RT: 'Chernobyl' is a blast of a TV series – but don’t call it ‘authentic’
Building film sets out of old Soviet buildings is easier than understanding the people who inhabited them – and the hit HBO show doesn’t grasp either why the nuclear accident was allowed to happen, nor the heroism that followed.
Authenticity is not an essential virtue even for a docudrama, but it has been one of the main selling points of Chernobyl, the five-part mini-series that is currently the highest-ever rated TV program on film database IMDB.
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WNU Editor: Finally had the time to watch my first episode last night. It is must see TV.
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It's ok, but not sure if it's really worth all the hype.
Chernobyl happened my senior year in high school. About a month before graduation. We just shook our heads. We understood it was a massive disaster in the Soviet Union which was rare to hear about, much less see news of Russian outreach for help. The reports from US media were reliant upon statements from the Soviet Union after the coverup was blown. Which we believed were exactly 180 degrees from reality.
A good accompanying program is "Chernobyl Heart". A wrenching documentary on the affects suffered by children in Ukraine and Belarus - born years after the core exposure and subsequent fallout.
Its been said that the Chernobyl catastrophe was the actual straw that broke the USSR.
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Been watching, good stuff. Don't know how historically accurate it is, but does seem to be based on a lot of facts.
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