"If you fly over the core, I swear to you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be BEGGING for that bullet". Not sure how that scene didn't even rate a mention...
Because its one of the most criticized scenes and has been called out as such. This was 1986 not 1936 and a member of the Central Committee would not threaten people with their lives. The scene where Dyatlov threatens people with being fired is much more akin to how the Soviet system worked. People didn't comply due to fear of their lives anymore but due to fear of their jobs. In general the series does an excellent job to portray the accident and the effort to cleanup, an exceptional portrayal of the views of Soviet lives in the 1980s and a horrible, outright terrible portrayal of the soviet system that made the accident happen. The entire tagline "whats the price of lies" and how Lesganov contemplates on it in his suicide tape is entirely fictional, so is the trial scene. They made an excellent job but fell on the finish line.
@@DL-lt5ly It's a fiction based on actual events, and it's mostly true to the core events, as far as we can tell. Many scenes were fake, recomposed, or an exageration of the truth. They even acknowledge this by the end of chapter 5, telling facts from fiction about the characters. Yet, they did their research, driving millions of people to do the same, people whose basic understanding has probably been upgraded by now. Who cares that scene never happened, it conveys the series message beautifully, it helps depicting the scale of the accident horror, and it's a great moment of cinematography.
And that people are still blind when they want to be. This is exactly how governments and media reacted to Fukushima, which is still irradiating the North Pacific to the best of my knowledge. And I haven't even seen it mentioned in the MSM since 2012.
They left out two of the greatest scenes in the movie: - When the engineers look into the hell scape that is the burning core - “it’s not three roentgen... it’s fifteen thousand.”
I liked the scene where the chief drived the truck inside to measure the radiation. He refused to sacrifice someone else so he decided to do it himself.
His name was Colonel General Vladimir Pikalov. He fought at Stalingrad all the way to Berlin in WW2. He was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and died in 2003, at 78.
He did it because he’s a general. His words means a lot. Had he sent one of his men those two engineers would’ve tried to dismiss the finding if it doesn’t suits their assumptions, even if it’s right. But there’s no way they’re gonna repute the words of a three-star General in person.
Principle of military leadership. A leader will not ask his or her Soldiers to do anything that they will not do and will lead from the front when necessary to move Soldiers to the next objective. It is a solemn and vital oath to ones self, those they lead and to the state they serve.
@@evan9659 Soldiers are obeying orders, that wasn't the reason why he went instead of sending anyone else. But the rest what you said is true, he did it himself since he knew what it would mean.
The part that got me was when Boris was looking out the window at children going to school in Pripyat, 13 miles away from Chernobyl. He says, "the wind has been blowing towards Germany. They're not letting children play outside... in Frankfurt." *_Frankfurt is 1,100 miles away from Chernobyl._*
aa0201 i’m from Slovakia and nobody told them, I watched news from those days here on youtube. they made everybody go outside for May 1st celebrations. yay commies
Where I live(east Hungary), we were in the first countries that received radiation. We were a part of the Soviet Union’s “supported” section, so it means that we didn’t know anything about this until the Soviets told us. We couldn’t eat fresh fruit, and that’s all. We received a massive amount but we didn’t know it.
Czechoslovakians had to be outside for May 1st celebrations. Czechoslovakians were not even told to not eat fresh fruits and vegetables. In the 1986 summer and fall, everybody had big crops in their gardens and they were happy for that. "They" did not tell us that it was harmful. My grandma even went to a business trip with her coworkers to Kiev, two weeks after the disaster. They were not told that it was dangerous. The nuclear cloud was all over Europe. The countries behind the iron curtain did not know that.
You forgot the outro, the soubdtrack of the outro and the rest of the soubdtraxk. Espexially the part of the soundtrack which was recorded in the sister plant of chernobyl, ignalina.
When Legasov blurts out loudly "WE'LL BE DEAD IN FIVE YEARS" to Scherbina, and you see his face sink to absolute dread, just absorbing the full weight of that statement
I was counting days for Monday to roll around, just to watch another hour of it. I was factually aware, but to see it from a Soviet Russian's perspective was beyond an honor. It started as GoT was ending - suffice it to say, I was looking forward to MONDAY not Sunday night.
O he actually says you’re done because the soldier was just standing there,there was another team waiting to go in and he was just standing there frozen
#1: The whole damn show, I swear if this show doesn’t take home every single Emmy it’s nominated for, I’ll lose faith in humanity. A masterpiece from HBO that scared the bejesus outta me. I hear dosimeters in my nightmares right before my skin starts melting from the inside out
@@jeromebullard6123 it is a pretty good show, good quality, but most impotently this show fits into his stereotype perfectly, ppl tend to overrate things when that happens
if anything, the best part was the ending. the camera panning over what's left of Chernobyl and the nuclear plant, while we listen to Legasov's final tape and then it cuts to black and we get the most important line of the whole show: "now i only ask, what is the cost of lies?" ... *BONE-CHILLING* . 10/10. best piece of television i've ever seen.
That was also the opening line in episode 1. The same line over a black screen after which we hear what comes after. In the last few lines of episode 5 we hear what came before, cutting to a black screen with the same line. The story created a perfect circle.
Pretty much how the Soviet Union is created. Thus its lies is also its downfall. The openness and restoration of Dmitri Kruschev led to its final coffin.
Even better when that firefighter has to take his comrades place on the hose and relises he will die. If he runs everyone dies. That is a painful choice.
The most horrifying thing about Chernobyl is realization that if all those people didn't do their jobs and sacrifices, the whole Europe would have been a wasteland today.
@@ryousenketsu6053 That's primarily because the reactor cores were not exposed like the one at Chernobyl. Fukushima while on the same nuclear accident scale was a different kind of explosion. Click here for more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_Chernobyl_and_Fukushima_nuclear_accidents
@@ryousenketsu6053 That's because a) it didn't explode, exposing the core b) the reactor fuel wasn't burning in the open air for weeks (uranium itself burns creating radioactive smoke) and c) evacuation took places immediately making the only casualties due to elderly and sick people being removed from their normal environments. Fukushima is akin to a pizza burning in a pizza oven, whereas Chernobyl was a gas station exploding while continuously pumping out burning gas for weeks on end.
I think Boris "You were the one that mattered most, the one good man" part was one of the most emotional and best spoken lines on the show. To have a man that wanted to do good, but felt he hadn't done good his entire life. To have, as he approaches death, a good friend of him tell him that he was the reason they were successful at Chernobyl in preventing more loss of life was simply beautiful. Can you imagine what that would mean to someone in the same situation, to think of yourself as a failure not accomplishing your goals, but at what will be close to the end of your life you finally feel that you did actually do something meaningful, and not only to be told that, but to be told by a friend and someone you trust which makes it even more impactful.
Pikalov was the best embodiment of “harsh to be kind”. He knew Glukhov and his men were going to suffer with the heat, but he couldn’t let them breath in the radioactive dust.
It's actually sad that people like that scene. Yeah, it was probably entertaining but people from ex-USSR countries know how fake it is. But the show in general deserves the highest grades! 10/10
the only bloop is the moment with the miners, there were no machine gunners in sight, only volunteers were taken, even all those who wished could not be taken.
