"I'm Already Not Calm" | CHERNOBYL | Episode 2 Reaction 

The lead shielding on the truck wasn't to protect general pikalov from the radiation. It was to protect the radiation from general pikalov.

"So many little heroes" That sums it up so well, the tragedy and the humanity.

"You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this PLANET before." This is the line that always gets me.

Please don't feel badly or stupid for crying - when I watched this a few years ago, I FULL ON ugly sobbed, from start to finish of this show. I'm talking snot running, gasping for breath, hiccuping, the works. Because it was a true story, and most of what they showed actually happened. It's a devastating series showing a devastating disaster.

Scary part about the 15,000 rontgen reading is I've heard that wasn't even the actual reading; it was the maximum THAT meter could read, too. 3.6, 200, 1000, and 15,000. It literally maxed out every meter they scanned it with.

That scene where the helicopter crashes wasn't from the radiation, the blades hit the line from a crane that was hanging next to the building. You can find the actual footage of that accident on RU-vid.

In the scene at the bar, he wanted the other glass because it was upside down, not exposed to the dust in the air. He was trying to limit his exposure to radioactive material as much as possible

Haylee is such a mom to her sister, it’s very sweet and heartwarming. I do not know how they will get through the next 2 episodes. Episode 2 is comparatively light to 3 + 4.

After I saw this episode I made sure to look those men up, learn their names. See their faces.. because they deserve recognition from everyone on this earth

Crying means you actually understand how severe the situation actually is. It's hard for many people to even grasp the scope of everything, it just shows how emotionally smart you are. People don't watch to see a lack of emotions. We are here because you guys are able to put your true feelings out there, that is rare to find. Thank you for crying, never apologize.

FYI : general Pikalov chose to drive the truck himself not only to be heroic and protect his soldiers but also because they will believe him when he tells them how much is the radiation, because of his status and rank no one will question the number he got while he was near the reactor. He knew if it was a simple soldier they will just say he was confused and delusional and that number is impossible. RIP General and thank you for your service !

A few years ago, there was a documentary on PBS about Chernobyl. They went into the room in the hospital where the firemen's clothes had been. The geiger counter went crazy and this was thirty years after the disaster.

You make a great team. One to do the explaining and one to do the crying

22:04 Ok, nobody tell her.

Poor Carissa... I'm worried about her in the next parts 🥲

“I love you and your big heart”. A soul like that, that genuinely cares is what we need in this world. Be Sympathetic, empathetic, etc. to those who sacrifice and put their lives on the line people to have basic necessities met than the modern world mostly goes under appreciated.

Don't feel bad about the tears. This is a tough series. Your empathy is strong and I for one respect it. I'm right there with you. This is a tough one to watch. Just brace yourself for episode 4. It's probably the saddest and most intense.

Its okay to cry. Also, the divers survived. 2 are still alive today. Boris Baranov died in 2005 of a heart attack. Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov. These 3 man saved the world. The fact that barely anyone outside of the ex soviet union doesn't know their names is a absolute disgrace.

I subscribed to your channel just because of this series. I've watched many others react to this series and I am extremely impressed by your ability to comprehend & perceive the many dangers that are going on. The both of you are picking up on things a lot of the other reactors missed. Do not feel bad about crying. It simply means you have a heart that cares about others.

Who ever did the casting for this show deserves praise. The firemans wife looks exactly like my aunt did in the 80's.

The thyroid absorbs iodine present in the body. Taking stable iodine via the tablet preloads the thyroid, essentially filling it with non radioactive iodine so that when the radioactive stuff shows up, it's blocked.

I went into watching this show knowing a significant amount about the Chernobyl explosion. I was blown away by how much this show teaches you / how much I didn't know.

The helicopter that fell was because it could not see the crane cable. The rotor blades struck the cable and broke. I am looking forward to crying with you for the rest too.

It’s so refreshing to see someone have an emotional reaction this deserves.

