Hello, everyone! I'm a History Master student and doing research on the disaster of Chernobyl for a paper. Could anyone tell me where I could find Craig Mazin's podcasts about the disaster?

Thank you so much!

which episode have you watched the most?

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I watched the first episode and it's the most boring pilot I've ever seen. Should I continue this series?

I'm watching this for a History course I'm taking on Soviet Russia and so far it's a great series. Right now I'm on the second episode (I know not very far in) but god is it hard to watch!

seeing these people being lied to and continuously exposing themselves and others to radiation is gut-wrenching, and it seems silly, but watching the dog chase after the buses in the second episode made me physically ill. Even seeing the aftermath, dead animals, or the countless people in the hospitals, it's so hard to stomach through, much less answer my essay questions!

Did anyone else find this same problem? Maybe I'm just sensitive but this is very difficult to watch.

Comrades,

I turn to you in my moment of need. Several hours of google searching have been surprisingly fruitless. I would desperately like to purchase or otherwise produce a copy of the pink and yellow power plant diagram that is seen hanging on the wall inside the bunker conference room in episode one. Unfortunately, I cannot find this diagram anywhere online. If anyone can find it or knows a location where I might find it, I would be very thankful.

https://preview.redd.it/61zr7ax7ija81.jpg?width=1575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acdb2516843f8b7a83ff99ab7fb4c06df7c497ac

This show still amazes me despite inaccuracies due to artistic license. It’s legitimately the best miniseries I’ve ever seen.

I’ve been fascinated by Chernobyl since I was a kid and this is the most incredible dramatization of the events.

in episode 4, nikolai tarakanov thanked every liquidator personally after they helped clearing out debris from the "masha" rooftop, to which every liquidator replies "i serve the soviet union". is that a real thing? can someone give me context/background with regard to it?

I remember seeing the trailers for this show a long while ago and thinking “man I can’t wait to watch that”. For whatever reason it just got last in the whole idea that one day I’ll get to it . …

Well that day to get to it was yesterday and this afternoon I finished it.

Story -10/10 Acting 10/10 Filming 10/10 And interesting as all eff.

Just as kind of a side thought … there were so many moments in this show where It felt like that at any second this could blow wide open into the absolute best horror series ever .

Trying hard to balance enjoying such a great cinematic masterpiece with the true tragic story itself. I guess I feel good knowing that the hero’s of this story are being remembered and honored for their sacrifice. I recommend this series to anyone I know that would be interested in this type of history. I enjoy going to IMDB and reading new reviews. The majority think it’s 10/10 and the occasional person who just doesn’t get it… I really hope Hollywood learns a lot from this series.

This comes from Episode 1 of the podcast, at 7m42s, and has only grown in relevance since he first said it in May 2019:

"When people choose to lie, and when they choose to believe the lie, and when everyone engages in a very kind of passive conspiracy to promote the lie over the truth, we can get away with it for a very long time.

But the truth just doesn't care, and it will get you in the end. And the people who will suffer ultimately are not the people that are telling the lie. It's everyone else. And that is where we start to see real truth - in the behaviour of human beings who are motivated to save their fellow man, their fellow woman, their loved ones, that's where truth is."

-Craig Mazin, May 2019

Hey, me and my mom are trying to watch Chernobyl on our dvd player (panasonic dmp-bd35) but the sound doesn’t work! I tried everything but I’m getting really frustrated now. Does someone know what to do? The dvd-player work with different movies and we can hear the sound with other movies but we can’t hear sound with Chernobyl…. Help please

Nikolai Fomin, in the TV series, basically looked like a coward who only obeys and accepts offenses from Bryukhanov without speaking up. He seemed to be more interested in the promotion he was going to receive, and he didn't even look like a knowledgeable nuclear engineer. In real life, was he really like that? A cowardly servant of Bryukhanov? And did Bryukhanov really give offenses to Fomin, telling him to shut up, for example?

