well fan for life Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 The whole “every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth” scene is one of the best scenes I have ever seen in any tv show. The part where they were clearing the roof with the sound of the Geiger counter going mental was outstanding too. Just an amazing series from start to finish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 made up accents really are unnecessary if you aren't portraying more than one side,eg germans/allies in a war film(and even then the need for them is questionable).these were all soviet citizens,the programme was in English and the range of English accents will have portrayed the variations in their Russian accents Worst example of this I've seen in the last few years was Anthropoid with shite Czech and German accents aplenty. I would much rather they just used their normal voice, I'm intelligent enough (I think!) to be able to figure out what characters were the Czech resistance and what ones were the Nazis. The uniforms were a bit of a giveaway tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonglum25 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 After reading some of the comments on here decided to download this. What an absolute cracker of a series. It gripped you from start to finish even although you roughly knew some of the story. This series must wipe the boards when the awards come along. Great acting and it clearly portrayed the horror that was going on. The last episode was just superb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 2 hours ago, NewBornBairn said: Day two of our Benidorm holiday last year. Who would visit you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Actually that was one of the more horrific things - that her unborn baby absorbed all the radiation meant for her and subsequently died. The guilt that poor woman will suffer... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Needs another episode all about the fireman's wife missing the pojer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 15 hours ago, NewBornBairn said: Day two of our Benidorm holiday last year. Sad to see this masterpiece being stolen and poorly used on Twitter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeArab Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Watched episode 4 there. Shooting the puppies man jesus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 17 minutes ago, FifeArab said: Watched episode 4 there. Shooting the puppies man jesus. We put nails through his hands and thorns in his skull, we've no really got a leg to stand on here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Watched episode 4 there. Shooting the puppies man jesus.The podcast talks about a scene that they filmed but did not use. One of the puppies was not quite dead and started to bark when they were pouring the concrete but they did not have any ammunition left to finish it off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Outstanding television, up there with band of brothers as the best mini-series I’ve ever seen. Read a review of the programme where they spoke about the accents. They’re all speaking English anyway, so what would be the point in putting on shite Soviet accents? Also, the main characters are from various regions of the Soviet Union, so spoken languages and accents would all differ. It’s perfectly fine the way it is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Minertaur Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 2 hours ago, MONKMAN said: Outstanding television, up there with band of brothers as the best mini-series I’ve ever seen. Read a review of the programme where they spoke about the accents. They’re all speaking English anyway, so what would be the point in putting on shite Soviet accents? Also, the main characters are from various regions of the Soviet Union, so spoken languages and accents would all differ. It’s perfectly fine the way it is. A guy at my work says that it ruins the whole show that they aren't speaking Russian. My counter argument of people would be criticising the show for terrible accents has been ignored! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 23 hours ago, Moonglum25 said: After reading some of the comments on here decided to download this. What an absolute cracker of a series. It gripped you from start to finish even although you roughly knew some of the story. This series must wipe the boards when the awards come along. Great acting and it clearly portrayed the horror that was going on. The last episode was just superb. Yep. I expect Jared Harris to get the Golden Globe and the Emmy for his performance in it. Basically an Oscar winning performance too, if it was a film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 2 hours ago, The Minertaur said: A guy at my work says that it ruins the whole show that they aren't speaking Russian. My counter argument of people would be criticising the show for terrible accents has been ignored! I bet he feels cheated that the actors are only pretending to be dying of radiation poisoning. Would he have preferred it to be filmed in the actual location? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 A guy at my work says that it ruins the whole show that they aren't speaking Russian. My counter argument of people would be criticising the show for terrible accents has been ignored!I felt at the start a brief disappointment that it wasn't in Russian and subtitled but that very, very quickly changed.Finished it yesterday and can't really add anything else to what has been said. Incredible television. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Always had a passing interest in the disaster and had read about it and obviously seen the photos, especially of the deserted Pripyat. Seeing it played out in a drama really brought it to life though and it's great that some of the individual stories are being shown to global audience. Maybe this is covered in the podcasts, which I haven't listened to yet, but I imagine it's a hard call on whether to go with subtitles or Western actors and then what to do with accents. I'd guess that even in a freer Russia, it might have been hard to recruit the actors required for the former? I'd maybe have preferred accents but really, there is no logical reason why, is there? For all the human suffering was immense, I found episode four with the dogs the most bleak. I'd possibly have preferred my 90 seconds on the roof. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebonce Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Radford said: I'd possibly have preferred my 90 seconds on the roof. The volunteer who got his foot stuck under the graphite on the roof... did we see what happened to him after the event? The burning of rubber at the toes was hugely ominous in the way that the fireman picking up the graphite in the first episode was. I suppose that we were to be left with our own assumption. The podcast is hugely recommended for those who haven't listened yet. ETA: On the Russian accent thing, it never occurred to me after the opening scenes. The Death of Stalin is brilliant - in a completely different way - but the actors didn't put on Russian accents for that either. Edited June 10, 2019 by bunglebonce 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 The biorobots might of had a slightly better survival chance than the rest. As once their 90 seconds on the roof was done they left the exclusion zone never to return. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 The biorobots might of had a slightly better survival chance than the rest. As once their 90 seconds on the roof was done they left the exclusion zone never to return. Except for the guy who got his foot caught in the graphite. He toast, possibly quite literally. I think I read somewhere that many had a second go just for the extra money. So many were used it'd be hard to keep track. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 22 minutes ago, UpInTheAyr said: Except for the guy who got his foot caught in the graphite. He toast, possibly quite literally. "Comrade soldier, you're done." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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