What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 5/8/2019 at 5:00 AM, Nebraska said:

watched the first episode of this mini series and here is what i learned:

everyone in chernobyl had a very british accent and barely spoke russian 

none of the scientists or working personnel knew what a nuclear disaster meant and spent hours milling around watching people cough up blood 

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i think you're not quite getting how the soviet techno-bureaucrat mindset functioned given that last point.

some of the over the top theatrics in that were in bad taste, but overall it's decent. it wins you over with the atmosphere mostly, harrowing and horrifying. the score is especially great.

  On 5/7/2019 at 3:08 PM, MadameChaos said:

30 Rock, it's not laugh a minute but it's still pretty solid. Lots of good improvised lines in there too.

if you're not laughing once (or more) a minute, you're not paying close enough attention imo

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:35 AM, eugene said:

i think you're not quite getting how the soviet techno-bureaucrat mindset functioned given that last point.

Not surprisingly that Chernobyl thing was nonsense, it had people dying and bleeding from radiation exposure immediately, which didn't happen - exposure to radiation like that, even pretty high levels, won't cause immediate bleeding. Only two people actually died in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, one from falling debris, and another from regular thermal burns. It was only about two weeks later that some of the first responders started to die, 28 in total, from a combination of regular burns and radiation sickness (not everyone who got radiation sickness died, it helped if they didn't also suffer burns). No doubt subsequent episodes will continue to spread similar falsehoods, like thousands of people dying in the aftermath, or the accident causing birth defects.

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:26 PM, caze said:

Only two people actually died in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, one from falling debris, and another from regular thermal burns

that's exactly what's shown in the ep.

i'm following the discussion of this on some russian torrent tracker, those people are very allergic to the hollywoodization of facts when it comes to events such as those, so far i've seen no serious complaints about the accuracy. just some discussion about the causes of the accident and how much the ukranians suck.

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:44 PM, eugene said:

that's exactly what's shown in the ep.

i'm following the discussion of this on some russian torrent tracker, those people are very allergic to the hollywoodization of facts when it comes to events such as those, so far i've seen no serious complaints about the accuracy. just some discussion about the causes of the accident and how much the ukranians suck.

lowkey which tracker? I'd love to read their takes.

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:47 PM, MadellisTheSixth said:

lowkey which tracker? I'd love to read their takes.

do you know russian? anyway it's on rutracker.

Shane Meadows blurb on EMDR, his ride through its mind ripping intensity & new work, if he incorporates EMDR into its themes that could be a tasty interpretation

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/05/shane-meadows-interview-the-virtues-stephen-graham-trauma

bravest warriors - this is just perfect, from the same creator of adventure time, awesomeness all over!

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:50 PM, eugene said:

do you know russian? anyway it's on rutracker.

Нет но хочу учить русский

  On 5/10/2019 at 5:08 AM, Tim_J said:

bravest warriors - this is just perfect, from the same creator of adventure time, awesomeness all over!

I just watched the episode in youtube and they're all talking in tongues.. ¿que?

Can anyone recommend any good Scandinavian shows (apart from obvious Broen, of course, I didn't like it at all)? Watched Jordskott recently, what an absolute pile of crap with stupid characters. They didn't even show any of the LORE in 10 fricking episodes. Only a fucking white head of a sea person for barely a second. What a joke. I need retribution.

  On 5/10/2019 at 9:26 AM, MadellisTheSixth said:

Нет но хочу учить русский

ви а зэ мьюзик мейкерс, ви а зэ дримерс оф дримс.

  On 5/10/2019 at 1:00 PM, lickneonlights said:

Can anyone recommend any good Scandinavian shows (apart from obvious Broen, of course, I didn't like it at all)? Watched Jordskott recently, what an absolute pile of crap with stupid characters. They didn't even show any of the LORE in 10 fricking episodes. Only a fucking white head of a sea person for barely a second. What a joke. I need retribution.

I remember enjoying The Bridge quite a lot a few years ago..

edit: wait whoops

  On 5/10/2019 at 1:00 PM, lickneonlights said:

ви а зэ мьюзик мейкерс, ви а зэ дримерс оф дримс.

да

  On 5/9/2019 at 1:01 AM, auxien said:

if you're not laughing once (or more) a minute, you're not paying close enough attention imo

It is pretty LOL. Can't figure out who is the funniest right now. Liz, Tracy and Jack all have some great lines. 

  On 5/10/2019 at 1:00 PM, lickneonlights said:

Can anyone recommend any good Scandinavian shows

It's not high brow entertainment, but I kinda like it.

  On 5/10/2019 at 9:35 AM, MadellisTheSixth said:

I just watched the episode in youtube and they're all talking in tongues.. ¿que?

¿que?

which episode?

  On 5/10/2019 at 5:14 PM, Tim_J said:

¿que?

which episode?

  On 5/11/2019 at 2:40 AM, MadellisTheSixth said:

 

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watch till the end!!!

or perhaps, start on episode one... :^)

  On 5/11/2019 at 6:22 AM, Tim_J said:

watch till the end!!!

or perhaps, start on episode one... :^)

ooo! okay will do

  On 5/9/2019 at 12:44 PM, eugene said:

that's exactly what's shown in the ep.

no it's not, they show one guy who's probably dead (presumably the one who died because he was right by the explosion, though in real life that guy was actually vapourised, they never found his body, another guy died from falling debris, he wouldn't have looked anything like that guy with all the burns all over him). they also show another guy (the one who held the door open) resigned to certain death, in real life this guy is still alive (and still pro-nuclear), so will be interesting to see what happens to him in ep 2. they show lots of people coughing up blood and getting immediate radiation burns (plant workers and fire fighters), which didn't happen - radiation burns take a week or two to appear; the only accurate thing was vomiting which can happen an hour or two after exposure. The two in the pump room looked like their faces were melting off, nonsense.

There was also lots of ominous shots of babies and children and the dying bird, which indicates to me they're going to go full on with the bullshit in the coming episodes, but we'll see.

Episode 5 of Barry was nuts, one of the best bits of comic telly I've seen in years.

the death count is still two people by your count, and in fact we actually only see one, by the description it looks a lot like Shashenok who was found badly burnt.

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"blistering immediate or up to 1 day  at 150–1000 Gy" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_burn

Doom Patrol

what a nasal mucus...

this is really really good.