I’m so glad a whole new generation of people get to learn about Chernobyl. So often we celebrate soldiers achievements from world wars but the volunteers that went in there knowing it was a death sentence truly are the unsung heroes of my generation.
exactly what I thought when I saw that there was an actual serie about chernobyl. I have done a lot of research about chernobyl and I knew what happened but it was actually not something a lot of people talked or even knew about. I was hyped for it since the first time I saw that there was actually going to be a serie about this because in my opninion these guys were the biggest unknown heroes on the planet and there is finally an actual, realistic, accurate and good serie about this, and its popular. It's like a big relief for me and probably some other people like you too that finally the biggest heroes het actual attention that they have never really gotten
The helicopter crash had nothing to do with radiation Radiation is not contagious, after washing the person, they are harmless, and there is no way it would be absorbed by a baby like the show implies The bridge of death never actually happened it was an urban legend 80% of all the people involved survived, and didn't all die like the show implies The show may be a good watch but it's more anti nuclear propaganda which people seem to be taking as facts And more probably more
I have only seen small parts of the show to be honest so I dont know what happened with the baby for example but I the liquidators were real heroes but never got a lot of attention and 80% survived still means up to 100.000 of them died, and that's a lot in my opnion
- "We'll be dead in five years!" - When Legasov tells the truth about AZ5 - When Shcherbina explains to the court how a reactor core works - When the firefighter picks up the chunk of graphite and his hand decays within minutes - "It's not 3 roentgen it's 15000" - Shcherbina's "it must be done" speech - When Ignatenko lies to her husband about the view from the hospital - Khomyuk's speech "To hell with your deal. To hell with our lives. Someone needs to start telling the truth." Come on WatchMojo
There are a lot of great moments in this show. The one really stuck with me is when the fire fighters wife described him what Moscow is like when there's nothing outside the window but walls. He still jokingly says " told ya I'll take you to Moscow!" ..When she puts sunglasses on her husband, she laughed genuinely because he does looks foolish at first glance, that slight moment she almost forgot that he is horribly ill. In such a tragedy, moments like these really hits me hard.
it crushed me when i read their story was real, from an interview to the wife compiled in the book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster"
He refused to believe he was causing disaster even on his deathbed, as what they had done should have been statistically impossible. The sheer shock from that must have been overwhelming
Akimov and the plant workers were living in a different world due to the lies told to them. They did everything right according to the lies that they were told. (Not being aware the rods inserted when AZ5was pressed had graphite tips). That s why there was a sense of denial by dyatlov and the others because they lived in a different reality. Akimov had done everything right in the world of lies that he was forced to believe
That scene - "You were the one who mattered most". We have seen so many shows with character developments and character bonds but who would've thought that we would see a pair of characters like a Scientist and Government High rank official creating such a touching connection and understanding. That scene where he admits that he didn't mattered but was told that he mattered the most... It was BRILLIANT. One missed great scene though - "That's how a reactor core explodes. Lies"
I’m surprised that the show wasn’t out under the “horror” category. The show is terrifying, it just scares me. From the dramatic irony to the stunning spectacles, it is wonderful. I genuinely loved the series because of how frightening it was. Like how the worker turns around and you just see the smoke pluming behind him and his face is completely red. Or like watching how the firefighters are decaying in front of us, it’s just horrifying the whole way through. And the entire cast and crew did a wonderful job, from the sounds of a Geiger counter going apesh*t to a hearing the metal ringing while the worker is stuck on the roof, the whole series is just perfect. I love it, and it’s made like a masterpiece. HBO did an amazing job honoring those who died while defending Europe from a horrible demise.
It's almost like something out of H.P Lovecraft. This alien presence you can't see or hear comes to earth (heralded by an unearthly blue light), merely looking at it or touching something it touched can kill you, and you won't even realise it's killed you for hours or days afterwards. Not to mention, the glimpses we get of the warped metal in the wreckage make it look like some sort of alien monster.
This needs to be shown interspersed with scenes from Oppenheimer -- if for no other reason than to illustrate the arrogance and raw hubris of the ignorant and the stupidity of blind patriotism.
it failed bc they gave the germans the “propaganda number” as in they didn’t want the rest of the world knowing just how bad the situation was so they caused probably even more unnecessary deaths from having to send people in to remove the graphite
"Of all the ministers, and all the deputes, entire congregation of...obedient fools, they mistakenly sent one good man. For God's sake, Boris. You were the one that mattered most." Its the music, and the focus on the ambience in that scene that does it for me.
Not mistakenly. I think it is a testament to Gorbachev, that he sent both to the site to find out what is really going on. Gorbachev had a feeling he could trust the judgement of these two.
Prince Albert the graphite itself isn’t radioactive, it’s the rods inside the graphite that were. The graphite was used so the nuclear atoms couldn’t escape.
The 90 seconds on the roof was probably the most intense minute and a half of Television I've witnessed in my 44 years alive. The sound of the dosimiter in the background added an insane amount of tension to an already intense scene.
I remember as a child of 11yo, seeing that footage on our news in 1986 in Belgium. They showed images of the liquidators on the roof with our news commentator saying how inadequately their "protection"gear was
As someone who works on nuclear plants, the scene with the men draining the water under reactor #4 is particularly haunting. The sound of the water, the radiometer, and the lights going out felt like a cold knife scraping on my spine.
@@psychoticAjAX the demogorgon is a mysterious figure of which is incredibly dangerous, especially alone. If it does kill you, barely anyone would know what killed you, just like radiation. All you can do is watch it kill you. Just like Radiation. (oh also, bugger off meanie)
He is an actor I was not really acquainted with before this and he stood out, against some great performances. I will be checking IMDB and will make a point of watching some of his future projects. If he does not need a new cabinet to fit the myriad of trophies he should win for this, then there is no justice. The production team made a conscious decision to cast actors not widely known. Yet they got performances like this!! BRAVE & OUTSTANDING!!
Shcherbina's arc in this series is fantastic. Deep down i think he was a man who wanted to do the right thing, but couldn't because of the system around him, Chernobyl gave him the chance he wanted to make a difference.
When Sitnikov turns and looks at the guard with his face turned red from the radiation...that's the expression of a man who knows he's now got just 2 weeks to live. Devastating and brilliantly poignant. Excellent show, I went in knowing virtually nothing and was very well taken care of.
when i saw that scene,i paused the episode and got a break. The face he had was so sincere,so deep that i absorbed all of the feelings he gave with that look. Seriously,this TV show must be awarded multiple times,even tho it's not 100 % accurate
I also felt so sorry for him... Seemed to be a good and professional guy, who had nothing to do with the accident, and then died with terrible suffering because of few idiots in charge. In real life he wasn't brought to the roof at gunpoint but rather just went there because of his own sense of duty. Still it's so sad!
I think the cow scene is super SUPER powerful. Replace the references in her speech with the young Soviet officer telling her to leave; an officer from the Red or White Armies, a Stalinist, a German officer...it's a timeless scene, and you could see it play out across the decades. That one scene alone could be played as a short film at Cannes and it would get awards.
When the two technicians went in the reactor room and looked over the railing to see the core on fire was creepy to me. And the man holding the door for them starts bleeding immediately...
Or what about in the last episode where they showed the actual process of it exploding, my heart froze. Nonetheless, an amazingly well done show. It's sad it had to happen in real life though.
@@Vollkornmuffin44 One of them didn´t even make it back into the control room. And the other one started vomiting almost immediately after he came back. Probably died within days.
The whole series was masterfully done, but a few lines will stick with me forever: "What is the cost of lies." "Trust, but verify." "It's not alarmist if it's a fact." "You'll do it because it must be done. If you say that's not enough I won't believe you." "We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight." "Not great, not terrible."
The funeral really got me. It must have been so demeaning for her to realise the state her husband believed in and died for now considers him a radioactive waste product and treats him exactly as such.
Denko The shoes the woman was holding in that scene- that was a nod to the fact that they could not get shoes (even of the largest size) onto the feet of the firefighter after he died. One extra little indignity after the horror of radiation poisoning.
His name was Vasily Ignatenko. In the book "Chernobyl Prayer" (which I'm reading now and I strongly recommend it), there is an interview/conversation of the author Svetlana Alexievich and the wife of Vasily, Lyudmila Ignatenko. Their story is heartbreaking. HBO Chernobyl uses this conversation to form the story of this couple.
Stephen Ritger I agree it’s true hell your literally melting from the inside out I felt so bad for them in the hospital no morphine to numb the pain because it wouldn’t work poor souls
Actually normal background radiation existed before chernobyl... Nobody knows what caused it.. Some say civilisation before us had a nuclear disaster... Course none of this is truth... We would probably never know
@@ReckerFidelWOLF Technically, the background radiation is from EVERYTHING. The Sun is the major supplier, but it comes from everything in the observable universe. The other major contributor is the residue from nearby nova and supernova explosions over the past billion or so years. There is no place in the universe where you're NOT getting at least some ionizing radiation from it's natural processes.
