Chernobyl makes you feel as if you were there with the darkness, the music, the cinematography. Whether or not you remember the accident, you somehow get shivers down your spine whenever you hear the clicking of an R meter and as the clicking intensifies, so does your heart rate. It becomes a character in the series. The frustration of working through the problem while fighting through all the BS that comes from such a secretive state as the Soviet Union is played well. Stellan and Jared play this convincingly, both from the perspective of a career party man and that of a brilliant scientist who is just doing his job as a scientist with little care for the nuances of the CPSU.
My only complaint is episode 4. The dogs. The story line of the liquidators doing animal control is unnecessary and adds nothing to the story besides making you feel even more uneasy. You can skip those scenes entirely and lose nothing which begs the question... why even show it. The scenes in the control room are obviously romanticized because we really don't know what went on at 1:23:45 but we know from witness accounts that the mood was calm.
Review by OldManKestisVIP BlockedParent2024-05-18T01:15:07Z
Chernobyl makes you feel as if you were there with the darkness, the music, the cinematography. Whether or not you remember the accident, you somehow get shivers down your spine whenever you hear the clicking of an R meter and as the clicking intensifies, so does your heart rate. It becomes a character in the series. The frustration of working through the problem while fighting through all the BS that comes from such a secretive state as the Soviet Union is played well. Stellan and Jared play this convincingly, both from the perspective of a career party man and that of a brilliant scientist who is just doing his job as a scientist with little care for the nuances of the CPSU.
My only complaint is episode 4. The dogs. The story line of the liquidators doing animal control is unnecessary and adds nothing to the story besides making you feel even more uneasy. You can skip those scenes entirely and lose nothing which begs the question... why even show it. The scenes in the control room are obviously romanticized because we really don't know what went on at 1:23:45 but we know from witness accounts that the mood was calm.