<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: Spoilers ahead for Monday's "<keyword id="11662695" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-beast-must-die">The Beast Must Die</keyword>" season finale.</li><li>Star <keyword id="3369689" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cush-Jumbo">Cush Jumbo</keyword> said it was "a complete mindf--k" to find out that an important character had died.</li><li>"It's actually really hard to act when you know," Jumbo said about acting out plot twists.</li></ul>Warning: Spoilers ahead for "The Beast Must Die" season finale, which aired Monday on <keyword id="6358378" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="amc">AMC</keyword>.Cush Jumbo said "nobody saw the ending coming" <a href="https://www.insider.com/jared-harris-jon-hamm-importance-of-advocating-for-others-2021-7">for "The Beast Must Die,"</a> including her own friends and family. In the six-part first season of the AMC <keyword id="36507" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Thriller">thriller</keyword>, Jumbo plays a distraught mother, Frances Cairnes, trying to find the reckless driver who killed her young son in a hit-and-run accident. Her search takes her to the home of the manipulative George Rafferty (<a href="https://www.insider.com/mad-men-is-the-best-television-show-ever-heres-why-2017-7">played by "Mad Men" star Jared Harris</a>). Meanwhile, Detective Nigel Strangeways (played by <keyword id="6514122" type="AGENCY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Billy-Howle">Billy Howle</keyword>) is also trying to solve the case while dealing with PTSD from the death of his partner. The fifth and penultimate episode ended with George (who is presumed to be responsible for Frances' son's death) dying unexpectedly under mysterious circumstances. The finale, which aired Monday, reveals that Frances was responsible for George's death.Jumbo told Insider in June that it was "a complete mindf--k" when she first found out about George dying and explained why that murder scene was so tricky to film.<div type="image" title="Cush Jumbo in &quot;The Beast Must Die&quot;" height="4000" width="5333" msid="85443813" hostid="261"></div>In the second-to-last episode of the season, Frances and George go on a boat ride. At the time, viewers (and George) don't realize that Frances is secretly poisoning George.Monday's finale reveals that Frances had been killing George in the previous episode by poisoning some of the brandy they both drank when they were out sailing earlier that day. While she took a few sips of the pill-laced drink in that scene, George finished off the majority of the flask. It was enough to kill him, as Frances was hoping, and he died hours after the boat ride.The "Good Fight" actress explained it was tricky to film that sequence on the boat in the fifth episode because while she already knew what was happening in it, the audience wasn't meant to find out she was murdering George in that scene until the finale, and she wanted to avoid accidentally giving that away too early."It's actually really hard to act when you know," Jumbo said about the plot twist. <div type="image" title="Jared Harris in &quot;The Beast Must Die.&quot;" height="2836" width="3782" msid="85443814" hostid="261"></div>Jumbo called George's mysterious death before the finale "one of the best twists" of the season, because his death raises more questions than it answers."It really throws you into thinking, 'What the hell is going to happen in the next step?'" Jumbo told Insider. "At the same time, I was secretly satisfied because you know, whether he killed her son or not, he's an a--hole." (The season never definitively answers the question of who killed Frances' son, but heavily implies George was the culprit.)Harris, who plays George, also agrees that his villainous character is a "despicable person," telling Insider separately in June that he wanted there to be "something shameful" about George's death. "I was pitching for [George] to be found like Elvis on the toilet or something," Harris told Insider, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/elvis-addiction-was-the-perfect-prescription-for-an-early-death">referring to Elvis Presley's death in a bathroom from cardiac arrest attributed to suspected drug use</a>. "Where there's trousers around his ankles or something because he didn't deserve a dignified death."<h2>Season 2 of 'The Beast Must Die' will focus more on Detective Strangeways' past</h2>Jumbo confirmed to Insider in June that it's "highly unlikely" that Frances (who dies in the finale) will make an appearance in the second season of "The Beast Must Die."Instead, Howle separately told Insider, <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-beast-must-die-britbox-developing-season-2-1234768426/">the upcoming season</a> will let the viewers in on more of his character Detective Strangeways' "history and what brought him to where he is today."