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.
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.
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.
Review by VeroBlockedParentSpoilers2019-06-10T17:40:48Z
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.