I was rereading Andrew Leatherbarrow's book after a rewatch of the series. Andrew mentions Vladimir Shevchenko's footage of the "human robots" clearing the graphite from the roof. I nosed around the interwebs and I can find the 54 minute documentary, but of course it's all in Russian.

There are several references to a Glasnost film festival version with English translation subs, but I can't seem to locate it.

Does anyone have a link (or know where to find one) to Vladimir Shevchenko's A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks with English subtitles?

TIA

Why didn't Legasov say everything in Vienna but said it in the city of Chernobyl instead? I'd imagine they would be forced to acknowledge the fault of their reactors and be forced to fix them since basically the whole world will know, no?

When Dyatlov was naming places they(akimov and Tuptonov would never work again, What and where was the last place he named? (went something like vavava...??)

New (very new) here. I discovered this subreddit a few months ago and it is fantastic! I really liked those educated debates on real Dyatlov vs HBO Dyatlov. And it made me curious about Toptunov too.

Was he accurately presented in the show? Nervous, somehow awkard( when his coworkers made those jokes on him as he still was just a kiddo), scared of his superior.

I don't know if you saw Disaster at Chernobyl from year 2004 but it is also very good and I liked the actor who played Toptunov.

Let me know what you think

Can this be recast by more knowledgeable folk with characters from ‘The Simpsons’ for context of the hierarchy of the power plant? Include the Springfield volunteer firefighters and governing official counterparts relevant to The Simpsons where applicable?

Interesting similarities and differences to the HBO production.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tufjj

One hour BBC docudrama on the Chernobyl disaster made over a decade before the HBO miniseries.

I don't get it , it's borderline comedic. I'm not saying I know much about nuclear radiation but it's like officials are acting like it's a mild breeze.

The potential danger is far too great for them to be so calm about this. If at best this is a nothing situation. At worst ? This is a massive catastrophe that will affect millions INCLUDING the people that are in charge. Why are they not working on the worst possible outcome just INCASE things are fucked.

If it was a matter of the officials lying then running away , I would've understood it but the idea that they don't care and they're still staying is bizarre

I don't know how radiation works in real life, but watching the show after repeatedly being told not to go near her husband, she refuses. Then she is warned to not touch him (at the very least). She proceeds to hug him.

It's like she wanted to die, or was too stupid to know the consequences. Like she could be suffering the same way as her husband is.

To make matters worse, she is carrying a baby. For the love of god, walk away woman.

This is my opinion on the Ludmilla of HBOs Chernobyl. My comments are not directed towards the real life Ludmilla. I am frustrated at the characters action in the show and quite frankly dont care what happened in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rGSkhJ_54
(Approx. 2 minutes of footage)

Honor and respect to the thousands of brave men who risked their lives shoveling that deadly shit. Those men saved countless lives. They did their duty. They served all humanity.

Found this approx. 4 minute real television news report (in English) on youtube from 2 May 1986 ..as radiation from Chernobyl reaches the United Kingdom.

https://youtu.be/GkE9Dq8ytwo

I started it yesterday and thought it'd be like any documentary series, I was very wrong, it's pure brilliance, the way they approach details little by little is masterful. and the dialogue is incredible too. Jared harris and stellan skarsgard are just amazing in their roles. I cannot wait to see how this continues

I'm new here. Recently I finally sat down and watched Chernobyl (mini-series) ..I was left speechless, completely gobsmacked.
Without doubt one of the very best and quite frankly harrowing pieces of television I've ever seen.
Does anyone have any recommended links to interviews with the actors about the series (when the series was released)? ...in particular Paul Ritter (RIP) or Jared Harris?

Mine has to be “I don’t give a shit about the panel! I need water in my reactor core!”

After the explosion (Could be delusional because RBMK Reactors do not explode.) When Dyatlov was looking out side when he was going to the administration building. Did he know it was Graphite laying on the ground when he looked outside?