<div type="image" title="Billy Howle in &quot;The Beast Must Die&quot;" height="4000" width="5333" msid="85443815" hostid="261"></div>"I'm interested in his relationship with his line of work," Howle said about the troubled detective. Strangeways is the central character in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GSVZ215?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tpbktpbk">a series of mystery novels</a> by Nicholas Blake (the pen name of Cecil Day-Lewis, father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis), including <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/09/bbc-beast-must-die-scott-free-1202456274/">the book of the same name</a> upon which the first season of the AMC series is based.Howle hopes the new season will explore more of his character's inner life and why he's chosen to become a detective."It takes a very specific sort of person to want to do that kind of thing. It's a very high-stress job. It's a very high-stress environment, but it's to do with a sort of sense of righteousness, a sense of justice," he said.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="865031" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jared-Harris">Jared Harris</keyword> said he brings lessons from "<keyword id="49837" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mad-Men">Mad Men</keyword>" to every project where he's the lead.</li><li>Harris played advertising executive Lane Pryce for three seasons on the period drama.</li><li>"I admire the way that <keyword id="444215" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jon-Hamm">Jon Hamm</keyword> led that company, I took those lessons on board," he said.</li></ul>Jared Harris <a href="https://www.insider.com/mad-men-is-the-best-television-show-ever-heres-why-2017-7">wowed "Mad Men" viewers</a> with his moving performance as Lane Pryce. Although it's been almost a decade since his character's last appearance on the show, Harris said his time on "Mad Men" has influenced every project where he's the lead.While speaking with Insider about his new AMC show "<keyword id="11662695" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-beast-must-die">The Beast Must Die</keyword>," Harris spoke warmly about his former costar, "Mad Men" lead Jon Hamm. "I admire the way that Jon Hamm led that company," Harris told Insider. "I took those lessons on board when I've been the number one on the show - that you have responsibilities, that you must look after the other actors and you must make sure that you're their advocate."He added: "You must speak up for them if you can - if they need your help. And then, you look out for each other. You make sure that you're going to be able to do the best work that you can do."<div type="image" title="mad men 712 jon hamm" height="1080" width="1440" msid="84502681" hostid="261"></div>"Mad Men" <a href="https://www.insider.com/mad-men-fun-facts-2018-11">aired for seven seasons, from 2007 to 2015</a>, and followed people working at advertising agencies in the '60s. The critically-acclaimed series' ensemble was led by Hamm's charismatic advertising executive, <keyword id="678192" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Don-Draper">Don Draper</keyword>.Harris played Draper's tragic coworker, Lane Pryce, for three seasons. Now, Harris leads "The Beast Must Die," which tells the story of Frances Cairnes (played by Cush Jumbo), a woman trying to track down the person who killed her young son in a hit-and-run accident. Her search for answers leads her to the home of George Rattery (played by Harris).While Pryce doesn't always make the right choices on "Mad Men," he's ultimately someone viewers sympathized with. But it's hard to feel similarly about Harris' "Beast" character, George.From his very first appearance on-screen, George is a deeply unpleasant character who is cruel to those around him - and Harris leans into that villainous portrayal."George doesn't care about anybody," Harris told Insider about his "Beast Must Die" character. "George is a narcissist and he only cares about how you make him feel about himself. If you make him feel good about himself, then he likes you and you're worthwhile to him.""If you don't make him feel good about himself, then he doesn't have any use for you," he added.<h2>Here's a sneak peek at the upcoming third episode of "The Beast Must Die"</h2><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKVU-OtihkQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>"The Beast Must Die" airs Mondays at 10:00 p.m E.T. on AMC, with new episodes premiering a week ahead on AMC+.

