Favourite TV Series

I can’t recall ever seeing TV as powerful as Chernobyl, I defy anyone to watch it and not feel moved.

 

It's the first time I wished I had Sky Atlantic.

 

Firestick - Kodi - Exodus - Chernobyl

 

Episode 4 destroyed me.

Not ashamed to say I blubbed.

 

Thanks, I stopped using Kodi a while back, maybe I'll start again.

 

https://www6.putlockertv.to/watch/chernobyl-1.xjwjq/prpzz86

Episodes 1-4

 

Watched the first 3 episodes last night. Episode 4 lined up for tonight. Now I'm terrified.

 

It's a really hard watch.

Spoiler

If you're an animal lover, which I am.

 

Thanks very much, I watched the first two episodes last night. Very, very good - apart from the actor who plays the perm-haired boss of the installation, he's poor.

However, my other half was a bit surprised at the pop-ups I was getting from Putlocker, almost entirely from "young women" offering to "engage" with me!

 

Watched episode 4 of Chernobyl last night. It continues to blow me away knowing it's absolutely true.

Spoiler

Sending people up to pick up the graphite from the roof is just incredible.

 

Bloody hell. I've just watched the 2 mins trailer.
Not sure I've go the stomach or emotional capability to watch that.
Watching your team live as they are thumped 6-0 in a cup final, knowing it's being watched by the whole world, pales into insignificance.

 

Why do Russians wear underpants?

Otherwise Chernobyl fallout....

 

Good Omens is great entertainment. Watched a couple last night and really liked it. Wasn’t blown away by the trailer but it’s actually a lot lot better than that suggests.

 

It's a good adaptation of the book.

 

Chernobyl finale...just wow.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt has to be paid."

 

I'm torn. Maybe it's because I wanted to see Chernobyl and ended up with Good Omens that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have? I'll definitely try a 2nd episode before making a decision.

 

I’ve watched two, but at the end of the second one I was much more into it. I don’t know anything about the book, so to me it was just light hearted entertainment on a Sunday night. I deliberately left Chernobyl until after all episodes had aired so I wasn’t beholden to the weekly schedule.

 

The first episode was a bit slower. It picks up steam in episodes 2-3 and finds its stride. I felt E3 was very strong.

I find the bromance between Crowley and Aziraphale to be the best bit, to be honest. Tennant in particular is brilliant in his role.

 

Chernobyl outstanding beginning to end

 

Agreed 100%.

 

Chernobyl was brilliant, wonder what reception it got in Russia, if any?

Started watching Project Blue Book, was hesitant at first as usually anything on the syfy channel is shyte but it's surprisingly very good - Aidan Gillen is great as the main guy.

 

Reading the tweets on the #ChernobylHBO hash tag, extremely positive from Ukrainians and Russians. They loved it.

They said the atmosphere and the feel of Soviet life was completely authentic.

 

I read this decent interview earlier with the Chernobyl writer/producer:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18647339/chernobyl-finale-hbo-truth-how-accurate

It’s the bloke who oversaw the two Hangover movie sequels, so a bit of a change! Addresses the point about how it went down in Eastern Europe. Also interesting to see there’s an accompanying podcast for each episode where he and other explain what was true, what was abridged for artistic sake and what was made up in the show.

 

Not my favourite but from a slow start this season of Taskmaster is decent.

 

Sad to say I watched episode 2 last night and hated it, so that's me done. Maybe I'll get the books on kindle instead as everyone at work who's read it raves about it.

 

[ADMISSION] I've found Gaiman's "proper" fiction (Neverwhere, American Gods, Norse Mythology) a bit "lacking" and most of them I've never actually finished [/ADMISSION], so before watching "American Gods" I re-picked up my copy of AG and I didn't change my opinion.

His comic stuff ("The Sandman", "Violent Cases", "The Colour of Magic", "Black Orchid" etc) is superb and I think "Neverwhere" (even filmed in BBC's unique ****-o-vision) is possibly one of the best bits of TV I've ever seen - it's just that his stuff has to go through a "filter" in the case of his prose through a comic-artist and on film/TV (even his wonderful "Stardust" was screenplayed by Mrs Jonathan Ross). The TV version of AG is very interesting.

The fact that he's also involved with the screenwriting of this doesn't fill me with hope. But I'll have to give it a go.

 

Watched the final two episodes of Chernobyl last night. What a series it was. I've always struggled to sit still through many films and TV series but this transfixed me. It's incredible to think most of it was true and probably how close it was to a much bigger disaster.

 

Downloading the podcasts right now. I've been wanting something to listen to on the commute and this is perfect.

 

One of the weirdest things I've ever seen on TV was in the aftermath of that. The Ukrainian helicopter who repeatedly flew over the fire, dumping water on it was a guest on "TV-am" he was awarded a medal from a newspaper (Mail? Sun?) and, presumably, treatment for the radiation poisoning he received. Germaine Greer was also a guest and although I can't fully remember what the actual (probably banal - housework?) question about 'equality' she was asked but I do remember verbatim her answer "...how could you ask a man like that to do the washing up?".

 

I've always like Taskmaster, however in series 7 I felt that some of the tasks were lacking a bit of imagination and the series seemed flat; the current series is much better.

 

Last night's kicker on the ping pong ball herding was evil genius.

 

Finished watching Chernobyl yesterday, absolutely brilliant series, one of the best I've seen in a long while. Fascinating story.

@Clive_ofthe_Kremlin was it a US conspiracy?! I'm sure you have thoughts on this....

 

Not as far as I'm aware of, no.

In the series, did they mention what happened to those who were affected? Did they say where they were treated for their injuries?

Tarara used to be the headquarters of the “José Martí” international pioneer camp. A sort of Butlins near the Havana east beaches. It was very popular with Cuban children. However in 1990, following Chernobyl, the pioneer children decided to donate the facility to Ukrainian children affected by the disaster. The people of Havana willingly and enthusiastically participated in refurbishing of all the camp facilities and the first children started to arrive in 1990. You should remember that this was the time of the collapse of the USSR and a time of disaster for Cuba's economy when all the imports and exports disappeared overnight. A time that was called the special period in peacetime, when there was malnutrition and epidemics. When the electricity was more off than on. A time when the average Cuban lost 5.5kg in weight.

That did not stop Cuba's generosity. As Fidel said: Cuba does not share just the things it has left over, but even the things which it itself lacks. According to the Guardian, Cuba's expenditure on the program cost more than $300m in medical costs alone. That is a lot of money for a poor blockaded island.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/02/cuba-chernobyl-health-children