I’m currently watching Babylon 5 on HBO Max and I can’t believe there are no new HBO shows I care to watch. I can remember a time I used to watch everything on that channel. I’m sure they were always left, but they did seem to care about entertainment. Luckily they have a lot of older stuff. I pretty much don’t watch anything after 2014 with a few exceptions but you can definitely see how TDS affected the entertainment industry
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Even as recent as 2019, they came out with Chernobyl, which was fantastic.
Except for the historical abomination that was the female savior.
I loved Chernobyl but it feels unusual in that it didn't have a political spin on it directly. I've almost come to expect that. The bad thing is the story itself is very easy to spin. It can be sold as the amazing collective effort of communism was able to save the world just as much as maybe capitalism would never have been so stupid and careless to begin with.
I don't think it presented the Soviets in a good light myself, but I think it's pretty obvious I'm biased there.
I think it's hard to spin it as a win for communism, considering that the nightmare totalitarian society in which everyone was afraid to speak the truth caused the disaster in the first place. That doesn't mean it could only happen under a Soviet government, but it definitely happened due to their ideology and the society they created around it.
The theme is made clear in Legosov's monologues from the beginning and end of the series. We cannot live by lies.
Those quotes hit me so hard because they are so relevant to us now.
Our media and authorities have abandoned truth for "narratives" and nobody knows what the truth is anymore, so we pick our preferred narrative and cling to it to try and make sense of the world.
Meanwhile, the people who have taken over all our major institutions will cancel you for stating obvious facts, like "men are not women," while pushing obvious lies like "math is racist."
All these lies are going to mean disaster for us when they eventually collide with the truth.
Anti-nuclear scare propaganda
Chernobyl is weird. It goes pretty hard on the realities of the Soviet Union but at the same time carries the message of "that wasn't real communism." It still glorifies collectivism.
I'm a little surprised it was allowed to be made and aired.