Television 2018

[UVACoug]

Been binging Deadwood for the first time ahead of the movie. Love the show so far, but I have to say that Timothy Olyphant is just terrible in it. I don't know if it is the acting or the writing (or a combination), but I find him unbearable. Strange, since I loved almost every minute he was on screen in Justified. Thank God for Ian McShane though ... that man can act.

[Donuthole]

Oh man no the Soviet Union was so backward. Even in the mid-90s the cars, phones etc. in the former Soviet Union were like 1950s USA technology. I rode in Volgas (Soviet sedans) and Ladas (Soviet compact cars) hundreds of times and those things were total pieces of shit. All the household appliances and elevators etc. were 1950s style with no updates. That’s what socialism does: freezes or at best immensely slows progress. When my parents came to pick me up from the mish they said it was like being transported back to their 1950s childhoods in a lot of ways.

For some reason, Russian cars made it to Guatemala. There were quite a few Lada Nivas rolling around there circa 1999. They worked well in Guate because they offered the gas economy and size of a compact car but also had 4-wheel drive and off-road tires.

The consensus was they were pieces of crap, but if you could gut most everything under the hood and retrofit a Toyota or Nissan engine, they were great.

[CardiacCoug]

Chernobyl's great. Their cars, trucks, telephones, etc, is that typical Europe for 80's? Or is it like its own thing? Everything seems a little weird.

Oh man no the Soviet Union was so backward. Even in the mid-90s the cars, phones etc. in the former Soviet Union were like 1950s USA technology. I rode in Volgas (Soviet sedans) and Ladas (Soviet compact cars) hundreds of times and those things were total pieces of shit. All the household appliances and elevators etc. were 1950s style with no updates. That’s what socialism does: freezes or at best immensely slows progress. When my parents came to pick me up from the mish they said it was like being transported back to their 1950s childhoods in a lot of ways.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Chernobyl's great. Their cars, trucks, telephones, etc, is that typical Europe for 80's? Or is it like its own thing? Everything seems a little weird.

I think there was a pretty big dividing line between the USSR and Western Europe in the 80s. To this day, every single former West German state has higher per capita income than every single East German state.

[jay santos]

Chernobyl's great. Their cars, trucks, telephones, etc, is that typical Europe for 80's? Or is it like its own thing? Everything seems a little weird.

[old_gregg]

one thing i wondered during the last episode is whether the machinery they’re using is actually soviet stuff. i can’t tell if the mi-8 helicopters they’re using are real or cgi, but if they’ve found a bunch of old soviet cars/trucks/helicopters (including the heavy equipment at the coal mine) and are using it, that’s awesome.

[Commando]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but my support for nuclear power hasn't been diminished at all. I chalk up Chernobyl as something that happens when an insular, borderline third world country runs a nuclear power plant. The worst case scenario now is what happened at Fukushima, and that involved a 9.0+ earthquake.

I have a buddy who runs maintenance at a nuclear reactor and says you would really have to be a dumber version of Homer Simpson to allow anything to happen and that you can't imagine all the failsafes they have in place. I'm all for nuclear energy.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The worst thing about Chernobyl is that it's going to set the nuclear movement back 40 years. Nuclear is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy we have, but irrational fear continues to prevent more widespread implementation. Meanwhile, more people die from car crashes every 20 minutes than were killed by Chernobyl. But all those people who believe nuclear power is dangerous ride thousands of miles per year in cars.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but my support for nuclear power hasn't been diminished at all. I chalk up Chernobyl as something that happens when an insular, borderline third world country runs a nuclear power plant. The worst case scenario now is what happened at Fukushima, and that involved a 9.0+ earthquake.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The worst thing about Chernobyl is that it's going to set the nuclear movement back 40 years. Nuclear is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy we have, but irrational fear continues to prevent more widespread implementation. Meanwhile, more people die from car crashes every 20 minutes than were killed by Chernobyl. But all those people who believe nuclear power is dangerous ride thousands of miles per year in cars.

That fear keeps running through my head as I watch the show. It's more terrifying and substantive than The China Syndrome, which really hurt the move to nuclear power. It'd be nice if HBO had a follow-up show explaining the many reasons why their show gives a very false impression of the benefits/risks of nuclear power. But I don't think the producers care much about that. Still, an excellent miniseries.

chernobyl is turning out to be fantastic. jared harris is awesome, just wish he’d stop hanging himself

When I wrote my first comment on the show and mentioned the possible demise of Harris's Lane Pryce character, I hadn't seen the opening of the first episode (I jumped in at episode two). So I went back and watched episode one and....D'oh!

[old_gregg]

chernobyl is turning out to be fantastic. jared harris is awesome, just wish he’d stop hanging himself

[old_gregg]

So, regarding Chernobyl, did their bodies really dissolve/disintegrate like that? Wow, that was horrifying.

yes. there are some horrifying pics of a japanese dude exposed to a similar level of radiation and he basically has no skin.

[Donuthole]

chernobyl is good

I need something to watch. thanks.

Very good, in part because of Jared Price whose character may want to wrap things up the way Lane Pryce did on Mad Men.

So, regarding Chernobyl, did their bodies really dissolve/disintegrate like that? Wow, that was horrifying.

The worst thing about Chernobyl is that it's going to set the nuclear movement back 40 years. Nuclear is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy we have, but irrational fear continues to prevent more widespread implementation. Meanwhile, more people die from car crashes every 20 minutes than were killed by Chernobyl. But all those people who believe nuclear power is dangerous ride thousands of miles per year in cars.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

So, regarding Chernobyl, did their bodies really dissolve/disintegrate like that? Wow, that was horrifying.

[PaloAltoCougar]

chernobyl is good

Very good, in part because of Jared Price whose character may want to wrap things up the way Lane Pryce did on Mad Men.

[frank ryan]

chernobyl is good

I need something to watch. thanks.