Review – The Days

This is a miniseries about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and I found a lot of it completely mystifying. In particular there seemed to be a lot of disconnect between the government’s reluctance about relatively minor expenses such as helicopter transport for pump equipment and the imminent, long-term irradiation of a significant chunk of Honshu. The series also features an alarming number of scenes where characters in the middle of every-second-counts crises spend vast spans of time staring at each other. I’m not questioning the accuracy of these moments in the story. But if you’re like me and you find that sort of thing intensely annoying, be prepared to be intensely annoyed. That said, they spent a lot of money on the production and did a good job of recreating the disasters. Mildly amusing