Chernobyl Episode 1 -  

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You know what makes this so impactful and terrifying... the fact that it happened and its real.

It's not chemicals. It's radiation, totally different

LETS GO. The boys are watching the best show of the year.

Chemicals? Nah. It's something much, much worse.

These guys are watching one of the best mini series ever about the worst nuclear disaster ever and you clowns here like "can yall watch more bts?"

Did this dude just accuse Russia of the holocaust? LOL

in case of radiation, you take iodine pills because they protect your thyroid gland (the organ most sensitive to radiation) from absorbing radiation

Cherrnobyl is in Ukraine but it was part of the Soviet Union in 1989

My boys be out here watching one of the best shows ever and the comments be like "watch this or watch that".

A lot of these people didnt UNDERSTAND the severity of nuclear radiation because the russian government played information like that close to the chest. Also, the whole reactor exploding thing gets explained in the next episode "You are dealing with something that has never happened on this planet before."

just a FYI, there are no fumes or chemicals, just straight radiation. Invisible, odorless , tasteless. Exposed at high enough dosses, one of the worst deaths imaginable

one of the most common occurrences of radiation is "tasting metal" which is what nearly everyone in the show mentions

The core can't explode, planes can't crash, and the Titanic can't sink.

Best statement “I don’t know how important it is they fix this”. Talk about the most understated question of all time. These aren’t chemicals. This is radiation. You know less than the Ukrainians who were lied to, yet make fun of them for running into danger. Smart.

I thought everybody was done w/ Chernobyl at this point & I never thought they would watch because it’s so heavy. At least they have each other to get though this.

Fun Fact: The music written for this mini-series was by this composer from Iceland, Hildur Guðnadóttir. Aside from human voices, her music is comprised of an ordered collection of sounds from an actual nuclear reactor.

Its radiation not chemicals. smh

FYI, the Soviet Union were part of the allies in WW2 against Germany

I'm confused, do the guys not understand radiation damage? I thought everyone did, literally because Chernobyl happened.

3.6? Not great... not terrible. Me: this motherf*cker...

One of the best series of all time IMO. Very underrated in terms of reactor channels covering this series. Every reactor channel that covered it, realized what an awesome choice they made not just for their channel, but their own education. This series should be watched by everyone.

Season 1, episode 1. Season 1 Season 1....

A lesson to ALL: if you see birds falling out of the sky and dropping dead after a nuclear power plant explodes, RUN. RUN FAST AND RUN FAR.

It gets scarier once you realized it actually happened...

YES. Been waiting for this.

America and Russia were allies in WW2. Y'all fought together AGAINST Hitler...

guys USSR was fighting against nazi Germany................

I'm SOOO glad yall are watching this, literally one of the best and one of my favorite series of the year

The best show of the year, hands down. So glad you guys are finally getting the chance to watch this. What makes it all so excellent is its incredible attention to detail in getting all the facts straight and making the viewer feel as if they were time warped back to the Soviet Union in 1986 and reliving the entire nightmare as it happened. I hope you persist in watching the remaining episodes because if you thought this first one was awesome, the best is still to come.

I case you were interested, as simply as I can put it from a former Chemistry major. Nuclear radiation is essentially the subatomic particles that get flown around when an atom's nucleus is ripped apart. They have massive amounts of energy which is why that process (nuclear fission) is replicated and harnessed in the power plants. Those particles when they come into contact with living cells (depending on the severity of the radiation) can literally rip cells apart. Non-penetrating radiation leaves severe burns on the skin similar to a sunburn (that's what a sunburn actually is btw, just a low-level UV radiation burn) only a billion times worse, and penetrating radiation actually can pass through your skin and cause damage to the cells inside your body, even all-out destroying them and ripping them apart.

My freshman year of high school, I did a report on Chernobyl as part of a "disaster report" project. This shit was W I L D. Not only was the disaster itself terrifying and revolting, but the stories of what happened before and after will make you sick. The Soviets were insane for thinking they were equipped to handle the situation. If you're into creepy urban legends, then you should definitely check out the "Black Bird of Chernobyl" stories that popped up following the disaster.