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<ul><li>People in Visakhapatnam woke up with irritating throats, breathing problems after a major gas leak in LG Polymers located in the outskirts of the city. </li><li>The gas tragedy brought back horrific memories of <keyword id="6355556" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bhopal">Bhopal</keyword> Gas Tragedy that happened in 1984. </li><li>As we hope for the situation to get back to normal, here are some film, documentaries and series to learn from past tragedies. </li></ul>A chemical gas plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, leaked putting at risk the lives of hundreds of people to the toxic styrene. At least 11 have been declared dead, many others faced irritating throats, breathing problems, fell unconscious while walking on the road and some others were trapped inside their tiny homes. The gas tragedy brought back horrific memories of Bhopal Gas Tragedy. As we hope for the situation to get back to normal, here are some film, documentaries and series to learn from similar tragedies of the past. Chernobyl: Miseries on Disney+ Hotstar <div type="image" title="Gessen-Chernobyl-2" msid="75618386" hostid="261"></div> Creator: Craig Mazin IMDb: 9.4/10 Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård Description: Chernobyl is a visual account of how safety lapses led to the world’s worst nuclear power accident in a power plant near Kiev, Ukraine. The Soviet government, which ruled Ukraine at that time, tried every possible way to cover up the situation. Two cities — Kiev and Pripyat — near Chernobyl nuclear plant were evacuated. And within three months of the disaster, 30 people died after their skin decayed because of radiation. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain on Amazon Prime Videos <div type="image" title="bhopal_a_prayer_for_rain" msid="75618407" hostid="261"></div> IMDb: 7.1/10 Director: <keyword id="6354422" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ravi-Kumar">Ravi Kumar</keyword> Starring: <keyword id="36712" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kal-Penn">Kal Penn</keyword>, <keyword id="16408" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mischa-Barton">Mischa Barton</keyword>, Martin Sheen Description: The film is based on Bhopal Gas Tragedy — the worst industrial disaster in the world — that took place in 1984. A major gas leak More than 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas a highly toxic substance. The tragedy killed 25,000 people for the next thirty years. Crude on Apple TV <div type="image" title="Capture111" msid="75618457" hostid="261"></div> IMDb: 7.5/10 Directed By: Joe Berlinger Description: Crude is an award-winning documentary film about a lawsuit by thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron which caused one of the largest environmental disasters in history. The oil pollution contaminated the soil and water <keyword id="83247" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Resources">resources</keyword> in the rain forest of Ecuador and caused a sharp increase in serious illness in locals. <keyword id="177404" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Deepwater">Deepwater</keyword> Horizon on Youtube <div type="image" title="deepwater-horizon-825" msid="75618508" hostid="261"></div> IMDb: 7.1/10 Director: Peter Berg Stars: <keyword id="38899" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mark-Wahlberg">Mark Wahlberg</keyword>, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin Description: The film is about the deepwater horizon drilling rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2019, resulting in a massive fire breaking. The incident killed several crew members. Those who survived were left to fight with heat and flames. Man-made disaster on National Geographic The series on National Geographic shows rare footage of how natural resources triggers disaster. One of its episodes includes a Chinese dam — weighing more than 3,000 Empire State Building — causing tremors, leaving 90,000 dead. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/gas-leak-in-andhra-pradeshs-visakhapatnam-lg-polymers-chemical-plant/articleshow/75591816.cms">Vizag gas crisis claims 11 lives and reports second leak, which the government clarifies 'was required' to bring the situation under contro</a>l

These are some documentaries on man-made and natural disasters that we can learn from

