Chernobyl Episode 1 '
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- Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic April 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant. Here's our reaction to episode 1 of Chernobyl.
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Hi Stikker Fam!!! If you're new to the channel, welcome!!!! We mention it in the video but reactions to Chernobyl will not be in the regular schedule, which is below... we will watch when we have a free moment. We've added it because it's something that's highly recommended and a show we are very interested in watching. Nothing will change with the current schedule moving forward. After we are done with Cobra Kai and Stranger Things we will consider doing 2 episode of Better Call Saul a week. We will visit that idea when we get there.
Schedule for the rest of the week:
Thursday: Vikings S02 E05
Friday: Stikker Podcast E11 (apple.co/2Di0ThT)
Saturday: Vikings S02 E06
Sunday: Cobra Kai S02 E09
Monday: Better Call Saul S01 E05
What a surprise! Thanks guys!! ❤
OMGGGG I have suggested this I think yesterday and I'm probably not the only one I KNOW!! BUT DAMN! THANKS SO MUCH! Believe me, you'll wanna watch this show as fast as humanly possible because its THAT GOOD! with love :)
Hey guys, its great that you react to this show!! :-)
I´m from Germany and here everyone knows about chernobyl and what happend, but I´m pretty sure it wasn´t a topic in our school, maybe just 1 hour as an example for radioactivity.
(I´m 24 btw)
So it wouldn´t surprise me if it wasn´t a topic in your education system.
Still should have been, but countrys often depend on nuclear energy or work with nuclear weapons, so they probably try to "contain the spread of misinformation". :-I
The guy who played the man who said to close the city is played by the same actor as Maester Lewin from GoT
I used to work at a place in Birmingham that had the kids of Chernobyl visit every year. Each one had a handler and they were lovely, It was a stark reminder of the faults of nuclear power. But to the kids it was like they were living there best life under the circumstances, they get to travel the world and good for them.
I think HBO is going to be fine without GoT if they keep making series like this
Absolutely. I feel like these miniseries is the way to go in the future. Coherent plot planned throughout the show, no need to include network executives to see if they keep the show going and compromise while doing it.
Hell yeah! You ever see GENERATION KILL? Also an amazing miniseries on HBO
@@oberynmartell7758 Yeah, it's fantastic.
@Bill But they've been rarely the stuff in which they spend the big bucks, at least I can't think of a miniseries that was promoted as a flagship for a production company. Just like the tv entered into the golden era in mid 2000's, the 2010's have started to pull bigger names and bigger budgets into mini series.
HBO has been consistent in producing top tier drama since the late 90's. I'm definitely not worried.
"Reality is the scariest horror genre"...you should DEFINITELY watch the rest of this
Definitely right about that!
And be quick about it...!
Except this show is not reality. This is complete fabrication of the real events. They have the science off by factors of over 10000, thus, the reality of the show is off and they are just spreading disinformation.
@@andrewmanford Haha most of the facts in this show are actually true. To say otherwise is just pathetic
@@kingwacky184 Oh yeah? Prove it. I've actually studied this stuff. It's actually pathetic that you would say such a thing with clearly blatantly thinking you know something when you have no clue what you are talking about. Show me the facts. Apparently I've been learning a lie for the last 10 years.
"This is our time to shine" ...well yeah. Quite literally in fact.
He must have meant "to glow" :P
Crazy old man then leaves hiding in plain site coward
That's what the communist attitude towards the people is
Finally someone who uses the word "literally" correctly!
Misao17 I caught that
The stuff of nightmares. That scene at 8:55, when they're looking at the supposedly impossible exploded core, and it just looks right back at them with that evil rippling white fire, like the eye of Hell, chilled my blood. I was a teenager when this happened, living in the UK (well over 1,000 miles away from Chernobyl) and 10 years later livestock animals were still failing radioactive safety tests because of the fallout that drifted this far. The explosion was in 1986, but the last restrictions on the sales of animals in the UK weren't lifted until 2012. That's 26 years later - almost your entire lifetimes.
That's almost twice my lifetime. That is horrifying.
Damn. I was 1 ½ in Romania not too far but I think I had to take iodine but I’m not sure...
I’m in the UK too and my grandparents and parents tell me similar stories. Apparently we had to kill a lot of livestock immediately after too it damn near killed Europe and West Asia.
Born in 85, so I didn't know about this until well after the clean-up had begun.
Stationed in West Germany at the time.
The line in this episode that gets me every time, "Do you taste metal?"
i studied psysics but i still dont get the taste metal from an plutonium core being broken and in the open, any explanation pls??
@japman17 ~Tasting metal is usualy a sign of either chemical or radioative contamination.
@@japman17 ionized molecules
@@japman17 Radiation sticks to metal. Human body has metal in it so you get the taste of metal.
and how it just gets completely ignored, you dont really pick up on it til you understand that its a sign of radiation
What a show, only 5 episodes and already iconic
they should stop at episode 4.
Ep.5 full of BS Goebelses propaganda
@@Maks_Morkovkin L
@@Maks_Morkovkin that's a yikes from me
@@Maks_Morkovkin lol
@@Maks_Morkovkin you're laughable
Chernobyl is one of those docu-dramas that's BETTER the more you know about the real events.
Yes, they took some dramatic licence, but it is patently obvious to any afficianado how much research went into this thing.
I live in Poland, in the countryside, about 740 km from Chernobyl. I wasn't born yet when it happened, but my father said that on our farm the cow gave birth to a deformed calf.
Well, it's horrible. 😖😖
I was one year old. Mum was just drinking iodine as the people around did too. I’ve at times looked through the magazine “zly ” where you could see the pictures of children that were born badly deformed. Still in my head 20 years later.
Imagine, looking into that hell-pit of the ruined reactor and realizing you're a dead man. DAMN
**shudders**
Andy B a real life medusa
And knowing how you'll die one of the most painful deaths possible very quickly is just hell
it's worse than that, Sitnikov was condemned to death before he even made it to the roof of the reactor building, he was a dead man before he even made it halfway across the damn parking lot.
I would probably jump off the roof for a quick death rather than looking into it
if you watch closely, you can see his face turn from his white tint to a sunburn pink when he slowly turns around.
