(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/
https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl
https://www.sky.com/watch/chernobyl
A miniseries told around the Soviet Chernobyl disaster.
A tense, decently-paced look at how communist lies spell disaster, and how communism once again cost tens of thousands and almost tens of millions of lives.
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s01e1 - 2019-05-06 - 1:23:45 ∞
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1:00 --
- Anatoly Dyatlov
- Moscow - April 26 1988
- 2:00 -- Sigh, this narration is after the fact? I hate this perspective!
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6:30 -- Pripyat - Ukrainian SSR
- Two years and one minute earlier.
- 11:30 -- Tar
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26:00 -- Iodine, for Potassium iodide
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38:45 -- Mikhail Gorbachev
- I'm not going to research the other names..
s01e2 - 2019-05-13 - Please Remain Calm ∞
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- 1:00 -- Minsk
- 26:00 -- I presume they can't go to the roof to take a sample of the concrete/graphite.
- 27:00 -- They can get readings from where they are.. that gives them some information at least.
- 30:00 -- Boron
- 32:30 -- You're damned straight commies would send pilots directly over it, knowingly to their death.
- 34:30 -- Use a trebuchet.
- 42:00 -- I recognize that old man-extra. He's a fine actor.
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57:00 -- Why give them a sensor? It'll just freak them out.
- Also, I thought their families were threatened or the like, as that's the communist way of having people "volunteer". If this is true, and I suspected this about this show, then this show is pro-communist revisionism.
s01e3 - 2019-05-20 - Open Wide, O Earth ∞
Spoiler
- 1:00 -- Their mechanically powered flashlights are really effective, for being so power-hungry.
- 3:30 -- They should be greeted by hoses.
- 31:00 -- Well maybe fans and also the masks..
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47:45 --
s01e4 - 2019-05-27 - The Happiness of All Mankind ∞
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s01e5 - 2019-06-03 - Vichnaya Pamyat ∞
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2:15 -- 12 hours before the explosion..
- What. What? I hate this sort of time travel perspective.
- 54:00 -- Discount Mickey Mouse
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