It’s different if this is a game 2 or 3 and you have a better sense of what you need to come in first. But in game 1, you have no way of knowing that.

How is 7 goals enough? Thailand is *terrible*. Sweden may score 7 or more on that outfit. And just like that, you’re at risk of a second place finish based on goal differential. I’m sorry, the way match play works, you have to score goals if they can be had. (What you don’t have to do, is whatever the hell it was Rapin…

Actually, Valery knew and anticipated that covering the core would raise temps and speed melt through the floor and ultimately the concrete pad. But he thought the concrete gave him time to work with before the core could reach groundwater.

The Blues just flat out quit late in that game. I really figured they would battle to the bitter end, but like you said, the turnovers kept happening. And then they started thugging it up.

Unhinged as this sounds, and it sounds very unhinged, there’s actually prior art to consider. In 1982, the Soviet’s suffered a MASSIVE pipeline explosion in Siberia that was so large that the US military briefly worried it might have been a small nuclear detonation. It was revealed in 2004 that the explosion was…

Yep, she was turrible in Captain Marvel. 

Now a truly bad actor which nobody seems to recognize because he has some hipster cred I can’t understand is Sam Rockwell

I despise Tom Cruise, but... Tropic Thunder!

Scherbina and Legasov both spent most of the series in varying stages of grief over the fact that they knew they were dead men, but Khomyuk never seemed to acknowledge the fact that she was likely just as doomed as they were.

I felt like the writers really punted on Khomyuk. I understand (though I don’t like) painting Dyatlov as this mustache-twirling villain, and Fomin as a half-wit lackey was fine. I can even deal with Bryukhanov as a benighted, small-minded bureaucrat. But I think the series lacked creativity with Khomyuk’s character.

Fan heads get cracked on the daily by foul balls in baseball. Hockey pucks have ended lives, and despite the netting now used, continue to pose a danger to fans. It’s part of the game. Always has been. 

Yep. The robots (both Soviet and German) worked as intended. The team knew the lunar rovers wouldn’t work on Masha (the most irradiated area of the roof at 12K+ roentgen), but those rovers did work on the other two sections. And of course, the Germans weren’t informed of the actual conditions on Masha. Had they been,…

The release of the China Syndrome has to be one of the most amazing, cinematic coincidences of all time. Like you said, eery.

There’s a chilling parallel between TMI and Chernobyl as well. Both events were preceded by mirror-image failures that didn’t end in disaster, but the lessons from those were never shared.

The series opens showing the event silently, in the distance, and from the perspective of an outside character. It’s almost casual. The series ends, putting us in the room, with people we’ve already seen what happens to them, and somehow still manages to evoke tension and dread almost to the point you hope there will…

There was a lot of mouthing off to authority in this series that just didn’t happen in real life. Especially the early episodes when Legasov repeatedly cuts in on conversations between Gorbachev and top ministers, and even berates the head of the KGB. I mean, yikes. And don’t get me started on Watson’s character and…

I thought that touch of using Russian for the loudspeakers was brilliant. The cadence of the female’s voice calling for attention “Vnimanye Vnimanye...” was perfect for the scene.

This reminds me, does no one else besides me alert on coming drivers of speed traps by flashing their high beams anymore?

Yes, that’s the crux. If it was Dany’s ego and rush to King’s Landing that resulted in the loss of Rheagal and her fleet, it could have worked. And it would have served the larger themes and arcs of the story.

Put Lindell on the Group W bench.