Chernobyl, review: Sky's new drama about the power plant explosion is riveting – and utterly horrifying

by Benji Wilson

 

Adam Nagaitis in Sky Atlantic's new drama Chernobyl CREDIT: SKY

 

The explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986 became one of the worst man-made disasters: the aim of Chernobyl, a beautifully crafted five-part drama on Sky, was to show how man-made it was.

 

The detail was simply excruciating as, step by step, second by second, officials and managers got it wrong.

 

Dumb bureaucracy and frantic covering of backs was intercut with stark horror as the camera followed the engineers trying to uncover what had happened to the No 4 nuclear reactor.

 

The horror was twofold: first, the men’s realisation that by being in the building they had condemned themselves to death; and then the deaths themselves. 

 

Full Story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/05/07/chernobyl-review-skys-new-drama-power-plant-explosion-riveting/

Early on the Russians were silent;  surmising  that Political fallout was worse than radioactive fallout 

 

11 minutes ago, oilinki said:

Here is another kind of review of the TV-show.

 

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The Reason They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Is Because They Kill So Few People

 

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people/#3bebad0241fc

If only but I won't argue.