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The failure of the South Fork dam in the late 1800's killed over 2,000 people and remained the highest single loss of US civilians until 9/11. There are a lot of aspects to it which would make a good miniseries, including men on the dam fighting to save it while it was overtopping, telegraph warning to Johnstown ignored, a guy riding horseback to warn people at South Fork. The flood wave hit a highly industrialized area creating a mass of burning debris, which continued burn as people were still trapped. A women had all of her 11 kids drown. Crazy stuff. Andrew Carnegie was part of the group that owned the dam and felt great guilt. Chernobyl does a great job showing the human perspective. All government issues aside, these were people, and the best and worst of humanity can be seen in such events.

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Horrific. That's a story that deserves to be told.

They usually got a whole crate of vodka also, so there's that!

An interesting aspect of the 'bio-robot' duty is that a lot of people actually wanted to do it. Basically they were keeping track of total radiation exposure, so you were going to be exposed to about the same amount whether you were on the roof for 90 seconds or shoveling dirt for three weeks, so for some guys they wanted to just go ahead and 'burn' their radiation amount in one go and then go home.

I was hesitant to watch because I have a nuclear engineering degree, have studied the event personally and in class, and figured I'd get angry at how incorrect everything was. I had nothing to do tonight and my coworkers had been adamant I watch so I figured why not.

After binge watching 4 episodes all I can say is wow. They got literally every aspect right. The reactor physics, the radiation effects, the timeline, the cleanup efforts, and the corruption of the Soviets. They literally got it all right. I can't wait for the last episode because it looks like the trial and events of that day are going to be shown via flashback. Obviously its' a topic I'm heavily interested in, but this is probably my favorite show ever.

HBO has no original scripted programming this Sunday night. Wish they'd throw the finale up a day early, at least on the app...

You should check out the podcast with the show's creator. He goes into more depth and gives more background about it. He studied it extensively and you can tell in the show and his commentary about it.

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I have a nuclear engineering degree

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Nice humble brag, smartee

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I have a nuclear engineering degree

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Nice humble brag, smartee

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Nuclear Engineer: E = mc2

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Nice humble brag, smartee

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The lack of social life is incredible, hence the amount of time on TexAgs

Why oh why are people so politically sensitive? Get over it and just enjoy the show.

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Why oh why are people so politically sensitive? Get over it and just enjoy the show.

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Ask the producer or the show. As far as I can tell, everybody here was universally praising the show (and still do). Then he chimed in some anti-Trump BS into the mix for some random ass reason.

It has been bugging me for the first half of the episode but Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) is the lead prosecutor.

Jared Harris is awesome

That was incredible!

I wish there was one more episode before this one, I want to know more about the cleanup and containment

I would recommend reading Chernobyl 01:23:40 the author discusses it more in detail. It talks about the animal killing squads as shown in the show, but it also discusses how they had to build dams along the river to prevent ground contamination from washing into the water supply along with a host of other insane problems. Almost all of the vehicles used in the cleanup are sitting on site rusting away for eternity since they are too contaminated to salvage

Edit: Also the book discusses the Elephant's Foot and some crazy facts about it. The show never mentioned it which makes sense since they didn't get a visual on it until much later. For those who don't know the Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to the solidified glob of metal that the core turned into after it cooled post melt down. It currently sits in the basement of reactor building 4 and is one of the most radioactive things on the planet.

Great series, very well done. Loved his line about them doing things the way they do because its cheaper. Screw commies.

There is no his truth, or her truth, or the state's truth, there is only Truth. That should be the lesson 100%.

One of the best miniseries of all time. That's all.

Incredible mini series. Can't recommend it enough. Rare to see something stick so close to real history and be that entertaining. Just well done all around.

The scene with abandoned response vehicles and helicopters is haunting.

The Elephant's Foot is fascinating to me. Only the size of a Weber grill but weighs hundreds of tons. Blew up cameras when they tried to photograph it.

Why worry about what won't happen comrade.

'They should put that on our money'


'A debt will be paid for all our lies'

Incredible, gut-wrenching, yet inspiring finale. Those final post-scripts were haunting, but the perfect way to wrap everything up. It will be hard for another other mini-series/season of television this year to top what has been done over the past five weeks. Just amazing work all around.

A masterpiece alright. Loved every second of that.

Extremely well done. TV doesn't get any better than that.

I half expected Lord Bolton to come up behind Legasov and say that Moscow sends their regards.