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ac6766e68987519008b47ba-2400/terror101am11210198-rt.jpg" border="0" alt="The Terror" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMC</div></div></div><ul><li>AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men."</li><li>The historical-fiction series is a sci-fi horror twist on the stories of real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.</li><li>Business Insider spoke to creator and showrunner David Kajganich, who has been attached to the project since before the novel it's based on came out in 2007. </li></ul><hr />Before David Kajganich came to Los Angeles to start screenwriting, he worked as a wilderness instructor and guide.Years later, that led him to his first job running a TV show: AMC's brilliant and haunting limited series, "The Terror," which aired its finale Monday night. The series, which premiered on March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name. Both are fictionalized accounts of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Northwest Passage. It stars Jared Harris as Crozier, Tobias Menzies as Fitzjames, Ciarán Hinds as Franklin, and Paul Ready as Goodsir. Kajganich told Business Insider he had "a long history" with "The Terror," a project he'd been attached to since 2007. He recalled telling the story of the lost Franklin expedition in his years as a guide. When he started his career in Hollywood, he heard Dan Simmons was writing a novel about the story called "The Terror." Simmons was adding a Victorian gothic horror element to the story. Kajganich got a copy of the book before it was published, and tried to get the rights to adapt it into a movie. He eventually got himself hired as the screenwriter, but it was too late. Universal had another planned project that was too similar: Guillermo del Toro was set to direct an adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story called "At the Mountains of Madness," which is also about a disastrous and horrific expedition set in the Arctic. Kajganich said the rights to "The Terror" went to HBO, and "for a little while" David Fincher was attached. Over time, the idea shifted from a two-hour movie to a television series, and it was pitched to AMC. AMC declined."They said they weren't comfortable with an anthology series at the time," Kajganich said. "'American Horror Story' was just starting its second season, so they could've been ahead of that curve, but they just weren't ready to take the plunge." The project was with Netflix for a time, but one day, AMC called "almost out of the blue" and said they figured out a model where they could do "The Terror" as a limited series. "A lot of people understood that it was a great project," Kajganich said. "They just knew it was going to be an expensive proposition. It's a lot of white guys dressed in winter clothing."While Kajganich had been in a writers room and has written screenplays across a variety of genres (he wrote the screenplay for "Suspiria," the next film from "Call Me by Your Name" director Luca Guadagnino), he hadn't run a writers room before. So he needed help running the show, and chose Soo Hugh, whose credits include "The Killing" and "Under the Dome." Business Insider spoke with Kajganich in early May, and discussed the long development of the project, the benefits of a television series versus a movie, and the decision to completely change Lady Silence, one of the few female characters, from how she's depicted in the book. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Warning: Minor spoilers if you haven't watched "The Terror."Carrie Wittmer: What were some of the challenges of extending a story that for years you had broken down into a two-hour movie?David Kajganich: I haven't taken that outline out and reread it, because I'm a ... little bit afraid to confront the fact that I would've been willing to subtract so much of what's great about this book. Ten hours ended up being perfect. We were able to cover all the character arcs we wanted to cover.Wittmer: You did such a great job establishing all of these characters very quickly. It's devastating that all these people are dead. I mean ... most of them are dead. And I knew that they would be dead, but it still hurt. Kajganich: Can you imagine when you first started watching? We really kill off a lot.Wittmer: Ciarán Hinds went a lot sooner than I anticipated, which was a "wow" moment. I really liked Goodsir. I cared about him very quickly, so much. And even Fitzjames, too. And this cast was just incredible. How involved were you in the casting?Kajganich: We knew casting was going to be a major success or failure of this show. We have so many characters, and characters who increase in value as the season goes on. We knew we were going to be pulling this fast one with making you think Ciarán [Hinds] was the main character but it's really Jared Harris. We also knew it was going to be exclusively white men and that they were going to be in winter clothing. So we had to cast people who felt different from one another, or differences you could notice under these crazy costumes and darkness and blinding snow. They really had to feel different. Even if you never knew their name, you would know when someone walked in a scene, "Oh, that's that guy." Wittmer: You definitely pulled that off. I didn't think about this while watching the show, but you're right - when one of the white guys walks into a room, you know who that white guy is.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ac675e9fc23b33d008b47c0-2400/terror102am11140036-rt.jpg" border="0" alt="The Terror" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMCCiarán Hinds and Jared Harris in an early episode of 'The Terror.'