"Dont know how important it is to fix this" bwhahahaha 😂that was funny lol you gon learn today! Lol all of this actually happened all of it. Not based on a true story, factually happened

Man this is great! Hope you dudes had a fantastic Thanksgiving, keep up the great work my guys.

Yall are in for a GOD DAYUM emotional rollercoaster.

You know when public discourse is horribly uneducated when everybody is talking about chemicals but this is one of the situations where there is absolutely no chemicals are involved.

The big guy who was holding the door actually lived till the 2000s. The chances of him living that long were extremely slim but he managed to do it

Here’s the difference between chemicals and radiation. Chemicals: can be washed away and your body would heal. Radiation: can’t be washed away if absorbed and won’t stop breaking down your body cells. Depending on how much you absorbed, you’ll end up dying very painfully begging someone to put you out of your misery. It is one of the worst ways to go as your organs literally deteriorate.

Please keep reacting to this show, it gets better

Amazing piece of art this show is. Excited to take this journey with you guys 💯💯

Good timing because I literally just finished this show yesterday

Radiation is like getting hit with millions and millions of teeny tiny, molecule sized, super fast moving bullets. Everyone is bleeding through their skin because their getting shredded by radiation.

OMG finally! I've been hoping you guys would do this series someday. Yay!!

Haha I lost it when Rob said Dyatlov looked like a chef lmao

Biggest misconception of the time. You absorb radiation but you don’t start radiating yourself. You can normally touch a person who absorbed radiation, you absorb some every second

Chernobyl also has lot of actors from game of thrones.

This is 100 percent true and I remember vividly when it happened I was in high school. Russia tried to deny it but the fall out was being detected in SWEDEN scary scary shit

Amazing series

Super happy you guys are watching this show, it is amazing. Don't take this badly, but after watching your GOT reactions and Breaking Bad, I think Jerry is going to have the hardest time with the show...but all of you will definitely be impacted in some way by it!

Anybody ever hear of Three Mile Island? I grew up next to it. Other little islands on river people would party on during summers. Few times we ate mushrooms and sat on the dock facing the stacks for hours. Ahhh the good ol days...

Rob looking at his phone for most of the reactions also Rob : THAT'S A FUCKING GOOD SHOW

This show is so good, but ugh it still hurts my stomach to think about it

Best miniseries ever. So glad you guys are reacting to it!

Damn this is a wild ride. I remember watching it and all I can feel is goosebumps and anxiety.

All your questions will be answered in this series. By the end you'll know how a nuclear reactor works, and what caused an RBMK reactor to explode, even though it was impossible. To have a 5 episode series do all that, is remarkable. What's so amazing about this series though, is the relevance to today - that if you have a state which controls what is true and what's not, you can end up with this happening. The cost of lies. It can happen without you noticing.

*tHeRe iS No GrApHiTe oN tHe gRoUnD*

OTHER SHORT SERIES SUGGESTION: The Haunting of Hill House It's only 10 eps, it's fantastic, came out last year, and I'm shocked you guys haven't watched it before (maybe you watched it on your own but didn't react to it...???)

20 y/o in US: Has no idea about the events of Chernobyl Me: Well here we have live proof of how bad the US education system is lmao

Some of the technicians are exposed to high levels of radiation. One of those techs in the stairway is actually being cooked inside out. Condition that he is suffering is called Acute Radiation Sickness. ARS is when high levels of radiation attacks the cells in the body destroying body tissues. You will hear measurements called Rongten (I might misspell the word) Rongten is used in measuring the radiation. Measurement is named after famous German scientist who discovered X-rays. Now, Nuclear scientists are using new measurement in measuring radiation. It is called Sievert with its symbol, Sv. This measurement is more accurate in measuring radiation. ARS is 1st documented in un classified materials stating that there were few deadly accidents involving radiation in early years of studying radiation. I could go on talking about radiation even though I don't have a degree in Nuclear engineering, but I do love to read about science and technology.

A fantastic show to learn history. Wish history class was just dramatic hbo produced retellings over and over.

Such an amazing series.....many many feelz to come

Literally guys, this show, was absolutely horrifying to me. No scary movie has ever shook me like this.

