Reviews on series Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone (96)

On the TV channel "TNT" like to create various films, shows, TV series, which inflate "a lot of noise", sometimes they turn out wonderful ("once a year and the stick shoots"), but there was an unsatisfactory feeling of illusion, the impressions seen are called "a beautiful wrapper, but with a wormy candy inside." To attract the precious attention of the audience, a huge PR campaign was created, flash mobs were held, the never-depressing topic about Chernobyl was shoved up, long advertising in tintsh programs, magazines, on many sites, a computer game was published, a nice slogan - "Nobody will return the same", all this tells us that a "kinocomb" of autumn television premieres comes out, right?
Alas, for the invention of PR with the trailer “five”, and the inconclusive script – “failure”, only so I regard the pilot series of the youth fantastic thriller. For the storyline is terribly primitive and naive (probably designed for schoolchildren): five young slackers go on a mini-journey to Ukraine in order to return the stolen parental money, whether they can find a super robber, because on their way an unknown Chernobyl anomaly. By the way, novice actors “oak”, all over play their inexpressive roles, poorly express emotions, rummage memorized text, one “macho” with an eternal smile in any situation. Also, the creators borrowed the popular plot idea of the cult t / s "LOST", "about the present and the past", where the action takes place in two time layers - 2014 and 1986, I think it was in vain, because if the series are compared to the past.
Essentially, the pathosy characters of the picture seem to care about each other – their “skin is more expensive”, but they are interconnected, only through interaction can they solve all the unexpected problems that have come up. With all the above-described given characters do not empathize, there is one desire – sooner “something” would kill them, and let this be the only season.
5 out of 10

I have watched the first series and am in a hurry to share my impressions.

I was very interested in Pripyat. I love stories about ghost towns and all this mysticism.
And I was terribly disappointed. There is no limit to my indignation.

The picture pushed back from the first minute. The plot is absolutely stupid, contrived, built literally from nothing, from scratch. It is difficult to think of a more stupid plot of action.

Also "interesting" heroes, modern teenagers. There is no point in talking about characters. They're not even templates, they're just nothing. Everyone is the same, just nobody who wants to be someone. It is very sad and hurtful that youth seems to the creators this way - to drink, smoke, sleep with anyone and generally behave absolutely immoral. No motivation, no interests, no moral qualities, aspirations, goals.
It is not clear the presence of the mat in the series, because it is still “stuffed” by censorship.

I don’t want to watch it anymore.

TNT, disappointing more and more...

At work, they gave 2 invitations to the premiere, at that time not yet known to me, of the series. Arrived home, searched the network and in fact, without much enthusiasm reacted to the upcoming hike. I was more attracted to the promised buffet. As it turned out, I was very mistaken in my predictions. I left the theater with a lot of emotions. .

So, let's start in order. . .

Plot..

In the first episode we see two friends, ordinary Russian teenagers, who decide to throw a party. So the beginning is pretty standard. Parents in Turkey. There's a lot of people gathering, everybody's having fun. (I would like to note that I sympathized with Pasha, the owner of the apartment, when I watched this moment, as I often had to be in his place.) And here comes morning... Everyone wakes up, everyone is ill and then, as luck would have it, the Internet does not work. Almost immediately, an IT specialist appears, who quickly fixes everything, but instead of 2,000, takes another 8 million rubles from the safe. That's where it all starts. . .

Does the ad show that the series is unpredictable? I totally agree with that. The series is teeming with unexpected plot twists, although I was able to predict some of them. Murder, humor, fiction, love... this series has everything you love, everyone will like. The intrigue persists throughout the series. The further, the more interesting. . .

Actors..

I really liked the fact that they recruited young actors, not 30-plus years, for the role of teenagers, and they coped with their task with a bang. Of course, they don’t have much to learn, there are moments where they played a little weakly, but with each episode, they get more and more used to the role, and you more and more want to believe them. I think everyone will notice that. In short, I have no complaints about the cast.

Special effects and so on.

As far as I know, the picture has a good budget. All the fragments that required some additional processing were shot very realistically, be it a collapsing house, murders, accidents, etc. I assure you that you will not see any obvious mannequins instead of corpses.
In conclusion, I can say that Russia is finally seeing progress in this area. This series is a clear confirmation of that. Among all the already tired stupid comedies and remakes of foreign works, from which you want to poke your eyes out, he should definitely be revenge in the TV network. Look, you won’t regret it!

8 out of 10

There is still room to grow and work on. .