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iariaIt was a good series. I can see why it got so many accolades. The acting, the design, the story was all really well done. But this is never going to be a type of story that I'm going to actively into.
+ It was nice to get a look at how the Soviet Union worked. It was very eye-opening.
+ The changing relationship between Boris Shcherbina and Valery Legasov was excellent. They really carried the show for me. Shcherbina seemingly so inflexible and combative at first and then when the reality of what's happening is understood him backing Legasov fully, and them genuinely growing to care for each other and building a partnership in trying to manage the situaton together was great.
+ I loved Legasov reassuring Shcherbina that he was essential to their success in Chernobyl.
+ I loved Legasov, Ulana and Shcherbina coming together in the court room. Shcherbina and Ulana setting things up, Shcherbina forcing them to let Legasov finish and Legasov finally telling the truth. You got the sense of them offer their silent support, and how Legasov leaned on that during his testimony. I loved them standing outside watching him being driven away.
+ Legasov's courtroom explanation was really well done, very tense.
+ I think the moment where I was like hmm Shcherbina is more then he appears was when he demanded that Legasov tell him how nuclear reactors work and then immediately put that new knowledge into action when those in charge on the ground tried to bullshit him.
+ I loved the scene where Legasov blurts out that they'd be dead in five years and Shcherbina's stunned reaction as he struggled with that.
+ The way those men died was beyond horrifying. I know that a lot of people are very against euthanasia but those men forced to die like that - slowly literally disintigrating until they were blobs of meat, unable to even be given painkillers - instead of being given the mercy of a quick death was so unbelievably cruel towards them. That is so much more wrong in my eyes then killing them painlessly before they got to that point.
+ Lyudmilla Ignatenko spending all that time with her husband, hugging him after being told not to touch him, holding his hand as he was dying, was painful to watch. It's understandable why she would want to be with him. It's understandable why they wouldn't understand why they couldn't since no one told them. I kept wanting someone to just tell her why she couldn't be around him and no one did. I don't really blame the nurse because she was overwhelmed but honestly that second time when she found Lyudmilla still there she never should have let her back in.
+ All I could think when everyone was forced to leave Pripyat and no of them had pets was oh no what happened to them :( And then we had the pet murder squad. It may have been necessary (though was it really?) and probably humane but ouch those were difficut scenes to get through.
+ It was nice to get a look at how the Soviet Union worked. It was very eye-opening.
+ The changing relationship between Boris Shcherbina and Valery Legasov was excellent. They really carried the show for me. Shcherbina seemingly so inflexible and combative at first and then when the reality of what's happening is understood him backing Legasov fully, and them genuinely growing to care for each other and building a partnership in trying to manage the situaton together was great.
+ I loved Legasov reassuring Shcherbina that he was essential to their success in Chernobyl.
+ I loved Legasov, Ulana and Shcherbina coming together in the court room. Shcherbina and Ulana setting things up, Shcherbina forcing them to let Legasov finish and Legasov finally telling the truth. You got the sense of them offer their silent support, and how Legasov leaned on that during his testimony. I loved them standing outside watching him being driven away.
+ Legasov's courtroom explanation was really well done, very tense.
+ I think the moment where I was like hmm Shcherbina is more then he appears was when he demanded that Legasov tell him how nuclear reactors work and then immediately put that new knowledge into action when those in charge on the ground tried to bullshit him.
+ I loved the scene where Legasov blurts out that they'd be dead in five years and Shcherbina's stunned reaction as he struggled with that.
+ The way those men died was beyond horrifying. I know that a lot of people are very against euthanasia but those men forced to die like that - slowly literally disintigrating until they were blobs of meat, unable to even be given painkillers - instead of being given the mercy of a quick death was so unbelievably cruel towards them. That is so much more wrong in my eyes then killing them painlessly before they got to that point.
+ Lyudmilla Ignatenko spending all that time with her husband, hugging him after being told not to touch him, holding his hand as he was dying, was painful to watch. It's understandable why she would want to be with him. It's understandable why they wouldn't understand why they couldn't since no one told them. I kept wanting someone to just tell her why she couldn't be around him and no one did. I don't really blame the nurse because she was overwhelmed but honestly that second time when she found Lyudmilla still there she never should have let her back in.
+ All I could think when everyone was forced to leave Pripyat and no of them had pets was oh no what happened to them :( And then we had the pet murder squad. It may have been necessary (though was it really?) and probably humane but ouch those were difficut scenes to get through.
