"Chernobyl: horrifying, masterly television that
sears on to your brain"
"This breathtaking series throws us right into the hellish chaos of the nuclear disaster - and its terrors are unflinching and unforgettable"
quotes from Rebecca Nicholson's review in
The Guardian May 29, 2019
"...The largest release of nuclear fall-out in the history of humanity was made possible by the lies perpetuated at the highest levels of government, abetted by a media that willfully engaged in propaganda and the dissemination of false information. It happened because scientific research was dismissed or suppressed when it didn't fit with the agenda of the authorities. The series rams this point home, and is all the better for it...The verisimilitude of the show is exemplary. Many of the characters are based on testimony given to Svetlana Alexievich for her Nobel prize-winning 1997 book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. But Chernobyl has also defined itself by its ability to use genre tropes from other dystopias - which, in turn, were influenced by the event itself. The series has exhibited usages of body horror that David Cronenberg would be proud of. Or there are the slow, foreboding scenes of wind shivering through the trees that feel familiar to George A Romero and the countless zombie horror films he spawned..."
excerpt from a review by Tom Seymour of
The Guardian June 4, 2019