After episode one, my girlfriend was so disturbed by the content that she couldn't sleep. The only way she was able to manage it was to flood herself with information. We started with news broadcasts of the incident itself, which I remember from my childhood, we showed her the technology behind nuclear reactors of different kinds, including the RBMK reactors used at Chernobyl, looked into the physics of the accident in detail, ending with the current situation at Chernobyl and the new sarcophagus. Once she understood the event from all angles, she was able to get a handle on it and process it. I think when we don't have knowledge we fill the gaps with our own estimations and they're often the things that scare us most. Admittingly, the facts of this accident are no less scary, but it allowed her to place the events in the jigsaw of her world and deal with it much better; it might help you as well.
@only good communist are buried in forgotten graves No offence, but this happens when people shield themselves from anything negative. When they run into something darker in media they can't handle it. I remember non gamers classmates seeing something sightly scary in a game trailer and freaking out. Most people don't even watch horror movies. People want sunny weather, heartwarming stories about family and friends, romance, happiness and positivity in their lives. And that's ok, that's human nature. But when they deal with something darker and unusual, they cannot handle it. I always get this from people: "why you listen to metal, why you like dark colors, why you enjoy rainy weather, why you watch such dark movies, why you like such heavy topics in literature, why why why? You should go to parties and next morning remember nothing, you should drive white car and pick up many chicks, you should lie on a sunny beach while drinking cocktails, forget your eastern European melancholy!" Well, I say there is beauty in darkness to that. But it only suits me and few other people. My point is, do not afraid to dive into heavy topics and see heavy things time to time. Because it is part of life and becoming a little bit desensitized is worth it.
@Vicodyn Metro is so much better regarding postapocalyptic nuclear soviet aesthetics.
Lack of understanding or not wanting to research/read about history always worries me about the 00s. It is dangerous.
@M40 - The former USSR was Communist , at the time of Chernobyl. Russia is currently Socialist but you cannot link all socialism together. Russian Socialism cannot be compared ie to
Northern European countries that are Democratic Socialists.
Agreed... I've seen all kinds of shit and this is the most disturbing thing I have ever watched! It has taken me months to get past the mental images of this show. I'm a firefighter, I've seen bad stuff. And this gave me nightmares... And yes, learning more about the incident has helped me get past the mental trouble it has caused me. I still highly recommend the show though. It's a decent representation of the things that happened that day.
Nikki had that surprised pikachu face the whole episode, not that I blame her
Sentinel creed hahahahaha that was hilarious, and very true 😂😂👏🏼
Seeing Vasily in ep 3 had me like: 😳
@@stew-03 ikr...I don’t scare too easy but that legitimately creeped me out. Saw that in a nightmare later
My mother lived in Romania when this happened just 300 miles away. She was exposed to the radiation. No one was told anything about the disaster. All that happened was everyone were given iodine pills.
wow!! hope everything ended up being ok.
What exactly iodine pills do?
@Sarthaka Singh iodine basically acts as a lightning rod. Drawing radiation away from the thyroids
@@sarthakasingh2179 Your thyroid wants iodine. One of the waste products of the fission reaction is an unstable form of iodine that has too many neutrons. By taking iodine pills your thyroid gets saturated with stable iodine and won't seek out the unstable iodine in the environment.
Geez. What about the people that didn't trust taking medication without knowing why😢
When I was watching this I cought myself thinking "It's just a movie, It's just a series", but you know... it isn't.
That's the worst part. It really happened. You can't go back to your everyday life satisfied with the thought it wasn't real. Those people really lived, and they really died. And the New Safe Containment structure is still there to remind us. And it will have to be rebuilt for hundreds or even thousands of years into the future, until the uranium fission byproducts decayed enough to allow for cleanup. We've basically created a monument to human failure that will be there for dozens of future generations to look at and learn about the people who died there. Probably the only lasting legacy of our generation...
@@B3RyL , it's horrific to know that 33 years later the effects of that disaster is still seen in humans wildlife etc. What sickens me most is that to the Soviet Government all those who died helping were simply expendable.
@@tamarakuklinski4240 yep its true. if it were not for Europe that recorded the emission of radiation, no one would have known anything. Like Kyshtym accident. Have you heard of that?
@@oleggeek1838 , I have heard Kyshtym mentioned but never researched it. What got me into looking into Chernobyl was my love of watching abandoned place videos. I mean I was 14 years old when the disaster happened at Chernobyl but being a teenager I wasn't really paying attention. Now that I am older and understand Holy shit. I've been watching everything I can about it, even videos that are not in English. I can tell the heartbreak just by the looks on their faces and tones in their voices when speaking. So sad
@@tamarakuklinski4240 мне было 4е и из-за того что не было официальной информации о масштабах, я 2 недели еще сидел в Киеве, пока меня все таки отвезли к бабушке родители
This series will be rough to watch for you both but it's a sobering reality check on events that happened. The writing and acting on this series is just incredible even for the quality expected of an HBO show. I don't think most people realize the heroic deeds of some amazing Ukrainian heroes that has impacted the whole of Europe. Please keep watching, it's painful at times but it shows both the spectrum of human behavior of endless bravery and stupidity.
I mean it's inaccurate, but definitely captures the horrible events that took place in a viceral nature..
@@joshuageraldbutler8037 There are moments which had to be changed to be able to condense everything in, like the female lead being a conglomerate of hundreds of scientists across the Soviet Union, but it's still the most faithful and accurate dramatization of events we're ever likely to see. The most important aspects of it, from the characters to what they caused and achieved, are all pretty much spot on.
Joshua Gerald Butler how is it inaccurate?
@@ct5625 yes, Greg Mazin absolutely nailed the essence of this catastrophe: "Someone must start telling the truth." And indeed, the truth of Valery Legasov was one of the key links in the chain reaction which led to the collapse of the Empire of Lies called the Soviet Union.
@@andreseh87 The scientist Ulana Khomyuk for example didn't exist in reality, her character was written to stand for many scientist back than who stood behind Legassow and raised their voices after his suicide
15:59 You just had the perfect reaction to the series as a whole. For those first time watchers, Sitnikov - the man in the series who was sent to the roof - just took 15000 roentgen to the face because his superiors didn't accept that the core had exploded. That's the equivalent of twice the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
dead man walking :(. Would be better for him if he did jump into this burning core.
