Talk about two completely different shows! But I watched them, and now I want to talk about them!
I was so pumped that the first half of Fuller House‘s fifth and final season was released a couple weeks ago. But as the holidays go, I couldn’t watch it right off the jump, so when I finally got the chance I watched them as fast as I could. And not just because I’m trying to squeeze in a crap load of other programs, but because I think it’s just so darn funny! Seriously. As a product of the 90s, nothing warms my heart more than this reboot. I think it’s a fun and fresh spin on an old series that still keeps certain aspects from the original to heart.
With that, this season saw Stephanie with her new baby, while Kimmy is trying to fool herself with her new un-pregnant freedom. DJ is just trying to help out wherever she can, while they ultimately name her Danielle, after the patriarch of the original Full House. I actually really liked that a lot. Dang you sentimental tears! On the other end of the spectrum, Jimmy, Fernando, and Steve all buy a sandwich shop together which is as scary as it sounds. The kids don’t have as strong of a presence this season, which I’m not really sad about. If we’re being honest, we’re just here for the original gang anyways.
In terms of relationships, Stephanie and Jimmy are engaged (even without Danny’s consent) and Kimmy and Fernando are still engaged (?), while DJ wishes she were engaged. Especially since her ex/business partner, Matt, married her old frenemy Gia! The season also had its fair share of celebrity cameos, with my favorite being Kirk Cameron playing a fictionalized version of himself. All’s well that ends well, because DJ does get engaged by the end of this batch of episodes! Yay! I cannot wait until we get the rest….which is unfortunately sometime in 2020.
On the complete opposite end of the genre, I watched HBO’s limited series, Chernobyl. Holy hell! I knew of the Chernobyl disaster, but only at a very high level. This thing was seriously crazy! And it’s even crazier to think that this happened back in the 80s! The show opens with an explosion of the number four nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Many of the scientists working at the plant, especially those in charge reacted as if nothing dire was taking place. There was just a fire that needed to be put out. In fact, much of the Ukranian SSR government chose to ignore the severity of this accident.
It took several scientists and many immediate deaths to finally convince them that this was not good. It wasn’t technically a fire at all. It was a nuclear core directly exposed to the air. And that’s really bad! The comparison that totally made my head explode was when they compared holding a piece of graphite that was close to the core to getting 4 million x-rays! That’s insane. So aside from trying to put out the “fire,” they also had to pump water out of cooling tanks to prevent a meltdown and another EXTREME nuclear explosion.
The piece that really caught my attention was the scientists trying to figure out why the explosion happened, which it seemed like they never got a clear answer to in the show and real life. If this show has taught me anything, is that I don’t really want to go to Russia.
Either way, both phenomenal shows, so if you’ve got the means and the time, totally watch them!