He’s doing the ol’ “no one cares about male rape so I get to not be sensitive to female rape” switcheroo, more commonly known as the “if you mention one thing in an article, you have to mention ALL things or else you don’t care about them.”

The podcast interviewer is Peter Sagal. He’s the host of Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me on NPR, which seems like a little weird pick but then again when you look at Craig Mazin’s writing history you wouldn’t necessarily have picked him to write this series either.

100% agree. His explanation, coupled with with action scenes interjecting throughout made understanding what happened almost elementary, which Mr. Mini-Horse Erection and I appreciated so, so much. It should also form the basis for any future litigator looking to break down something complex so juries can follow.

Yes! My husband works at a nuclear power plant and he was trying to explain it to me, but I had to tell him the show did a much better job of explaining it clearly for this non tech person.

Midnight in Chernobyl, which Mazin mentions in one of the podcast episodes, is also very good. Dense, but I plowed through it in the wait between episodes 3 and 4.

I was a nuke worker in the Navy. I worked on the reactirs on the Enterprise. It was extremely cathartic, horrifying, sad, and enthralling to watch for me. We studied this in school, along with the other accidents. I was so glad to see the attention to detail. Beautiful series.

You put it well —the podcast really adds to the experience of watching the series. So many great stories/incidents that didn’t get into the series, interesting insight into various decisions like the accents, the understated music and whole look of the series. Really worth taking the time to listen to the podcast…

I mentioned on my tumblr that I was obsessed with Chernobyl during my Sophomore and Junior year at high school and the great pains I took to try and get any news on the event, from buying the daily newspaper to asking friends to record the evening news, on ALL THREE channels … on VHS, while I was working after school…

Episode 4 is rough. For weeks I’ve been telling everyone I know to watch Chernobyl... after episode 4 I’ve stopped recommending it. It’s still amazing television, but I fear people will watch the Liquidators in action and yell at me for getting them hooked on the show.

Your Chernobyl experience is incomplete without listening to The Chernobyl Podcast (basically Mazin and the host breaking down each episode) and reading Slava Malamud’s tweets.

As I watched Harris’ scenes in the finale last night, I thought to myself, “Oh this is never going to work.” Cut to 20 minutes later, and I’m all, “Holy shite that was brilliant.” I was totally wrong to be concerned. I don’t know how they pulled it off, but it totally worked and all made sense. 

Oh so very frustrating, but she didn’t know then what we know now. All she heard was rumors and speculation but all she felt was her love and sympathy for her husband.

She really broke my heart, really great performance.

It’s definitely one of the best miniseries I’ve ever seen. I still remember a BBC version from the early 2000s called Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl that was also well done (for a BBC show budget) but this was phenomenal by comparison. Every actor/actress was really well cast, and I personally didn’t find the accents…

Jessie Buckley’s natural accent stood out a mile especially, but her acting was devastatingly good. After this, Beast and Wild Rose I would love to see more of her.

I loved this mini-series, and that’s speaking as a person who’s been deeply interested in nuclear power and its disasters for years (I have odd hobbies).

All I have to say is I wanted to pummel that Chef Boyardee lookin Dyatlov every time he was on screen. I guess that’s called good acting.

The final episode had the clearest and easiest to follow explanation for what happened that I have ever heard and I have watched and read a lot about it over the years. That alone was incredibly useful television.

I would rather  have in Russian with English subtitles 

Ooooh is this like a Fuck/Marry/Kill thing for the Raptors?!