Apparently, a fatal dose of 1,500 Roentgens was received mostly to the head yeah, what an idiotic thing Fomin made him do.
@h0ust0n How about gather his family and make him watch as they are shot, tortured or simply all sent to a gulag together to die of starvation and physical exhaustion? Or to live his live in shame with no chance of getting a job to support himself and his family? There are many ways the state can punish him for not doing as ordered.
@h0ust0n there was a guy with a gun with him
@h0ust0n studies unsurprisingly show that people tend to obey the guy holding a loaded AK-47
Q: How Bad is your educational system?
A: I never heard of Chernobyl before
I absolutely agree, I think its one of the scariest part of history. . If people didnt sacrifice themselves to prevent the core from hitting the reserved water- a lot of earth would've been inhabitable. And it would've gone into the ocean- which would've spread radiation much further.
As someone in the uk, it was briefly skimmed over when we were studying radiology (the study of radioactive materials and there use) as an example of how it can go wrong but not to the extent that anyone would have known the shear horrors of it all, I only knew a bit more out of my interest in disasters and how we over come them years later, and even then it took this show to clarify just how big of a mess it’s management of it was. This truly needs a bigger spotlight on it in the education system as the Japan meltdown incident proves it can happen again and this event would ensure such ignorance never happens again. As we as uk students learned about the holocaust and the darker side of ww2 in y8 (13 to 14 years old) that would be a good time to bring it in to the education system for us as a sorta Collaborative project between science and history as we can’t really cover it all from only one angle as the existence of the ussr and there attitude had a massive impact on how it was handled.
@@animelovbee101 untrue, but they did BELIEVE it was true at the time; so men risked their lives to prevent it, which turned out to be unneccessary. The only upside is we now have a much better idea of how molten reactor fuel behaves in the event of future incidents involving much safer reactors (RBMKs had inadequate primary and non-existed secondary containment; for comparison, Fukushima involves much more fissile material, and more reactors, and massively less release of isotopes).
I learned about chenobyl by playing video games lmao (stalker)
Lots of horrible moments in history aren't studied too deeply - Spanish flu for example
When I saw the notification that you uploaded this video and saw the word "Chernobyl" I stopped what I was doing and watched this video right away 😁
Same here!!! Such a good show and the reactions from these two are so pure and lovely!! ❤
Me three!
Same, and I was on the toilet. 😂
same!
ditto
Much of Europe was affected by this accident, the cloud cake over the UK and affected our lamb and food.
I hope you stick with it, it's incredible.
That is really insane, I mean: UK! And now think of people in charge back then playing down the dangers in the effing REGION around Chernobyl.
I come from Bavaria in Germany. Right after Chernobyl in 1986 my father took a photo of me when I was 1 1/2 years old and I was about to put a hand full of playground sand in my mouth. He claims that right after taking the photo he pushed my hand down so no sand was eaten. But as my mother and other relatives saw the photo they were going mad at my dad as they feared Chernobyl might have affected the playground sand somehow (imported sand?) and I was eventually eating that. :/
@@Tabascofanatikerin Ahh yes... Germany detected radiation before the USSR released any information about the incident. Germany did not allow their children to play on playgrounds during that time so yes, in theory, the sand had absorbed some of that radiation.
Denmark, the government told everybody to stay indoors, remember my mom dragging me inside.
In France and Belgium the radioactive cloud was supposedly quite compliant with the concept of national borders(official stance at the time: "we are not affected"). I always had the image of a fat customs agent with an 80's moustache saying "papers please" in a thic accent to a glowing cloud x)
@@k.v.7681 France and its bitch Belgium fancied themselves peacemakers between East and West so they were into appeasement.
France at the time was ruled by the Socialist Party who still thought that the crimes of the Soviet Union was exaggerated.
The French left only acknowledged that Stalin was a bad guy in the mid seventies.
The core of Reactor-4 had a steam 'void' positive-feedback loop explosion that dislodged a 2M-pound lid; the fire that erupted was 1/2 the temperature of the surface of the sun....took 9 days to extinguish. So much went wrong.....during and after...
Im thankful u decided to watch it...Im from Ukraine...My parents lived in Pripyat...I was born in 1986...After the disaster my parents moved to Slavutich, little town that was quickly build after that and people from Pripiyat moved there...where i spent all my young years ...our little town still works on Chernobyl today... please watch it to the end...
I have two friends from Slavutych, their family is still there but they’ve since left for now. When I went to Pripyat awhile ago, they didn’t want to go because they were scared of the place. Hope you, your friends and family are safe 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@@adamsummers4162 thank you for supporting us! We r in safe now🕊️💙💛🙏
I'm an American of partial Ukrainian descent, i did a DNA test, I show relations to that area of Ukraine. I often wonder if I have distant relatives affected by this awful disaster. I tear up thinking about it. A people I never met but still feel connection too. Let the heroes never be forgotten for their sacrifices
Them: I don't really know anything about Chernobyl.
Me, wide eyes, pitying smile: Then you're in for a ride with this one mates. *distant sobbing*
You can watch this series and you would still not know anything about Chernobyl, because it's 99% bullshit.
@Ari Nope, I just know stuff about history.
@Ari russians are kinda outraged by the show and want to make their own and actually accurate xD i hope they do
KajMak64Bit lol, russians making something accurate. Good joke.
I don't blame them... I would suppose that Chernobyl isn't as present in the US because it didn't really have an effect on them. Here in Europe it is more present because the radioactive contamination spreaded almost all across the continent and had an effect on people's lives. I still remember that children weren't allowed to be on playgrounds for a while, cattle had to be inside and it wasn't allowed to feed them hay or fresh grass, milk had to be disposed because it was contaminated, for years there were official warnings not to consume mushrooms or game meat and so on...
Chernobyl was also one of the catalysts for the anti nuclear power movement which - late but in the end - lead to Germany closing down all its nuclear reactors until 2022.