</div></div></div>Kajganich: We read a lot of people for this show. And we had a lot people come in because there are a lot of parts. We told Kate [casting director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722371/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr31">Kate Rose James</a>] and she was really happy to operate under this mandate of not casting people because of what they had done, because of something in their previous credits. We wanted to match actors with roles they had never played before because we thought that would be one of the best ways to get all of these actors' A-games ... give them roles that were different. Wittmer: There's these men throughout the course of the show who start to show their true colors as their circumstances change. Some are worse than others, and there's certainly this prominent theme of the male ego and toxic masculinity. It's very relevant. Kajganich: We talked in the writers room about what we wanted to bring to Lady Silence's character. Our version of her is probably the biggest departure from the book. In the novel, she never has a tongue, so she never speaks. She functions in the book as a kind of, possibly mystical, possibly frightening "other." We wanted to turn her character into a full protagonist on her own terms, and not have her story subservient to any of the male characters. And what comes with that is the unpacking of this toxic masculinity you're talking about. It's one of the ways we assured AMC that this wasn't going to devolve into just a guy show. In the same way we did research about sailing in the 1840s or Inuit culture in the 1840s, we did a fair bit into manhood - the male identity in the Victorian Era. We tried to unpack that in an interesting way for the audience, mostly by using this slow-motion disaster as a chance to show how men with these different sets tools respond to fear. How do different men with different sets of tools respond to alienation and isolation, and all those kinds of anxieties? Hopefully we did an interesting enough job that it doesn't feel like we judged our characters, but it feels like we exposed them.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5b02e37d1ae66230008b4944-1200/nive-nielsen-qa-1200x707.jpg" border="0" alt="the terror amc" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMCNive Nielsen as Lady Silence.</div></div></div>Wittmer: Is the ending similar to what happens in the books?Kajganich: No. It's quite different. At the end of the novel, Lady Silence and Crozier marry and have children. We very strictly didn't want her arc to be that she's the wife or the girlfriend, or the lover of any of our characters. We didn't want to simply use a female character as a sexual character or a romantic interest. We wanted to see if we could pull off a season of television where a female character didn't have to engage on any of those levels: she was engaging with the story in a way that she's Crozier's equal as the season goes on. They are both captains who weren't ready to be captains when they were promoted through this disaster, and they both lost their ships, and they both have to pay the price of that at the end of the show. If one wanted a final coda to a season of TV that was about unpacking the consequences of toxic masculinity, I think it's a pretty provocative way to end the show, and it's definitely not how the book ends.Wittmer: I can't imagine the show with Lady Silence as a romantic interest. That would've been strange. Kajganich: It would've been. We were just delighted to be able to have a character like her on the show, functioning with her own story on her own terms. It was really a joy to plot.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ac6751afc23b32d008b477a-2400/102pso0060065v10141009.jpg" border="0" alt="The Terror" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMCAlthough a majority of the series is set place outside, it is almost entirely visual effects.</div></div></div>Wittmer: And the actress [<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2156044/?ref_=tt_cl_t7">Nive Nielsen</a>] is amazing.Kajganich: Ah, she is amazing. From the beginning - and we prayed that we would have enough time and we did, thank goodness - we knew that we didn't want to cast European or Asian actors in these Inuit roles. We really wanted to find Inuit actors for them. The difficulty in that is finding a way into these Inuit communities, many of which don't have internet, or if they do it's pretty limited access. So we hired casting consultants who are part of the Inuit community and have worked with the Inuit community to help us get the word out. Nive had acted once before in a small role in a Terrence Malick film [2005's "The New World"] and she's the front woman of a band [The Deer Children]. So she felt really comfortable in front of the cameras on set with the crew surrounding her. She's so grounded that she wasn't thrown by walking into a community where she was one of the only female actresses. We had plenty of women on the crew and that was helpful, but the very first scene she shot is a scene from episode two where she has to argue with Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Ciarán Hinds, and Paul Ready. Wittmer: Wow.Kajganich: In retrospect, it was a crazy thing to ask her to do first. But she wanted to! She wanted to just break through the ice and start working. And boy did she nail that scene - and every scene she's in. 