The Hauning HBI Original Thriller Miniseries is a guaranteed disaster, a disaster

By Robert Scucci | Being published 5 seconds ago

Have you ever wondered what happens when a totalitarian government is obsessed with reputation management, cost cutting, and exploits its own people to deal with an unprecedented, man-made disaster that is loved by people they have never seen? You get it ChernobylThe actual nuclear disaster in 1986 happened in 1986, and the 2019 hbo miniseries aired on max is based on a perfect storm of absence and events that will hopefully repeat for the rest of our lives.

Beginning with suicide and somehow getting worse with each passing sequence, Chernobyl It is a terrifying and realistic depiction of the impossibility of the Soviet Union putting down its facade of prosperity and nationalism through its negligence at every bureaucratic level at every level.

It starts with suicide and gets worse

Chernobyl It begins two years and one day after the disaster, focusing on Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), Deputy Director of the Karchatov Institute. After recording the findings in the mind of the tepi and leaving the money for his cat, he puts the rope around his neck, pulls the chair out from under him. For two years, he carried the weight of truth, something systematically removed when he tried to go public with his findings about nuclear denuclearization.

After an obvious molded opening, we are taken to a nuclear power plant, moments after the explosion has already occurred. Working alongside Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson), government officials, and heavy plant workers, there are two problems that need to be solved: they consist of melting in real time and find out what is wrong.

Under Boris Shcherbina’s (Stellan Skarsgard) supervised employment, Valery is told not to question the State and to be careful how he communicates the findings to those in power, no matter how important those findings are. By investigating, we learn that cost-cutting measures, inexperienced engineers, and impossible deadlines created a perfect storm of destruction, wiping out entire communities and claiming far more lives than officials ever admitted. The official maximum number of the Soviet government is 31. The true number may not be known.

Those who speak the truth do not need to remember what they say

As dim as the events shown inside Chernobyl there is, there is a strange and terrifying beauty that deserves to be recognized. One of the most impressive things about the lines is the way insurgents and first responders put their lives on the line, first unconsciously, then inexplicably when they understood what was at stake. Most importantly, we see what happens when a government built on propaganda and controlled collapses under its own weight.

There is one line inside Chernobyl capturing the entire series. After another failed attempt to extinguish the fire, the question becomes what went wrong (again). When reviewing the communications shared with other nations, it is revealed that the Soviet Union “gave them a propaganda number” to the effect that the really bad things were the wrong way, “it never worked.” The truth was never meant to be part of the solution if it lies to save face at the global level.

Truth is Life

As the wild animals infected with the radiation circled were killed, the full extent of the fallout was killed, Chernobyl Never call to show what happens when lies are sold as truth, when exits are delayed by optics, and when citizens pay the price of their pride.

Even the arrangement feels like a metaphor. Brutalist buildings, once built to demonstrate efficiency, are now often buried under ash and rubble. The only good thing is that the government is complaining and willing to hide the damage rather than repair it.

A tough watch for all the right reasons, Chernobyl It’s a chilling look at one of the darkest chapters in modern history, and a cautionary tale of what happens when good human interest is treated as a machine for the pursuit of power.

Chernobyl is an HBO original, available to stream on max.

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