I was 13 years old when this happend... In my country (Czech Republic) was comunism. We didn ´t know anything from media. My parents were listening foreign radio and that ´s why we knew it earlier then most of people. But it was ilegal to listen German or American radio so we couldn ´t tell it to anyone. They forced us to go to the special parade to the streets on 1. May only few days after explosion and nobody couldn ´t be against it. They sell us food from Ukraine because it was cheaper and we need to support our comunist neighbour.... Reality at theese days were terifying but we had no choice. I have friend 10 years older than me and she delivered two very sick babies and nobody is responsible... Whole Europe was very lucky that wind blew to the west ....
Sorry for my English....
I love your channel!
Please, watch whole five episodes to know.... it ´s terrifying but nobody should forget that it was reality, real people, real lives....
Do not take freedom for granted...
With love Jana❤️
Wish I could do multiple likes. I remember Chernobyl being on the news. I am in the Uk and at the time was in the early stages of pregnancy with my second child (He was fine) but it was anxious times. Those who suffered and those who sacrificed should be remembered.
Sandra Back Exactly!!! It wasn ´t only fear from radiation but from the system, from desinformation, goverment, lies.... From history we all know how easy is cross the line between good and evil....
Fields are plowed by peaceful tractors,/Cross the river burns reactor./Hey, reactor burn away,/Tomorrow's the 1st of May!
A rough translation of the verse which was circulating around back in these days. Greetings from Lithuania.
The 1st May parades were insane. Parade in Kiev wasn’t cancelled, even the local party chief was forced to go to the parade.
@@lawrencegough Yes. I remember rumors that Gorbachev forced Scerbicki and that later he killed himself out of guilt.
Maester luwin was a lot more likeable in game of thrones
And less crazy.
Brannnn!
Dagmer Cleftjaw is a good guy here though.
@@damian_madmansnest Roose Bolton too.
“A just world is a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.”
The sleepy kitten :) on the right !! 8:50
Yes I squeeeeeed all over myself. LOVE critters - especially BABY ones!! We have a bunch ourselves, as we save/rescue.
Chernobyl is a powerplant itself, Prypyat is town near it where all workers lived, also its not in Russia its in Ukraine
Chernobyl is also a town tho. It's closer to the powerplant and was there before Prypyat and is the reason they started calling the powerplant Chernobyl. I think it's much smaller too
Chernobyl was also the name of the district, and that’s where the power plant got it’s name. Pripyat was built along with the power plant.
He killed himself at the time of the explosion in Chernobyl.
bruh it ukraine was apart of soviet russia at the time of the explosion
steven vassiliou no, it was Soviet Union not Soviet Russia. It was Ukrainian Soviet Union republic.
In my high school history class we actually covered why the core exploded and why people thought it wouldn't: the core itself wasn't what exploded. They'd been pumping water through the core to try cooling it down but the water had been boiling in there, so the pressure from all that steam built up until it was more than the reactor casing could handle.
Nikki, you're gonna have a very rough time with this show. I'm so sorry.
I have a history degree, I know what happened at Chernobyl but THIS show, is absolutely shocking (in a good way) to see what happened at Chernobyl but not only that but how the Soviets “handled” this catastrophe. You shouldn’t skip this show it’s well done
@Vinsu Karma i havent seen it in full yet but the switch he makes from Clip to Clip i watch---- makes him so likeable
Vinsu Karma watching his character evolve through the catastrophe is amazing. Immediately we assume he will be apart of the communist party apparatchik that will slow the “cleanup” process. Instead as jarred Harris character states in the last episode “out of all the loyal fools they sent, they somehow sent the one man who mattered most”
People need to remember this is NOT a documentary. It gets a lot of things right, but it does take some liberties for the sake of drama.
that denial even happened during barbarossa..
Congrats on the history degree.
Jared definitely deserves an Emmy for Chernobyl....He was amazing in The Crown also...so underrated
God I loved him so much in the Crown... and in this too obviously.
Would love to see your guys watch The Crown
His role in The Expanse is phenomenal too.
And he was the scientist who created the T-virus in Resident evil.
He was also the lead in The Terror
So I finally got around to watching this show. I watched all five episodes in one sitting tonight. Absolutely heartbreaking. A lot of tears were shed. I immediately looked you two up and want to see your reactions.
I live less than 150 km from where this happened, and it sums up so much of what the Soviet Union has done to my country... I'm glad so many people got to learn about these horrific events because of this series. Remember those who gave and risked their lives to prevent the worst, and remember the cowardice and inaction of those in charge! 💙💛
OMG!!! You guys are legit THE BEST reaction channel! Thank you so so so much for always being consistent and on time with your uploads!
And Chernobyl is soooooo damn good! Love you guys! Keep it up❤
Thank you very much for the comment... we really appreciate that.
The best reaction channel ist Blind Wave ._. thats a fact
@@Kantirist nope its not! they cut out way to much stuff. nikke and steven and the normies are the best. they don't show picture sometimes of the shows but you hear the sound and they talk about it in the meanwhile. blindwave has to much hard cuts and they want u to become a patreon while nikki and steven dont force anybody and still do great reactions. they started breaking bad after blind wave and are already done on youtube. thats great fan service while blindwave is purely after your money. and with them and their dumb notebooks and writing shit in it during th show. also they watch supergirld and shit like it so NO.
if thats your opinion then i support it but NOT FOR Me. nikki and steven are the best and hen the normies. blindwace i gave up on a while ago and they were the 1st i ever watched so....
@@japman17 i just love the guys from blind wave. The are really funny and their discussions after each episodes are the best
@@Kantirist agreed their discussions are reallt good just like the normies, when it comes to wstworld the normies have the best discussions. like half an hour long and good insight BUT reaction wise blindwave cuts everything that is not with footage of the show on screen while these guys and the normies just close the footage on screen but still keep reacting so i think its alot better.
btw congrts for not attacking me and having e civilized duscission. thaths when u know how bad YT is when you have to thank someone the have a decent conversation :-( xD
Sooooo happy you two are reacting to this show !!!!
All five episodes are outstanding.
If you looked at the pollution clouds path way at the end, everything was dead, including the trees.
Then created area called "red forest". I had then 5 years old.
Why would the trees be immune to radiation?!?
They turned red cos they absorbed the radioactivity much like they absorb water and oxygen.
Its possible that they didn't get the full brunt of the radioactive cloud or else they would have died.