“The real danger is, if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth”. “If we don’t find out the truth, what happened at Chernobyl will happen again”. Best TV show I’ve ever seen. It better win every award available.
HBO created a Monster with Chernobyl. You didnt saw the core as a machine, you saw it as a Monster. A Monster that terryfied everything and kill everything around it. After every Episode, It took me 5-10 minutes to process what i saw.
Viktor Proskuryakov and Alexander Kudryavtsev were told to go to drop the rods manually. Yuvchenko openned the door for them to go and look into the burning core. Perevozchenko already saw the explosion and passed out by then.
@@НазарПетров-ф3в what isn't true? Liquidators were sent to that roof (Masha) and they were given no more than 2 minutes to throw as much debris off the side as they could.
☢ Best Factual TV series I ever seen. ☣ Rest In Peace to the victims and extremely brave people of this disaster. I hope this will never happen on the planet again.
My favourite scene was when the boss of the miners told that joke "What is high as a building, burns tons of fuel every hour, makes a shitload of steam and noise and cuts an apple in 3 pieces? - A soviet machine that was built to cut an apple into 4 pieces!"
i know this is about moments and not lines but in the final episode when legasov was detained... Charkov: "Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?" Legasov: "Oh that's perfect, they should put that on our money." Made the whole series for me.
Best moment: Legasov told the truth in court - "I lied following orders. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt will be paid."
Wait don't tell me. I'm only up to operation Barbarossa and I think this hitler guy might be on to something with his Russian invasion plan. I mean I guess there might be a turnaround in the second act, but I think those allied guys might not do too well. Plus Those french beaches are REALLY well defended, so they'll probably go with an air invasion and that seems unlikely.
@@mafiacat88 I'm at the same point as you... I think the answer will come from the pacific. The Americans can't be there and watching the whole thing all along
Lornext i counted and literally could feel it crawling up my soine the closer i got to 90 then when the arlma rang and he ran it and feel... it terrifying man
As far as watching a tv show, this was the longest 90 secs I've experienced. As far as being the actual longest? These are not. WHEN your life is actually on the line, you will know this.
Taggart Olson if you were looking at or near enough to the core of the reactor, the amount of radiation you’ll take in is the equivalent of around 24000 x-rays.
This cheerful voice is so much off the mark... Anyway, part of my wife's family lives in Ukraine (it was Poland before the WWII), and one of her uncles actually was working there on that roof. Believe or not, he survived, but he really has to know what he can eat, and what to avoid (and that's a very weird collection), and he always has a ton of pills with him. He was lucky. At the same time communists in Poland denied any problems, and for example my class (high school) was sent to some field to clean it up from rocks (because the 1st of May was coming and we, the future IT guys, needed to know about the real working-class labor). When we returned to the school, they gave us something with iodine to drink... As for the series - it is truly brilliant. There's so much detail shown it's mind-blowing. Even the computer terminals they show for like 20 seconds in one episode, are actual Russian terminals they used with R-61 mainframes (if memory serves). I doubt the English-speaking world will ever see anything more accurate about how was it behind the iron curtain.
@@LtBrown1956 Nah, been there already (interesting experience). I believe that properly educated youth (not indoctrinated with modern "standards", but shaped closer to classical model) will figure it out perfectly well. And for parents it's not really that hard. Kids are remarkably curious about everything (including stars and quantum physics) - just give them something easy to read about the subject, or (from time to time) replace cartoons with some TV stuff about the Universe and such.
The empty crib next to Lyudmilla's bed in the maternity ward in the hospital and Ulana's line , where she says ' we live in a country where children have to die to save their mothers'...those where only two of the moments that hit me the most but I would say the whole show is a masterpiece showing a tragedy that all of us would wish had never happened in real life in the first place...I don't think I 'll ever be the same after seeing this show. I hope I'll be better...
Yes! Things nuclear fascinate me BUT I LEARN'T A LOT! The final courtroom scene when it is explained just why it blew up was an educational master-class!! It took something so complicated, so complex and gave AN IDIOTS GUIDE that anyone could understand! I don't expect I will ever be lucky enough to watch something as good as this again!! IT SHOULD WIN EVERY AWARD GOING!
HBO's Chernobyl is an absolute masterpiece of cinematography and there is no other way to put it. The scenes, the music, the tension, the emotions, the perspective, etc all come together so perfectly the whole 5+ hours I was glued, I could not stop. It is so well made and done I think this will be my favorite piece of cinematography forever. Favorite scenes 5: Akimov and Toptunov turning on the flow of water even thought they both know they will die from it. 4: The bridge scene. Seems so innocent but the slight blue haze the 'atomic snow' and the music tell a different story. 3: The scene where one engineer is told to go to the roof and report back what he sees. He looked directly into the reactor core and his face was burnt immediately. 2: The court scene, Valery explaining what went wrong and why. 1: The 3 divers opening gates so the water can drain and save millions of people from sickness and death. Most moving scenes 3: The court scene. 2: Charkov telling Valery that he will never be known for what he did in the cell. 1: Vasily being buried. The music, the shots, and the closeups shook me.
This series IS instant Classic and will go down the history of one of the best TV shows ever created. It really deserves ALL possible awards. And it fully deserves best EVER rating on IMBD. If you dont watch it, you are REALLY missing out.
and all in such a small package of 5 1-hour episodes. Phenomenal, next level television right here. Seriously haven't been this wet since finishing The Wire and Breaking bad
the scariest thing is, the firefighters tasting metal is a sign of severe radiation poisoning, its literally damaging their brain, that's the only symptom, they had no idea that the nightmare didn't end when they left Chernobyl, it only just begun
For me the greatest scene was when he said in front of the whole jury: 'AND THAT IS HOW AN RBMK REACTOR CORE EXPLODES... LIES!!!!' The question that was being asked throughout the series and no one seemed to have an answer was at last concluded in such a great manner. Best mini-series ever!!!! Keep it up HBO
"If you fly over the core, I swear to you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be BEGGING for that bullet". Not sure how that scene didn't even rate a mention...
Totally agree
100 percent agree with you, hell it was the moment that Boris knew Valery is not to be messed with
M G its a film, not a documentary.
Because its one of the most criticized scenes and has been called out as such. This was 1986 not 1936 and a member of the Central Committee would not threaten people with their lives. The scene where Dyatlov threatens people with being fired is much more akin to how the Soviet system worked. People didn't comply due to fear of their lives anymore but due to fear of their jobs.
In general the series does an excellent job to portray the accident and the effort to cleanup, an exceptional portrayal of the views of Soviet lives in the 1980s and a horrible, outright terrible portrayal of the soviet system that made the accident happen. The entire tagline "whats the price of lies" and how Lesganov contemplates on it in his suicide tape is entirely fictional, so is the trial scene. They made an excellent job but fell on the finish line.
@@DL-lt5ly It's a fiction based on actual events, and it's mostly true to the core events, as far as we can tell. Many scenes were fake, recomposed, or an exageration of the truth. They even acknowledge this by the end of chapter 5, telling facts from fiction about the characters. Yet, they did their research, driving millions of people to do the same, people whose basic understanding has probably been upgraded by now.
Who cares that scene never happened, it conveys the series message beautifully, it helps depicting the scale of the accident horror, and it's a great moment of cinematography.
This show proved that reality is so much scarier than fiction.
Well it was still fiction altho mostly based on real events.
Jebu911 id classify it as drama/based on a true story
And that people are still blind when they want to be. This is exactly how governments and media reacted to Fukushima, which is still irradiating the North Pacific to the best of my knowledge. And I haven't even seen it mentioned in the MSM since 2012.
There’s few things more terrifying than radiation. You can’t see it you can’t fight it. Not to mention that it’s the worst way to die
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 It's cuz Fukushima isn't nearly as bad as Chernobyl and has a competent government (relative to the USSR anyway)
They left out two of the greatest scenes in the movie:
- When the engineers look into the hell scape that is the burning core
- “it’s not three roentgen... it’s fifteen thousand.”
