1 of the best limited series of all time are to find a new life on Pvod 6 years later

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1 of the best limited series of all time are to find a new life on Pvod 6 years later

Isabella Smith

01/09/2025

1 of the best limited series of all time are to find a new life on Pvod 6 years later

Chernobyl took creative liberties by describing the historical event, by focusing on his less known human stories. But the public and the criticisms massively kissed the series, despite its factual inaccuracies.

The mini-series in five parts of HBO returned to the PVOD world record this week, ranking seventh on Amazon and 10th in iTunes on August 31 (by Flixpatrol). Renewed interest in Chernobyl is not surprising; He is considered one of the best television programs of all time, he is fifth on the list of 250 best in IMDB. A captivating historical drama on incalculable real stories, Chernobyl Tells the catastrophe of the 1986 nuclear power plant which left the homonymous city in ruins.

In an HBO promotional statement, the creator of the Craig Mazin series said a lot of Chernobyl draw memories of the inhabitants who witnessed the event. “When you read the personal stories of people who were there – people who lived near the plant, people who worked in the plant, people who were sent to Chernobyl as part of the effort to clean it – in these individual stories, this is really where history was life,” he explained.

Boris Schscherbina and Valery Legasov are on a roof in Chernobyl.

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“ The arrogance and the abolition of criticism are dangerous ”

Chernobyl also exposed institutional corruption and negligence behind the accident. Initially ignoring what caused a disaster, Mazin looked for government reports in preparation for the project. “The lesson of Chernobyl is not that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lies, arrogance and suppression of criticism are dangerous,” he wrote on X.

The opening scene of episode 1 reinforced this premise, at least from the point of view of Valery Legasov (Jared Harris). Presented to consult the cleaning efforts, Legasov first witnessed the horrible consequences of the explosion. He also played a key role in the survey that followed. In an interview DeadlineHarris said that the emphasis on history on affected civilians had it hung the script.

“This event was potentially so much more dangerous than the benefits of the initial accident,” he said. “Of course, no one at the time would hear about the enormous sacrifice and the heroism of people on the ground that tried to contain the damage. And it is a gigantic task, if you think that he was sitting to throw his mind around all this event and put it so that it could be told in five hours and come from so many different angles.”

Critics have since dissected ChernobylThe departure of historical events, and Mazin explained why he had taken creative liberties, especially with the end. One of the main characters (Ulana Khomyuk, played by Emily Watson) was revealed as fictitious in the epilogue, and Legaslov was not present during the test in the closing sequence of the final. Mazin said that navigating the border between facts and fiction was a delicate balance.

“I have always been crazy to say the least, I have always been lacking the least dramatic because the things we know with certainty have happened are so intrinsically dramatic,” he said Varietyreferring to the contradictory accounts of the incident. “I never wanted to sap this in any way. If we want to make a change, it must be for this reason, to be able to transmit it narratively, but never to improve the drama.”

Chernobyl is streaming on HBO Max.