Of course, the liquidators dug up and buried the red forest.
“The people and the animals!”
Oh man....Just wait for the puppers scene then
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I do massive time skips on that ep when I rewatch
@@corbingarrett9574 I skip 90% of that episode too haha I'm too soft for that
I've been in and around the nuclear weapons/energy world most of my life. Chernobyl exploded 2 days before my 19th birthday, I was in the US Army. We were picking up radiation in West Germany and the UK before the Soviets admitted to anything. It's a fantastic series, but I know there are a couple of episodes Nikki won't be able to watch.
happened 2 days after my 17th I remember freaking out I did my own reactions to these episodes on my channel not as good as nikki and stevens but just you know memories and the OMGs.
Yeah episode 4 is a bit harsh with the animals
@@kernsr1859 3 is real bad with the men who well you know I did my own reacts while of all things playing minecraft ended up just standing in game because talking about it just ....well you know
@Tan Jenner I was working in Nassua so all we had was sat. news when we could get it and what was reported in papers from the USA. I just remember guest being scared of radiation coming to america and our european guest scared to death that it would spread to their homes
I was very little when it happened (born in 1983 in Greece), but I quite vividly remember in the years that followed my mom telling me not to stay out in the rain.
One of my favorite things about this miniseries is the way its filmed. It has a very 80s practical and gritty look to it rather than straight digital like everything. I know its still filmed in digital but they put a lot of effort into the look.
No, they filmed in real sites in Lithuania, including Chernobyl's twin nuclear power plant of Ignalina which was eventually closed due to what Legasov revealed. We even helped them to find apartments for filming. It's all real: that's how we lived.
@@ingabaranauskiene5889 no what? I didnt say anything about where it was filmed. Im talking about the way it was filmed, filters, camerawork, editing...
The science behind the reactor explosion is really fascinating. The officials in charge were right about the science as it was understood at the time. RBMK reactors don't explode. But this one did, and did so for a reason that had everything to do with the fundamental design of the reactor. RBMK reactors do explode, because they're extremely vulnerable to one specific thing going horribly wrong, and that thing had never occurred to anyone before.
I watched all 5 episodes in one night. One of the most moving miniseries I've ever seen, if not the most.
omg there's a little kitty!!!
ps. This is so great that this show has opened so many eyes onto this tragedy. You will be totally blown away.
I’m glad I’m not the only one talking about the kitty 😄
Mad Danelle - that kitty is awesome. Didn't know they had one. The kitty should probably leave the room for this show though.
Oh no when she said that, my mind automatically shot to episode 4, yikes.
It’s such an excellent and important show.
@Kattegat H Watch out for a show in 2041 when the Japanese will be willing to admit what they're doing lol
I am SO excited that you are watching this absolute masterpiece! Without exaggeration, those are the best 5 and a half hours of cinematography and TV I've ever seen. I've never seen such attention to detail, respect to the historical event and people who lived it, the accuracy of time and places, plus the acting, directing, pace, storytelling. Utterly amazing.
And couple of FYIs, there is a podcast for every episode with the shows creator. I strongly recommend it to listen to those podcasts because they offer an even larger picture about the event itself, and also about the creative process behind the show. They are eye opening in many ways.
Also, the 'music', or better said the sound in this show is at large mixed sound of real nuclear reactor working, and yep, there is something about it that is utterly terrifying.
Just to add, the show really is very tough to watch, especially because the events depicted are real events that unfolded in real live, so please be warned and prepared. I do think it is absolutely justified that they showed some pretty tough and disturbing scenes and any less wouldn't really give respect to the people who lived the moments shown on screen. At the end of the day, no matter how hard it is to watch it, we are not living it, only watching it, and with that remembering the heroes who lived through it or died so others could live.
Sending love to you both! xx
Sara Dojcinovic
Definitely the best mini series of all time. I just can’t see it being my favourite show because it only has five episodes.
EJ D
You’re definitely right. This show is historically accurate to a certain degree, but strays away from historical accuracy a bit too much too. But then again, it’s a series.
@EJ D The usage of the word 'comrade' depended a lot on who and where. It was used espacially in certain workplaces and espacially by or towards party members. For example, it's likely that an engineer would call his superior 'comrade Dyatlov'. On the other hand, during informal conversation, people usually didn't call each other like that. Also, the script was reviewed by people who had lived in the USSR.
@EJ D No, actually they did say "comarade" in official communication. The uniforms are also very good match.
@@omar_elattar.6500 It is actually amusingly precise in all major and even minor details.
You guys should check out the Chernobyl podcast, the writer of the series talks in depth about the history of the event and how he adapted it into his writing.
I'm an electronics engineer but I spent a decent amount of time wanting to be a nuclear engineer. Fusion was more of my focus but I learned a bit about fission.
Yes, an RBMK reactor can explode (since one obviously did). Besides the errors later mentioned such as mismanagement and lack of containment structure, it's a reactor that runs water to the core. So they have to contain either high pressure steam or extremely high pressure liquid water. Where there's these kinds of pressure, any explosion is possible. However, do note that reactor explosions are steam and hydrogen explosions, not nuclear explosions.
Nuclear fuel is not highly enriched compared to a nuclear bomb, so it does not naturally reach the critical mass that would cause an explosion. Instead, it needs to be contained within a neutron moderator which slows the neutrons. It may be counter-intuitive, but this increases the reactions and in essence, lowers the "critical mass". That is to say, we have to artificially lower the critical mass to keep the reactor running. The point I'm getting at there is that this is NOT a nuclear bomb. The damage done is because it's a core explosion, so the materials released into the air are highly radioactive, and THAT does the damage.
But the steam explosion is the exact reason I'm strongly in favor of molten salt reactors. In molten salt reactors you either use a molten salt fuel or use molten salt for heat transfer. Either way, water isn't running through the core, so there is no core pressure to contain. It can run at atmospheric pressures. IE, no core explosion. A containment structure isn't even necessary. The water-steam conversion for power takes place away from the core, and so only carries the same explosion risk and dangers of any other thermal power plant.
Do note that while this series gets a decent amount accurate, it does like to dramatize some things to the point of almost looking like anti-nuclear propaganda. Clearly NOT to dismiss the damage of Chernobyl.
