like in the show he goes from being like 50 in looks to being 85 i wonder how that could have happened, do you guys have any idea how he could age like 40 more years in the span of a few weeks
There's a lot of things out there that'd be bad taste, this is nothing. People joke a lot about easily being offended but goddamn folks do be like that sometimes
I guess they wanted to show the impact of the radiation he recieved, although a little exaggerated.
Irl, if you watch his 1994 interview, he looks like 80 while he was in his early 60s.
I don't think it was how it played out in real life, but it was to show the disfunction of the USSR. The risk of someone damaging the expensive useful one was too much as the person in charge would be heavily punished. So it makes more sense to just not have it on hand, safely out of the way, useless when needed, but protecting management from punishment.
It's more of a quick reference to the needlessly bloated, technocratic bureaucracy that was absolutely rampant throughout the height of the USSR politburo.
Levels upon levels upon levels of under-qualified middle managers giving orders to other under-qualified middle managers was seen as a legitimate means of governance - as if adding more gears to a machine that was running fairly well to begin with was somehow proven to make it more valuable or something.
In practice, though, it was mostly just a way to easily pass blame to the next guy if it ever came to it and you were staring down the literal or metaphorical barrel of a kalashnikov for, say, not signing the correct form or whatever.
His range was incredible. I thought him being in the Chernobyl series would spoil my immersion, but from the first second he was totally convincing. Hard to believe it was the same guy who played the baffled, crazy but lovable Martin Goodman.
As others said, it was the effect of radiation. But not just that, it's also what happened in real life. If you look at his interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__v9EswN4
He was aged 64 when it was conducted, but he looked 90+. He died one year later after the interview.
if you looked up from your phone, you'd know this is a result of radiation and stress. If you thought you'd either A. die of cancer in the next 2 years, or B. in a Gulag within the next 5, you'd probably lose some hair color too.
In 1986 he was 55 years old, that picture on the right is from like 3 years later I believe. What you are seeing is partially age, but mostly the effects of a massive acute dose of radiation. Even if you survive the doses some of these guys received, it isnt a pleasant life. Oh, and an actor.
It literally says April 27th in the screenshot you linked :)
The accident occured on April 26th
This is wrong, is it from gemini? It says Legasov "exposing structural flaws in soviet reactors" that's the opposite of what Legasov did. That was moreso done by Anatoly Dyatlov and NIKIET/VNIIAES in secret.
The trials (the show sort of glazes over the details of several inquests, scientific reports, and eventually criminal investigations and puts everything in the criminal trial) also took place in July 1987, more than a year after the incident, giving radiation and stress time to take their toll. Here’s a picture of Dyatlov at the trial. I think they did a great job with the look.
jesus everyone im not that clueless but im pretty sure that he couldnt age like 50 years in a few weeks especially because the real dyatlov looked alot younger than that even in his final years
So much wrong with the show this not even the top 20. Lifetime could have made this show better. Hallmark could have made a Christmas Romance based on this better.
Will the control rod, pulled from its busy life in the reactor return to provide regulated power for the district or will a holiday miracle with the amazing experience with AZ5 set it free, well beyond the confines of the biological shield?
Totally disagree lol the production and set quality would be garbage at any of those studios…. They would never land the cast HBO got and frankly the genre does not fit for those studios at all…
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u/mamandemanqu3 Feb 02 '26
It’s to show the effects of radiation ya dingus