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I've read about the incident countless times in my life, but to see it actualized was quite something. The human cost, the near-annihilation of eastern Europe, the cascade of errors in judgement, the utter rejection of realpolitik in favor of falling back on the same old Soviet horseshit of the past generation. It was visceral.

My main complaints are ones of detail. The reactor and its byproducts are mostly unseen things. Whether for lack of sufficient CGI or to keep the cinematography consistent, I don't know. We don't get a good look at the core. It's treated like a Medusa head, and it was. There's a room under the reactor that isn't even mentioned that contains an absolute mass of hell on Earth, the Elephant's Foot. The lava pooled here and for a time, you couldn't even look at it without a mirror. Turn the corner, give a pensive stare, dead in hours, not even days.

Give the guy playing Shcherbina an award for that performance. Jesus. Gorbachev's actor also did a nice job and had a surprisingly human and understated presence.

I had been wondering where I had seen Legasov's actor before. That gossip show producer in Mr. Deeds. And now I can't unsee it. It's a mix of that and Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.
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