- Essentially all the damage done by radiation happens at the time of exposure. It is pretty much a severe sunburn that can go much deeper than the skin and burn the organs. Ultimately what you die of is organ failure. But spontaneous bleeding isn't something that happens.
- Radiation poisoning is very much NOT transmissible. It is gone the moment you get rid of your clothes and wash up. Patients are contained not to protect others, but to protect the patient's weakened immune system.
radiation poisoning is in fact VERY transmissible, when you are still covered in radioactive contaminants.
it is possible, and does sometimes happen, for someone in these situations to become as good as a radioactive source themselves. This is one reason why some people who die from these incidents are buried in specially environment proofed coffins, which are sometimes also sunk in concrete too. The firefighters from Chernobyl being a prime example, as well as some of the victims who were killed by the Goiânia accident.
A high enough dose can easily cause the skin to rupture and start to bleed.
Omg I am so happy you're doing this but Nikki this will be tough!
It is make-up ... and awesome one ... everybody on this planet NEEDS to see this. There is no "being human" without these lessons. Nikki will be fine watching it AND will grow from it.
Yes this will be a struggle big time for her
Chapter 4 to nikki will be hard , real hard to watch
@@robertjosearnaezcoello7175 Also Chapter 3. Those poor people looked so real.
@@einhorntaschentuch9404 Last night was watching that episode , so creepy but so realistic
Ok! Im going to watch it thanks to you.
I was born and raised in France. In April 1986 my youngest was 3, we were aware of the fallout coming towards us. It was terrifying. In August 1986 I moved to the states. I met and worked with Ukrainien people that still suffer from it to this day... that’s why I couldn’t bring myself to watch it until now. But with your support, I think I can do it. I’m a French Viking after all!
Guerrière Celte Normande I think it must be powered through. To warn of the horrors and to remember the victims.
As difficult as this series is to watch, I can't recommend it enough... some truly heroic efforts by some truly heroic people. 600k+ that sacrificed so much for so many... a tough watch for sure, but brilliantly executed. I highly recommend the corresponding podcasts that go along with each episode also.
It was on 26.4 . 1986
I remember being 12 years old, living in the Argentinian Patagonia (1986), and being very scared of the accident of Chernobyl. This TV series shook all my youth fears once again. Great reaction as always!. My best regards!.
I was 6 years old and lived near Detroit, Michigan, when the accident occurred. Considering how much closer we were latitudinal-wise, there was no official recommendation for us to take extra caution when outdoors. Who knows how much radiation made its way airborne to the U.S. I would suspect children of my generation will at some point be possible victims of any cancers related to the accident.
Actually you can visit Chernobyl as a tourist, but in a group and with a guide. There are safe zones without radiation, but you need to be careful, you can't just wander around. Going there as a solo tourist is stupid and kinda suicidal even if you have a Geiger Counter. I guess some people is stupid enough to risk their lives for an "extreme" experience. No thanks, not for me, not in a million years.
There are a few locations, like the hospital basement and the arm of the grabber which are extremely dangerous to this day but you still see morons going in there and just acting like it's no big deal. There's apparently a photo of a guy sitting in the middle of the grabber arm, the radiation level inside that thing is so high someone suggested he might have rendered himself sterile and unable to have kids the moment he got in there.
Actually Prypyat is the contaminated area, Chernobyl isn't at all
NO safe zones!!! you have to wear a radiation badge and the moment it turns black your fucked. only 20 minutes o something are allowed. did it for my pshsics education with a group. scary as fucking hell being there and looking at my badge constantly....
its not going to be safe for 10's of 1000's of years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@japman17 there are videos on here TH-cam where people spent hours in Priyat without any issues. All you have to do is wear air filter to breath through and even that is not really necessary. The firefighter clothes are relatively safe these days. You can even be in the near vicinity of the elephant's foot for quite a long time without any effects.
@@japman17 what the fuck are u talking about? is not like that at all u can stay in most of the zones of chernobyl for hours and nothing will happend to your body, the only thing that u cant do is touch object that are inside buildings or eat outside and even if u do there are checks everywhere of the level of radiation that u have and is absolutely safe to go there if u follow the rules.
So dont talk if u no nothing.
Full transparency, there are scenes in this show that will really affect Nikki, I just want you guys to be aware. Otherwise this show is seriously amazing, extremely thoughtful but very very heavy at times. I'm excited to watch your reactions 💛💛
My jaw dropped at 18:33 when Nikki said they were 5 in 1986. You two look too young to have been alive back then! In any case, Nikki's reaction to the bird dying was just like mine when I first watched the series. Can't wait to watch the rest of the reaction videos!
The kitty in the background is so cute! I can't stop watching her!!
Half of Europe could have been affected by the radiations and even here, in Italy where i am, we must thank the heroes who contained the situation at that time. And it's crazy because my country is very far from Ucraine and Russia
Yeah we romanians were pretty close, and my mom told me that they didnt knew shit... they found out much much later... and now if i remember corectly she lost a child later that year.... 😱😱😱😱😱
Not could have been, we were are and still are to some extent affected by it even in German where i live. If it hadn´t been contained (SPOILER especially the miners who prevented the other reactors from being destroyed) most likely the whole of europe and a good portion of asia would be inhabatible today.
Even though I was excited for Nikki & Steven's reaction to the show, I got even more excited when I saw the little kitten at 2:33 on the right corner of the screen :D
Last year a TV troupe went to Prypiat abandonded hospital. The firemen clothes they founded were the most radioactive things by far. Can you imagine how much radiations they received?
I remember this, i was 21 when this happened. I live in Finland and we were told that radiation levels are wayy higher than normal and something is going on in Soviet Union. Our goverment contacted soviets and asked if they need help or something, they told that theres just a little fire in Chernobyl and everything is under control.
One of the lead actors in tis mini-series is Stellan Skarsgard - he is the father of Gustaf Skarsgard, who plays Floki in Vikings : )
Borat Sagdiyev
And Bill Skarsgard who plays Pennywise in IT
And this one ass dude at the meeting was in Game of Thrones ;-) one of the Starks guys, right? -)
And of course you know Alexander Skarsgard from True Blood.
