Anybody watching Chernobyl on Sky

[jonny]

Who needs disaster movies or horror films... this is the really scary stuff.
Brilliantly done.

 

[zagatoes30]

Started watching on todays flight, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Saigon]

I was in Moscow at the time, have a listen to Christy Moore (farewell to Pripchat) some time.

 

[Wanderer]

I was in Moscow at the time, have a listen to Christy Moore (farewell to Pripchat) some time.

Pripyat' - soft sign at the end! Transliteration rules make the little 'b' you see at the end of Russian words into a ' - to indicate a softening of the preceding consonant. Makes the 't' sound a more like a quick 'tyer' - halfway between a ch and a t. Russian Припять. Think Ukrainian is bit different.

Also Chernobyl' is similar plus it contains the very-hard-for-English-native-speakers 'bl' sound described in one book as 'like saying 'uh' while being punched in the stomach'. Russian Чернобыль.

When I next win QOTD I'm doing one on Russian verbs of motion, the difficult genitive plural inflection of nouns and adverbs and Stalin, was he all bad?

Romani eunt domus....

 

[zagatoes30]

When I next win QOTD I'm doing one on Russian verbs of motion, the difficult genitive plural inflection of nouns and adverbs and Stalin, was he all bad?

Romani eunt domus....

Feck, let's hope nobody set QOTD with the answer Bolton then

 

[mjheathcote]

Just watched the last one.

 

[Zep]

Just watched the last one.

It’s scary isn’t it?!

 

[daverichardson]

At a friends house (I do not have SKY as I refuse to accept the Murdoch clan) and we watched to the first set of adverts of the first episode.
I could not take any more because I am a bit of a wussie.
Must admit though it looked well done....................... sorry

 

[Wack61]

That was the best TV I've watched in a long time , HBO has made some brilliant TV over the decades , Sopranos, band of brothers, boardwalk empire and this is up there with them

 

[CatmanV2]

Finally got to watch this. Bloody good! I wonder how accurate it was in terms of the conversations but ****

C

 

[Wanderer]

Finally got to watch this. Bloody good! I wonder how accurate it was in terms of the conversations but ****

C

The original ones would have probably been in Russian.

 

[CatmanV2]

The original ones would have probably been in Russian.

Did they have subtitles, do you think?

I guess there would have been fewer actors around as well?

C

 

[Wanderer]

Did they have subtitles, do you think?

I guess there would have been fewer actors around as well?

C

Yeah, completely unrealistic, none of the actors actually died!

 

[CatmanV2]

Yeah, completely unrealistic, none of the actors actually died!

They would have been really young in the 80s as well!
C

 

[Wanderer]

They would have been really young in the 80s as well!
C

My partner, a Soviet by birth, reckons there's no way he'd have spoken so critically at the end of the last episode, just I think from what I've read this part was totally made up anyway.

 

[CatmanV2]

My partner, a Soviet by birth, reckons there's no way he'd have spoken so critically at the end of the last episode, just I think from what I've read this part was totally made up anyway.

Not got that far yet!

C

 

[Wack61]

Probably(Maybe not) pure fiction but the Mick Jagger / Martin Scorsese drama Vinyl is a good watch , it's a bit like The Sopranos bought a record company

 

[Marco07]

There's Deutschland 83 too, Deutschland 89 isn't out yet. My Mrs is a German speaker, we had to watch Heimat and Alexanderplatz. With no subbies.....

Just finishes D83. Enjoyed it but kept seeing Captain Sensible when the break titles came up.

 

[CatmanV2]

Just finishes D83. Enjoyed it but kept seeing Captain Sensible when the break titles came up.

Happy Talking!

C

 

[Wack61]

Chernobyl is out on DVD/Bluray now for those that don't have sky.