This is, perhaps, the best tv series episode ever created! The acting is extraordinary, the filmography is tremendous, the soundtrack is terrific! And that end, that end is majestic! This concludes the most and smallest epic TV series I have ever seen!
You were the one who mattered most.
"In a just world I'd be shot for my lies, but not for this, not for the truth."
Brilliant! Thanks for this mini-series! I wasn't an expert on how the Hernobyl disaster went down, only by what I read or saw in documentaries. This series has shed light into my knowledge of it. I can't believe how incompetence lead to so many deaths. After every episode, I always felt a little drizzled, but this one just made me cry. I swear, 93,000 lives were lost because, among other factors, one man wanted to get promoted. I can't even begin to fathom what all these people went through.
I've watched the series twice already before writing this comment. Some of the quotes in this show just gave me the goosebumps. Starting with "were asking for your permission to kill 3 men", "You were the one who mattered most", through the concrete Graves scene, the puppy scene, and the official recordings at the end.
This show really felt like a horror movie, only because it really happened, which proves that reality is scarier than fiction. It was beautifully shot and acted. Some scenes will be forever in my memory. It's amazing to think that such a brief show can be so educational, terrifying and yet beautifully narrated at the same time. This is not only a show, it's, from my humble point of view, a masterpiece. Bone-chilling scene sequences, the sound of Geiger's counter to add anxiety and fear to the spectator. All of it has to make this one of the best series I've ever watched. It deserves all the awards it can get. Hands down to the actors, especially Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård, the whole crew and everyone involved for giving us one of the most invaluable, terrifying, evocative and educative documents of all times through wonderful filmmaking.
In just 5 episodes, Chernobyl managed to make you want to know everything from the story, the tragic events and the poor characters involved in the disaster. HBO really went for the gold on this one and could be the start up for other thematical miniseries about human-made disasters. Brilliant, terrifying and supremely well-acted.
Every lie you tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid
At long last we have arrived.
1:23:45.
The chain of disaster is now complete.
This final episode wrapped up the story of the nuclear disaster appropriately. A great conclusion to a great series.
The title of this episode translates 'everlasting memory'
Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård didn't even fuck, like what was the point
Thank you, THANK YOU very much for this mini-series!!!
I’m speechless. Pure finesse.
seriously. the truth is the hardest to tell when it has ego involved.
everyone's version of "truth" is so diluted in this time and age. its impossible to say the truth as most of the time it involves feeling ashamed and embarrassed by the reality. But when feeling ashamed for ones past actions one should not forget that every great "hero" to ever live felt that shame at some point to motive him/her to do heroic acts to earn them the title and praise.
we should accepts everything as it comes, shame,humiliation, mistakes, everyone of those are steps to heroics actions. imagine a world where no one has to steal food when dying of hunger instead just ask, get some choirs and earn that food the right way. the world needs truthful people now more than ever. EGO is one emotion that drags humanity down to gutters. drop that acid everyone. dissolve your egos. look at the universe for what it is. and say the truth regardless of the consequences. maybe it's too late for our generation to change. but every change in generation comes from little ones. teach your kids not to fear the consequences because Truth is all that matters. Lying shouldn't be punished but looked down upon as a selfish act but in the end it's always selfish one way or another.
Western governments do try to protect state secrets as well. They lie and put out false information just like the Soviets did back then.
But the stakes here were so enormous, this could have been tens of millions of casualties if only one other thing had gone wrong. Calling this a shot across the bow is putting it mildly.
I can only imagine the cost of lies but I do know that those who'll eventually have to pay them are not the ones telling them.
This final episode left me in tears…
I don't have the vocabulary to describe just how brilliant this series has been. Everything, from the actors, the director, the writer, the photography, and a long etc. has been perfect. A true masterpiece and a must watch.
Thank you so much HBO for bringing this to our screens.
The only pity is knowing that this isn't a fictional story.
So sad...One of the best tv shows ever for sure must watch for everybody..9.5/10
I loved every second of this show.
Series finale. Lies, negligence. "I want you to think about Yuri Gagarin, I want you to imagine that you were not told anything about your mission to space until you were on the launch pad, I want you to imagine that all you have is a list of instructions, that have seen before. " Being a short series focuses more
"The chain of disaster is now complete"
Brilliant mini-series!
This is the saddest end I've ever seen.
Imagine 93,000 died and suffered because of someone's promotion???:'D ... I know he is not the only one who's responsible for that catastrophe, but still he's the main sh*thead.
I didn't imagine I will be this happy when I knew he died from radiation he is caused lol.