Agreed. The scene with them looking into the core made me shiver. That sound was just...So eerie
yeah, the scene when they looked over the edge and you could see the core burning was particularly haunting.
The difference in between 3 and 15,000 in this context is horrifying
@@dazentrieb4237 Numbers always are when it comes to Ionizing Radiation.. Horrible stuff.
I'm glad I'm not the only one upset that they didn't include the burning core. That scene gives me chills.
I liked the scene where the chief drived the truck inside to measure the radiation. He refused to sacrifice someone else so he decided to do it himself.
His name was Colonel General Vladimir Pikalov. He fought at Stalingrad all the way to Berlin in WW2. He was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and died in 2003, at 78.
A very honorable and very brave man. A good soldier, and a better commander.
He did it because he’s a general. His words means a lot.
Had he sent one of his men those two engineers would’ve tried to dismiss the finding if it doesn’t suits their assumptions, even if it’s right. But there’s no way they’re gonna repute the words of a three-star General in person.
Principle of military leadership. A leader will not ask his or her Soldiers to do anything that they will not do and will lead from the front when necessary to move Soldiers to the next objective. It is a solemn and vital oath to ones self, those they lead and to the state they serve.
@@evan9659 Soldiers are obeying orders, that wasn't the reason why he went instead of sending anyone else. But the rest what you said is true, he did it himself since he knew what it would mean.
The part that got me was when Boris was looking out the window at children going to school in Pripyat, 13 miles away from Chernobyl.
He says, "the wind has been blowing towards Germany. They're not letting children play outside... in Frankfurt."
*_Frankfurt is 1,100 miles away from Chernobyl._*
It's closer. Pripyat is 3 miles away from the Chernobyl reactor.
Yeah, here in Sweden. My mom took me inside when the radiation was first discovered.
aa0201 i’m from Slovakia and nobody told them, I watched news from those days here on youtube. they made everybody go outside for May 1st celebrations. yay commies
Where I live(east Hungary), we were in the first countries that received radiation. We were a part of the Soviet Union’s “supported” section, so it means that we didn’t know anything about this until the Soviets told us. We couldn’t eat fresh fruit, and that’s all. We received a massive amount but we didn’t know it.
Czechoslovakians had to be outside for May 1st celebrations. Czechoslovakians were not even told to not eat fresh fruits and vegetables. In the 1986 summer and fall, everybody had big crops in their gardens and they were happy for that. "They" did not tell us that it was harmful. My grandma even went to a business trip
with her coworkers to Kiev, two weeks after the disaster. They were not told that it was dangerous. The nuclear cloud was all over Europe. The countries behind the iron curtain did not know that.
I only know 5 best moments:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
I 100% agree
You forgot the outro, the soubdtrack of the outro and the rest of the soubdtraxk. Espexially the part of the soundtrack which was recorded in the sister plant of chernobyl, ignalina.
Truee
Agreed
the moment they're on the roof and you hear the Geiger go mental when he stumbles in front of the fuel rod
When Legasov blurts out loudly "WE'LL BE DEAD IN FIVE YEARS" to Scherbina, and you see his face sink to absolute dread, just absorbing the full weight of that statement
and they were both dead within 5 years in real life
@Rebecca Woolf Chernobyl and Afghanistan
That was the most painful to watch for me
the best thing is that the real boris actually died 4 and a half years after the chernobyl incident.... probably done on purpose tho
“They mistakenly sent the one good man. God sakes, Boris, you were the one who mattered most”
Best scene in the series
I loved how his character developed into someone you end up loving in the series.
:'(
Seeing it again still makes tear up.
re-watching this scene gave me goosebumps. a grown ass man getting goosebumps and near crying
...and then that guy says they sent him because he was a nobody...
"Do you taste metal?" One of the "oh shit" moments of the show
This show is a masterpiece,it deserves all the awards
wuyifan ismine if it doesn’t get all the awards, then we riot.
I was counting days for Monday to roll around, just to watch another hour of it. I was factually aware, but to see it from a Soviet Russian's perspective was beyond an honor. It started as GoT was ending - suffice it to say, I was looking forward to MONDAY not Sunday night.
I’ll give u a dub!!!
You didn’t see awards because they don’t exist!
No it isn't, and no it doesn't.
"These men work in the dark. They see everything"
Would have made more sense to say they hear everything as it would also sound like they would hear the bullshit too.
fucking loved how he takes a cig and just casually pockets the rest :))) at least he was nice and left the lighter, real MVP
"If these actually worked, you'd be wearing them." Alex Ferns stole every scene he was part of.
Paul Coenen Fairly did he! "We're still wearing the fcuking hats!"
How???
"You're done." Is probably the most horrifying words I would ever hear ever if something like that were to happen to me.
Why did he say "you're done" its sounds stupid im just really confused
Double meaning. It can mean either he's done with his 90-second work detail, or done as in he's going to die. Both, actually.
@@olivermatt787 because he got a hole in his shoe and he saw it so he said "you're done" because he's going to die
Because he is going to die
O he actually says you’re done because the soldier was just standing there,there was another team waiting to go in and he was just standing there frozen
#1: The whole damn show,
I swear if this show doesn’t take home every single Emmy it’s nominated for, I’ll lose faith in humanity. A masterpiece from HBO that scared the bejesus outta me. I hear dosimeters in my nightmares right before my skin starts melting from the inside out
Faith in humanity?? 😂😂😂😂😂Nice one
And then u hear in dreams " you are done comrade ". The next ones be ready u got 90 secs
I feel you have low standards in cinematography.
@@jeromebullard6123 it is a pretty good show, good quality, but most impotently this show fits into his stereotype perfectly, ppl tend to overrate things when that happens
Kris Voin it’s not a movie mate
"YOU DIDN'T SEE THE GRAPHITE, YOU DID NAAAAATTTTT!"
"Oh hai Boris!"
youre tearing me apart Lisa!
hahahaha --- such an underrated comment!
@@meisterlymanu5214 "you're tearijg me apart, Radiation! " FTFY
You're tearing me apart Legasov!
😂👍🏼👍🏼
6:17: *"Now you look like the Minister of Coal."* So many memorable scenes. Best show I've seen in a long time.
So have I
"I was in the Toilet" - The Great Comrade Dyatlov
"I was in the toilet, bad sausages."
What's great is how not one person there bought it for a moment.
legendary excuse
I hate this guy more than Joffrey Baratheon in GOT
Actually wasn’t...
if anything, the best part was the ending. the camera panning over what's left of Chernobyl and the nuclear plant, while we listen to Legasov's final tape and then it cuts to black and we get the most important line of the whole show: "now i only ask, what is the cost of lies?" ... *BONE-CHILLING* . 10/10. best piece of television i've ever seen.
That was also the opening line in episode 1. The same line over a black screen after which we hear what comes after. In the last few lines of episode 5 we hear what came before, cutting to a black screen with the same line. The story created a perfect circle.
Agreed 100%
Pretty much how the Soviet Union is created. Thus its lies is also its downfall. The openness and restoration of Dmitri Kruschev led to its final coffin.
The kids playing in radioactive snow-like material is truly one of the most horrific scenes in the series
Agreed...
Yeah.
I agree. They don't know that it's radioactive fallout and that they can die.
Yes. It's not often said. But it is really a dark scene
The snow like material is ash
It’s physically painful for me when one of the firemen picked up a graphite debris nonchalantly.
Yes! I found myself screaming at the screen "Put it down! Put it down!" Such a relatively simple scene but so well done!
Even better when that firefighter has to take his comrades place on the hose and relises he will die. If he runs everyone dies. That is a painful choice.
@@queenbeekeeper why? What's up with graphite
@@earl7354 its heavily radioactive, picking it up by hand is basically a death sentence
@@mjzpeanut oooohhhh, Btw tnx for letting me know
"If these things worked, you'd be wearing them"
Siva Prakash yeah.. those miners were smart
Word
"These men work in the dark, they see everything"
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One of my favorite lines.
The most horrifying thing about Chernobyl is realization that if all those people didn't do their jobs and sacrifices, the whole Europe would have been a wasteland today.
