Lots of little things in most episodes are changed from dramatic effect.  The side effects of massive radiation poisoning require a few hours to manifest this much for example.  The last episode (WITHOUT going into details) takes a lot of liberties, but it doesn't change much of the basic facts, the important elements of what happened.  You'll end up with a lot more knowledge of atomic power and radiation poisoning that you ever thought to have by the end.
And you will weep.  Many times.
Good news--a lot of the people you met in this episode died.  But a surprising number survived, at least for years and years afterewards.  Like that guy who opened the huge lead door but did not go inside?  He is still alive.  He got soooooo sick.  But eventually he recovered.
IMHO this series portrays more genuine heroes than any war movie I've ever seen.
BTW you have a very beautiful kitty.
Also, keep in mind the Soviet Union was a brutal police state.  Ten years hard labor for example meant living in Sibera in sub-zero temperatures with inadequate food, shelter, clothing, medicine, or tools--and your job each day is to cut down enough trees to burn to keep you alive at night.  Because you had no access to coal or any other kind of heat than wood.  The secret police were everywhere, and there were no civil liberties as we know them at all.

“Nuclussy”
WELL THATS A FIRST 💀

It's not about PRIMARILY about egos and incompetence. It's about fear. The Soviet Union was brutal to people who questioned higher ups and failed in their duties.

Never in my life did I expect to hear the word "nucleussy"!

Radiation goes in a straight line, so when those guys had a good look directly into the open core, they instantly got a fatal dose of radiation.

Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgard are amazing in this show ....

Ionized atmosphere is a symptom of acute radiation in the air.  Ionized air has a taste, and I have been told that it tastes like copper, a metallic taste.  That's why the guy asks, "Do you taste metal?"

Never really thought about the bucket he brings the tapes out in. But i know a bit about intel analysis and spy craft. If he knows he's being watched, it's probably just his waste bucket that he takes the trash out in every day. You create the pattern of taking out the trash, knowing they're going to check the outdoor bins once you go back in looking for any signs you've been up to something. So you hide the tapes in that vent, you're just doing a regular trash run. Which is also why he took the trash out BEFORE he fed the cat. A sudden increase in thrown out tins would be suspicious that evening, and he was waiting for a specific time.

When you get right down to it, that was my first "lockdown." I was practically not allowed to play outside the whole year. And I come from Berlin, which is almost 2000km away from Chernobyl.

Curiosity is great in some cases. Just not when trying to touch stuff from a blown up nuclear reactor. Then again just being near it was enough to give people high amounts of radiation. That taste of metal that they felt was a sign of radiation levels being high.

Dyatlov was hugely dramatised in this show in real life he was one of the first to realise the reactor exploded warned firefighters shut down unit 3 looked for khodemchuk and tried to send Toptunov home and later played the role Legasov does in this series finding out what happened and defended the operators. Also as shown in the IAEA report called Insag-7 it helped expose the lies Legasov and the Soviet Union made and showed the operators were not at fault

Not the NUCLUSSY 😭😭😭

Oh, you're going to learn a LOT.  Yes there were plenty of people to feel bad for....as bad as it was, it could have been much much worse.

"The Nuclussy!"

I'm subscribing. 😂

1) Pure iodine tastes like metal
2) The time between a high dose of radiation and the first time someone vomits indicates their odds of survival.  Vomiting at the 2 hour mark means a 50% chance of survival. Dyatlov puked at the 2 hour because he left for the bunker and didn’t go to areas other did. These other guys you see puking within 10-30 minutes… are doomed to a nightmarish demise

This is going to be a great ride with you covering this series.

11:23 A friend of mine once said of this moment, "That's probably the closest a living human being has ever come to looking straight into Hell itself." Stare directly into that, and your cells are gonna start turning into cytoplasmic jelly over the next week.

The difference between this and ‘TLoU’ in terms of fear factor is that TLoU is fiction. This show is the sanitized version of the real event, and that makes it VERY scary!!!

Nice job on this. Well edited. And you're bright enough to understand most of what's going on, I do have one small criticism though... at 11:49 and again right at 12:00 Kitty is wanting petting or head scratching  lol. Only kidding of course. What an absolute beauty of a cat (love the gray tabbies). Thumbs-up and have sub on me. Looking forward to the rest. Thanks and have a great day.

Just found your channel!  Hey: SEVERANCE!  Only 9 episode, MIND BLOWING.  Highly recommending that one.  The finale is.....really good, let's just leave it at that!  That's a wild show!