This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV makingSee our unfolding top 50 listMore on the best culture of 2019On the most basic level, Chernobyl was merely one of the best true-story miniseries ever made, capitalising on the curious fact that most people know hardly anything about the meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Pripyat, Ukraine, in April 1986, despite the incident’s global infamy.Both dismantling and dramatising the cover-up that followed, Chernobyl marshalled the relevant information from a shocking and complex bigger picture. It started with a one-hour …read more
Source:: The Guardian
