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

[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.

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

Oh, no, I didn't take it that way. Just agreed with your explanation.

[washing machine]

[Simple Torture]

the way the show is building up to what Lugosi does

[epilogue]

[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.

Yeah, this is exactly what I was trying to say. I don't expect there to be much hope in a show that opens with a suicide and then zooms out to a nuclear meltdown. But this general approach isn't totally working for me. Will keep watching because the production is still very impressive, and I'm encouraged to hear that E4 addresses my complaint.

After episode four, you'll long for those scenes when faceless helicopter pilots plunge into a radioactive death plume oblivion.

[Mickey]

The sound direction in this show is unfuckwithable. That clicking sound of the dosimeter is absolutely nauseating. Fantastic work

[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.

[washing machine]

The sound direction in this show is unfuckwithable. That clicking sound of the dosimeter is absolutely nauseating. Fantastic work

Yes.

[Bi_3]

[quote="washing machine”]
After episode four, you'll long for those scenes when faceless helicopter pilots plunge into a radioactive death plume oblivion.[/quote]

Or as the Soviets called it, Wednesday

[washing machine]

What a week, huh?

[Jammer XCI]

It’s called a Geiger Counter, and yes the sound of it makes my skin crawl.

This is a masterpiece of story telling as well though.

[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.

[psychobain]

The sound direction in this show is unfuckwithable. That clicking sound of the dosimeter is absolutely nauseating. Fantastic work

the score also

btw its on spotify now

[bune]

Got the score and wow it's great. Really fits the atmosphere of a book I'm reading as well.

[psychobain]

Episode 5 was beautifully sad

Loved it

Show was 10/10

Guy who plays Boris was perfect

[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.

[psychobain]

Yes

[bune]

Some good articles in the thread.

[Biff Pocoroba]

HBO hasn't put the episodes all On Demand but they're running the series next weekend. I'll have to add to my dvr so I can watch them the following week.

[bune]

This score is amazing. I checked out what she did for Sicario 2 and that one's...well, better isn't the right word because they're so different so I'll just say they're both really great.