I’ve got to disagree with you, I think the potential was maximized by using artistic licenses when it made sense and provided a more impactful narrative. If you want to watch a documentary, watch a documentary. There’s validity to that being a better educational choice. But to make a dramatic television show or movie, there are choices a writer and director have to make in order to make the story flow better and drive home the emotional points that are important to the storyteller. There is a good podcast that accompanied the show where they discuss the differences between the historical facts and the storytelling on the show, and why they made those choices.

At some point, there is personal responsibility for the viewer to seek out the historical record rather than repeating what they saw on a TV show as historical fact and spreading some misinformation.

How about when their flashlights go out? That was pretty much a horror trope.

I’m reliving this a bit because I’m in the middle of Adam Higginbotham’s incredible book Midnight in Chernobyl which covers the catastrophe. There are different kinds of fear, but there is a palpable dread throughout this show that is based on a very real fear of the reality of the tragedy. I think the most visceral kind of fear always originates with your empathy for the characters in the story, imagining how you would feel if you were them and what you might do in that situation. The fact that it happened forces that empathy on you without the protective mental and emotional separation you can give yourself in a fictional scenario. That, along with the production choices and the musical accompaniment, convinces me that it’s the scariest show of all time.

I've always thought that for the first episode at least it's intentionally shot like a horror movie.

Not that he asked though...

>Is this supposed to be a Sanford and son type thing

When you're a Wayans, sometimes you do your best work with, other Wayans

I think that first season of The Terror is better. Chernobyl is a piece of art, everything is just amazing however Terror was more scary.

Check out Chernobyl Diaries

Having lived through the actual events, the tv Series was immensely enjoyable... but had a disappointing failure of potential.

The creator heavily fictionalized it, but worse, he didn't have to.

The same series, but made with a principle of being strictly factual, would have been just as terrifying. Probably even more so, because it would have all been true.

It could then have been not just incredible entertainment, but powerful education too.

Alas, he went for creative license over significance and legitimacy. There's now a couple of generations (and counting) who will have a false record of history because they think it's a documentary. And derivative works that build on those false impressions will end up revising history forever due to the flawed way that citations and argument work.

Yes. That shot of the station just releasing, uncontrollably the radiation in the air is the scariest shit I've seen.

It's kinda hard to say, but no other show has made me feel the emotions that this show made me feel, on that level.

Idk if "scary" is the best word for it, but I agree with you. It's scary in a very different way than most other "scary" shows.

I never thought of Chernobyl as a horror series but now I'm replaying it in my mind and it totally is.

Yeah, I agree. Chernobyl is the scariest thing I've ever seen and it's not even technically horror.

Jeannie's bottle.

You being serious? This sub hates sitcoms and most shows that are aimed at people who aren't men aged 15 through 40.

But the premise of this show sounds lame as hell and apparently Damon Wayans Sr is a piece of shit so the downvotes aren't as stupid as they normally are.

Unless of course you remember that downvotes are for content that is irrelevant and news posts about tv shows are never irrelevant in r/television.

A Death Note. The answer will always be a Death Note.

And Ginsu knives!

They had one a few years ago for a boxed set of early SNL episodes. I ended up watching the whole infomercial just because the clips were so good!

Bah, that was a Type 40. I'd want at least a Type 70.

Matter synthesizer from The Orville. Life would be very comfortable with one of those.

ahh the joy of falling asleep to your favorite show only to be awaken 4 hours later by a man screaming at you.

You may have your Elon Musk, we had Ron Popeil inventor of

Showtime Platinum Digital Rotisserie.

Showtime Modern Rotisserie

Showtime EZ-Store Rotisserie

5-Tray Classic Dehydrator

5-Tray Beef Jerky Machine.

Ronco Pocket Fisherman

and many more !!!!

The other ones work “better” right? Like I just wanna go to New York City on October 30th 1929 to buy some stocks, I don’t want my TARDIS to “screw up” and land me in Buffalo on October 29, 1930 so I can stop an alien microbe from taking over the earth. I just want it to go where I tell it. If it’s gonna have it’s own opinions I’m gonna have to go with the Delorean.

A transporter from Star Trek.

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The Starcase from the 1974 version of Escape from Witch Mountain. My elementary-aged self wanted it so bad.