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Post by hi224 on Jun 2, 2019 7:49:56 GMT
possibly.
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Post by MrFurious on Jun 5, 2019 14:25:41 GMT
Good point, after Chernobyl blowing people away
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Post by hi224 on Jun 5, 2019 14:45:58 GMT
Good point, after Chernobyl blowing people away I'll say the great London fire as well. |
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Post by Pangolin on Jun 9, 2019 15:22:39 GMT
My hometown 100 years ago.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 9, 2019 15:35:49 GMT
How about the Tokyo subway attacks.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 9, 2019 20:22:00 GMT
The fallout from the P2 scandal in 1980s Italy.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 9, 2019 20:34:13 GMT
The fallout from the P2 scandal in 1980s Italy. nice choice.
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Post by Winter_King on Jun 14, 2019 13:42:27 GMT
Well I'm still waiting for someone to deliver a tv show based on the 2nd Punic War.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 14, 2019 15:04:41 GMT
If you're combing through history, there are literally hundreds of topics that would make for dramatically gripping miniseries. Even if you confined yourself to the current era, it's an abundant field. It surprises me that there aren't more serial dramas of the Chernobyl type out there--if they're well-crafted and don't play fast and loose with the facts, I'd find them a lot more interesting than much of the fictional stuff being offered up at present.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 15, 2019 16:52:21 GMT
If you're combing through history, there are literally hundreds of topics that would make for dramatically gripping miniseries. Even if you confined yourself to the current era, it's an abundant field. It surprises me that there aren't more serial dramas of the Chernobyl type out there--if they're well-crafted and don't play fast and loose with the facts, I'd find them a lot more interesting than much of the fictional stuff being offered up at present. Agreed. I think it's b/c for a show like Chernobyl, it'd require a lot of research that let's face it, a lot of filmmakers aren't interested in these days.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 15, 2019 18:58:35 GMT
If you're combing through history, there are literally hundreds of topics that would make for dramatically gripping miniseries. Even if you confined yourself to the current era, it's an abundant field. It surprises me that there aren't more serial dramas of the Chernobyl type out there--if they're well-crafted and don't play fast and loose with the facts, I'd find them a lot more interesting than much of the fictional stuff being offered up at present. Agreed. I think it's b/c for a show like Chernobyl, it'd require a lot of research that let's face it, a lot of filmmakers aren't interested in these days. Pretty much I mean Chernobyl is a new gold standard. |
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Post by lunda2222 on Jun 16, 2019 20:12:05 GMT
Pretty much I mean Chernobyl is a new gold standard. No, there's just too much wrong with it to be a gold standard. Both with the physics and the history. And that it's a story where more than half the current population are still alive makes the errors even more glaring.
If you where to compare it to the race to the moon it would be the equivalent of Armstrong landing on Mars.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 16, 2019 22:09:57 GMT
Pretty much I mean Chernobyl is a new gold standard. No, there's just too much wrong with it to be a gold standard.Both with the physics and the history. And that it's a story where more than half the current population are still alive makes the errors even more glaring.
If you where to compare it to the race to the moon it would be the equivalent of Armstrong landing on Mars.
Regardless of any vested historical errors the storytelling was top notch. |
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Post by lunda2222 on Jun 16, 2019 22:57:22 GMT
No, there's just too much wrong with it to be a gold standard.Both with the physics and the history. And that it's a story where more than half the current population are still alive makes the errors even more glaring.
If you where to compare it to the race to the moon it would be the equivalent of Armstrong landing on Mars.
Regardless of any vested historical errors the storytelling was top notch. That it was.
But that don't make it a gold standard when it comes to historical retelling. I maintain that this honor still falls to either Deadwood or the first season of Rome. Don't get me wrong, there are several errors there as well, including some very unnecessary ones.
But I'm fairly strict when it comes to errors like that. Especially when it comes to period pieces we have so much information about. The older period pieces can be excused some errors due to lack of information about the time. But Chernobyl is not among them.
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Post by lunda2222 on Jun 16, 2019 23:04:51 GMT
I would have gone with the rise and fall of Port Royal and the big part of history of the Americas it played during its brief existence.
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Post by JHA Durant on Jul 3, 2019 7:11:50 GMT
The Bhopal disaster in 1984.
Basically Chernobyl, but with poisonous gas instead of radiation, and scores of deaths within minutes. The factory was in decay and there were many accidents resulting in deaths in the lead up to the disaster. The alarm system that would've alerted the city of an accident had been deliberately switched off. The company that owned the factory then attempted a cover up of the disaster, and arrest warrants were issued for the company's CEO Warren Anderson.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 3, 2019 20:52:17 GMT
John Brown. Pottawatomie John Brown the abolitionist. What more does anyone want? Blood, the Civil War tie in. A hanging at the end (sorry about the spoiler). And the central character was loonier than a shithouse rat. Brown hasn't really been done since Santa Fe Trail in 1940.
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 12, 2019 23:02:26 GMT
Basically take the lives of any of the agents involved in COINTELPRO... Could make a very interesting series.
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