It was never supposed to be more than the broad strokes though. Even those were largely unknown in the West.
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Renacles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a great show but it’s also all bullshit pretty much, it only follows the broad strokes of the real story.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh. People from English-speaking countries don’t sink you with downvotes immediately for criticizing that show anymore. Nice.
Even the broad strokes are, eh, how do you say it, eh … worse than Tom Clancy and that’s an achievement I’m not sure everyone is capable of measuring.
It’s funny though how such series about “USSR” talk in fact about something American. Reminiscent of the “17 moments of spring” series which were about a Soviet spy in Berlin in the last months of WWII, but mostly explored Soviet ideology and morality issues.
200ok@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It wasn’t as bad as I thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)#Historical_accuracy
200ok@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy won’t let me link this properly. Is there an escape character for brackets? This is the link I’m trying to post: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)#Hist…
200ok@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIL I can just post the link and, maybe it’s my Lemmy client (Sync for Lemmy) but it’s automatically hyperlinked (for me, at least)
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If we’re talking about the HBO show, then calling it a documentary is just straight up wrong.
It’s a “based on real events” TV drama that never claimed to be a rigorous retelling of the catastrophe.
There are a ton of immediate differences to reality that anyone even vaguely familiar with soviet history would notice.
Renacles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really wish they made that clear though, the show tries very hard to make you believe that’s the real story.
mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I counted 3.6 on one hand
anti@lemm.ee 2 months ago
3.6. Not great, not terrible.