Last thing watched on netflix / Amazon..................

[Road Guy]

Yeah I was aware of that but I read an article last night that said Disney wasn't going to move foreword with any of the marvel series (oddly enough I liked most of those even though I am not a big marvel movie fan(avengers, et al)

 

[Road Guy]

watching the last season of Colony, thought this was pretty well done, but apparently no one else did so it got the axe last year

 

[Supe]

On HBO, but Chernobyl has been pretty good through 1 1/2 episodes.  Seems to be less "nuclear is bad", and more "boy oh boy, did the Russians ever f*ck up royally on their cover-up."

 

[Master slacker]

Also supposedly Disney isnt into them due to the violence associated with them..

Doesn't hurt that Disney is creating their own Netflix-esque streaming thing.

... huh...

 

[jeb6294]

Watched whatever that Ted Bundy movie is called.  Wasn't bad, but we're also a bit biased because it was filmed here in Cincy.

 

[john813_PE]

Been on a docu-series binge lately. 

Last three have been:

The Staircase(definitely slanted)

Confession tapes of Ted Bundy

Evil Genius

Remember the EG(Pizza Bomber) story as a kid, but never realized how potentially crazy that incident was. 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

On HBO, but Chernobyl has been pretty good through 1 1/2 episodes.  Seems to be less "nuclear is bad", and more "boy oh boy, did the Russians ever f*ck up royally on their cover-up."

I'm watching it on a bit of a delay. I certainly agree through 1.5 episodes. I'm giving them a lot of artistic license to explain things in a way that the audience can understand, and they've had a few errors on terminology that I'm willing to shrug off.

It's definitely more about poor leadership, refusal to accept facts, and gaslighting, and the human toll. The nuclear accident is just the plot device to drive that narrative.

They're capturing the Russian nuclear mentality pretty well. It's consistent with what I experienced and heard from colleagues.

But the mismanagement shown in the show is hardly unique to the Soviets; I've watched some scenes with the egregiously negligent and incompetent soviet "leadership" types and thought "wow, those characters are totally [former managers]". I've done accident investigations and been on the receiving end of the "[device] doesn't [wiley coyote physics], you're not qualified if you think [weird thing] happened. It never happened at all, everything is fine!" - despite showing evidence of it happening in visible, UV, and IR video; then backing it up with the analysis.

I don't know if you've gotten to the latter half of the second episode? They said some stuff about a potential second explosion that would kill the continent. It had me scratching my head in confusion. I need to go back and read the IAEA report to see if any of that was remotely true.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Just started Vikings on Hulu.  First episode was pretty good and about what I expected.  Will probably watch a few more episodes and decide if I want to continue or give up on it.

 

[Supe]

I don't know if you've gotten to the latter half of the second episode? They said some stuff about a potential second explosion that would kill the continent. It had me scratching my head in confusion. I need to go back and read the IAEA report to see if any of that was remotely true.

I'm caught up through episode 4.  Sorry I missed this earlier.  The part about the second explosion was true (couple articles below), though there are differing views on potential damage.  I think the explosion potential was something like 3-5 kilotons, which would be about 1/3 of what was dropped on Hiroshima.  The real damage was contamination of the water supply, which would impact tens of millions.  However, all three of the guys that went in to start draining the pool lived (and two are still alive), and it was supposedly only knee-deep water.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-nuclear-mission-2016-4

http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2018/04/26/five-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-chernobyl/#sthash.ypgSjgEl.dpbs

Just started Vikings on Hulu.  First episode was pretty good and about what I expected.  Will probably watch a few more episodes and decide if I want to continue or give up on it.

I'd stick with it.  The last 2-3 seasons are a bit meh as the plot starts to follow other characters more closely, but I think the last season will still be good.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

though there are differing views on potential damage.  I think the explosion potential was something like 3-5 kilotons

The real damage was contamination of the water supply, which would impact tens of millions.  However, all three of the guys that went in to start draining the pool lived (and two are still alive), and it was supposedly only knee-deep water.

Thanks, those energies sound more reasonable, as does the contaminated ground water issue. The way Jared Harris' character described it in the show was just not credible - and that would be my only major complaint about the mini-series. Everything else is great.

I knew that the operators who opened the gates survived, which implies that they didn't get *that* large of a dose.

I haven't seen episode 4 yet, that will have to wait until tomorrow evening.

 

[civilrobot PE etc etc]

I've watched Beyoncé's Homecoming about 4 times now. I've moved on to Season 2 of She's Gotta Have It. I fell in love with the movie when I was very young. Spike Lee productions just give me this warm and fuzzy feeling.

 

[envirotex]

Just started Vikings on Hulu.  First episode was pretty good and about what I expected.  Will probably watch a few more episodes and decide if I want to continue or give up on it.

We quit it after a few episodes.  Maybe it gets better?

Watched Big Little Lies Season 1.  Pretty good, even if I did already know all of the spoilers.

 

[Road Guy]

Trying to finish up sneaky pete S3 - enjoyable but a step down from the last 2 seasons.

Anyone watch Imposters (Netflix) 1st season was really good -

 

[Supe]

I still need to watch season 2 of Sneaky Pete.  I liked the ending to the first season.

 

[Road Guy]

Rusty Griswold is in Season 2 as the actual Pete

 

[akwooly]

Dead to me.

 

[Supe]

Dead to me.

This was surprisingly not bad.  Mrs. Supe insisted we watch.

 

[Road Guy]

I got 2 episodes in and it’s just sort of slow - I couldn’t keep interest (& I am
A huge Kelly Bundy fan)

 

[Supe]

Definitely gets more interesting a few episodes in.  Kelly Bundy has also aged a LOT in the past few years.

 

[akwooly]

My wife started watching it and I think I jumped in at episode 3 or 4. Honestly Kelly Bundy was the only reason I started to watch.