It's beautiful that you recognize and appreciate the selflessness of the people who risked their lives to fix this tragic situation. Don't ever apologize for feeling! I hope you do continue the series after a break, it does wreck you emotionally but it's so worth it.

Great reaction! I'm impressed how perceptive you two are. You're picking up on lots of things that many other reactors (pardon the pun) miss.

"We're asking for your permission to kill three men." Always a gut punch to hear that line.

To this date, the firemens clothing lay in the basement in chernobyl..

If seeing a single dog running made you cry... oh boy. If you know you know. Can't wait.

Your reactions really impress me. I firmly believe the power of compassion, of empathy is the greatest single human accomplishment. Kudos to you both. 12:01 I love how Boris takes all this in, and then handles what he genuinely sees. 15:24 And there is NOTHING Boris can do at this moment to help them. He has to report to others far more powerful and ruthless than he is who will not tolerate an evacuation at this time. "I'm in charge" means "I'm the one who'll be blamed." 16:01 But he has no choice. Teh Soviet Union was like that. Notice how everyone is trying to protect themselves at all times? So much so that when someone doesn't do that others are shocked? This a real police state, one where saying the President is ugly can get you fired and your family arrested. 17:35 This level of radiation can strip away the interior of circuits, wrecking even slightly complex machines. Yet this incident (which DID happen, albeit later) was because the blades hit a dangling chain. The pilots did die of radiation poisoning, though. 17:53 "Little heroes" omg you have no idea, not yet. I have never seen any program based on true events so chock full of so many genuine heroes. Thousands and thousands and thousands before the end. 22:16 I feel you. Please brace yourself for Episode Four. You will need it. 26:40 This entire region is part of the war zone right now. 27:40 Remember their names. REMEMBER THEM. 30:06 The fact we are all still alive is pretty much proof they did succeed. Just FYI.

Great reaction. I grew up in Central Norway and was 8 years old when this happened, and it's one of my earliest childhood memories. Remember not being allowed to eat wild berries or pick flowers, and we lived very far from Chernobyl.

Fantastic reaction to this, I'm subscribing. Smart and emotional, my favorite kind of channel. PS: Kiss doesn't have to be embarrassed about weeping. EVERYONE weeps at this show. (Except Haylo, apparently! Which is great! I'm happy you're watching this show together!). I had to binge watch this show in two sittings and am so happy I did it that way, rather than drag it out over five separate viewings and depress myself for a month, lol

It’s powerful. It’s a powerful story. Being told extremely powerfully. It’s okay to cry.

"Oh no the dog" They are not ready for the next 💀

I am crying with you too. Thank you for sympathy and for being genuine. This is very hard to watch but also very important to know and remember about what has happened. These series are devastating but incredibly made.

Poor Kiss, you sweet soul! Also, Haylee, your compassion you show your sister while she cries warms my heart! Ultimately, this is definitely one of those shows that everyone should watched at least once to learn of what happened in Chernobyl. This show is just a powerhouse of emotional impact.

Get at least a case of tissues ready the worst is yet to come... To make yourself feel better about what you're watching think of what you're watching as a memorial ,a way of honoring those who have passed To keep us all alive.. that's why we watch things like this to honor the dead ,When a tragedy happens..

"I'm already not calm" LMAO love it....nice reactions guys, subbed

I saw a review for this show early after it aired. It described the show as “oppressive despair” which I think to this day is the most precise and concise description possible.

Not make a spoiler but its heartbreaking watching you being heartbroken: the three guys that went down to shut off the valve actually survived. Quote: "The three men would live longer than a few weeks and none would succumb to ARS. As of 2015, it was reported that two of the men were still alive and still working within the industry. The third man, Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack."