No that's overreacting Japan didn't became a wasteland with higher amounts of uranium 235 enrichments exposures
@@ryousenketsu6053 you're delusional, go to the infirmary
@@ryousenketsu6053 That's primarily because the reactor cores were not exposed like the one at Chernobyl. Fukushima while on the same nuclear accident scale was a different kind of explosion.
Click here for more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_Chernobyl_and_Fukushima_nuclear_accidents
@@ryousenketsu6053 That's because a) it didn't explode, exposing the core b) the reactor fuel wasn't burning in the open air for weeks (uranium itself burns creating radioactive smoke) and c) evacuation took places immediately making the only casualties due to elderly and sick people being removed from their normal environments.
Fukushima is akin to a pizza burning in a pizza oven, whereas Chernobyl was a gas station exploding while continuously pumping out burning gas for weeks on end.
Ryou Senketsu like they said the way Chernobyl was made was cheaper , they prioritized money over safety
I think Boris "You were the one that mattered most, the one good man" part was one of the most emotional and best spoken lines on the show. To have a man that wanted to do good, but felt he hadn't done good his entire life. To have, as he approaches death, a good friend of him tell him that he was the reason they were successful at Chernobyl in preventing more loss of life was simply beautiful. Can you imagine what that would mean to someone in the same situation, to think of yourself as a failure not accomplishing your goals, but at what will be close to the end of your life you finally feel that you did actually do something meaningful, and not only to be told that, but to be told by a friend and someone you trust which makes it even more impactful.
This.
It was an amazing moment. Boris reflecting on his life, I was saddened to learn he was terminally Ill.
He did the same in 1988 Armenian earthquake
"Theon, you're a good man, thank you" - Bran Stark
They both know they are both going to die, one is coughing blood, the other is losing his hair. Those two were heroes also
"GoT is the best HBO show ever"
Chernobyl: "VNIMANIE VNIMANIE"
" Внимание внимание, внимание внимание...."
Lol
Steve S Chernobyl: Hold my vodka
Chernobyl: Hold my dosimeter
Legaslov : Hold my graphite
“I’ve been breathing dust for 20 years”
“Not this dust”
Pikalov was the best embodiment of “harsh to be kind”. He knew Glukhov and his men were going to suffer with the heat, but he couldn’t let them breath in the radioactive dust.
"Why worry about something that is never going to happen?....That's good. Maybe we should print that on our money."
I'm surprised that scene didn't make it.
Same. Clever, sarcastic, poignant with a load of despair in humanity, and best of all, delivered perfectly.
Probably the best way to sum up the whole show/Chernobyl experience.
The KGB aspect of the show really reminds me of 1984
@@theswagman1263, of course, it reminded 1984, Chernobyl was in 1986
"Now you look like the Minister of Coal." Savage!
One of the inaccuracies of the show
saltab74 Lie! Look real facts!
@@seva5424 what do you refer to
It's actually sad that people like that scene. Yeah, it was probably entertaining but people from ex-USSR countries know how fake it is.
But the show in general deserves the highest grades! 10/10
the only bloop is the moment with the miners, there were no machine gunners in sight, only volunteers were taken, even all those who wished could not be taken.
I loved the scene where Boris says: "My advice: tell the truth. These men work in the dark. They see everything'" absolutely genius line.
I’m so glad a whole new generation of people get to learn about Chernobyl. So often we celebrate soldiers achievements from world wars but the volunteers that went in there knowing it was a death sentence truly are the unsung heroes of my generation.
exactly what I thought when I saw that there was an actual serie about chernobyl. I have done a lot of research about chernobyl and I knew what happened but it was actually not something a lot of people talked or even knew about. I was hyped for it since the first time I saw that there was actually going to be a serie about this because in my opninion these guys were the biggest unknown heroes on the planet and there is finally an actual, realistic, accurate and good serie about this, and its popular. It's like a big relief for me and probably some other people like you too that finally the biggest heroes het actual attention that they have never really gotten
@@frisomeijering3270 it's based on real events, but its not accurate or realistic, to many things in this series are exaggerated or pure fiction
@@HENRIKOIVUROVA well, with that I mean no mutated monsters and everything. but there are some differences indeed
The helicopter crash had nothing to do with radiation
Radiation is not contagious, after washing the person, they are harmless, and there is no way it would be absorbed by a baby like the show implies
The bridge of death never actually happened it was an urban legend
80% of all the people involved survived, and didn't all die like the show implies
The show may be a good watch but it's more anti nuclear propaganda which people seem to be taking as facts
And more probably more
I have only seen small parts of the show to be honest so I dont know what happened with the baby for example but I the liquidators were real heroes but never got a lot of attention and 80% survived still means up to 100.000 of them died, and that's a lot in my opnion
the Boris/Valery bromance was so touching.
This but unironically
I loved their bromance ^^.
I think they just stole that idea idea from the "Citizen X" (Burakov/Fetisov).
The comrade relationship
You were the one that mattered most
- "We'll be dead in five years!"
- When Legasov tells the truth about AZ5
- When Shcherbina explains to the court how a reactor core works
- When the firefighter picks up the chunk of graphite and his hand decays within minutes
- "It's not 3 roentgen it's 15000"
- Shcherbina's "it must be done" speech
- When Ignatenko lies to her husband about the view from the hospital
- Khomyuk's speech "To hell with your deal. To hell with our lives. Someone needs to start telling the truth."
Come on WatchMojo
"It must be done" was on this video..
A little late, but one of the best scenes is when Shcherbina says that kids were not allowed to play outside in Germany. Gave me chills.
That's true , I agree, watch mojo :(
All strong scenes, but it would have taken a little more time for his hand to start decaying at LEAST one hour
Absolutely, my heart
There are a lot of great moments in this show. The one really stuck with me is when the fire fighters wife described him what Moscow is like when there's nothing outside the window but walls. He still jokingly says " told ya I'll take you to Moscow!" ..When she puts sunglasses on her husband, she laughed genuinely because he does looks foolish at first glance, that slight moment she almost forgot that he is horribly ill. In such a tragedy, moments like these really hits me hard.
it crushed me when i read their story was real, from an interview to the wife compiled in the book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster"
MrDeath5300 Not just real, but hideously worse in real life.
@@katyb6979 Jesus how?
@@Ice.muffin The firefighter vomited his own liver and pieces of his lung in the reality. It was indeed worse :((
@@LanczWallenberg Jesus Lord Christ... That's indeed horrendous 😖... I can't even imagine that scenery, holy mother... it's insanity
"We did everything right" even on dying bead repeats Aleksandr Akimov. And episode 5 shows that he indeed has done everything as best as he could.
He refused to believe he was causing disaster even on his deathbed, as what they had done should have been statistically impossible. The sheer shock from that must have been overwhelming
So sad
Andrew Verbovy yes
It's why he went to open the valves to the bubbler pools with no equipment. Lost his face and his life as a result
Akimov and the plant workers were living in a different world due to the lies told to them. They did everything right according to the lies that they were told. (Not being aware the rods inserted when AZ5was pressed had graphite tips). That s why there was a sense of denial by dyatlov and the others because they lived in a different reality. Akimov had done everything right in the world of lies that he was forced to believe
That scene - "You were the one who mattered most". We have seen so many shows with character developments and character bonds but who would've thought that we would see a pair of characters like a Scientist and Government High rank official creating such a touching connection and understanding. That scene where he admits that he didn't mattered but was told that he mattered the most... It was BRILLIANT.
One missed great scene though - "That's how a reactor core explodes. Lies"
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid"
I came here to find this, thank you Steven Lee. My favorite line, after which "I'm an inconsequential man, Valera" follows.
And the truth shall set you free.
Those are good words for Donald Trump to remember.
Just ask Michael Jackson how true that is.
- Do you think I would keep my wife in Prypat if it wasn't safe?
- Bryukhanov, THE AIR IS GLOWING
it's the sun bro
We have just heard it, bitch. Trying to be a copybook?
@@shingekino2973 хаха - шикарно!
