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Post by dazed on May 28, 2019 4:11:02 GMT
That fourth episode was one of the hardest tv episodes I’ve ever had to watch..
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Post by AKenjiB on May 29, 2019 19:45:06 GMT
Did you guys see that Chernobyl is currently ranked #1 on the IMDb Top 250 shows? 9.7/10.
I doubt it’ll last (IMDb loves hype backlash like how Birdman went from an 8.6 to a 7.7) but this is honestly pretty incredible to witness.
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Post by Joaquim on May 29, 2019 23:17:49 GMT
Really excellent premiere. Honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen onscreen in a long time. Can’t wait to see how the rest of it plays out. So I saw that the creator (and sole writer) of the show is a guy named Craig Mazin so I googled him and it turns out he’s never done anything like this. He’s best known for the screenplays of Scary Movie 3, Identity Thief, and The Hangover Part II & III. I don’t know how the hell he ended up making something like this but I’m glad to see he’s improving as a writer. He was also Ted Cruz’s roommate in college.
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Post by notacrook on Jun 4, 2019 20:22:51 GMT
That finale was pretty pitch-perfect, and solidified this as a truly great miniseries. Love that it's got the attention it has.
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Jun 4, 2019 23:34:48 GMT
Pretty obviously the best thing on television since The Return, so I'm surprised that there isn't more people in this thread talking about it.
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Post by stephen on Jun 5, 2019 3:07:14 GMT
Me after the first five minutes of the episode: This show has been perfect -- how could it get better?
Me, six minutes into the episode: ROOSE BOLTON!!!!
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Post by fiosnasiob on Jun 5, 2019 8:37:19 GMT
Ranked #1 on IMDB with more than 130K votes Starting it next week for sure.
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Post by Pavan on Jun 6, 2019 20:28:42 GMT
The show effectively portrays the gross incompetence of some men who misuses power and how mishandling of nuclear energy could have devastating effects. That final episode is JFK level greatness. An intense, informative, engaging and touching drama.
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Post by Pavan on Jun 6, 2019 20:38:55 GMT
Now you look like the minister of coal
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 7:32:42 GMT
Just started this last night, as I wanted to watch it over a few days, not four weeks. Binge TV has broken me and I can no longer watch weekly TV without a sense of impatience Anyway, just to give initial thoughts on the first two episodes. I think WOW will suffice for now. If the standard holds out until the end, that overused term 'instant classic' will be fully justified here.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 7, 2019 10:08:29 GMT
Just started this last night, as I wanted to watch it over a few days, not four weeks. Binge TV has broken me and I can no longer watch weekly TV without a sense of impatience Anyway, just to give initial thoughts on the first two episodes. I think WOW will suffice for now. If the standard holds out until the end, that overused term 'instant classic' will be fully justified here. It gets even better...
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 10:13:34 GMT
Just started this last night, as I wanted to watch it over a few days, not four weeks. Binge TV has broken me and I can no longer watch weekly TV without a sense of impatience Anyway, just to give initial thoughts on the first two episodes. I think WOW will suffice for now. If the standard holds out until the end, that overused term 'instant classic' will be fully justified here. It gets even better... Glad to hear it. I'm genuinely excited about it, which I think is a first for me this year TV wise.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 10:54:23 GMT
Just started this last night, as I wanted to watch it over a few days, not four weeks. Binge TV has broken me and I can no longer watch weekly TV without a sense of impatience Anyway, just to give initial thoughts on the first two episodes. I think WOW will suffice for now. If the standard holds out until the end, that overused term 'instant classic' will be fully justified here. You don't have to wait for a week to see a new episode, Torrent could help u I have all the episodes ready to go. I have the TV channel they are on here, so I just recorded them all over the four weeks so I could watch them all at once.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 7, 2019 13:35:08 GMT
Glad to hear it. I'm genuinely excited about it, which I think is a first for me this year TV wise. I'm watching the last ep tonight. Can't wait!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 7, 2019 17:22:03 GMT
Watched the entire series over the last three days. Holy shit this was brilliant. This will linger with me for a while. So captivating, riveting, and terrifying at the same time. Easily the best thing I’ve seen in a long while.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 21:25:39 GMT
That really was an extraordinary piece of work. I have nothing bad to say about this show. It was pitch perfect from the first minute to the last, and if I see something else in television or film this year that surpasses it in quality, I'll consider myself very fortunate.
The balance between the scenes at the disaster site and the behind the scenes politicking, lies and subterfuge was always just right. I particularly appreciated the scenes with the trio of lads disposing of the infected animals in episode four. These are the smaller moments of life in an aftermath, which are often not dealt with, and the show had so many of them and handled them all beautifully.
This deserves all the praise in the world as a piece of television, but also as a classy tribute those who lost their lives, gave their lives and told the truth.
