It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 2019)

[washing machine]

Let the russki pinkos rot, I say. Please no more pet mercy killings though.

[Mickey]

God that's the most suburban thing you've ever typed.

[washing machine]

Rank the suburban things I’ve ever typed.

[Mickey]

I just did

[Bi_3]

Episode 4 was great

[Simple Torture]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

[Bi_3]

This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

[EJ]

I think its purposefully supposed to be "cold."

[epilogue]

This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

That's because they're all Russian.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

That's because they're all Russian.

[epilogue]

This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

That's because they're all Russian.

...speaking English.

My point was that Russian names are hard to remember.

I actually really like how they've handled the English speaking aspect of this.

[washing machine]

I can mostly agree with the peripheral characters being cold and distant, but the way the show is building up to what Lugosi does in the opening scene feels pretty human to me. Then there are a lot of little stories throughout (episode 4 covers this well) that humanizes the whole thing. But yeah, mostly the impact of this incident is painted broadly. Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.

[EJ]

Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.

I'm glad they've done it this way. It's still really effective.

[washing machine]

Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.

I'm glad they've done it this way. It's still really effective.

Oh for sure. I didn't mean to imply that it isn't effective.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.