaying an incorrect route designator!
unlabelledView post →#AprilMovieChallenge Communist in a movie/TV show Cheating with TV for...... Chernobyl (2019) Stellan Skarsgärd plays Boris Shcherbina who supervises the Chernobyl clean up (and you totally end up respecting by the end of the mini-series) youtube.com/watch?v=2Qje...
unlabelledView post →the 2019 HBO Max 'Chernobyl' miniseries is one of my top fucked-up comfort watches the 2006 Silent Hill movie, too sometimes I just wanna watch a place melt, I guess 🤷🏼♂️
unlabelledView post →#FantasyIndiesApril Day 14: I actually have an entire Spotify playlist dedicated to my WIP! It's a mix of the JOHN WICK, CHERNOBYL, and SICARIO soundtracks with a dash of COLOR OUT OF SPACE (yes, the movie with Nic Cage). #WritingCommunity
unlabelledView post →weird accomplishments: Smuggled 1000 ibuprofen tablets into a Belarusian orphanage for children with Chernobyl related birth defects. Got a standing ovation for taking a shop dummy dressed as Blue Hawaii era Elvis into a film screening.
unlabelledView post →I find I keep going back to the same things: Samuel Delany's Tales of Neveryon (which is odd, because I don't write fantasy - and they'd be almost mpossible to film), Ursula Le Guin's The Language of the Night. Mazin's Chernobyl crawled into my head and took up residence. #scriptsky #scriptchat
unlabelledView post →Watching Star Trek VI (with two unwilling kids) today and man, not knowing about Chernobyl or the USSR or the end of the Soviet Union really changes your understanding of the film I guess lol (I was about my elder kid's current age when it came out in theaters.)
unlabelledView post →I still can't believe Craig Mazin, of Chernobyl and Last of Us, made a fucking film about Sheep trying to solve the mystery of Hugh Jackman's murder
unlabelledView post →#TheChinaSyndrome on #TCMParty I remember when that movie came out and there was the Three Mile Island disaster and we were afraid all those plants would blow up, and then Chernobyl happened 6 years later.
unlabelledView post →Very good movie, great cast and very unsettling story. Reminded me of that brilliant Chernobyl mini series too much. I don’t think I’m going to watch it again soon (I mean both).
unlabelledView post →This movie came out the same year that Chernobyl happened.
unlabelledView post →😬 this is reminding me of the Soviet party officials in the Chernobyl film.
unlabelledView post →I adore this movie and also it (and Roadside Picnic) pre-date Chernobyl
unlabelledView post →And which director went the extra mile to make a film in Yucatec Maya language? That paragon of virtue and sobriety, Mel Gibson. Next discussion...oh and HBO's Chernobyl did it better than the overrated Death of Stalin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocaly...
unlabelledView post →I saw Kojima post about this and it reminded me it's now on digital. So I actually watched this. From the director of Chernobyl and Last Of Us. This movie is pretty great. I actually missed this in theaters because I only saw them put it like one time during the day.
unlabelledView post →We need more historical film/tv that adds to the very slim “Chernobyl/lives of others” documentaries. I lived through that time and experienced the wall coming down and seeing Trabants driving around Munich…it was beautiful and fascinating.
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