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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ce572f6f85e1602796d8416-1200/chernobyl.jpeg" border="0" alt="Chernobyl" data-mce-source="Liam Daniel/HBO" /></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-hbo-whats-true-myths-2019-5">HBO's series "Chernobyl"</a> invented a main character to tell the story of the world's worst <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-abandoned-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-after-nuclear-disaster-david-mcmillan-2019-4">nuclear power plant accident</a>, which took place in 1986. </li><li>The character of Ulana Khomyuk represents a composite of several Soviet scientists involved in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-daily-life-inside-chernobyls-exclusion-zone-is-really-like-2019-4">cleanup efforts following the disaster</a>.</li><li>But there's some question as to whether a woman would have been tasked with such high authority by the Soviet Union. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>If you've never heard the name Ulana Khomyuk prior to the release of the HBO series "Chernobyl," you're not alone. While most of the show's characters were based on real-life participants in the 1986 nuclear disaster, Khomyuk's character (played by Emily Watson) was invented by writer and producer Craig Mazin. For a series that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-hbo-whats-true-myths-2019-5">airs stunningly on the side of accuracy</a>, "Chernobyl" took a detour with Khomyuk, who represents multiple Soviet scientists who investigated the cause of the power plant accident. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-hbo-whats-true-myths-2019-5">What HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets right (and wrong) about the world's worst nuclear power plant accident</a>We're first introduced to her character, a nuclear physicist at the Belarusian Institute for Nuclear Energy, when she detects elevated levels of radiation in her home city of Minsk. The scenario is plausible, given that Belarus saw some of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-radiation-poisoning-2019-5">highest levels of contamination</a> following the disaster.Khomyuk soon traces the source of the radiation to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where the core of a reactor opened on April 26, 1986, sending plumes of radioactive material into the air.In the series, Khomyuk works alongside Valery Legasov (played by Jared Harris), a real-life chemist who served as the incident's chief scientific investigator. Khomyuk warns Legasov about the possibility of a steam explosion following the initial blast, effectively thwarting a second nuclear disaster.But her quest to uncover the facts of Chernobyl may not have been necessary - or entirely accurate. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5cf57f6e11e2051b934af2f7-1200/chernobyl.jpeg" border="0" alt="Chernobyl" style="color: #000000;" data-mce-source="Liam Daniel/HBO" /></div></div></div>"The nuclear scientists investigating the causes of the accident were well aware of the faults of the RBMK reactor years before the accident," Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl," <a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/56132-chernobyl-hbo-true-story-miners-legasov-location">told Inverse</a>. "There was no need for a crusading whistleblower to uncover the causes."For Mazin, placing a female character at the heart of the investigation made historical sense."One area where the Soviets were actually more progressive than we were was in the area of <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> and medicine," he <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/listen-chernobyl-ep-craig-mazin-on-making-a-non-traditional-disaster-show-1203204493/">told Variety's</a> "TV Take" podcast. "The Soviet Union had quite a large percentage of female doctors."Still, Higginbotham questioned whether a woman would have been tasked with such high authority by the Soviet Union."I'm really not sure of which scientists Emily Watson's character might be a composite," he <a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/56132-chernobyl-hbo-true-story-miners-legasov-location">told Inverse</a>. "There were several women in senior positions in the real drama ... but I know of no women involved at that level of the government commission."Though her character can't be traced to a real-life counterpart, Khomyuk serves a larger purpose as the audience's moral compass. Even compared to Legasav (the story's hero, if there can be one), she is the character most dedicated to unburying the truth among Soviet officials keen on downplaying the incident. She's even arrested by the KGB for speaking too freely about details of the disaster. "She would have been a young woman in the Second World War and grew up through the most horrific times and crimes against humanity, would have witnessed extraordinary things," Watson <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/emily-watson-on-her-new-tv-drama-chernobyl-1-4920211">told Scotland's national newspaper</a>, The Scotsman. "I play her as if this is the defining moment of her life, a calling she's been waiting for."

