The memes are fantastic

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

we're through episode 3 at this point. probably close it out tomorrow night. It's damn depressing, but fascinating nonetheless.

Cool seeing Pripyat not in a Call of Duty game.

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@audioidkid

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/kzmp ... hole-thing

Craig Mazin, the man behind HBO's brilliant Chernobyl miniseries, spent years making sure every piece of his story was brain-bleedingly accurate. From the casting to the props to the literal wallpaper, Mazin built a world that was a meticulous and terrifying recreation of 1980s reality. Sure, the series is a landmark piece of historical narrative filmmaking and one of HBO's greatest achievements to date, but don't put away your eggbaskets just yet, everybody—because Russia is making its own version of Chernobyl now. Except, this one is apparently going to be way less focused on the truth.


This week, the Moscow Times reported that multiple Kremlin media outlets have been trashing the show as "a caricature" and that NTV, a state-backed TV channel, is planning its own rival movie about Chernobyl. But this one will be less about the actual story and more about, uh, how the CIA actually caused the whole thing?

Alexei Muradov, director of Russia's upcoming Chernobyl movie, told the Moscow Times that the story will be based on a conspiracy theory that "Americans had infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant" and likely had a hand in the explosion. "Many historians do not deny that, on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy’s intelligence services was present at the station," Muradov said, according to the Times.


Of course, Mazin's Chernobyl failed to dive into this whole thrilling subplot of dastardly American operatives snipping wires and flipping switches since, you know, that didn't actually happen. But whatever!

Per the Times:

In place of a moving tribute to the heroic men and women who sacrificed everything to overcome the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, Moscow gives us a thrilling detective film based on a conspiracy theory in which a KGB officer struggles to thwart American spies — the new villains in this national tragedy.

The movie is reportedly already in production, but there's no word when, exactly, we'll all get to see this bizarre, JFK-style conspiracy theory flick. At least the characters won't all have weird British accents like they're all bad guys in Star Wars or whatever.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

That's great.

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My favorite

Now that I've seen the last one I need to go back and watch the earlier episodes. The guys working in the reactor are suddenly real characters. Up until the flashback at the trial I only knew them as a bunch of sickly radiated dudes puking and mumbling statements to Emily Watson.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

i loved that band!

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Saw them open for Gwar

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I watched this solo, but have convinced my wife that she would like it. It’s the highest rated show ever on IMDb (sadly, above Breaking Bad in a shot at my alias). I look forward to rewatching.

What a great show, watched episode three this morning.

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Phenomenal mini series. I need to go back and watch episode one. Heart breaking, tragic and so well acted.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Spoiler alert for HawaiiYou

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Gonna watch final episode tonight, really impressed thus far.

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Finished this up last night, great series.

Hated the scenes with the dog exterminators.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Didn't see the TV show but read a great book about it: Midnight in Chernobyl. https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernob ... B07GNV7PNH

One of those books that you're sad its over because its unlikely you'll find something that inneresting anytime soon.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

im on page 100ish right now... so far the book is considerably different than the mini series... the reactor room scenes from the mini series are almost cartoonish compared to the book's description.

Roose Bolton is the prosecutor

Thanks!

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