The Testimony Of 'Comrade Boris Evdokimovich Shcherbina' /Web serie Chernobyl

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[beardandbop]

Episode 1: Idk how a nuclear reactor works.

Last episode: "Any questions?"
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[ven_siva]

"Now I know how a nuclear reactor works" - Boris

[aaronnataren]

The passion with which he learned how a nuclear reactor works.
So sure of what he knew, that he asked the committee if they had any questions, and if they did, he was ready to answer.

All this considering that at the beginning, he did know anything about how a nuclear reactor worked.

[ciscoj]

Oh I so how he ended his testimony. “They tried 3 times and they failed.” And the last time they tried they created a nuclear catastrophe

[MrBendylaw]

That cough landed on the crowd like 5 tons of boron and sand.

[GrayNeko]

Scherbina's character arc was my favorite part of this entire series. When we meet him, he's a bit of an arrogant ass, your typical Party Boss. Not that different from the one Kholmuk encounters in Kiev. But the second he gets eyes on what's happened at Chernobyl, his bullshit detector goes into overdrive and he starts listening! They made the mistake of sending the one good man.

[wwld]

to think that scherbina had to learn how a reactor works from scratch and was able to put it so simply to everyone and was ready to shut the fuck up anyone that would dare accuse him of not knowing what he was talking about

absolute chad

[bryanduhart]

boris is hands down the best character in the series, very well written

[mikemcaulay]

This the best explanation I've heard of what set this catastrophe in motion.

[CrniWuk]

It was really a good thing that Shcherbina knows how a nuclear reactor works.

[scarminati]

The look at 3:25 "So proud of you Boris. I taught him everything he knows."

[dougwilliamson]

Stellan Skarsgard is incredible in this role.

[ToddReuterOutdoors]

The fourth time they failed, was April 26th, 1986.

*Mic drop*

[joshm]

I didn't realize until this scene that Boris actor is also Luthen in Andor. He can monologue like no one else sometimes.

[MBrider]

They say that the mustard colored dot is still in court to this day.

[NickJohnCoop]

The most perverse irony that has ever existed. The greatest nuclear disaster was a safety test. It would have prevented everything to have just to say the test was successful and carried on.

[AndrewG-hc]

That yellow dot throughout the whole clip on screen should be nominated for an Oscar for staying in character.

[RyanWehr]

He did such a good job. He almost forgot he’s acting the way he’s talking in this room.

[morbius]

Stellan Skarsgard was fantastic in his role as Shcherbina. He started out cold, indifferent, somewhat arrogant. But after he saw things for himself he was ready to move heaven and earth to support the people trying to clean the mess up. Once we get to this point in the story, you can tell he had zero f__ks left to give, would not gloss things over, and spent his entire presentation almost daring someone in that room to challenge anything he said. His grim determination to support the Liquidators, combined with Legasov’s stubborn persistence to get the truth out may have saved more lives than either man ever ultimately knew. And even after Chernobyl, Shcherbina, already slowly dying at that point, went on to coordinate recovery and relief efforts following the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.

[theivory]

Something I hadn't considered before is this. Why was the test never conducted on the other reactors that came online over a decade before the disaster?