Don't ever feel silly or apologize for being empathetic. ❤

I remember watching this show and having my throat clutched by the sadness. The fact that this indeed happened and so many people rose up to save the others selflessly, just gives me hope for humanity as a whole. When things are dire, people will rise to the occasion for the greater good. We all have great strength, it just comes at unexpected times

This is soooo sweet. Kiss is brave to feel so strongly and keep going. Never let anyone tell you you are silly or weak for feeling compassion. Compassion is one of our greatest strengths. Just because you got a double scoop of it doesn't make you silly, it makes you amazing. I can only watch this show and reactions when I'm alone because of all the tears, my friends wouldn't understand enough. You make a great reaction together and though I'd seen you before on something I forgot how good you were. Thank you so much for sharing your reactions. Also, be very careful dabbing your eyes close to the tear duct or rim of the eyelid. It is quite easy to irritate the duct or membrane, even with the softest tissue. Tears are meant to be shared Kiss, that's what they're for!

Your first reaction made me concerned about the kids of today and your second reaction made me proud. Crying for this series is absolutely acceptable... If not you might not be a human being. This is hard to watch and it's good for people to know history. Thank you for reviewing this with a heartfelt openness. Excited for the next few episodes

You have to know history or we are doomed to repeat it. Thank you for your reaction and review

The episode 4 reaction is going to be.... Interesting.

in 1986 I was 16 years old and even though I lived about 1700 kilometers (about 1000 miles) from Chernobyl, the fear was enormous

Don't run from the discomfort. Avoidance lead us to Chernobyl. Go through it, and let it make you care, make you active, make you realize how fragile love is and how it must be protected. Feel it and don't look away.

You should look up the general depicted in this episode, and later in the mini series. He was a true hero in this situation who understood the stakes and gravity of the situation.

Crying is not stupid or silly... watching reactions where there's lots of crying always destroys me because I know the whole story and I understand the feelings entirely. It's quite the tragedy and there were definitely lots of smaller heroes that very likely went unrecognized for what they did and I think it's all these little actions that overall made a difference. Thanks so much for going through this series!

Can't wait till you reach episode 5... This series is so shocking,especially when you realize that a huge part is based on true events,its really devastating. And prepare for the epilogue,ive seen the series when it came out all episodes at once,and the ending,i still return from time to time to watch it,it reminds me that human stupidity is endless over power.

6:32 I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but the guy with the weird birthmark on his head is Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. He was their equivalent of the President of the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev 16:02 Radioactive 'fallout' is basically deadly dust, it lands on everything, gets in everything, that is why Lygasov wanted an up-turned glass, he wanted his drink to be in something that had not spent the past day or two having radioactive particles landing inside it.

I love how those two people on the bar asking Legasov about the fire are later revealed as KGB agents and were actually just testing if he'd keep the secret about the dangers present.

I just love you Haylo and Kiss for your reactions!.. You seem so lively girls 💗

The music, by the way, is composed largely from the sounds of actual nuclear reactors operating. A remarkable decision by the composer.

I cried through the entire series. I cry when I imagine how scared people must have felt and this show has a lot of that in it.

I've been to Pripyat, spent 4 days with a guide there, we had masks, geiger counters and to this day the clothes of the firemen are still in the hospital basement, we were told not to touch anything, cause the dust is still highly radioactive, thats crazy to see, the appartments as well, those people left on such a hurry, leaving everything behind, that when you visit those appartments and houses, its like, a still life frozen in time, i remember in one of the appartments i visited, there was an armchair, with slippers in front of it, a little table next to it with a cup and newspapers laying on the table, pans still on the hotplates, that was crazy to see !

Never feel silly for being empathetic, it is a great quality to have.

Despite the fact that this is not a documentary, and they change things here and there for dramatic purposes (For example, the helicopter crash occurred not on day 2 but on day 40.) It's still so informative to just how serious and significant this event was. Don't worry about the tears. They're for our morbid entertainment. We're glad you love the show so much.

28:38 the "radiation thingy" is called a geiger counter.

