I've got access to hbo and I'm thinking about watching Chernobyl. Will I be able to watch it, or am I gonna hear some really stupid take in the first few minutes and have to turn it off?
Edit: I watched The Brest Fortress. https://youtu.be/lw3mDJ0qdp0 Excellent, but very sad.
There's some pretty mind-bogglingly dumb fucking moments if I remember correctly, I couldn't make it far. Communists denying shit happening in front of their faces, telling workers they didn't see what they just saw, and claiming the thing killing them was impossible so might as well do nothing. Plus the main POV character for the entire series kills himself in what I'm pretty certain is the first scene (this is supposed to be set way after the event). Really sets the mood.
When you say dumb moments are you talking about fuck ups in the response or dumb perspectives on Soviet life?
It’s definitely heavy propaganda but if you think Nucclear shit is interesting it’s still pretty enjoyable.
Damn. It's such an interesting event, but I don't know if I'm willing to sit through a bunch of terf islanders lecturing me on USSR bad.
Chernobyl has some really good moments, it's just mixed. For instance they show how radically useful things like central planning are to solve a large problem. They show that life in a soviet city was pretty nice and normal. They show how empowered workers in important sectors were.
So it's not all bad, and a lot of the details are very accurate. And if you don't know a lot about nuclear energy it's also quite educational.
I probably can't watch it then. I'm disappointed. Maybe I'll torture myself and do it anyway. Is there much spoken Russian?
I enjoyed it, but most people won't get as much out of it. It is virulently anti-communist, to the extent of changing real people to be completely different to make the soviets look worse. IIRC it also gets some science wrong. On the upside, it shows the actual workers of the soviet union to be heroes. You might enjoy it, but you'll almost certainly get mad at least once per episode.
I do like to be angry, but I don't like it so much when I'm stuck in a room by myself.
Netflix has a Russian language show about sex robots. I might watch that instead.
There's a lot of anti-communist and anti-Soviet sentiment woven in the fabric of an otherwise well made mini series.
As I remember it, they will depict characters (those in power usually) as total dipshits and yet also conniving geniuses. Basically, anything to paint the system and those in it as anything but functional and useful. There's also an emphasis on the lives destroyed but keep in mind other man made disasters are often far worse in their destructive reach and take for longer to "clean up." Oil spills come to mind. It's not like the Western world hasn't had any nuclear reactors meltdown either.
So yeah, it's kind of a fucked up roller coaster of emotions where there's a lot of sympathy for the average Russian involved but little to no recognition of the ways the then government acted correctly/quickly.
Won't lie though, it's well put together.
Sopranos is great. I can't watch it right now because I'm supposed to be watching it with my wife. I need to get out of quarantine.
I'm skeptical of The Wire because it seems to have a lot of liberal acclaim. I don't even know what it's about. Fill me in, please.
IDK Wire was pretty good. Every season is a critique of some aspect of society. The war on drugs, the educational system, the media, the judicial system. Even just the acting and storylines are good on their own. But good to watch with someone else too.
I do think my wife would like it. I'll have to wait. Maybe I'll just watch fail videos all night.
The wire basically lays out how America has failed at every level of civil society. It's an absolute gem.
That looks good. It's probably even better than "The Young Frankenstein". Unfortunately, it's incomprehensible gibberish for me.
My wife has some German skills. When I'm out of quarantine she might like it.
