Chernobyl: Inside The Meltdown
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60 of 277 · most liked firstI'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."
neutral · AI labelView post →What 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…
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. If you’ve never watched the HBO series “Chernobyl,” I highly recommend it. The story is true, the acting is phenomenal, and the Soviet mid-1980s aesthetics are on point.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's missing The Expanse, and "TV show" makes no sense. You can't lump together The Wire (tv show), Chernobyl (miniseries), and The Great British Bake Off (single-episode competitions). If you do, then might as well include the MCU and NFL too, because the criteria is "you can watch it on a screen."
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't have to say it, do I? Holy. Shit. That was like Chernobyl. That was an HBO limited series of the court wrecking the AUSA and telling his whole office to just wait until they see the next episode. If I were in that office I might start looking at help wanted ads/
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you missed it, the HBO Chernobyl series wasn't *really* about the Soviet Union. It took a lot of historical liberties. It was about the relationship between truth and power in situations where those in power don't like inconvenient truths In other words, it was about the US right now
neutral · AI labelView post →all my girls love The Terror for its toxic old man drama and I completely understand because it's an amazing show, but HBO Chernobyl and Netflix Mindhunter will always be my The Terrors and I hope one day the girlies will watch them an understand me
neutral · AI labelView post →The Chernobyl mini-series was a gift.
positive · AI labelView post →Trump has managed to cause a series of Three Mile Island-like disasters, where the system failed but safety backstops averted worse outcomes, so there’s the appearance things still “work” in a way they clearly didn’t in a more Chernobyl-like disaster. But both disasters destroyed the reactor.
neutral · AI labelView post →That reminds me of an idea I had for an engagement post: "You've been chosen to develop an American counterpart to the Chernobyl series, which catastrophe are you choosing to portray our flawed system?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Contrary to the show Chernobyl, Anatoly Dyatlov didn't blame everyone else to try escape consequences but led the response. He was a tough, highly demanding manager but also ordered his staff out and went around personally helping out till he collapsed. As bosses go, he was not great, not terrible
neutral · AI labelView post →Political appointees controlling what constitutes truth or fact in science? Not a great idea. Why not, you ask? Give the HBO show Chernobyl from a few years ago a watch: www.imdb.com/title/tt7366...
neutral · AI labelView post →any person named boba on their day off ... all they know is McDonald's, watch they Chernobyl series, pet cat & play Infinity Nikki
neutral · AI labelView post →I love it for writers when shit like this happens. Serhii Plokhy had it happen with his Chernobyl book (2018) when the TV series hit. John Barry's 2004 book on the Spanish Flu became a bestseller during COVID. Imagine getting $1.80 royalty checks on a 20-year old book, and suddenly...
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been watching HBO's series Chernobyl and the decisionmaking parallels are striking. Plans that would save lives are canceled because they conflict with ideology. Bureaucrats can learn from history, but first they need to want to learn.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you hear the news? You can play the Puppy Truck demo on Steam RIGHT NOW It's getting rave reviews such as: "This is a real video game" and "It has a deeper storyline than the show Chernobyl" Pretty good! 🐕 midnighte.rs/puppytruck-steam
neutral · AI labelView post →Turned on the Chernobyl HBO series bc it seemed appropriate
neutral · AI labelView post →Andor Sopranos MST3k Seinfeld Curb Your Enthusiasm Better Call Saul Friday Night Lights Breaking Bad Veronica Mars Buffy Chernobyl Band of Brothers Kroll Show Tim and Eric I Think You Should Leave
neutral · AI labelView post →Map of nuclear plants originally planned for Pacific Northwest before earthquake factors were known and after a running series of poor construction soured + Chernobyl
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Chernobyl today; a series about self important jackasses who confused power for understanding, their opinions for facts, and how easy it is for everyday people who Know Better to follow instructions they know will kill them because admitting the truth is scary And also explosions
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to watch the Chernobyl HBO show but the writers like, tripped over themselves so hard to make it anti-Soviet propaganda at the cost of accuracy/enjoyability that I couldn’t even finish. No idea why so many people loved that garbage
negative · AI labelView post →Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. -Chernobyl tv series My political post for the week. Via @claytoncubitt.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →11. Abbott and Costello Elementary 12. Arli¢¢ 13. RuPaul’s Boytoyotathon 14. Peebag 15. And/Or 16. Poop Show 17. Eastbound & Gagged 18. Veep for Vendetta 19. Sonny & Chernobyl 20. Sexter
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Chernobyl for about the twelfth time. Not sure what it says about me that it's my comfort watch show but it's the best TV made in the last couple of decades.
positive · AI labelView post →What's the level of meta-irony of HBO's Chernobyl, a show about the cost of lies coming due, being itself full of fictions about the real people and events it depicted?
