 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers review for the show Chernobyl on HBO. Yes, if you have HBO It's the only way to get this show. It's not available on anything, but HBO and HBO go So at this point it's their on-demand and the HBO go app because it was a mini series It was only five episodes. I believe it was just five five episodes and yeah, let's talk about it a little bit So this was heavy This was a heavy show if you have a problem with real-life horror and I'm doing this as like a horror review But it's not horror in the sense that a lot of people think of it of like a stalking killer or like some sort of creature something this is real-life horror like this happened and Sometimes that's a little too much to handle for some people. I know for me I have to be in the right mood to watch a movie or a movie that has Subject like this or show like this where it's based in reality because it's not like things that you can watch and be like Yeah, you know, this is all fictional. It's easy to handle because I know it's not real. This stuff happened now That said you don't really know how much is actually Exaggerated because a lot of the times with shows, you know, they need to make it more interesting They need to make it more engaging So there will be things that they change just to make it more interesting to make it more engaging for the audience So I'm sure there were some things they had to do with this they did actually say some of the things at the very end of the film like they kind of took a group of people and Put them together and made them one character in the show as opposed to an entire grouping of people in reality who You know were those people And that goes to the acting the acting in this show was very good I I can't think of a single actor that I saw was just like oh, that's that's bad acting They were all at least like solid to great and there was a lot of there were a lot of very good performances in this I can't call all of them out because it would take forever, but I think the one that shines the most is the main character who is played by Jared Harris who how about Jared Harris having a really good year? I guess, you know, he with his great role in Chernobyl where he shows a Hell of a good acting style and and pretty solid range to his really great performance and I think even better performance because I think he had more to play with and More range to be able to show with the character for the show the terror that was on AMC Which I did a review for the terror you can go ahead and check that out on this channel If you liked Jared Harris and Chernobyl Then you should definitely see the terror because Jared Jared Harris in the terror is even better than Jared Harris in Chernobyl Because like I said, he was given a lot more material to work with a lot more range to be able to show So just phenomenal. I have so much respect for that guy. His acting is Spot on amazing. So the material of this obviously, you know, I'm saying this is a no no spoilers review, but if you know about Chernobyl then You know, there's a big thing that's spoiled for you up front but they start with that in the very beginning and then it's kind of like The fallout and trying to figure everything out after that like what happened when we're wrong You know what who's to blame all this type of stuff And then they kind of circle it all the way around in the very end to kind of take a look back and you know like clear some things up basically now this show has caused a lot of Hype a lot of people really like this show a lot of people been talking about this show it resurfaces a lot of fears of Nuclear power and in my opinion nuclear power for me. There's always been something I haven't felt very good about because I know You know growing up I've been very cognizant of the fact that Chernobyl happened and the impact of Chernobyl so I have always kind of thought that you know humans are very much fallible and Just one little slip-up could mean some really terrible things So I would just rather stay away from that one, you know, it's kind of like how people kind of feel about you know getting into cloning like as a as a Human species our science that has gotten to a point where we could we could make that happen But a lot of people are like, yeah, you know, I just I just don't really think we should go there And for me like nuclear power is something that you know I just really don't think we should go there Maybe part of that's just because I don't have a whole lot of trust in people. That's just me personally I'm just I'm just not that type of person. I mean one-on-one basis I know a lot of people like when I get to know people, you know, I have a lot of trust but I also feel like there are a lot of idiots out there and By and large, I'm not a people person. I'm an individuals person. I like individual people. I hate people as a whole and It goes back to my my grandfather actually has a wonderful quote That I heard all the time growing up and that is most people aren't much So I kind of live by that mantra a little bit. Sorry. This is a big downer But it actually fits very well for this Chernobyl series because it is an insane downer And that goes to there are a lot of hard things to watch in this Especially because like I was saying like you know that this is based in reality You know that there are people who went through this stuff and when you're seeing the horror when you're seeing the Practical effects of the terrible things that came out of it. You just think like that happened, you know And like I said, you know, maybe some of it's exaggerated But some of it may be very accurate and with a lot of these shows they especially with Effects of something that actually happens in real life. They try to get their practical effects to Mirror what that actually would look like in real life So I assume they probably would have done the same thing with this but This show looks amazing. Like I said, the acting is so good. The score is handled really well The pacing is really good with it. It looks really awesome and it's very tense The other thing is the scripts are so well written because it's very tense kind of the whole time And you just kind of like feel the environment of like this is terrible dread and tension and awfulness Pretty much the whole time But there's a lot of really good breakdown of a bunch of the technical terms of what was going on And so I think the scriptwriter did an amazing job with that in giving people the opportunity to actually follow along and understand What what happened while it's being explained by scientists in the show. So Yeah, so it yeah, I mean there's really not a whole lot more I can say about this show But I highly recommend it. I think it's very well done Really liked it. The only thing is I think Maybe it should have this is a rare occur occurrence where I'm gonna say maybe it should have been more episodes Maybe we should have got a little bit more into some of the people's a lot other people's lives were affected by this It kind of mainly focuses on the people involved in the cleanup and trying to figure out Get to the bottom of things but this but seeing the impact of People who are your everyday citizen Would be a really cool thing to have so maybe like one more episode. Maybe make it six episodes Maybe seven. I don't know not go crazy. Usually I'm advocating for cutting back But in this case, I think they had so much material. They could have done one or two more episodes, but Regardless, it's a very good show. I would definitely recommend it out of five stars with habs in play I would say four stars. It's a four star show. It's been a lot of fun It's a four star show. It's very good And like I said if people have seen this or if you do see it and you really like Jared Harris's performance Who's the main guy? Definitely check out the terror which is available at the moment on Hulu and it originally was on AMC So it also might be on demand if you have AMC. So anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out And until next time keep it brutal