What the fuck is the deal with this show? Serious question. It's good, but the attention it gets on here is insane. Is it all HBO shills, trying to keep the network in the news, now that all those sweet dragon bux are gone?
Tell my why you love this so much.
Yes it is shills. Notice the lack of game of thrones threads? Marvel threads? Some of it is just fans sure but it's definitely a good mix of both
Vidya demographic, shallow "cool thing of the day" subject matter, good production value
It's a mixture of real interest because of the demographics on Yea Forums, along with a significant helping of bots. If you look at a great number of the posts in those threads they are obviously just botposts: talking AT the thread rather than TO someone, regurgitating old text, strings pulled from previous threads with minor changes.
>talking AT the thread rather than TO someone, regurgitating old text, strings pulled from previous threads with minor changes.
describes about half of the posts on Yea Forums these days
For some reason it's already the most popular and best rated show on imdb. What the fuck. It's good, but seriously?
yes, it is.
>the attention it gets on here is insane
It's targeting the STALKER demographic.
>I literally don't understand how memes work
Found the redditfugee.
Some of that is just NPCs for sure, but this place is loaded with bot traffic.
I like the show, but the acting is pretty horrible except for Dyatlov.
memes have jumps in content that push them forward, i'm talking about the mostly text threads that are obviously just text pull bots using basic logic.
>the acting is pretty horrible except for Dyatlov
People have very low expectations for acting in television, they'll stick with it if the plot's good.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm at with it. Entertaining and interesting, even if the acting is garbage.
Yeah it's been shilled VERY effectively since like early May. Within a few days after tens of generic topics in the "Have u seen this? It's the best" (when there was only 1 ep released) there was a general up and it's been upheld by shills probably. Disgusting.
I'm guessing the gotfags jumped to another hbo show. Then there's the vedditors who watch because chernobyl and Stalker are "kino af"
You underestimate how much a good production with a good cast can draw people in, regardless of the topic.
A ton of people lived with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. My country was part of the Soviet Union and even tho it was far away from Chernobyl the cancer rate has gone up quite a bit ever since.
My dad was in the military back then and has told me how they suddenly were ordered to stop eating fresh food and only canned rations made before. And no one was told what was going on for days - people eating food poisoned by radiation.
At the same time, high government officials had been provided by food from countries that were outside the zone of radioactive particles - all paid with the public's money.
So yeah, for a lot of people this is more than just a show, some actually lived through it or were in someways affected by it.
There was good OC made from the first episode while others enjoyed talking about the scientific and historical accuracy of the show. Then /got/ ended and Reddit meme hungry as they are latched on to the general looking for something familiar.
Cinematography and music.
Also good memes.
except every thread was started with memes you fucking retard, there was no "Have u seen this? It's the best"
kill yourself you paranoid spastic
That's literally not true you fucking shill. And even if it was, you'd have to be a total redditor to believe that because there's "memes" it's organic and legitimate. Brainlet fuck.
Post proof then.
shills
earlier threads had a whole bunch of "haha share your chernobyl memes :PP" type shit
it's a good show but the hype was definitely disproportionate.
Na, at least on Yea Forums it's riding the coattail of The Terror. It's popular because Jared Harris is in it and he plays a very similar role to Crozier
Why didn't they just use a high pressure fire hose to blast the graphite off the roof???
The reason it caught so much traction was because they show was hot on the heels of GOT. That show was ending and people were seeing ads for it right as they were searching for the next thing to watch. I don't know if HBO was expecting the great reception, but they dropped the ball by not having something lined up right behind it.
Are people going to be excited for the suicidal minority show that they now must wait a few weeks for? The women with secrets show that they must now wait a few weeks for? The watchmen show that is a few months out?
Chernobyl was is a good show, but it got a boost from HBO concluding a popular series at the same time.
Ur the only one talking about it outside of the general.
Fuck off and stop polluting the board
A very well made series with great acting and writing that got huge critical acclaim. Obviously it was GoT that made it popular ...
The first half of the first episode was so full of solid meme material that it took off quickly. On top of that the show has really nice production and the topic is fascinating to many people.
nuclear disaster is thinking man's kino
people are bored out of their minds and current culture is a vacuum. thus anything that comes along that is mildly stands out from the current stream of garbage media is tacked onto by many people who want to feel a part of a cultural movement
>Finally, a good television series that isn't shit
>STOP TALKING ABOUT IT
it is a bit strange. It's a good show but it's not even a top ten HBO show.
tbf theres nothing else good in tv running right now
I like it because of the 100% white presenting cast.