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HBO miniseries criticized as hypocritical for preaching about science and truth while embellishing the actual events and creating simplified villain narratives

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"So this train thing in Ohio is an absolute catastrophe right? Like Chernobyled an entire region bad."
"Curtis mines the mundane footage that most TV producers would fast-forward through, sharing English lessons at a beauty pageant, a young waif begging for rubles in the streets, the unrelenting churn of a toothbrush factory and scientists, wrapped in plastic and tape, trying to fix the Chernobyl reac"
"And when it got to the part with the naked miner guys she said 'you're right chuddy, this is a good show'"
I was watching Chernobyl with my mom on the weekend · u/ChuddyChudderson · ↑102 · 2023-08-10
"idk I just feel like that would explain some things no offense"
Do we think Dasha was exposed to residual Chernobyl radiation? · u/lonelyleered · ↑80 · 2022-12-23
"I didn't know anything about about nuclear power or control rods or whatever, but I wouldn't have let that thing overheat and explode. Very confident about this."
"It elicitcs the same type of response that Chernobyl and Dahmer did - just unnecessary retellings of recent stories. No flair at all, no style, like a wikipedia article coming to life (plus lies added to help dramatize the story). It's completely bland, soullless and with 0 artistic qualities."
"a lot of stuff has been happening around chernobyl and the media has been focusing particularly and probably unduly heavily on it because it makes the spiciest most aesthetic story in a world where there was never a 'too soon' for the chernobyl disaster and it's basically been romanticised from the "
re: ukraine situation - chernobyl seems like a chekov gun · u/emanserua · ↑34 · 2022-03-09
"this show gets endless praise on reddit, which isn't really surprising given the themes of how important le science is, but in reality, the show is actually straight trash. the show reminds the viewer every 5 seconds about the importance of science and truth, but the entire narrative is a complete e"
chernoybl is the worst tv show ever made · u/BasedMidwit · ↑33 · 2023-04-18
"- Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the wife of deceased firefighter Vasily Ignatenko"
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexeivich · u/annadelvey_apologist · ↑33 · 2025-10-29
"It elicitcs the same type of response that Chernobyl and Dahmer did - just unnecessary retellings of recent stories. No flair at all, no style, like a wikipedia article coming to life"
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