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Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 10:53 pm
Mind Your Tanners
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God that's the most suburban thing you've ever typed.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 11:31 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
I just did
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 2:00 am
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14139
Episode 4 was great
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Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 3:52 pm
The Master
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46387 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:28 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14139
tragabigzanda wrote:
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:36 pm
The Master
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46387 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
durdencommatyler wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:37 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
durdencommatyler wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.
This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.
Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.
That's because they're all Russian.
...speaking English.
My point was that Russian names are hard to remember.
I actually really like how they've handled the English speaking aspect of this.
Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:38 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14519 Location: Space City
I can mostly agree with the peripheral characters being cold and distant, but the way the show is building up to what Lugosi does in the opening scene feels pretty human to me. Then there are a lot of little stories throughout (episode 4 covers this well) that humanizes the whole thing. But yeah, mostly the impact of this incident is painted broadly. Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.
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Post subject: Re: It's HBO, Making You Miserable Again: Chernobyl (May 201
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:44 pm
The Master
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46387 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
washing machine wrote:
I can mostly agree with the peripheral characters being cold and distant, but the way the show is building up to what Lugosi does in the opening scene feels pretty human to me. Then there are a lot of little stories throughout (episode 4 covers this well) that humanizes the whole thing. But yeah, mostly the impact of this incident is painted broadly. Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.
Yeah, this is exactly what I was trying to say. I don't expect there to be much hope in a show that opens with a suicide and then zooms out to a nuclear meltdown. But this general approach isn't totally working for me. Will keep watching because the production is still very impressive, and I'm encouraged to hear that E4 addresses my complaint.
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