I wasn't able to finish this episode when I wrote my season review and it doesn't really matter but...
I can't remember if I ever had this long of a chill down my spins and arms like I had in the second half of this episode. I'm quite sure I was never so on the tip of my seat or excited by one man talking about the events that occurred in a court.
Great fucking television and I repeat what I said yesterday: this is a MUST SEE.
Obviously we will never know how close or far this is from the actual truth. Nevertheless this serie makes an enormous impact and is by far one of the best I've seen in a very very long time. Go watch this now!!
"Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few"
That would have been even more fitting here.
At around 00:02:27, is that a fucking Brasil reference?
There are two men talking when Lyudmilla looks out the window. One of them is in a yellow shirt with green details. At first I thought it could be Ukraine but the green and the year being 1986, just over a month before the World Cup makes me wonder... Could they have found the time to squeeze in two disasters in the same show? It that even allowed? :sweat_smile:
This has been the best series I've watched in years,the acting is amazing and deserves all awards going!
It's a shame the show ends with a typical politic message
"Russians= bad ppl who lies a lot"
So sad they focus all in point the finger at hypothetical sovietic lies
—Unbeleivable, one's man's incompetence caused so much loss of life.
Brilliant brilliant brilliant. Well done to all involved. A superb piece of television
What a brilliant episode and breathtaking minseries. Definitely one of the best ones I've ever seen.
All hail to Jared Harris
What a triumph of a show. The final wrap up definitely brought tears to my eyes. Thankful to those incredible people who risked their lives for the greater good. I live in the UK and my sister was was 9 months old when the incident occurred. I was 6 months off being born. When came along in Sept '86 it was all still going on though! I asked my mother what she remembered about it. She said the news said things about the air not being safe and not to drink milk/give it to babies due to cows potentially being affected. Must have been scary for a new mum! Thankfully we all made it through relatively unscathed. Makes you wonder about cancer rates around the rest of Europe though...
When you have a structure that rewards achievements in that way you're bound to get people cutting corners. 'Bean counting' always drives the wrong behavior. I work in Software Engineering, a much less dangerous area but still can have a big impact in certain industries (like medical or financial) if quality and good processes aren't maintained.
We can blame the men for sure, but it's a symptom of the real cause. The government running it all. The official death toll of 31 says it all. Still trying to peddle their bullshit. We can all learn a lesson from the way this nation ran things. Tomorrow let's try to do better than yesterday.
I'm left with this great line from the series: "I used to fear the price of truth, now I just ask, what is the price of a lie?"
I think it's one of the best mini-series ever produced.
This is what I think the other episodes lacked; this was genuinely chilling. To see on display the extreme carelessness, thoughtlessness and irresponsibility, simultaneously through the enthralling courtroom drama and live action shots in the moment, was eye-opening. I didn’t, for whatever reason, feel this way with the previous episodes, no matter how harrowing whatever was being shown was, but I think the added element of the courtroom in this episode is what really drove it home; it really feels real, and of course, it was. The last 6 or so minutes were equally hard-hitting. All in all, it was a superb ending to what was a very strong miniseries. 9.5/10
how much are our lies?
I couldnt sit when I am watching... Excellent.
The great and terrifying beauty of a series. Masterpiece.
This was absolutely amazing. Watched it all the way through twice in less than a week. I didn't know any of this stuff. Now I gotta know everything. And that's because of this brilliantly told, perfectly executed miniseries. This is gonna clean up come Emmy time!
at long last, we have arrived 1:23:45 explosion !
seriously. the truth is the hardest to tell when it has ego involved.
everyone's version of "truth" is so diluted in this time and age. its impossible to say the truth as most of the time it involves feeling ashamed and embarrassed by the reality. But when feeling ashamed for ones past actions one should not forget that every great "hero" to ever live felt that shame at some point to motive him/her to do heroic acts to earn them the title and praise.
we should accepts everything as it comes, shame,humiliation, mistakes, everyone of those are steps to heroics actions. imagine a world where no one has to steal food when dying of hunger instead just ask, get some choirs and earn that food the right way. the world needs truthful people now more than ever. EGO is one emotion that drags humanity down to gutters. drop that acid everyone. dissolve your egos. look at the universe for what it is. and say the truth regardless of the consequences. maybe it's too late for our generation to change. but every change in generation comes from little ones. teach your kids not to fear the consequences because Truth is all that matters. Lying shouldn't be punished but looked down upon as a selfish act but in the end it's always selfish one way or another.
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Thank you for this miniseries. What a ride. Quality in every single aspect of this production, it made me emotional in the end tbh