Its really really good. Great acting and cinematography. My favorite part was they really break it down for a lay-person as to how a nuclear reactor fails and melts down. I highly recommend it and its crazy insightful. If you're a fan of Soviet history it gets into just how poor and weak they were by the 80s.
Actual Russian dialogue and actors with English subtitles - possibly the best option but it would shrink the viewership and, anyway, it was written by an American in English.
English-speaking actors with fake Russian accents/Russian actors speaking accented English - the 80s action movie option. This gets camp/comical fast.
So British actors speaking with their native accents (except Stellan Skarsgaard) : Harris/Legasov with his R.P, the Scottish chief miner, Dyatlov with his Estuary English. American audiences are already used to British actors playing a high percentage of bad guys or intelligent scientist types so not a great stretch.
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1 literalotherkin 2019-06-26
There's no innocent Commies you pinko!
(BTW that show any good?)
1 jdubthrilla 2019-06-26
Its really really good. Great acting and cinematography. My favorite part was they really break it down for a lay-person as to how a nuclear reactor fails and melts down. I highly recommend it and its crazy insightful. If you're a fan of Soviet history it gets into just how poor and weak they were by the 80s.
1 literalotherkin 2019-06-26
Cool. Gotta have a look then.
1 DonkeyPunch19 2019-06-26
I see a lot of British actors on the IMDB page which means fake ass Russian accents.
I'll pass.
1 jdubthrilla 2019-06-26
You base your viewership on the authenticity of russian accents, homo?
1 McGowan9 2019-06-26
They had 4 options -
American accents - no.
Actual Russian dialogue and actors with English subtitles - possibly the best option but it would shrink the viewership and, anyway, it was written by an American in English.
English-speaking actors with fake Russian accents/Russian actors speaking accented English - the 80s action movie option. This gets camp/comical fast.
So British actors speaking with their native accents (except Stellan Skarsgaard) : Harris/Legasov with his R.P, the Scottish chief miner, Dyatlov with his Estuary English. American audiences are already used to British actors playing a high percentage of bad guys or intelligent scientist types so not a great stretch.
1 CoreyFeldog 2019-06-26
Not only are you wrong, but you gay nigga.