WHAT IT'S ABOUT Early on the morning of April 26, 1986, administrators of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant (better known as Chernobyl) in Pripyat – a small city in northern Ukraine – decide to force ...
Valery Legasov played by Jared Harris is up against a corrupt system that has no intention of letting the world know their secrets in Chernobyl. Pic credit: HBO If you are of a certain age, you might ...
The world has learned many lessons from the Chernobyl disaster, a devastating nuclear power plant accident that recently rejoined our cultural conversation thanks to a new series on HBO. Though many ...
HBO's Chernobyl is not the story of any one person, but the story of many people whose lives were irreparably changed because of their proximity to the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...
Cosmic horror is extremely hard to communicate in visual mediums. The sense that there is something unknowable, ancient, and all-powerful right below the shell of our world can be evoked through the ...
Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgard), left, travels to Pripyat, Ukraine, with the U.S.S.R.’s leading nuclear physicist, Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), in “Chernobyl.” (Liam Daniel/HBO) Review by Hank ...