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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If we're talking about the HBO show, then calling it a documentary is just straight up wrong in the first place.

It's a "based on real events" TV drama that never claimed to be a rigorous retelling of the catastrophe.

There are a ton of immediate differences to reality that anyone even vaguely familiar with soviet history would notice.

[–] Renacles 26 points 2 months ago

I really wish they made that clear though, the show tries very hard to make you believe that's the real story.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I counted 3.6 on one hand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

3.6. Not great, not terrible.