Don't feel sorry or silly to be emotional.. you're an empath! you should be proud! Loving both of your reactions btw. keep it up!

its very rare thag two siblings with such different energy get along so well. Kiss is very emotional and energetic and Haylo is calm and nurturing

I felt sick and ill after each episode in this series. It is sooo good! And yes, it was a reactor in Sweden who discovered it was a leak. At first they thought it was in their own reactor but it was then discovered it was on clothes and shoes from employees coming in from outside. When it was released on radio in Sweden my mom picked me up and brought me inside from the sandbox in like 30 seconds. We are to this day noticing the decay from Chernobyl in our forests in Sweden. I've never seen a couple reactors paying so much attention to details, both to facts and what is said in mid conversations. I also love that you are showing emotions, specially the lady in orange.😊 And as your friend said, don't be sorry for showing empathy! You are both doing awesome. Keep up the good work! 👍

Don't apologize for crying, It does not mean you're silly, it only means you're a good person.

I'm not sure how to find it but there's a one hour podcast episode to accompany every episode of the series, with writer Craig Mazin, that goes into some detail on the behind-the-scenes process of writing the series, including the dramatic license taken. Mazin thought this was important since the series is about truth and lies. Forget conventional horror, this is the scariest thing I think I've ever seen on TV.

In the real event the lights went off, but the workers know the place so much that they were confident enough o move in the dark. So brave.

Yaaas! Didn't expect to see the second episode today. :)

7:00 "I didn't realize how radiation works..." It's hard to describe, but something similar is heat. It's a type of radiation. It's all about time and distance with exposure. Consider the electric heating elements in your oven. With the oven closed you can stand next to it and not really notice any heat. Open the oven and you can even reach in and safely remove a pan wearing only gloves. You could hold your hand in the oven for a few seconds before you started to get burned. Now, the guy holding the graphite - that was like grabbing hold of the heating element itself and hold it in your bare hand. So the temp of that element may be how much thermal radiation it's emitting, but depending on how far away you are or what you're wearing determines if you're safe or not. Ionizing radiation damages differently, but the time / distance / protection factors work very similar.

The female scientist is an amalgamated character representing a team of scientists.

17:30 That wasn't the metal burning up but the helicopter hitting the steel wire of the crane. Happened in real life too.

I was growing up in southern Germany as a kid when this happened. I still viscerally remember how for many months we were told not to eat the snow, how a lot of crops had to be destroyed (not pliéed under, they were too radioactive for that, they needed to be disposed as nuclear waste). My dad worked in a university lab and used their Geiger counter outside: he said if those readings had occurred inside the lab, they would have gotten shut down immediately. BTW: reaction videos are my go to dopamine hit, and you two are my favourites! Hope you do some others of my favourite shows, like Firefly, Game of Thrones, Good Omens, Sandman, ach there’s too many!

22:10 the moment I saw her reaction I thought: "Yeah, she won't endure the episode four."

I remember they withhold the information for a week about Chermobyl (I was in Minsk and I was 7 years old) , so the May 1st demonstration will take place. People are disposable in communism. My daily headaches started within months and didn't stop until we leaved USSR in 1991. "The guy with the birthmark" is Gorbachev - general secretary of communist party - head of the state in USSR. So far I see that you don't understand a lot of aspects of the series - you should familiarize yourself with what communism is and how communist regimes look like.

The actor playing Gorbatchev was fantastic. In fact, everyone was amazing in their roles. What a masterpiece series!

Tears are a sane reaction to Chernobyl. I remember, here in Canada, when the satellite photos had been released and we all began to realize just how terrible the disaster seemed to be, we were all nervous, glued to the newscasts, worried about just what might happen. It was a global nightmare.

It's totally normal to cry while watching these miniseries as it based on real historical events. You will cry even more during episodes 3 and 4

You have to remember where and when this was taking place to understand why people act the way they do in positions of power.

If everyone felt empathy that strongly the world would be a much better place.

I was 7 when this happened. I lived in Scotland at the time. Even we were advised to not play outside. Almost 1400 miles away

22:40 - According to accounts about the incident, many people were under the impression that they would be returning home in a few days. For most people being evacuated from Pripyat, it likely didn't cross their mind that they would never be able to return until well after the evacuation was over.

