HBO's Chernobyl may yet become the highest rated TV Show ever

It is really a great show.<p>We lived close enough to Chernobyl that if the winds blew a different way we would have been seriously affected by it. And I remember when it happened. The announcement on evening news (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RuWIIiTLbFM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RuWIIiTLbFM</a>). My dad saying &quot;if that&#x27;s what they admit to on the news, the situation is many times worse&quot; and how we should all be very worried.<p>Then the refugees coming to our city, and how the locals had this irrational fear and hate toward them, thinking they were &quot;radioactive&quot; or brought &quot;bad luck&quot;. The promises of new apartments for the liquidators, and how some, of course, never lived long enough to enjoy them.<p>Anyway, in the show, I think, they went above and beyond to make it authentic. Anything from the smallest details like the decor, clothes, the buildings, the things they say, the mannerisms, all of that. The lack of &quot;Russian&quot; accents, a common criticism I heard, never bothered me. Even the fictitious character of Ulana Khomyuk was very representative of what a woman scientist might have looked or behaved like. She reminded me of my chemistry teacher from high school.

*highest IMDB rated<p>IMDB ratings are of pretty dubious quality. They also fall victim to a recency bias - looking at their Top 250 list, Avengers Endgame is currently listed as the number nine best film ever made, which... come on.

The show is great, and it reaching this level of notoriety is amazing. Yet, it just goes to show you how everything is marketing and timing. If this show isn&#x27;t on HBO, and isn&#x27;t following the exit of Game of Thrones does it even get noticed? For example, The Terror, which in my opinion is just as good as this show (and features a better performance by the same actor in Chernobyl) was not only ignored by viewers but by critics alike. TV Critics are, in my opinion, completely useless and only ever write articles about popular shows. Best of lists you usually see at the end of the year make me wonder if these people even watch the shows.

As a mid-level Chernobyl geek, I found this show generally underwhelming. I admit it may hold much more interest for those who are not yet familiar with the story. But I must say, there are so many things which could have been done spectacularly, and instead we got a very pedestrian TV affair, with ample use of disaster movie and horror movie cliches and tropes, and basic bitch cinematography. Chernobyl should deserve a more flavorful adaptation if anything does. I also hate the gray-blue color grading, it would have been far more interesting to portray Pripyat as the rather vivid and young city which it was, with warmer color tones and more humane elements, instead of defaulting to dumb USSR cliches.

Its good, but I think its easier to be good for 6 episodes than it is for multiple seasons. Even if you disregard that- Is it better than Band of Brothers?

Loved the show but felt that it was a bit heavy on the fear-mongering.<p>EDIT* What I mean by this is that the facts were dramatized for effect, at a time when we need to change societal opinions on nuclear more than ever.

It is a backlash against Game of Thrones which ended so hated that anything better got upvoted I guess.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I think w.r.t. HBO miniseries Band of Brothers is better.

Best episode still holds Attack on titan though. [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;title?title_type=tv_episode&amp;num_votes=1000,&amp;sort=user_rating,desc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;title?title_type=tv_episode&amp;num_...</a> .<p>Also imdb doesn&#x27;t really hold reliable statistics as top rated shows are often review bombed

Credit to Siddharth Shukla - used his script to get the IMDB ratings (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sid8491&#x2F;imdb-tv-shows-rating" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sid8491&#x2F;imdb-tv-shows-rating</a>).

Really the only thing I think could have better is had it been in Russian. I mostly got used to it, but it would have felt better listening to Russian and reading subtitles (IMO).

Did anyone else find themselves wondering, &quot;WTF does Paraguay care about Chernobyl so much more than most of Europe?&quot;<p>Disclaimer: I miss the point a lot.

This show is so good, and parrallels to China are interesting.

I&#x27;ve been underwhelmed by this. Because they missed the opportunity to incorporate<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neimagazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;featurea-different-view-on-chernobyl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neimagazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;featurea-different-view...</a><p>There is endless rambling about the failure of the apparatchiks to communicate the shortcomings of the scram system for political, economical and technical reasons, which culminates in stating at the end that the emergency stop can change to an ignition switch for a bomb under special circumstances.<p>&quot;Weil nicht sein kann was nicht sein darf!&quot;<p>&quot;And he comes to the conclusion: His mishap was an illusion, for, he reasons pointedly, that which must not, can not be!&quot; (cited from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.proz.com&#x2F;kudoz&#x2F;german-to-english&#x2F;business-commerce-general&#x2F;1212105-weil-nicht-sein-kann-was-nicht-sein-darf.html#2893352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.proz.com&#x2F;kudoz&#x2F;german-to-english&#x2F;business-commer...</a> )<p>Yet, regarding the different view of Konstantin Checherov they are making the same error.<p>Guilty of falsifying history as usual.<p>Mockumentary...