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Post by stephen on Jun 7, 2019 21:35:34 GMT
That really was an extraordinary piece of work. I have nothing bad to say about this show. It was pitch perfect from the first minute to the last, and if I see something else in television or film this year that surpasses it in quality, I'll consider myself very fortunate. The balance between the scenes at the disaster site and the behind the scenes politicking, lies and subterfuge was always just right. I particularly appreciated the scenes with the trio of lads disposing of the infected animals in episode four. These are the smaller moments of life in an aftermath, which are often not dealt with, and the show had so many of them and handled them all beautifully. This deserves all the praise in the world as a piece of television, but also as a classy tribute those who lost their lives, gave their lives and told the truth. I feel like my only real complaint, minor as it is, is that I wanted more from Keoghan and Buckley's characters in the aftermath, just as a way to show how life was progressing for the average person.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 21:38:47 GMT
It was also neat to see a bunch of actors whose characters died in Game of Thrones before it was a shit show, get to be a part of the real great TV event of 2019.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 7, 2019 21:39:06 GMT
Just saw the last episode.
I think it's the only tv episode on imdb that has a perfect 10 rating.
Deserved.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 21:40:07 GMT
That really was an extraordinary piece of work. I have nothing bad to say about this show. It was pitch perfect from the first minute to the last, and if I see something else in television or film this year that surpasses it in quality, I'll consider myself very fortunate. The balance between the scenes at the disaster site and the behind the scenes politicking, lies and subterfuge was always just right. I particularly appreciated the scenes with the trio of lads disposing of the infected animals in episode four. These are the smaller moments of life in an aftermath, which are often not dealt with, and the show had so many of them and handled them all beautifully. This deserves all the praise in the world as a piece of television, but also as a classy tribute those who lost their lives, gave their lives and told the truth. I feel like my only real complaint, minor as it is, is that I wanted more from Keoghan and Buckley's characters in the aftermath, just as a way to show how life was progressing for the average person. I definitely would have been fine with that. Interesting sidenote, Keoghan became famous in Ireland on a show called Love/Hate, where in one of his first scenes he riddled a cat full of bullets with a machine gun. So episode four had a strange full circle feeling to it, now that he's boarding on becoming a really big actor.
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Post by ibbi on Jun 7, 2019 22:57:58 GMT
You know, it'll never again be so amusing that Homer Simpson is the safety inspector at a Nuclear power plant.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 7, 2019 23:12:00 GMT
You know, it'll never again be so amusing that Homer Simpson is the safety inspector at a Nuclear power plant. I was genuinely thinking the same thing during the last episode.
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Post by wonky on Jun 7, 2019 23:28:03 GMT
Really excellent premiere. Honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen onscreen in a long time. Can’t wait to see how the rest of it plays out. So I saw that the creator (and sole writer) of the show is a guy named Craig Mazin so I googled him and it turns out he’s never done anything like this. He’s best known for the screenplays of Scary Movie 3, Identity Thief, and The Hangover Part II & III. I don’t know how the hell he ended up making something like this but I’m glad to see he’s improving as a writer. He was also Ted Cruz’s roommate in college. I've been listening to him the last several years through his (terrific) screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes that he hosts with John August. Very smart, insightful guy with kind of an obnoxious sense of humor so interesting to see the response this has gotten compared to his comedies. Gotta check this out.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 8, 2019 2:32:28 GMT
Across the first few eps - great control of tone and I especially liked the eerie transitions, twisting the mundane and mire into visual symbolism of the slow creep of corruption across both the literal environs and the parrying of responsibility of the Soviet gov't. The show gets a lot of thematic juice out of the oppressive regime's superficial self-protective measures ("national pride") against intimate and broader consequence (humanity, catastrophe, truth). It's well acted too - right down to the bit characters, across many types, they're etched and played distinctively. Paul Ritter's perf as Dyatlov is one - first thing I've seen with the actor (he's a Tony nominee!) - he's very intimidating, stubborn in a lax, aged way, and pathetic and he brings it off by playing it down.
I've seen the director Johan Renck's only feature film Downloading Nancy, which works with a similar color-grading as Chernobyl actually, but it sort of suffocates in its unvarying despair, whereas Chernobyl, which doesn't shy from the unpleasant, foregrounds its enormous ensemble detail. Impressive script (by Craig Mazin - amazing career turn), covering politics, not merely of the travesty, science, obedience, sacrifice, class.....
Flaw-ish-es...... Ep4 isn't necessary to the core narrative, while well made I also found it difficult to watch which is rare for me. Jessie Buckley (great in Beast last yr btw) her character is a dull emotional pawn. And Ep5, there are some greatly acted scenes but it's also an expected conclusion and a little unremarkable how the events are recycled.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 8, 2019 13:05:31 GMT
Why did Dyatlov stay alive longer than Shcherbina? weird, that he's got more the contamination than him, he's one of the nearest ppl from the dangerous area! I read somewhere that with the amount of radiation Dyatlov had been exposed to, he had 50% chances of dying within the next few days after the explosion. Seems he was a lucky bastard...
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