23:51 i'm actually here to see your sympathy in all it's glory. please continue. 🙂

"Oh my throat, my thyroid" okay that caught me off guard I wasn't expecting to get a laugh there 😅

I just have to say, you two are so wholesome - it's really quite lovely to see.

I think it's really nice to see your channel doing more content than gaming and anime. Movie reactions is also popular. I look forward to watching more of your channel. Keep up the great work.

There's a RU-vid video, actually several videos where tourists visit the hospital where the fireman at Chernobyl were treated. When you go to the basement, all of the boots and uniforms of the firemen are still there. They've not been touched since being put there by the nurses and doctors 40 years ago. Believe it or not, there is a tourist industry of people going to Chernobyl, visiting the hospital, obviously you're wearing a substantial amount of equipment to protect you from the residual radiation.

"I hate the sound the meters are making it makes it so much worse. They're clearly so scared!" And then the lights go dead. It was in that moment where this 49 year old dude started getting a tight chest watching the show. Heavy stuff. Good on Kiss, because it's a crazy intense moment, and the cliffhanger! I've watched the series twice and seen a few reactions, and it wasn't until this one that I realized Ulana Khomyuk KNEW when Chernobyl didn't pick up that they were split wide open.

Those three volunteers... even as I would like to believe I would have that courage, I cannot see it, and I feel such pride to them that could step up as they did.

This series breaks me every time. I lived in an area of Norway at the time, it was the spring before I turned 8, that due to weird weather patterns caught a lot of fallout. My father got a job in the southern parts only four years after the accident and so we moved. My family has been talking about how several of our closer outdoorsy friends up there later got cancer and died way ahead of their time. The flashlights: batteries depend on reactions inside them made by ionized chemicals. The kind of radiation we're talking about here is ionizing radiation. It can change the charges inside the batteries so that they don't work.

The evacuation of Prypiat was another part of this tragedy. People were gathering in hurry, leaving most of their possessions behind. If you go to Prypiat with the tour you can walk in empty apartments and see half-open wardrobes with rotten clothes, dinner places on the table, children's toys and books all over the floor. People were taken to other cities and villages where they were treated like lepers since nobody knew what radiation really was. And then the results of prolonged exposure kicked in... Many were getting cancer, some - radiation disease, women were afraid to become pregnant and give birth to mutated babies. Plus, the psychological trauma was immense.

Radiation from a nuclear disaster is actually several different kinds. You get both fragments of atoms (neutrons, protons, and electrons: the "bullets"), and electromagnetic radiation in gamma rays and x-rays (very high energy light). The EM radiation is where you'll get essentially extremely bad sunburn as well as DNA damage. The atomic fragment type radiation is stopped more easily by material (even the top most layer of dead skin will stop a sizeable portion of it before it can damage living cells) but is something like 10x more damaging to DNA. In some ways it's less dangerous when the source is outside of your body, but you really really don't want to inhale or ingest dust particles that emit this kind of radiation.

Your reaction was genuinely touching. Empathetic soul.

"My thyroid!" I love that you understand the science.

Never apologize for your tears. It is the truest honour you can give the unsung heroes and all the unnecessary victims. Thank you for your tears.

I live in Finland and was 2 years old when this happened. I only vaguely remember my mom being sad since we were banned from picking mushrooms and berries in the forest, as the nuclear fallout spread was so large and affected by winds etc.

27:45 All three of those guys survived. One passed away from a heart attack in 2005, and the other two are still alive today.

12:53 "Then I'll do it myself." General Vladimir Pikalov, head of Chemical Troops of the Ministry of Defense. Wounded three times in the Second World War. Another hero from Chernobyl.

This is legitimately one of the greatest shows that’s ever been made

I am just finishing your reaction of Episode 2. You have been my favourite reactors to this series so far. You combine a feeling of terrified calm, and an outpouring of emotion. Thank you both so much for taking time to edit and upload your video's.

I need more of these reactions. This series is incredible.

The three guys that went in weren't volunteers it was just their shift and they did their jobs. Also despite what the show implied, they are still alive.