The Cherenkov effect, happens with minimum radiation *smile*
@@Em50Lloyd em.... nah, they didn't have dat scene in there
what r u on about
I’m surprised that the show wasn’t out under the “horror” category. The show is terrifying, it just scares me. From the dramatic irony to the stunning spectacles, it is wonderful. I genuinely loved the series because of how frightening it was. Like how the worker turns around and you just see the smoke pluming behind him and his face is completely red. Or like watching how the firefighters are decaying in front of us, it’s just horrifying the whole way through. And the entire cast and crew did a wonderful job, from the sounds of a Geiger counter going apesh*t to a hearing the metal ringing while the worker is stuck on the roof, the whole series is just perfect. I love it, and it’s made like a masterpiece. HBO did an amazing job honoring those who died while defending Europe from a horrible demise.
It's almost like something out of H.P Lovecraft. This alien presence you can't see or hear comes to earth (heralded by an unearthly blue light), merely looking at it or touching something it touched can kill you, and you won't even realise it's killed you for hours or days afterwards. Not to mention, the glimpses we get of the warped metal in the wreckage make it look like some sort of alien monster.
This needs to be shown interspersed with scenes from Oppenheimer -- if for no other reason than to illustrate the arrogance and raw hubris of the ignorant and the stupidity of blind patriotism.
YOU DIDN'T SEE GRAPHITE ON THE ROOF BECAUSE IT WASN'T THERE.
You’re delusional, someone take him to the infirmary
It is just 3.6 roentgen
Tse Matthew 3.6, not great, not terrible
Good job comrades, everything is under control. Have faith in leninism.
That’s what I’ve been trying to tell people! Jeez....
"We're asking your permission to kill 3 men."
The nuclear facility at Chernobyl was named after the man in your profile pic. Ironic.
Well at least those dudes didnt die in the end. 2 of them are still alive and one died of heart attack.
@@Jebu911 i think the power of that scene comes from every character seeing it as a death sentence, even though its amazing 2 of them survived it
@@CynderDragoneye 3. All of them did. Baranov died of heart attack I believe
I thought this was number 1
#1 - When german engineering fails, you know you are dealing with some serious shit
@Kyle Lui true, but doesn't that still count as failing?
Brandenburg Airport - Hold my escalators !
You fooool! German science is the best in the world!
it failed bc they gave the germans the “propaganda number” as in they didn’t want the rest of the world knowing just how bad the situation was so they caused probably even more unnecessary deaths from having to send people in to remove the graphite
@@gamer-san8923 is that a jojo reference?
"Of all the ministers, and all the deputes,
entire congregation of...obedient fools,
they mistakenly sent one good man.
For God's sake, Boris. You were the one that mattered most."
Its the music, and the focus on the ambience in that scene that does it for me.
Not mistakenly. I think it is a testament to Gorbachev, that he sent both to the site to find out what is really going on. Gorbachev had a feeling he could trust the judgement of these two.
"We'll be dead in 5 years!" Was my favorite moment. The emotion in 5 seconds!
Legasov, who said this, died after 2 years. Shcherbina, to whom he said this,
died after 4 years.
@@ihorpetrenko1027
Legasov Committed Suicide though
@@The_Wiz40 some claimed he was ill
@@thirien59 He was ill, it's unlikely he would've not died within 10 or so years after the constant dose he got.
“It’s cheaper”
Was also very powerful...
Best show i've ever seen. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't watched it yet. 10/10.
Better than Game of Thrones?
@@ariela.877 yes easily
@@user-in8ih5sc8d Makes me fear looking at graphite even in pencils
Prince Albert the graphite itself isn’t radioactive, it’s the rods inside the graphite that were. The graphite was used so the nuclear atoms couldn’t escape.
What are you, twelve? Best ever? You obviously haven’t seen much.
The 90 seconds on the roof was probably the most intense minute and a half of Television I've witnessed in my 44 years alive. The sound of the dosimiter in the background added an insane amount of tension to an already intense scene.
When the guy got his foot stuck in the roof debris when the 90 seconds was up...man that was intense. You could feel his panic
The dosimeter is now my most feared sound - not anything else
After watching this series
I remember as a child of 11yo, seeing that footage on our news in 1986 in Belgium. They showed images of the liquidators on the roof with our news commentator saying how inadequately their "protection"gear was
As someone who works on nuclear plants, the scene with the men draining the water under reactor #4 is particularly haunting. The sound of the water, the radiometer, and the lights going out felt like a cold knife scraping on my spine.
Just imagine. You wouldn't be able to escape. You're stuck inside with something comparable to the Demogorgon, but even more deadly.
@@mushroomsrcool1449 what a horrible analogy. A demogorgon is nothing like radiation poisoning
@@psychoticAjAX the demogorgon is a mysterious figure of which is incredibly dangerous, especially alone. If it does kill you, barely anyone would know what killed you, just like radiation. All you can do is watch it kill you. Just like Radiation. (oh also, bugger off meanie)
Toptunov: (sobbing) "I'm sorry!"
Akimov: "There's nothing to be sorry about... we did everything right."
Toptunov: "But we didn't" 🥺
Such a sad scene.
"They should put that on our money."--Great line delivered by a great actor.
Joe S Same. Clever, sarcastic, poignant with a load of despair in humanity, and delivered perfectly.
He is an actor I was not really acquainted with before this and he stood out, against some great performances. I will be checking IMDB and will make a point of watching some of his future projects. If he does not need a new cabinet to fit the myriad of trophies he should win for this, then there is no justice. The production team made a conscious decision to cast actors not widely known. Yet they got performances like this!! BRAVE & OUTSTANDING!!
@@anthonyharris7616 He is really good in The Expanse season 1. You can find some clips on it on here.
Anthony Harris Please do yourself a favor and watch Mad Men, he's fantastic as the rest of the cast 😁
@@SandWolf_ he knew that his life is over so delivered a final slap to a tyranical system which values more appearance of control than it's citizens
"We're still wearing the fucking hats" is not only the best moment of this show but probably the best tv moment in years.
Shcherbina's arc in this series is fantastic. Deep down i think he was a man who wanted to do the right thing, but couldn't because of the system around him, Chernobyl gave him the chance he wanted to make a difference.
When Sitnikov turns and looks at the guard with his face turned red from the radiation...that's the expression of a man who knows he's now got just 2 weeks to live. Devastating and brilliantly poignant. Excellent show, I went in knowing virtually nothing and was very well taken care of.
his death was so unreasonable and pointless, damn. a casualty of someones pride and stubborness.
Same here
when i saw that scene,i paused the episode and got a break. The face he had was so sincere,so deep that i absorbed all of the feelings he gave with that look.
Seriously,this TV show must be awarded multiple times,even tho it's not 100 % accurate
I also felt so sorry for him... Seemed to be a good and professional guy, who had nothing to do with the accident, and then died with terrible suffering because of few idiots in charge. In real life he wasn't brought to the roof at gunpoint but rather just went there because of his own sense of duty. Still it's so sad!
That scene killed me inside. I woulda taken a bullet after reporting what i seen cause the death he was gonna experience woulda been hella painful.
You were the one that mattered the most, was such a hauntingly beautiful coversation.
that scene had me in tears
@@musIimamalak Me too.
@@musIimamalak me too
I loved Boris by the end so much !! Oh I've never loved a character in as much little time as in Chernobyl
I never thought Boris would change like that, what a hero!
I think the cow scene is super SUPER powerful. Replace the references in her speech with the young Soviet officer telling her to leave; an officer from the Red or White Armies, a Stalinist, a German officer...it's a timeless scene, and you could see it play out across the decades. That one scene alone could be played as a short film at Cannes and it would get awards.
Surprised number one wasn’t the first time they saw the reactor was gone.
That scene was utterly horrifying.
When the two technicians went in the reactor room and looked over the railing to see the core on fire was creepy to me.
And the man holding the door for them starts bleeding immediately...
Or what about in the last episode where they showed the actual process of it exploding, my heart froze. Nonetheless, an amazingly well done show. It's sad it had to happen in real life though.
