Chernobyl

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TV Miniseries: Chernobyl

Genre: Historical drama

Cast: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Emily Watson, Paul  Ritter

Episodes: 5

Director: Johan Renck

Streaming Platform: Disney +Hotstar

Year: 2019

"The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants- it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions- to lie in wait for all time. This, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl."

Our knowledge of Chernobyl was only limited to the fact that it was one of the worst man made disasters. Sometimes you need little nudge to watch something that probably would have slipped your mind. Here the push came from the brother and we were set.

Circa April 1986 of USSR the nuclear power plant explodes in Chernobyl (Che-no-byl). The emitted radioactive slowly released to Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, western Europe, and Scandinavia. Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), Soviet's nuclear physicist is the first to grasp the magnitude of situation. Along with Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård), vice chairman of counsil of ministers and Stellan Skarsgår (Emily Watson), another nuclear physicist he tries to contain the disaster and investigate how the reactor exploded in the first place.

A brilliant series that captures not only the explosion and its aftermath effects, but also about the ignorance, high handedness of authority, Russian politics, sacrifice, above all humanity.