TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

I finished Chernobyl yesterday. Last episode's trial scene with Legasov's deposition lambasting the Soviet system seemed a bit too Hollywood for me.

Yes it was the weak point of the series I guess, but I am sure they felt it necessary to spell out the conclusions. However, the explanation of the workings of a nucular plant and the reasons for the incident was extremely well done I think. They could show it in high school classrooms.

Oh, for sure, the rest of the show is almost spotless, but that scene layed it out a bit too thick, IMO.

[Josephus]

I finished Chernobyl yesterday. Last episode's trial scene with Legasov's deposition lambasting the Soviet system seemed a bit too Hollywood for me.

I wonder whether that's based on truth or not. I don't think so, but the tapes he left after his suicide were and in the end did lead to Russia retrofitting the rods.

[Habbaku]

The official Chernobyl podcast should cover the veracity of that scene in detail. I'll report back when I've finished it.

[The Larch]

I finished Chernobyl yesterday. Last episode's trial scene with Legasov's deposition lambasting the Soviet system seemed a bit too Hollywood for me.

I wonder whether that's based on truth or not. I don't think so, but the tapes he left after his suicide were and in the end did lead to Russia retrofitting the rods.

Apparently neither him nor Scherbina were even present during the trial.

[Josephus]

here's a good essay on the series Chernobyl in New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong

[Oexmelin]

It resonates well with the one about Game of Thrones - about our inability to tell sociological stories.

[Tamas]

here's a good essay on the series Chernobyl in New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong

This is a really bad article.

[The Brain]

here's a good essay on the series Chernobyl in New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong

This is a really bad article.

It does seem a bit weird.

In effect, Plokhy argues, it was the Soviet system that created Chernobyl and made the explosion inevitable. Glimmers of this understanding appear in the HBO series, too.

Glimmers? The entire series is about the Soviet system causing the disaster (and the poor handling of the disaster).

[Habbaku]

It resonates well with the one about Game of Thrones - about our inability to tell sociological stories.

The whole story is sociological. There is no 'inability' here to tell a sociological tale.

[Admiral Yi]

I wasn't crazy about the New Yorker article.  Either brave individuals bucked the myopic bureaucratic system to save the world, or the myopic bureaucratic system itself saved the world, in which case the author of the piece should have told us how it did that.

[KRonn]

A new series, NOS482 started Sunday. It looks interesting, some kind of thriller type show. I liked the first episode and I'm going to watch more episodes and check it out.

[Josquius]

The first ep of good omens was pretty good.

I don't like pratchetts writing. But it tends to translate well to TV.

[Josephus]

A new series, NOS482 started Sunday. It looks interesting, some kind of thriller type show. I liked the first episode and I'm going to watch more episodes and check it out.

Think it's based on a book by Stephen King's son.

[HVC]

Russia think HBO's Chernobyl is fake news, goona make its own show.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/chernobyl-tourism-spikes-hbo-russia-plans-series-1202147828/

[Duque de Bragança]

Russia think HBO's Chernobyl is fake news, goona make its own show.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/chernobyl-tourism-spikes-hbo-russia-plans-series-1202147828/

It will be hard for them to shoot it in Ukraine though.