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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Yep.

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    Echo the Chernobyl shout. Absolute horror. Wonderfully done so far.

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    Alright, I need to get a hold of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    What public torrent sites are there these days? I was on a private tv one a while back DS recommended but they suspended me for inactivity and there's never anyone in their irc chat to get the begging bowl out for.
    PM me.

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    This Chernobyl thing sounds right up my street, but I'm going to wait until it has finished and watch them all over a couple of days.

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    I watched the first episode of Chernobyl on the laptop and rather liked the deepening, yellowish tint to everything that made things look increasingly diseased and dangerous as the episode went on.

    I've just put the second on now and realised I forgot to turn f.Lux off the other night before starting the episode, and that tint was just my laptop screen adjusting to the time.

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    That's hilarious

    As I read the first line I was wondering what the fuck you were on about.

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    Been browsing IMDB as I recognised one of the firemen from The Terror, turns out that has a second season this year.

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    Seeing as I don't have sky, I wound up watching some hospital footage of the victims instead. They're just waiting to die.

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    What the fuck.
    I'm a twit

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    You sick cunt.

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    Didn't realise Picard was starting so soon.

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    I'd rather not post the timestamp for the worst one but ... y'know.

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    I too started Chernobyl based on what you guys said about it. It's by far and away and the most gripping TV series i have ever seen in my life. It's so harrowing and so haunting,it leaves you speechless. A fucking masterpiece of a series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd View Post
    Been browsing IMDB as I recognised one of the firemen from The Terror, turns out that has a second season this year.
    Yeah I'm not sure what the deal with that is. I loved the first season, so I hope they don't shit the bed with an unnecessary second series.

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    They're going the anthology route, so the second season won't intrude on the first in any way.

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    That's a relief - although it seems odd that it's still called "The Terror", given that the first series was based on the book of the same name. I imagine the second season wasn't originally planned, and now they're stuck with the name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    That's a relief - although it seems odd that it's still called "The Terror", given that the first series was based on the book of the same name. I imagine the second season wasn't originally planned, and now they're stuck with the name.
    The new one will be about a spectre of some kind menacing a group of people during World War 2, so presumably if it keeps running beyond this one each series will feature something you could reasonably describe as 'the terror' to keep the title from seeming daft.

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    Barry S02E05 is one of the most memorable episodes of TV I've seen since... The Americans last episode or something? It's absolute madness for 30 minutes straight. Props to Bill Hader for the directing, gave me serious Coen bros vibes at times.

    It's almost a bottle episode, but still moves the story forward. I'm at a loss for words.
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    Watched the first episode of Chernobyl. Makes you feel like you're part of the unfolding horror without knowing what's coming whilst simultaneously knowing almost exactly what's coming.

    Gripping stuff.

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    Have you ever wanted to boot the balls clean off a TV character's body more than Dyatlov?

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    I too just watched the first episode of Chernobyl. Was planning an early night but episode two is going on. How many will it be in total?

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    Five.

    I'm waiting until they're all out.

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    I would normally wait, but this is absolutely brilliant.

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    That's episode 2 done. I really want to read up on this to understand the science and what went wrong more but equally I don't want to spoil anything.

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    They all get amazing tans and live happily ever after is my bet.

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    It wasn't a meltdown. Just a really loud fart. Everyone smiles and laughs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    That's episode 2 done. I really want to read up on this to understand the science and what went wrong more but equally I don't want to spoil anything.
    There's some really interesting stuff on YT explaining the science behind it as well as people visiting various parts of the plant, including the other reactors and the actual control room. There's a famous film by a guy called Valdimir Shevchenko made shortly after the accident, he gets shots from the roof of the reactor building during which he must be getting absolutely annihilated by massive doses of radiation. Needless to say he ended up melting into a puddle like most of the others.

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    Drew Scanlon, formerly of Giantbomb.com and more known as the blinking white guy has a travel channel and spent two days there.


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    Finished off episode 3 and did a bit of reading. The reading is quite boring, so it really is an excellently made series that dramatises things so well.

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    Are plebs going to use this as an excuse to not build more nuclear plants?

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    I still regret not being able to go in 2007. Manc Sean and co had a mint time visiting.

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    Pretty sure the Transformers 2 Chernobyl scene is really informative as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Are plebs going to use this as an excuse to not build more nuclear plants?
    I thought we’d got over that years ago.

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    I'd love to go but my cancer odds are short enough as it is.

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    C'mon now, you aren't flirting with anything.

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    It took over 4 hours for that joke to be made. We're slipping.

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    Little Chernobyl thread for y'all on how authentic it is.


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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I watched the first episode of Chernobyl on the laptop and rather liked the deepening, yellowish tint to everything that made things look increasingly diseased and dangerous as the episode went on.

    I've just put the second on now and realised I forgot to turn f.Lux off the other night before starting the episode, and that tint was just my laptop screen adjusting to the time.
    I decided to start watching tonight and when it opened with this I remembered this post and made sure to turn it off.



    edit: Is that opening line a quote of something?

    "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we no longer recognize the truth. What can we do then? What is left to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves with stories. In these stories it does not matter who is the hero, only who is to blame"

    Seems horribly pertinent.

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    I got to the scene where the old man orders a lockdown of the city ‘to protect against misinformation and the state’ and had to turn it off. This is too dark. The mundanity of evil is too much. You grow up hearing about the incident and what it is today but you forget the human side of it then. I want to do what that bloke with the cat did in the opening scene.

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    Just watched the third episode of Chernobyl. Fucking hell.

    Fucking hell.

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    On Chernobyl, is Lucy Mangan usually this dense?

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...-disaster-epic

    Spoilers for the tv show obvs.

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    Does she think it's fiction?

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    I was reading it genuinely at a loss as to why she found the things she did confusing.

    Ok, there's stuff it doesn't tell you immediately, but it's clear as fucking day that that's deliberately so as the whole thing is framed from the perspective of those who were involved in it and they didn't know the answers at that point either.

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    That's almost - almost - made me want to create a 'Guardian account' just to call her a cunt.

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    Because I'm reading the book Neil Cross did I watched the first episode of Luther again last night. I forgot just how preposterous he is.

    "She didn't yawn when I pretended to! She did it!"

    And nobody goes, "What the fuck, you headcase?"

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    They do that same yawn thing in the first episode of season two of True Detective. Was enough for me to not bother with the rest, and it sounds like I made a wise choice.
    I'm a twit

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    Luther is basically House with a warrant card, he gets away with a load of mental stuff right from the off.

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