Plot
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Cast
as Valery Legasov
as Boris Shcherbina
as Ulana Khomyuk
as Anatoly Dyatlov
as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
as Vasily Ignatenko
as Alexandr Akimov
as Leonid Toptunov
as Viktor Bryukhanov
as Nikolai Fomin
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 6, 2019
Last Aired Date
June 3, 2019
Production Companies
SISTER
The Mighty Mint
Word Games
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
5
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Reviews
This is one of the best dramatic series I have watched in years. It can be difficult to maintain tension and drama describing true events that the viewer might be already aware of to some extent, but this program manages it nicely. It is a little predictable in how it tells the story, by which I mean it uses several angles from different characters' points of view: the scientists and administrato…
**_Terrifying and sobering – as exceptional a piece of television narrative as you're ever likely to see_** > _The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star was Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitt…
I was really excited for this series as I have read a good amount about the USSR and have a personal relationship to it, having been born in a former satellite country. But I came away disappointed. The series really drew out some scenes for no reason, to the point where I felt the need to fast-forward (for example, essentially the ~entire 5 minutes of going under the core to open a valve). I was…