Woooow, honestly, I really didn’t see you guys during a reaction series on Chernobyl. Awesome guys. This is such a brilliant powerful drama. It really digs deep into what happened over those many months of hardship for all those people who fought to bring the situation under any measure of control. Let alone the decades of pain and suffering that have resulted from it. By the way this isn’t Russia, this is Ukraine. Ukraine was part of the USSR. And additionally Russia was not responsible for the Holocaust. That was Germany. I can’t even believe you actually made that mixed up. Interesting note. The radiation made it even as far as the UK.

@16:40 It's much worse than that. It had nothing to do with warfare; when the nuclear energy plant exploded and they attempted to cover it up, they were just trying to save face and preserve their soft power. "Oh, the USSR allowed an electrical plant to explode and poison everything in a huge radius?" /Nelson laugh

That bridge is known as The Bridge of Death because everyone that was on the bridge died. Check out what The Elephants Foot is.

When it happened, my dad was Europe and he told me how the European fauna and flora were cheap as fuck to that point that the lettuce cost like 10 pennies. In retrospect, during that period the cold war was still heated and the Soviet Union had a reputation to keep, and can't afford to appear soft in front of NATO, thus they covered the whole thing up and undermined the danger of the catastrophe up until the rest of Europe radiation censors started picking the radiation entering their borders, this happened especially in Scandinavia and could not be avoided. Furthermore, The Russian federation still follows a similar policy because a similar incident did happen like a couple of months ago and they covered the whole thing up. We still don't know how the situation is up there in Russia in that area in particular, we hope the situation gets contained as fast as possible.

So at the time, this was something nobody thought could happen. And radiation poisoning wasn't really something normal people understood...

It make me so happy and proud to see a show with Swedish actors(a few) and a Swedish producer Johan Renck and Sweden was the first nation to notice the radiation when plant workers at a Swedish nuclear plant went through the detectors that went off because their clothes had nuclear particles on them. Sweden warned the world and forced the Soviet Union to release the facts about the accident yet they still tried to cover it up.

Legit a heartbreaking show that conveys the feeling of constant dread so well, hope you boys enjoy it, or whatever the fuck you're meant to do when watching this show.

Can’t believe y’all are watching Chernobyl. It’s such a messed up historical event that this show is more like a horror series than a historical one.

YASSSSS!! You're gonna love this!

The guy who directed this, Johan Renck, is a Swedish director who also directed the 3 first episodes of Vikings. In the 90s he was a pop musican.

Ooh hell yeah, you guys will like this little series

Every hour there was a radiation throw equal to 4 nuclear bombs, like those that were thrown on Hirasima and Nagasaki. Now live with the knowledge of this shit.

The comment about "what else is the government covering up" totally had me thinking about Flint.

Good pick. True history in a condensed version. This show makes one feel more and more uncomfortable but keeps you wanting to know why it happened. Well worth sticking through the Five episodes. Many Hero's once it wraps up. Shame Russia denounces it. Same issues different day.

Finally I’ve been waiting for y’all to watch this

So glad you're reacting to this! Best show of the year!

I'm glad that you are reacting at this, you are not just watching at a show but you are learning about a big disaster

These guys lack of history is truly saddening. History is the most important of educational subjects, and it’s decline in American teachings today is a product of why this country is on a steep decline.

Some of the actors are English and do speak with an English accent. The director thought that when they spoke Ukrainian they sounded funny and would concentrate more on the accent than the acting so he just let everyone speak in their normal accent and hoped that the audience would get over it quickly.

you guys have an extreme lack of knowledge on how radiation works, but its ok cause they'll explain it in the show later. the reason everyone is sick is because of radiation, which affects you differently than simply chemicals. all atoms have protons orbiting them, radioactive material like uranium and other adjacent elements have rogue protons flying through the air at high speeds, generating heat from atomic collision. nuclear plants harness that heat as energy. however, those flying protons are fast enough to break you on a molecular level. your cells will degrade, your bodily functions will cease. that firefighter held a piece of graphite that was emitting radiation that was stuck to it. the radiation PASSED through his glove and burnt his hand. but he doesnt feel it initially until a few minutes later, which is when your cells grow, and because the cells have degraded, his hand pretty much turned into cancer the people in this era have little to no understanding as to how radiation works, they think its like chemicals (like what you thought) and for the most part think their safe, because there was no other instance where radiation was this bad, even compared to Hiroshima

