I was glad to watch “Chernobyl” again, since I was very intrigued watching the first episode. I missed the night when the second episode was on, but seized the chance to watch the third episode. Since watching the first episode, I had actually stumbled upon a Youtube video (spoiler alert!) of a nurse who had actually treated Chernobyl survivors, who was fact checking the miniseries, and said there was a lot of medical inaccuracies regarding the symptoms of radiation exposure. It wasn’t surprising to see that there are historical/medical inaccuracies, since it’s not supposed to be 100% accurate, but I think that the inaccuracies helped with making the situation in the series feel a lot more urgent and dangerous.

Somethings that caught my attention while watching the third episode were the firefighter’s wife’s persistence and dedication to her husband and the KGB and nuclear physicist involvement. Throughout the episode, the wife of the firefighter constantly defies hospital and nurses’ orders by visiting her husband, hugging and touching him, staying overnight with him, and lying about being pregnant, even when the doctors said there was so much risk to harm her own health and her baby. It was honestly remarkable and touching to see her have so much love for her husband, and not be scared about his deterioating state, she’s still able to stand so strong for her husband to create the little last loving memories, lying about being able to see every part of Moscow outside the hospital window just to make him happy.

It was super interesting to see the part about the nuclear physicist trying to figure out why the explosion happened, when all the numbers lined up that it’s impossible an explosion could’ve happened with that situation. Her visiting the hospital and finding out that the explosion happened only after the workers pressed the emergency safety button is so shocking, and I want to keep watching just to see the results of her investigation, why it exploded when everything seemed to be going correctly. Also I have heard of the KGB but I definitely need to do more research to understand their role in Chernobyl, and why they were following Legasov and trying to get information.