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Chernobyl recently became the most famous series on the scene, and has become one of the works of art that HBO is proud to have presented to the public after the famous epic (Clash of Thrones).
The series is only five episodes, all episodes started from the evaluation of 9.5 for the first episode, and ended with a rating of 10 for the fifth and final episode.
Chernobyl .. What is his story?
Chernobyl talks about the nuclear catastrophe that has threatened (and continues to threaten) all who live on the planet. In 1986, at midnight, reactor number 4 exploded in the city of Chernobyl inside Ukraine, which was then one of the very central provinces of the Soviet Union.
Usually everyone speaks of Chernobyl as an incident that killed thousands and ended up doing so, but in reality the situation is worse and bigger than that, and this is what the series tried to prove episode after episode, until we were bitterly shocked by the reality in the last episode. The incident has many circumstances and gossip, but the series tried to present the most equitable picture of what actually happened, based on reliable sources, re-embodiment and “extrapolation” of known historical events.
How did the state deal with the problem? What are the human and political consequences of the disaster?
What is special about the series?
1- Respect for science
In the series we have two contradictions: Legasov, a veteran nuclear physicist, and Sherpina, a first-class aristocrat statesman. Let's talk about the first now, and how Chernobyl can do justice to scientists.
In this series, the character (Legasov) is presented as the stereotype and natural image of any scientist. Scientists are simple, as is the keenness to enforce the law, prevent harm and serve humanity. Science is an end, and that end must not be adapted to serve the interests of certain human beings.
The series illustrated the true view of scientists by politicians, but ultimately it was clear that scientists were the guards of this civilization, and without them it would have collapsed long ago.
2- Accuracy
In fact, although the series is small in number of episodes, the accuracy is very high. Usually when the work is short, the production team does not care about the details or pump a good budget for the work, unlike the long work expected to last as long as possible on the screen. But Chernobyl broke all the rules on this.
Characters
The characters here if you want to talk about them with an artistic perspective, I won't talk about the mechanism of character creation, because they already exist in life before. But here I will talk about the “cinematic embodiment” of the character. Here the author must come up with everything he knows about the original character, and try to emulate it in a dramatic mold, allowing him to make an "extrapolation" - possibly not actually - of that character. What's this?
Simply put, Chernobyl took a real character, and turned it into a drama, by imagining what that character could say in such particular situations. So the genius of the writer here is that he made us dramatically merge with characters who are supposed to be completely dry and extremely practical. The characters here were very merging. There is no useless figure, no boring, superficial and faint figure.
The acting
Acting in the series Chernobyl has no dust in my view, especially the representation and personification of Legasov, the Russian scientist who wanted goodness for mankind, but humanity did not share his feeling. All the actors perfectly portrayed their roles, and made us fully integrate with them so I have no negative comment on the acting.
The Science behind the explosion
Here we will talk a little bit about “How the famous Chernobyl reactor exploded”:
The nuclear reactor simply generates heat, which in turn generates energy, and in the middle is cooled so as not to reach an uncontrollable space. Therefore, the RBMK reactors used by the Soviet Union have a precise system for balancing heat with steam with the end product with many other things, but with a fatal flaw.
When the reactor reaches a critical position, a specific button is pressed that completely stops the reactor. When this button is pressed, many boron columns enter to stop the reaction. It is simply a chemical element that completely stops the continuous reaction, known in nuclear physics as Chain Reaction, that is, fission leads to another, and in turn leads to a new one, in a never-ending chain of deadly reactions.
But these boron columns, at the forefront of which there is a peak made of (graphite), an element that usually does not ignite the reaction under normal conditions of danger, but because the reactor here outweighed the normal risk conditions, graphite worked to blow up the reactor completely, then lost the last hope to control on him.
