Waiting for my 'wreck of the Batavia' miniseries ...
Me, I’m waiting for “Brexit: The Series”. I do hope the CGI-rendered zombie hordes look believable.
Waiting for my 'wreck of the Batavia' miniseries ...
For fans of the soundtrack, you might like this: Cities Last Broadcast - The Humming Tapes. Search for "dark ambient" and you'll find lots more.
Edited to add: the Chernobyl soundtrack is now available to buy. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1-1m1iKCs
Pleased to see the Emmy wins for Chernobyl, all well deserved. I was disappointed none of the actors won, but that was offset by the wins for Cinematography and Music, which were both so integral to the intensity of the show. Huzzah!
Good Black Progressive: Good for Chernobyl. It was a well-directed and well-acted dramatization of a terrifying incident based upon true events that still resonates to this day.
Good White Progressive: Oh, definitely. That's what makes it so effective and so chilling. Because it happened and could again.
Good Black Progressive: Oh, most definitely. By the way, have you watched When They See Us which was also nominated for multiple Emmys and is also a well-directed by Ava Duvernay and well-acted dramatization of a terrifying incident based upon true events which still resonates to this day? Despite it's multiple nominations it won only a single Emmy for Jharrel Jerome's portrayal of Korey Wise, the brother who had nothing to do with the incident, but is still included as one of the Central Park Five and did the most prison time. . You 'member them, right? The five Black and Latino brothers who went to jail for a crime they didn't commit, but a certain Orange P-Grabbing POTUS took out full-page ads calling for the death penalty for them and to this very day still insists they are guilty of a crime they never committed.
Good White Progressive: Yeah, it's in my queue. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'll be sure to before the year ends. Or the next Emmys occur. Whatever comes first.
Good Black Progressive: Okay. Thanks. Much appreciated how the suffering of White Russians you'll never know means so much less than the suffering of Black Americans our history books don't talk about, but I'm sure they mention Chernobyl.
Good White Progressive: Hey, it deserved it's Emmys. Have you watched it?
Good Black Progressive: No. I haven't. Have you watched "When They See Us?"
Good White Progressive: No. Not yet.
Good Black Progressive: Ditto. When we do maybe then that is when we can have a reasonable discussion about what "deserves" what. Right now we can't.
Good White Progressive: Has it ever occurred to you that people tend to gravitate to stories about people who remind them of themselves?
Good Black Progressive: Only when I'm awake.
You have a point, NT. I've actually started watching When They See Us. I've been pretty behind on my TV watching, but no excuse, really, since it's on Netflix.
However, I'm a white liberal and am certainly guilty of paying more attention to some stories than others. I think my fascination with Chernobyl goes beyond relating to the victims, regardless of their race, because I've always been interested in the science behind the disaster. There is something horrifyingly fascinating to me, and terrifying, about nuclear disasters, and poignant about an entire area needing to be abandoned and reverting to nature, possibly for thousands of years. I like to think I'd be just as interested if it had taken place in a part of the world where people weren't white, though the role of Soviet-era bureaucracy is historically interesting to me too, since I came of age during the end of the Cold War.
From what I've seen of When They See US thus far, the show is really, really well done, with really good acting, and I'm learning things I never knew about the case and about the kids who were victims of racism and police corruption. It should have its own thread here.
Guys, Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia. The inability to differentiate between "Russian" and "Soviet" is offensive to those of us with families from the USSR (you know, with Russia invading Ukraine RIGHT NOW).
I've watched When They See Us. It's painful and entirely deserving of any and all awards. Ava Duverney is brilliant, and the acting was superb. I regret that expressing happiness for one show implies there's a hierarchy. I didn't mean that to be the conclusion, and I'm sorry I made it appear that way.
Guys, Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia. The inability to differentiate between "Russian" and "Soviet" is offensive to those of us with families from the USSR (you know, with Russia invading Ukraine RIGHT NOW).