And Alexander from True Blood and Big Little Lies. And Bill who is Penniwise in IT.
And I assume you've recognized Lord Bolton at the final episode. And Ironborn guy (Theon's lieutenant) from GOT, too.
In spite of the horror, the show has such an uplifting ending. It's truly worth sticking through this one.
I had such stupid idea to watching this at 2 AM...
*watch
I too decided bro watch it in the night. Didn't slept at all. By the time it finished sun was out 🤣🤣🤣
Seriously in my mind it felt like a sin if I leave it without finishing
I loved your reaction to episode 1! I also enjoyed watching your cat play behind the couch while you guys were watching the episode. I hope you guys continue to make more videos!
Just an FYI for Steven, there's a podcast that accompanies each episode of this series by HBO. I suggest you listen to it and get the showrunners thoughts and backstory on the real world events he tries to portray in each episode.
Yeah, the podcast is really well done. Best "official podcast" I've listened to. Gold star to the writer/creator for being very open about what he changed and why.
It’s a fantastic podcast, really answers so many questions.
Yes, not only because they are simply amazing podcasts to accompany the show itself but they also explain some of the differences they had to do to the real world event itself.
I LOVED this series. It was amazing. Probably the best thing I've watched in a very long time. They took most scenes verbatim from interviews and films showing what exactly happened. So this is very accurate in conversations and decisions made regarding the explosion and how the workers reacted in scenarios. It was an epic mini series. Please keep watching. It's history and definitely should not be forgotten.
I binged this yesterday and your reactions are mine- with less dancing. I COULD NOT stay seated for the first episode the atmosphere was so tense. The music composer needs to be given all the awards and then shot, my god!
Thank you for reacting to Chernobyl, this is as good as TV gets; I see multiple nominations come awards season.
This show is not only horrific (in the best possible way), but totally soul crushing: first episode is by far the easiest episode to watch.
This mini series is a MASTERPIECE. Really opened my eyes and made me learn about nuclear energy and how it actually works. However, I must admit that some moments were hard to watch, especially episode 4 to me was the hardest to watch and I think you both but maybe especially Nikki will have to be careful and take care of yourselves after that particular episode. I would understand if you don't want to continue watching it, but I would be sad because you'd be missing out on a masterpiece of a series.
Meh, it was tame. People shouldn't be so pathetic as to "take care and be careful" when a fucking episode shows the most minor of inconveniences.
Nuclear energy and comunism.
Game of Thrones : I'm the best series ever
Chernobyl : Hold my reactivity
Hold my graphite
Hold my röntgen
@@TheZeyon 3.6 not great, not terrible :D.
Hold my pregnancy
@@patriziosailor BRUH
I write from Italy. I was 10 when it's happened. I remember my dogs crying out loud for two days when the radioactive cloud came over us. I remember taht we can?t go out and play on the grass, we can?t drink fresh milk. I remember the salad of my garden getting bigger and bigger and the tomatoes white. It was though. Sincerely...consider you lucky that you never heard of Chernobyl. You were too far away.
I'm so sorry
Sam here in Germany. I was seven
I was 7 and lived in East Germany.
Happened 5 months after I was born and I live in Sweden.
Feels crazy that it happened so close to here and that it is part of my lifes actual history.
I am incredibly thankful for knowing that brave men and women saved the world from this catastrophe.
A lot of brave heroes died because of the careless and negligent actions of basically one person. Can't really wrap my head around that this show is reality. It is completely insane.
A Polish guy I work with told me that one of his earliest memories as a child was when he was 4/5, his mother brought the family to get iodine pills to stop the radiation poisoning. Crazy shit man
yea, the interesting part is that most of polish and other soviet satelite countries citizens was not informed about that explosion, we were informed by western radio stations (banned here), official announcement came couple days later...
I've never seen this channel before, but it was recommended when I searched for Chernobyl on YT, and I instantaniously love you guys!
I loved the series. I've been obsessed with Chernobyl since I was a teenager, so about 30 years now and they did an amazing job creating this series. They are very accurate.
I live in Finland. I was 7 years old when this happend. I remember watching the news with my grandparents. My grandmother freaked out and was sure that the radiation would kill us all. It was kinda scary for a little girl...
your grandmother was not very bright
@@azazello1784 shut the fuck up. No one knew what was happening.
@@azazello1784 Maybe an overreaction on her part, but they were close to the Soviet border... the radiation cloud did reach Sweden.
@@azazello1784 I mean people freak out about covid 19 but let’s be real here. This has much more implications than covid and could’ve ended much much worse. This would’ve made half of the world uninhabitable if it wasn’t for the brave men and women that sacrificed their life
I'm sorry for you. But your grandmother was rightly fearful.
the cat at 3:49 is absolutely adorable!!!
That's Penny
I absolutely love that you finally made a reaction to Chernobyl. Greetings from Ukraine ❤
I was wondering how the show was received in the Ukraine. Clearly, you liked it - did many Ukrainians see it?
Dammit. All those years at Maester training, and Luwin seems to have learned nothing...
His chain certainly doesn't have a Uranium link :D
Valery Legasov is played by Jared Harris, the son of Richard Harris.
Cousin to actress Annabelle Wallis also.
@@kimwexler9393 I loved him as David Robert Jones in Fringe - a true psycho mad scientist in action.
This is an incredible show. It's now the highest rated show on IMDB ever. Amazingly well made and possibly the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. You gotta see it through! I remember this happening. I live in the UK and it's close enough that it was a very real threat here. Terrifying indeed!
One Dark Martian this really is more horrifying than any horror film I’ve seen. The filmmakers here are phenomenal.
Hi fellow Brit! I hardly remember it. A bit before my time. I remember aftermath documentaries on it, though. It is terrifying. I didn't know about the IMDB stats.
Aren't you slightly irritated that HBO are claiming to be co-producers of this solely Sky UK, British show. HBO only paid a fee to Sky UK to distribute it in the US & other foreign countries. It's entirely produced & commissioned by Sky UK.
hi, I am a brit as well, I remember this. Remember worry about british meat and milk and veg. Everyone worried about eating it because of this
I'm from that time from Soviet Union even we didn't know for long time because government hiddet all information about this tragedy
@BERSERK Shaman. Everywhere there are always idiots in charge who always keep things from people like you and me. Back in the 1970s, Ford Motor Company put out a car called the Pinto. They knew beforehand that there was a high chance the gas tank might rupture if involved in a rear-end crash. And what did they do aboot it? Not one DAMN thing!