16:38-16:49 - Just by looking at you all, it doesn't seem like any of you were born before 1989. For anyone who was old enough to remember the world before 1989, the Soviet Union was a country that was in this mode of showing that they were the supreme state in the world (and, moreover, better than the USA; after all, both countries were still in their Cold War). Any sign of weakness was dangerous to them. Keep in mind, the old guy who decided to cut the phone lines to "halt the spread of misinformation" was around when the Russian Revolution broke out, and many of those officials in that room were conditioned to believe that their communist government was always right. Plus, it was VERY dangerous to go against the state; no matter if it was right or wrong. Trust me (and anyone else who has seen this mini-series): you are going to see a lot of examples of how the state cracked down on anyone who spoke out a little too much about this catastrophe.

The guys with face burns (before radiation burns) are from the reactor vaborising the coolant into steam, its steam burns.

If you guys want to get a little more info about this mini-series and some deeper info about the disaster itself, I recommend you all listen to this special podcast that HBO put out with each episode of "Chernobyl". It's hosted by the host of a show on NPR radio called "Wait...Don't Tell Me...", and the guest on each podcast episode is Craig Mazin, the writer and showrunner of "Chernobyl". Check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rUeHPCYtWYQ.html

if you are interested the creators of this show made podcasts explaining everything they did, which elements are historically accurate and which are fictionalized. Its really good and you should check it out if you enjoyed the show.

Oh, you did start! This is seriously a good and accurate show.

Fukushima in Japan, which is still pumping radiation into the Pacific, happened for basically the same reasons: greed and incompetence.

I hear you're saying the word 'chemicals' a lot, this is not about chemicals, this is about radiation. To break it down to the simplest terms: Ionizing (nuclear) radiation is invisible and it messes with your body's DNA on the most basic level. Depending on the dosage of radiation you were exposed to, the symptoms can vary from basically nothing to dying in a matter of hours.

My dudes are watching one of the best shows ever! Here we gooooooooo!!!!

One of the best shows.

Came here from the "Lied about death note" stream. You guys would love the movie Dark Waters. True story. & heres a hint. You're already infected.

13:16 that is the last thing that you would want to do. looking directly into an exposed nuclear reactor you would pray to get a bullet through the head.

Now imagine this happening in the USA today. The release of this series was well-timed, it should be taken as a warning. Your own government is becoming exactly what the USSR was in the 80s when this happened. Trump is appointing ignoramuses to lead departments based on their loyalty to him, truth doesn't matter, only covering up and cashing-in. That's EXACTLY what led to this disaster. The men in charge were more interested in pleasing "dear leader" than serving their population or protecting people. Do you really think that if a nuclear plant in the US suffered a catastrophic failure today that your government and the departments being led by Trump's corrupt yes men would tell you, or protect you? They've been slashing safety standards since they took power, it's only a matter of time before something terrible happens as a result of it. Oh, and this wasn't a chemical accident, it was nuclear, totally different and far more dangerous.

Germany was responsible for the holocaust and fought against the allies on one side and Russia( the Sovjet union) on the other side. after the allies and Russia pushes on in from a side each and defeated Germany the Allies and Russia stood against one another and that start the cold war standoff.

Cant wait for the rest of the recations. This series is 100%%

Holy shit didn't see that coming fuck yeah

The man who was sent to the roof lived 5 weeks.

Didn't really understand what you meant by "country fuck-ups in World War II". The German-Soviet pact only lasted till 1941, the year Germany invaded Soviet Union. After that USSR, US and UK actually formed an allience, which was known as The Big Three. Millions of Soviet people died either in concentration camps or on the battlefield, protecting the country, so it's not something Soviet Union wanted to make up for. Still liked your reaction though

the guy on his phone the whole time, loved the show...