95% on RT from 103 reviews, average critic score 8.9/10. IMDb 9.3/10 - among the highest-rated TV shows in IMDb's Top 250. Craig Mazin and Johan Renck produced the definitive account of institutional catastrophe on television. Emmy winner for Limited Series, Directing, and Writing.
Renewal: Five-episode limited series; no continuation planned. Won Outstanding Limited Series at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12019 · 5 eps | 6 May 2019 | 9.7 | 95% | 9.3/10 | MUST-WATCH |
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The explosion, in real time. Renck and Mazin refuse to let the disaster be spectacular - the horror is in the bureaucratic normalcy that surrounds it. Plant workers follow protocols for emergencies the protocols weren't built for; managers insist the reactor cannot have exploded because the reactor cannot explode. The most frightening hour of television in 2019.
Full episode review →The liquidators and the biorobots; the miners tunnelling under the reactor; the rooftop radiation shovellers. Episode 4 is where the human cost is made bodily specific. Three groups of men doing jobs the state cannot admit are killing them. Renck shoots each strand as its own genre: procedural, horror, tragic pastoral.
Full episode review →The trial. Legasov testifies. The show's most explicit articulation of its thesis - that lies have a cost measured in human lives - arrives in a formal courtroom setting that makes the argument unavoidable. The closing documentary footage of the real people grounds the drama in a grief that the series earns.
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