Happy to watch you guys again. This is an excellent show. Can’t wait for the next episodes reaction.
And please get ready, this is going to get extremely worse.... be strong please
I recommend one episode every day but not before sleeping for Nikki
My little brother was curious of watching this.. after ep 3 he was having nightmares so yeah he stop watching it...
"And he comes to the conclusion:
His mishap was an illusion,
for, he reasons pointedly,
that which must not, can not be."
My wife and I have watched this episode 3 times in the past month (Dec. 2020), and watching their reactions brings it all back to me. It's like the first time I watched it.
Since then, I've watched all the specials and responses, and I've learned what was real and what was changed, and it still scares the shit out of me.
Yes! I don’t watch a lot of the other shows you review, so I was so glad to see you again in something I’ve seen!!
You have to understand, it was still a cold war period and Soviets could NOT show any weakness and government tried to cover it as much as possible, radioactive cloud spread across the Europe and scientists in Sweden discovered a severe level of radiation and then the world knew, 600,000 workers were hired to clean up the reactor they could work only 30 seconds to 1 minute or they would die of radiation
Why are you telling them shit that's shown in the show lol they will know
come on guyz plzzz watch all 5 episodes and upload quick its so awesome
we will do our best
I've been watching you for a while (kinda using you to rewatch shows I never finished but want to continue lol) but I got to know y'all and when I saw you reacted this I was like uh oh Nikki is gonna basically have a meltdown! I did and I'm not one to get emotional. Love your reactions!
10:30:00 Those people standing on that pedestrian foot bridge crossing over railroad tracks. That bridge became known as "The Bridge of Death". Every man, woman, and child, that was on that bridge that night, about 30 to 50 of them, was dead within 2 months.
Keep an eye out for minor GOT actors throughout this series, they're everywhere! Maester Luwin was the old man telling everyone to close the city and cut the phone lines
and the man in the roof was jory
and one of the guys in the power plant control room was a Lannister soldier Arya sits down with in S7
And Roose Bolton
Yup, there's so many! Another two off the top of my head are Pyp and Dagmer Cleftjaw(The Iron Islander with the deep voice who gives Theon the idea of taking Winterfell)
@@eatmyshamrock oh thanks . I knew that i've seen this guy somewhere (Dagmer Cleftjaw) , i didn't knew where :)
yesss... And respect for making time for this show, thank you!
How did they not “know” about Chernobyl? I thought we all learned about it at some point in our lives.
Ryou Bakura nope
Not a dig at these 2 in particular but I blame the education system across the pond. Plus it affected us in Europe (even here in the UK) more than the US obviously.
I love your reactions to all the Chernobyl episodes, but even more love your kitten in this video snuggling at the back of the couch!
This is the easily the best Mini-series I've ever seen. So cool to see you guys react to this
Hi there here from the Netherlands. I was in my early twenties when this happened. In Europe we were told what was going on. We were scared that radiation would get to us. I am shocked that they did not teach you about this in USA highschool! For if they did you would have known. This information is too heavy to forget. Thank you for reacting on this show.
I am from Poland and for me it was also shocking information that you can not know what Chernobyl was. All the more they should watch this series, if only out of respect for these thousands of dead people and hundreds of thousands of people involved in stopping the effects of this tragedy.
Hier in nederland leer je het ook niet op school. Ik als kind kwam er zelf achter door internet
I believe our education system chose to teach us about the Holocaust over other disasters.
@Anne Van Seters ~Public school system here in the U.S. is shit. The Three Mile Island accident happend here in 1979. When I left high school in 2001, it still wasn't being taught in most schools.
@@OG_Fernando The problem with your way of thinking is, that such accidents can lead to more victims than the Holocaust, if things go really bad. I think this merits some education.
i've seen your reaction to chernobyl like 50 times. Its aamazing and its for sure my favarite reaction to this show, by far.
The scene where the two workers look down into the burning core was the scariest part of the series for me.
It's like looking into the bowels of hell itself
The Mother on the bridge with brown hair is the same mother that got burned in Kings Landing with her daughter!!!
Yes! Did you see Maester Luwin as well? There are quite a few Game of Thrones supporting actors in this tv show.
She just can't catch a break.
@Kattegat H I saw four Game of Thrones actors, plus the mother from King's Landing (an extra). I just didn't want to say which actors will show up to keep it a surprise.
@@Shaesi. I saw 7 Got characters through out the series including 2 of them in this episode.
@@berserker2.0 Now I'm curious to know which two actors I missed...
You'd have to understand the government in Russia at that time to understand at least a part of their denial and business as usual attitude.
It was fear of the state, no one could say anything against the leadership and they built a culture of "don't ask questions, just do as you're told". That's what happens when you elect leaders who lie, who crave control and power and profit over all else, and they are surrounded by people who deny reality and truth in favor of just telling their superiors what they want to hear. America needs to learn a serious lesson from this show, because right know they're walking right into the same thing. Imagine if something like this happened in the USA today, does anyone really think the ongoing car crash in the White House right now would be able to manage it? Tell the truth? Save lives? I don't, and that should scare everyone.
@@ct5625 You're right. I didn't go into detail, only giving them something to look into, because they don't want politics on their pages.
@@ct5625 So true it getting very hard to live hear now knowing where this country is going just pray just us please.
@@ct5625 that`s quite an oversimplification, which is common in western media
mimun e that is the dumbest fucking statement I’ve ever heard, you honestly should be embarrassed for saying something like that.
I finally found the time to watch it myself and instantly came back here to watch your reactions. Such a good series! And absolutely horrifying.
Man, this episode's first half-hour had me deeply gripped with goosebumps and heart-racing anxiety. To know that this had actually happened makes it all-the-more terrifying and even sad deep down, especially for the firefighters who'd first responded to the scene with no knowledge of the radiation danger. The music score and sound design made it as if I could actually *_feel_* the radiation. I had never known what graphite was before this, but boy do I do now. *O_O*