I know of one story about how the radiation got all the way up to Sweden and the country hired hunters to kill the deer, dye their meat blue so people knew not to eat it, and then buried the carcasses.
Want to know something crazy? Guy who played Vasily Ignatenko, the firefighter guy who's wife we follow, is the same guy who played Mr Hickey in The Terror
I actually didn't mind the animal shooting part. Maybe because shooting them felt kinder than letting them starve and suffer from radiation. Watching the humans suffer was heartbreaking. Don't wanna watch the animals go thru it too
Ugh I remember when the pandemic news first started and people weren't taking it as seriously, I kept using the analogy that we're dancing in the ashes. Which feels true again because now that the weather is nice I feel like everyone is out and about again. Regardless, love this show. The book it's based from is so good too
If you want to haunted by the memories of seeing a live open reactor burning again, this looks like a great watch "Chernobyl Live" by Hildur Guðnadóttir with Chris Watson & Sam Slater - DG Premium
At least the Russian government cared enough to stop it from becoming a full-on catastrophe, unlike covid in the US this year. The first part though in not understanding what was going on, the science behind it, and not wanting to inform the public of how bad it was, was spot on
Rewatching this cuz TLOU is so good. I forgot how absolutely terrifying this is. When the firefighter touches the graphite and his hand immediately starts to deteriorate….