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ac675e9fc23b33d008b47c0-2400/terror102am11140036-rt.jpg" border="0" alt="The Terror" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMC</div></div></div><ul><li>AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing new limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men."</li><li>This historical fiction series gives a sci-fi horror twist on real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.</li><li>It's one of the best new shows of 2018 so far.</li></ul><hr />AMC's historical fiction series "The Terror" is the perfect way to satisfy the hole "Game of Thrones" has left in your TV watching schedule. It's one of the best new TV shows of the year so far, and critics are raving about it.Set in the Canadian Arctic, "The Terror" follows a British expedition stuck in ice, haunted by a horrifying creature. It's terrifying and impeccably made - from the sets to the costumes to the performances. It stars some of your favorite British actors, including some from "Game of Thrones" like Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder), Tobias Menzies (Edmund Tully), and Clive Russell (The Blackfish). Jared Harris, who played Lane Pryce on AMC's "Mad Men," also stars.The limited series, which premiered on AMC March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name. The novel and the show are fictionalized accounts of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. In 1845, Franklin (Hinds on the show) led the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus on an Arctic expedition to explore the Northwest Passage. After a few men died, both ships got stuck in ice, and no one, of 129, ever returned. There's always been a lot of speculation behind what happened to the lost explorers, and "The Terror" imagines that they were hunted by a supernatural being. In real life, the remains of the ships weren't found until fairly recently: the Terror in 2016, and the Erebus in 2014."The Terror," which manages to look horrifying and gorgeous at the same time, was (amazingly) <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/the-terror-location-cgi-not-shot-outside-1201945793/">not shot outside</a>, though a majority of the series is set in the open Arctic. Most of what you see is just stunning visual effects. Here are some of the best things critics have said about "The Terror," that will hopefully get you to stop everything you are doing and watch it:

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ac675e9fc23b33d008b47c0-2400/terror102am11140036-rt.jpg" border="0" alt="The Terror" data-mce-source="AMC" />AMC</div></div></div><ul><li>AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men." </li><li>It premiered to high critical acclaim in March, but earned zero Emmy nominations.</li><li>Its lack of nominations is a disgrace, and the biggest snub of the year. </li><li>The historical-fiction series is a sci-fi horror twist on the stories of real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.</li></ul><hr />AMC's historical-fiction series "The Terror" is the best new TV show of the year so far, and critics loved it when it premiered in March. But in an upsetting twist, "The Terror," which should have dominated all of the limited series categories at the 2018 Emmys, isn't even nominated for one. Set in the Canadian Arctic, "The Terror" follows a British expedition stuck in ice, haunted by a horrifying creature. The show is terrifying and impeccably made - from the sets to the costumes to the performances. It is truly unlike anything else on television no, or ever before. The first season of "The Terror" stars some of your favorite British actors, including a few from "Game of Thrones" like Ciaran Hinds (Mance Rayder), Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tully), and Clive Russell (The Blackfish). Jared Harris, who played Lane Pryce on AMC's "Mad Men," is the star, and deserved a nomination for best actor in a limited series. The series, which premiered on March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name; both are fictionalized accounts of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. In May, when the finale aired, Business Insider spoke with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amcs-the-terror-creator-talks-about-10-year-journey-to-make-it-2018-5">David Kajganich</a>, the creator of the series, who said that the show had been in the works for a decade.The story, however, dates back to the late 1800s.In 1845, Franklin (Hinds on the show) led the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus on an Arctic expedition to explore the Northwest Passage. After a few men died, both ships got stuck in ice, and not one person out of 129 ever returned. The remains of the ships were found recently: the Terror in 2016 and the Erebus in 2014. There has always been a lot of speculation about what happened to the lost explorers, and "The Terror" imagines they were hunted by a supernatural being."The Terror," which manages to look horrifying and gorgeous at the same time, was (amazingly) <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/the-terror-location-cgi-not-shot-outside-1201945793/">not shot outside</a>, though most of the series is set in the open Arctic. What you mostly see are stunning visual effects. The AMC anthology series was so successful that the network <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/terror-renewed-world-war-ii-themed-second-season-at-amc-1122368">picked it up</a> for another season in June, with new writers and a new cast. Season two will be a completely new story that's set at a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Similarly to season one, it will depict a dark and disturbing real-life event with an out-of-reality horror elements. Here are some of the best things critics said about "The Terror" that will hopefully get you to stop everything you are doing and watch it - and then complain about how it didn't get nominated for any Emmys.

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