@@Vollkornmuffin44 One of them didn´t even make it back into the control room. And the other one started vomiting almost immediately after he came back. Probably died within days.
@Melih Güçlü yeah u can see his face was normal and after a few seconds of looking over it was bright red
I binged this entire show yesterday...it’s one of, if not THE, best shows that I’ve seen.
My all time fav has been Band of Brothers since it released, up until now!
I binged the first 4 Tuesday
I binged it yesterday. Still shaking. It's so beautifuly well done and haunting at the same time. Stunning.
Jaime Guevara I want to watch it but is it gross/gory?
@@JulieDiana1992 No. It's rather disturbing but not gory
The whole series was masterfully done, but a few lines will stick with me forever:
"What is the cost of lies."
"Trust, but verify."
"It's not alarmist if it's a fact."
"You'll do it because it must be done. If you say that's not enough I won't believe you."
"We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight."
"Not great, not terrible."
"They should print that on our money"
"Its not 3 roentgen, its 15000."
Is one that also stayed with me.
Best line for me "every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"
This was such a good show, I learned so much while watching it
No top 10 involved.People died, brave men died fighting the fire.They were entombed in metal caskets encased in cement.
David Carrero I learned how not to stop a reactor explosion disaster
Me too. I'm not a nuclear physicist but after watching this series I feel like I could work at a nuclear powerplant
@@calmgoodfire4662 lol
@@ariela.877 yep Chernobyl 2 :)
"you were the one who mattered most" - RIGHT IN THE FEELS
We have jusr heard it, asshole. Trying to be a copybook?
An instant classic
Should have been #1
@@Em50Lloyd haha
The funeral really got me. It must have been so demeaning for her to realise the state her husband believed in and died for now considers him a radioactive waste product and treats him exactly as such.
That was out of necessity. Americans have been buried in lead caskets, in "do not enter" areas, after reactor mishaps also.
The *Concrete Graves* scene is seriously one of the best, emotional and haunting scenes in TV history I have ever seen! It just sticks with you.
Denko The shoes the woman was holding in that scene- that was a nod to the fact that they could not get shoes (even of the largest size) onto the feet of the firefighter after he died. One extra little indignity after the horror of radiation poisoning.
Literally haunted me
I lost sleep for 2 days after that scene and I applaude HBO
John Cooper I swear this show if not perfect the closer I’ve seen to the perfect show
@@reelalexdagoat absolutely!
Where’s the part with the firefighter at the hospital who’s screaming in agony from his radiation burns? That part sent chills down my spine.
His name was Vasily Ignatenko. In the book "Chernobyl Prayer" (which I'm reading now and I strongly recommend it), there is an interview/conversation of the author Svetlana Alexievich and the wife of Vasily, Lyudmila Ignatenko. Their story is heartbreaking. HBO Chernobyl uses this conversation to form the story of this couple.
Stephen Ritger I agree it’s true hell your literally melting from the inside out I felt so bad for them in the hospital no morphine to numb the pain because it wouldn’t work poor souls
Omg when his wife wakes up in the hallway to mortifying screams, runs in and sees that HORRIFIC scene.
Game of thrones “we are the best show on HBO”
Chernobyl “hold my graphite”
Basically …… yeah! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"our" graphite comrade da?
“you are dealing with something that never happened on this planet ! ”
Now it had.
Actually normal background radiation existed before chernobyl... Nobody knows what caused it..
Some say civilisation before us had a nuclear disaster...
Course none of this is truth... We would probably never know
@@DeadmanXUA-cam The background radiation is from the sun 😂😂😂
TwitchDeadmanX well yeah, because Three Mile Island, but unlike Chernobyl, those reactors didn’t explode.
@@ReckerFidelWOLF Technically, the background radiation is from EVERYTHING. The Sun is the major supplier, but it comes from everything in the observable universe. The other major contributor is the residue from nearby nova and supernova explosions over the past billion or so years. There is no place in the universe where you're NOT getting at least some ionizing radiation from it's natural processes.
Fun fact: There are still 2 divers alive to this day.
Only one, valery killed himself and one died of radiation
@@buckeyescroll992 he meant those divers, who vent to drain the water
"Fun fact"
@@wisenotwise2676 Very fun
@@repdebt veryy
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The sound of Geiger's counter has been implemented masterfully in some scenes. It's only increase sense of scare, fear, and anxiety. Greatfull series
Bartosz I was creeped out. It’s extremely unsettling. Jesus.
“The real danger is, if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth”.
“If we don’t find out the truth, what happened at Chernobyl will happen again”.
Best TV show I’ve ever seen. It better win every award available.
"Can I have a cigarette?"
"Do you need help?"
"Its over"
Broke my freaking heart
HBO created a Monster with Chernobyl.
You didnt saw the core as a machine, you saw it as a Monster.
A Monster that terryfied everything and kill everything around it.
After every Episode, It took me 5-10 minutes to process what i saw.
Sad thing is that’s what it was
Not unlike Godzilla.
this is probably the best way anyone has explained the show
because u are gay
The nuclear power industry created the monster...at Chernobyl and so many other reactors, mines and processing mills
"Game of thrones is the best HBO show"
Chernobyl: Not great but not terrible
Game of Thrones is s#$@t
Apples and oranges much, comrade?
GoT is the best in it's genre - fantasy medieval age story. And Chernobyl is probably the best in it's genre - documentary movie.
Both are the best
Chernobyl: "Hold my graphite"
Neeraj vibez ** cough cough lord of the rings **
The part when their lights go out so they are eternally stuck in radiated water is terrifying
Most horrific scene : Kudryavtsev and Perevozchenko looking directly into a burning reactor.
UGman YES
Viktor Proskuryakov and Alexander Kudryavtsev were told to go to drop the rods manually. Yuvchenko openned the door for them to go and look into the burning core.
Perevozchenko already saw the explosion and passed out by then.
Both of them were dead inside a month.
@@AlexeiRzv Yeah, he got the full dose of radiation from the initial explosion. He had no chance. He probably died almost immediately.
the gaping maw of Hell
Those last words of the roof scene: you're done
Damn that one messed me up
It's great scene, but it's not truth
@@НазарПетров-ф3в what isn't true? Liquidators were sent to that roof (Masha) and they were given no more than 2 minutes to throw as much debris off the side as they could.
Reminds me of the last line in "There Will Be Blood."
@@НазарПетров-ф3в Please do tell since you were there. The scene portrays what was shown on numerous recordings during that process
@@garagetwoeight4978 Liquidators on the roof it's true, but nobody tells " your done"
☢ Best Factual TV series I ever seen. ☣
Rest In Peace to the victims and extremely brave people of this disaster. I hope this will never happen on the planet again.
*England:* Decides it'll be ok to start up Sheffield's Nuclear Powerplant
Um...nuclear warfare..
@@sturggaming6759 The radioactivity in bombs is a lot less than a reactor
@@Jack70M state the obvious please
Ever heard of Fukushima???
My favourite scene was when the boss of the miners told that joke "What is high as a building, burns tons of fuel every hour, makes a shitload of steam and noise and cuts an apple in 3 pieces? - A soviet machine that was built to cut an apple into 4 pieces!"
i know this is about moments and not lines but in the final episode when legasov was detained...
Charkov: "Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?"
Legasov: "Oh that's perfect, they should put that on our money."
Made the whole series for me.
Best moment: Legasov told the truth in court - "I lied following orders. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt will be paid."
and he paid for it, with his life.
I only know 1 really great scene from Chernobyl, and that's from the beginning of 1st episode... ...to the end of the 5th.
Concorde4711 too true
True that, amazing show
The scene of horror.
Spoil? This happened in 1986. It would be like spoiling the end of world War II
Wait don't tell me. I'm only up to operation Barbarossa and I think this hitler guy might be on to something with his Russian invasion plan. I mean I guess there might be a turnaround in the second act, but I think those allied guys might not do too well.
Plus Those french beaches are REALLY well defended, so they'll probably go with an air invasion and that seems unlikely.
@@mafiacat88 I'm at the same point as you... I think the answer will come from the pacific. The Americans can't be there and watching the whole thing all along
Are you perhaps stupid?
