What is the cost of lies?
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and epic.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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“Does it take too many liberties with the true story?”
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“Is Jared Harris the best thing in Chernobyl?”
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“Is Chernobyl better than The Last of Us?”
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- Peter McGinnon TMDB · Apr 202010/10
This is one of the best dramatic series I have watched in years. It can be difficult to maintain tension and drama describing true events that the viewer might be already aware of to some extent, but this program manages it nicely. It is a little predictable in how it tells the story, by which I mean it uses several angles from different characters' points of view: the scientists and administrators representing the Russian government, the employees of the power plant and other disposable workers, and of course the masses of people caught up in the disaster; and finally, for a close-up look, the wife of one of the plant's employees, who follows her husband to a Moscow hospital. All of these perspectives are handled well. A couple of the criticisms I saw sort of bounced off me. One person on another website said it was a good series but he was giving it a low rating because he couldn't believe it was rated higher than Game of Thrones. Uh, okay. Another person felt that the miniseries sugar coated the Communists. I don't know; I lived through Gorbachev and Glasnost, and this portrayal seemed spot on to me. I fully intend to watch the series again, after I finish reading the book it is
Read the whole review on TMDB - Stephen Campbellon TMDB · May 20219/10
**_Terrifying and sobering – as exceptional a piece of television narrative as you're ever likely to see_** > _The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star was Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter._ - Revelation 8:10-11 > Вічная Пам'ять - Polychronion chanted at the end of Eastern Orthodox funerals > _This bitch was in the middle of the room with her puppies. She went for me – I p__ut a bullet in her. The puppies were licking my arms, being all sweet and playful. We had to shoot at point-blank. Saints preserve us! There was this one dog, a little black poodle. I still feel sorry for it. We heaped the tipper full of them. Taking them to the burial site. To tell the truth, it was just a plain old deep pit, though you were meant to dig it taking care not to reach the ground water and line the bottom with plastic. You're meant to find some spot fairly high up, but you know how it is. The rules were broken all the time: we had no plastic, and we didn't spend long looking for the right spo
Read the whole review on TMDB - rsanekon TMDB · May 20224/10
I was really excited for this series as I have read a good amount about the USSR and have a personal relationship to it, having been born in a former satellite country. But I came away disappointed. The series really drew out some scenes for no reason, to the point where I felt the need to fast-forward (for example, essentially the ~entire 5 minutes of going under the core to open a valve). I was also frustrated that the series started right at the point of disaster; I think I would have appreciated more context in a backstory section. Can't recommend.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Moatasem mohamedon TMDB · Sep 202310/10
**very good series**
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Cast
- Jared HarrisValery Legasov
- Stellan SkarsgårdBoris Shcherbina
- Emily WatsonUlana Khomyuk
- Paul RitterAnatoly Dyatlov
- Jessie BuckleyLyudmilla Ignatenko
- Adam NagaitisVasily Ignatenko
- Sam TroughtonAlexandr Akimov
- Robert EmmsLeonid Toptunov
- Con O'NeillViktor Bryukhanov
- Adrian RawlinsNikolai Fomin
Crew
- Craig MazinCreator
- Jakob IhreDirector of Photography
- Hildur GuðnadóttirOriginal Music Composer
- Sanne WohlenbergProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries5 eps · 2019
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