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur’s Gate TV series in the works at HBO from Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl) and Hasbro Entertainment ➡️ deadline.com/2026/02/bald... The show will continue the game's story. #BaldursGate
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I might rewatch the limited series Chernobyl to distract myself from all the bad stuff going on.
neutral · AI labelView post →My top ten (in no particular order) that ARE on the list: True Detective (season 1) Chernobyl The Crown Black Mirror The Great British Baking Show GoT Happy Valley The Pitt Peaky Blinders Downton Abbey
neutral · AI labelView post →Cenovich's brain melting down like the Chernobyl elephant's foot seeing Elvis dancing on the Milton Berle Show
neutral · AI labelView post →Hannity thinks you can entomb uranium as if it’s a Chernobyl incident. IQ47 admits it was all a PR show. Intelligence assessments indicated that Iran was not actively developing nuclear weapons.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Westminster Dog Show really should add Chernobyl Exclusion Zone feral dogs as an official breed.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the HBO show Chernobyl today, and i cannot believe it came out 7 years ago? It felt like not too long ago. Covid19 (lockdown + Long Covid) has warped my sense of time so much
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m only 2 episodes in and holy shit is this Chernobyl show pretty damn good. I get the high praise for it now.
positive · AI labelView post →please god damn it I need someone to show the HBO television series Chernobyl to before I fucking explode
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's TV series recommendation is the limited series "Chernobyl" on Max. Holy crap this is a great show. It's absolutely horrifying, more-so because it's actually true. A dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, it's relentlessly harrowing as it unveils what happened. #TVShow
positive · AI labelView post →I just finished watching the series Chernobyl and all those people had to leave their pets... it couldn't have been me because me AND my dogs would've been sitting TOGETHER in the exclusion zone being radioactive as a family 🤷🏽♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →Keir Starmer is cutting red tape to make it easier and quicker to build nuclear power plants, great news for people who've been waiting years for a second series of Chernobyl
neutral · AI labelView post →the Chernobyl series really was extremely well done, and the theme of state management of disaster was fascinating
positive · AI labelView post →The eerie atmosphere in Stalker 2 really makes me want to rewatch Chernobyl. One of the best (and most terrifying) series I've ever seen If you still haven't - check it out btw 👏👏
positive · AI labelView post →On the show Chernobyl when all the guys are flipping the fuck out at each other about whether or not the core exploded and they're all in denial while actively dying that's exactly how it feels when you have a computer job and a production database goes down
neutral · AI labelView post →from the Pripyat Scenes series. (Pripyat is the Ukranian town where the Chernobyl workers lived before the meltdown) " the Pripyat amusement park parking lot" 24" x 36" oil pigment sticks on linen
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished watching the TV show Chernobyl. I'm grateful I waited until 2025 to watch it. I kept thinking about how the Kremlin's lies about Chernobyl reminds me of Trump's lies & his cabinet obediently parroting his lies. I recommend every American watch Ep 5 & ask what is the price of Trump's lies?
positive · AI labelView post →Remember that scene in Chernobyl where the party apparatchik smugly says "I used to work in a shoe factory, now I run things"? And it feels like the show is looking straight at you like "Boy aren't you glad YOU don't live in a broken insanity country??" Yeah
neutral · AI labelView post →please stop letting Craig Mazin handle video game stories. his short series Chernobyl was great, and the first season of TLOU was good, but he very clearly doesn’t understand video game characters (especially female vg characters) as we saw with season two of TLOU.
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember reading Craig Mazin, that the creator of the Chernobyl TV series, said that researching the disaster actually made him more pro-nuclear power because it was such an improbable succession of idiocy that it almost felt intentional
neutral · AI labelView post →I just have to say that this was one of the best limited series I've ever seen. Everything about it, from the acting to the set design was exceptional and I highly recommend it. Very Orwellian and very topical. Stream Chernobyl on Max play.max.com/mini-series/...
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView post →It's probably worth revisiting the Chernobyl (2019) miniseries, which reminds us that Chernobyl was less a nuclear accident than a political meltdown - the result of a hubristic and incompetent Soviet government that had purged expertise and walled itself off from reality.
positive · AI labelView post →Y’all better watch this series this weekend. Best historical drama since Chernobyl. I’m actually upset it was only four episodes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Occasionally think about how, after the Chernobyl show aired, there was a bunch of online tutting at influencers who had gone to Pripyat, because people assumed they’d snuck in rather than it having been open to tourists for years (though it isn’t now AFAIK, for obvious reasons)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Chernobyl series is so good and also so brazenly wrong in order to spin up an anti-Soviet narrative that there is a guy on Youtube whose entire job is talking about where the show outright lied. You don't even need to lie to make Russia look bad, but the USSR still breaks brains.
neutral · AI labelView post →I still firmly believe that an HBO Chernobyl-esque series would have been the best way to adapt the book.
neutral · AI labelView post →I picked the wrong week to watch that Chernobyl HBO series.
negative · AI labelView post →Oh it is SOOOOO good and because I’m a psychopath, I feel this will become a comfort show for me like Chernobyl
neutral · AI labelView post →"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid" I think about this line from the Chernobyl mini-series every day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah, the boyfriend has never seen Chernobyl. Time to show him one of the best shows ever made >:3
positive · AI labelView post →Serhii Plotky's book on the politics of Chernobyl is pretty compelling particularly if you saw the HBO series covering those events from a different perspective www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/serhi...
neutral · AI labelView post →We need the guys who made Chernobyl to do a prestige series set on 9/11 where absolutely zero of the action takes place anywhere near NYC or DC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not to say this can't be good but it's wild to me that he made a show like Chernobyl and has seemingly used all that cache to become Hollywood's new video game adaptation guy.
neutral · AI labelView post →I did this with HBO's Chernobyl one week and the way I talk about that show like I own the Bluray boxset and had viewing parties
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