Basically, you expect people to be born with detailed accounts of historical stories pre-programmed into their brains?
@@mafiacat88 personally, my favourite episode is when the Soviets defended Stalingrad
@@thedeergod435 man WW2 is my favourite anime
Scene worth mentioning:
-" He's back"
...
-"Its not 3 roentgen, its 15 thousand."
"Take them to Party headquarters. Thank you for your service."
This, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl: Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask ‘what is the cost of lies?
Sent shivers down my spine. Masterpiece
This. This line was the most impressive moment of the show. By a mile.
@@Lilly-hh9es specially in a system were truth is not yours to decide.
"Reactor four designed to operate at 3,200 megawatts went beyond 33,000" and/or "Chernobyl reactor four is now a nuclear bomb".
It's impossible to choose 10 best moments because each of the scene in this series is unforgettable.
Those were the longest 90 seconds of my life and I was just watching.
Lornext i counted and literally could feel it crawling up my soine the closer i got to 90 then when the arlma rang and he ran it and feel... it terrifying man
As far as watching a tv show, this was the longest 90 secs I've experienced. As far as being the actual longest? These are not. WHEN your life is actually on the line, you will know this.
I couldn't even watch it, it was that intense for me
I said.."My God, don't let anyone fall!" Then the soldier stumbled and I said "Well...Fuck!"
The scene where about two dozen people watching the fire from the bridge....
Oof that was horrifying
That bridge was a long way from the reactor, there were hundreds of military and firemen and reactor workers walking round the reactor.
@@Digmen1 According to reports, none of the firemen or the people on the bridge survived
@DigNap15 It's called "the bridge of death" because every single person that stood on it that night reportedly died within the next 3 weeks.
They were playing in the nuclear fallout thinking it was snow I don’t think they lived very long after that...
@@buffya8012 none of them lived. True story
The concrete graves was absolutely harrowing
Person: *exist*
KGB: *_we know who you are, and what your doing..._*
CIA: Not great not terrible
Sounds like they'd get along with the NSA and Google.
You're
@@ojim460 CIA is delusional. Take it to the infirmary.
Except the top dogs of Nomenklatura, once you made it past certain level, KGB would need a special permission to spy on you.
This show was executed so well it was fantastic.
“Where I once would fear the cost of truth now I only ask: what is the cost of lies?”
Spectacular series. #1 on IMDb 9.7 rating, with the finale episode currently rated a 10.0 with over 20k votes. Wow.
Truly deserves it. Any naysayers can go lick Elephant's Foot....
@@Balnazzardi I see what you did there. 😁
Balnazzardi the story of them experimenting on thats is the best thing, they used al-47s to “dislodge” a small amout of material
If serie get 100 thousand votes,the rating would be a bit lower 9.9 or 9.8
LIES! :-)
"What's that Valery, a smile?" should have been included
Nope, cuz the video will get demonetized for excessive gore
2:05 Basically his performance in this scene earned Stellan a WELL-DESERVED golden globe!!
Despite all the podcasts, reviews and exaggerated reaction videos, I still can't get over it.
Still feeling excited ?
@@princeo15 The memes dude, i'm told its the equivalent of a chest X-ray
Taggart Olson if you were looking at or near enough to the core of the reactor, the amount of radiation you’ll take in is the equivalent of around 24000 x-rays.
@@deaf_swap0048 Where did you get that number from?
Taggart Olson this programme, Chernobyl.
This cheerful voice is so much off the mark... Anyway, part of my wife's family lives in Ukraine (it was Poland before the WWII), and one of her uncles actually was working there on that roof. Believe or not, he survived, but he really has to know what he can eat, and what to avoid (and that's a very weird collection), and he always has a ton of pills with him. He was lucky. At the same time communists in Poland denied any problems, and for example my class (high school) was sent to some field to clean it up from rocks (because the 1st of May was coming and we, the future IT guys, needed to know about the real working-class labor). When we returned to the school, they gave us something with iodine to drink...
As for the series - it is truly brilliant. There's so much detail shown it's mind-blowing. Even the computer terminals they show for like 20 seconds in one episode, are actual Russian terminals they used with R-61 mainframes (if memory serves). I doubt the English-speaking world will ever see anything more accurate about how was it behind the iron curtain.
Przemek
we need you to come to the US and inform our foolish youth about the evils of socialism ....though they might just label you a racist
@@LtBrown1956 Nah, been there already (interesting experience). I believe that properly educated youth (not indoctrinated with modern "standards", but shaped closer to classical model) will figure it out perfectly well. And for parents it's not really that hard. Kids are remarkably curious about everything (including stars and quantum physics) - just give them something easy to read about the subject, or (from time to time) replace cartoons with some TV stuff about the Universe and such.
The empty crib next to Lyudmilla's bed in the maternity ward in the hospital and Ulana's line , where she says ' we live in a country where children have to die to save their mothers'...those where only two of the moments that hit me the most but I would say the whole show is a masterpiece showing a tragedy that all of us would wish had never happened in real life in the first place...I don't think I 'll ever be the same after seeing this show. I hope I'll be better...
Great mini-series... very educational and a lesson learn for all mankind: what is the cost of lies??
2.50 I’m pretty sure I don’t know converting lies to U.S currency would be
Yes! Things nuclear fascinate me BUT I LEARN'T A LOT!
The final courtroom scene when it is explained just why
it blew up was an educational master-class!!
It took something so complicated, so complex and gave
AN IDIOTS GUIDE that anyone could understand!
I don't expect I will ever be lucky enough to watch something
as good as this again!!
IT SHOULD WIN EVERY AWARD GOING!
Some truths are best kept secret...
An orange clown as president
Some of the things were very educational, a lot of it was a bunch of bull shit. Radiation doesn't work the way the show explained it.
That series was by far one of the most emotional rollercoasters I have ever experienced.
papasparks2009 reminded me of the Korean movie old boy. Watch it in Korean tho. Not the us reinactment
HBO's Chernobyl is an absolute masterpiece of cinematography and there is no other way to put it. The scenes, the music, the tension, the emotions, the perspective, etc all come together so perfectly the whole 5+ hours I was glued, I could not stop. It is so well made and done I think this will be my favorite piece of cinematography forever.
Favorite scenes
5: Akimov and Toptunov turning on the flow of water even thought they both know they will die from it.
4: The bridge scene. Seems so innocent but the slight blue haze the 'atomic snow' and the music tell a different story.
3: The scene where one engineer is told to go to the roof and report back what he sees. He looked directly into the reactor core and his face was burnt immediately.
2: The court scene, Valery explaining what went wrong and why.
1: The 3 divers opening gates so the water can drain and save millions of people from sickness and death.
Most moving scenes
3: The court scene.
2: Charkov telling Valery that he will never be known for what he did in the cell.
1: Vasily being buried. The music, the shots, and the closeups shook me.
Episode 3 - Open Wide, O Earth: It can't get more depressing than this!
Episode 4 - The Happiness of All Mankind: Hold my Vodka!
Denson Conn II yes
Hold my rifle
Can you please say how did you access this series?.. I am from India.. And I haven't been able to see this
This series IS instant Classic and will go down the history of one of the best TV shows ever created. It really deserves ALL possible awards. And it fully deserves best EVER rating on IMBD.
If you dont watch it, you are REALLY missing out.
and all in such a small package of 5 1-hour episodes. Phenomenal, next level television right here. Seriously haven't been this wet since finishing The Wire and Breaking bad
the scariest thing is, the firefighters tasting metal is a sign of severe radiation poisoning, its literally damaging their brain, that's the only symptom, they had no idea that the nightmare didn't end when they left Chernobyl, it only just begun
Tastin metal is one of the first signs of radiation poisoning
For me the greatest scene was when he said in front of the whole jury:
'AND THAT IS HOW AN RBMK REACTOR CORE EXPLODES...
LIES!!!!'
The question that was being asked throughout the series and no one seemed to have an answer was at last concluded in such a great manner. Best mini-series ever!!!! Keep it up HBO