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Vigil Episode 4 Review: Who’s Been Russian Around Committing Sa-boat-age?!

Warning: this review contains Vigil spoilers. The Russians! We’ve been expecting you. After all, where would a Second Cold War submarine thriller be without a Piotr or a Fyodor? Sunk, probably. Forget the blackmail and bad blood theories: new intelligence suggests that Jade and Craig were murdered by Soviets because they’d stumbled onto Russia’s top secret plan for HMS Vigil.  What plan, you ask? Judging by the spies’ interest in Vigil’s ventilation system, it’s either to subtly undermine Western democracy by messing with the boat’s air-con settings, or to suffocate the crew in a tragic ‘accident’ that pushes the UK into voting…
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Chernobyl: Why the Cast Didn’t Use Russian or Ukrainian Accents

In the best of all worlds, the cast of Sky-HBO’s Chernobyl would have been speaking in Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles, says series director Johan Renck. Speaking at ‘The Making of Chernobyl’ as part of this year’s online Bafta Television: The Sessions series, Renck explained that there had been discussions about making the nuclear disaster drama in Russian and Ukrainian instead of English but ultimately, it proved unfeasible for the international co-production.  Was it ever planned for Jared Harris, who played nuclear scientist Valery Legasov in the multiple Bafta-nominated drama, to speak his lines in English using a Russian accent? No. ‘That…
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The Russian Five

In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings worked to finally break their decades long Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Soviet Union, and in the process, changed the way North American hockey is played.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 22, 2019
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