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Chernobyl (TV Miniseries)

HBO Max

Chernobyl

2019

Craig Mazin (Creator), Johan Renck

Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter ...

8.4

49,838

TV Series. Drama TV miniseries (2019). 5 Episodes. In April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

	Author	Review
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"Writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck build a steadily creeping unease, allowing the scale of the atrocity to sink in with terrible, fitting gravity."	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"It consistently feels like the filmmakers are honoring the historical events so that viewers know never to repeat these mistakes (...) 'Chernobyl' is a stunning dramatization, and one worth admiring on many levels"	POS
United Kingdom	Benji Wilson Telegraph	"The performances are universally brilliant (...) It is a sudden, unflinching descent into hell and then an exploration of the folly, politics and pride that created that hell (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"What Mazin nails is the dramatization of a horrible event that happened pre-cellphone, pre-internet, pre-cable-news-hysteria and thus exhumes a scary ghost we've all forgotten about. It's a powerful story."	POS
United States	Allison Keene Collider	"HBO’s haunting miniseries will emotionally destroy you (...) 'Chernobyl' plays out in a linear narrative that makes you feel trapped inside a nightmare (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps TV Guide	"'Chernobyl's most impressive achievement: making a disaster that occurred long ago and far away seem present and real."	POS

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