How true is this miniseries to actual events?
TRUE DETECTIVE Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHhQlj8i5dpWW52yWmhYQBObQrhos89L&si=OtzR6yUOKR4ENQ2b

"Every lie we tell incurrs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." Is a quote that has stuck with me ever since I saw this. Great writing.

One of the great storytelling choices in the miniseries was starting right when the reactor exploded.  They left the scenes showing the lead up to the accident until the last episode with the trial.  This makes you feel the confusion they did, not knowing how it happened, only knowing that it did and the aftermath has to be dealt with even when the cause is still a mystery.

"I have no idea what you're supposed to do in this type of situation"  - that's the thing. Nobody did. Nothing like this has EVER happened before.

I don't think I have ever said the words "Oh, you d**khead!" so many times during one show or movie because of the dumb decisions people made.  But, the best thing for me was the relationship between Boris and Legasov, how they hated each other at the start, and by the end they were almost best friends.

I've not watched the whole video yet, but enough to see what respect you have for the people involved.
My beautiful, Darling wife died from the long term results of Chernobyl. Her village was on a direct South-westerly path from the explosion and so many people subsequently developed cancer. My wife joked that she must be invincible... until.
Much love and respect to you Jen. And God bless all those who have been and still are affected by Chernobyl. I never imagined as a 16 year old in Britain when it happened, that something 2000 miles away would one day break my heart.

The whole series in one video!? Is it my birthday? Nope, but a pleasant surprise either way

Your reaction to the killing pets is same as I had to the firefighters in the hospital, knowing how long they suffered,  the first time I watched Chernobyl.

I have a friend in Romania who was 6 years old when this happened.  The radioactive cloud hit her area a week or so after the explosion, and nobody was prepared.  She now has a very weak immune system and her mother has fought tumours all her life.  Romania did not have any iodine pills to help people.  My friend is now a nurse.

The Fukushima disaster is the focus of a miniseries similar to this one. It is called "The Days" and is available on Netflix. Fukushima was just as serious as Chernobyl, but the Japanese responded very differently from the Russians.  The series is worth watching.

I like the gruff soldier doing animal control.  It's a horrific job, but a bullet is more merciful than letting them die from radiation and he's adamant about not letting them suffer.

30:19 Yah, that's what I meant - admitting they had a problem with Chernobyl would have meant a "loss of face" for the Soviets. That's why they tried to play everything down and initially didn't evacuate. WHEN the rest of the world finally learned about it suddenly keeping the citizens there made the Soviets look bad - so then they started evacuating.

Totalitarian systems are like that, no matter if they have a thin layer of red paint or not.

General pikalov (the guy who said I’ll do it myself) is a legit badass in his own right. 3 times he looked death in the face and lived to tell about it. He did it because a) i don’t know if he said it or that it’s a general rule of thumb is don’t spend your troops to do anything that YOU yourself wouldn’t have done or B) if it was any other private they would tell him to do it again and send the kid to die but since he was a high ranking member of the Soviet Union NO ONE would have dared to question or doubt him

The man who drove the struck with the high-range dosimeter was General Vladimir Pikalov. He commanded the USSR Chemical Corps from 1968-1988. He was a certified badass in every way. This man was a World War II veteran and a survivor of the Battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk. He had been a soldier nearly all of his adult life. He believed that driving the truck himself to the site of the disaster would carry more weight to the "leaders" in Moscow. Thus, he would be able to firmly convince them of the true scope of the catastrophe. Pikalov survived the radiation of Chernobyl, and died in 2003 at the age of 78. There were many villains at Chernobyl, but he was truly one of the heroes.

"They can't just say whatever they want and it's true" .. I feel this sense of outrage so much.

You asked why won't they tell the truth. It was the Soviet Union. What the party said was the truth. If they said it was a record harvest, but you couldn't find bread, it was a record harvest and you can't find bread because you failed to look for it not because it didn't exist.
There's a long history of shooting the messenger if he brings bad news. So no one could actually say what happened there because the party said it couldn't happen, therefore didn't happen.

To answer your question at 15:50, once the individual has been decontaminated, they pose no risk to anyone else. Anyone touching the Firefighter's clothing will end up contaminated.

One thing you can remember in times like episode 4, is that all the animals you see on screen are exceptionally well cared for and trained working animals.  And that all the bodies you see are things made by a prop or special effects department.  I know that doesn’t reduce the emotional impact and the empathy knowing that that did have to happen.  But at least for the version we are seeing they are all probably fine (it was filmed in 2018/2019 so it’s possible natural lifespans could have passed by now, but working animals on tv/movies have strict care guidelines)

They did not show Akimov's face when she interviewed him and his face had literally fallen off. Great reaction. This series was more horrifying than any horror film i have ever seen.

Radiation is more insidiously scary than any monster that could ever be written in the greatest work of fiction.