Chernobyl
Creators:
Craig MazinDirected by:
Johan RenckScreenplay:
Craig MazinCinematography:
Jakob IhreComposer:
Hildur GuðnadóttirCast:
Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, David Dencik, Mark Lewis Jones, Alan Williams, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Matthew Needham (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Seven hours after the Chernobyl explosion, Ulana Khomyuk, a nuclear physicist in Minsk, is awakened in her office by a radiation alarm and grows increasingly worried when her phone call to Chernobyl goes unanswered. Lyudmilla arrives at the Pripyat hospital looking for Vasily, whom she learns is being helicoptered to Moscow. At a Central Committee meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev, Legasov objects to Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina's assessment that the situation is contained, and Gorbachev ends up sending both men to Chernobyl, where a new reading shows radiation is thousands of times higher than reported. Legasov urges Shcherbina to evacuate Pripyat, but Shcherbina worries about Moscow's reaction. As reports of the disaster spread to Europe, Shcherbina finally calls for an evacuation, even as Khomyuk makes her way to Chernobyl to warn Legasov and Shcherbina that a second and far more massive explosion is imminent one that puts the entire European continent at risk. (Home Box Office)
(more)Reviews (3)
...and reality is worse than any conceivable fiction. To hell with personal planes, here you don't look into the core, the core looks into you. Iodine tablets instead of popcorn.
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An episode with a slightly slower pace, but more depressive and suggestive. There’s a bit less of the power plant and a few more characters. Let's hope that the cold and straightforward concept of the first episode will remain unchanged. Even after two episodes, this is absolute peak TV.
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