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==Historical accuracy==
==Historical accuracy==
American author [[Michael Shellenberger]] wrote that the "most egregious of ''Chernobyl'' sensationalism is the depiction of [[radiation]] as contagious, like a virus. ... There is no good evidence that Chernobyl radiation killed a baby nor that it caused any increase in birth defects. ... At the end of the show, HBO claims there was “a dramatic spike in [[cancer]] rates across Ukraine and Belarus,” but this too is wrong. ... the “Bridge of Death” is a sensational [[urban legend]] and there is no good evidence to support it."<ref name="Shellenberger">{{cite news |last1=Shellenberger |first1=Michael |title=Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06/why-hbos-chernobyl-gets-nuclear-so-wrong/ |work=Forbes |date=June 6, 2019 |accessdate=June 7, 2019}}</ref>

According to Moscow-based correspondent [[Fred Weir]], "Everybody [in Russia and Ukraine] seems to agree that the miniseries goes overboard with its characters, depicting Soviet officials and plant management as too evil and conniving."<ref name="csmonitor">{{cite news |title=‘Chernobyl’ TV miniseries: the reviews from ground zero |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2019/0528/Chernobyl-TV-miniseries-the-reviews-from-ground-zero |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=May 28, 2019 |accessdate=June 7, 2019}}</ref> Russian documentary producer Oleg Voinov who made film about the Chernobyl disaster said that ''Chernobyl'' is "wonderfully shot, professionally edited, and the special effects are great. But it doesn’t come close to reflecting reality. ... A lot of the facts presented are just not true."<ref name="csmonitor"/>
According to Moscow-based correspondent [[Fred Weir]], "Everybody [in Russia and Ukraine] seems to agree that the miniseries goes overboard with its characters, depicting Soviet officials and plant management as too evil and conniving."<ref name="csmonitor">{{cite news |title=‘Chernobyl’ TV miniseries: the reviews from ground zero |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2019/0528/Chernobyl-TV-miniseries-the-reviews-from-ground-zero |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=May 28, 2019 |accessdate=June 7, 2019}}</ref> Russian documentary producer Oleg Voinov who made film about the Chernobyl disaster said that ''Chernobyl'' is "wonderfully shot, professionally edited, and the special effects are great. But it doesn’t come close to reflecting reality. ... A lot of the facts presented are just not true."<ref name="csmonitor"/>


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Chernobyl
GenreHistorical drama
Created byCraig Mazin
Written byCraig Mazin
Directed byJohan Renck
Starring
ComposerHildur Guðnadóttir
Country of origin
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes5 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
ProducerSanne Wohlenberg
Production locations
  • Lithuania
  • Ukraine
CinematographyJakob Ihre
Editors
  • Jinx Godfrey
  • Simon Smith
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time60–72 minutes
Production companies
  • Sister Pictures
  • The Mighty Mint
  • Word Games
Original release
Network
ReleaseMay 6 (2019-05-06) –
June 3, 2019 (2019-06-03)

Chernobyl is a five-part historical drama television miniseries created and written by Craig Mazin, and directed by Johan Renck. The series was produced by HBO in association with Sky UK, it depicts the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the unprecedented cleanup efforts that followed. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter. The series premiered in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 6–7, 2019, and was acclaimed by American and British critics.

A companion podcast for the miniseries also had new episodes published as each TV episode aired on HBO. The podcast featured conversations between Mazin and host Peter Sagal including discussions of where the show tried to be as true as possible to historical events versus the scenes and characters that were consolidated or invented as part of artistic license.[1]

Premise

Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history. The miniseries focuses on the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in the Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Union) in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened, and telling the stories of those people who helped and died in tackling the disaster, and the Soviet cover up.[2]

The miniseries is based in large part on the memories of Pripyat locals, as told by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in her book, Voices from Chernobyl.[3]

Cast

Main

Recurring

  • Adam Lundgren as Vyacheslav Brazhnik, the senior turbine operator at Chernobyl.
  • Karl Davies as Viktor Proskuryakov, a senior reactor control engineer trainee at Chernobyl.
  • Donald Sumpter as Zharkov, a Pripyat executive committee member.
  • Billy Postlethwaite as Boris Stolyarchuk, the senior unit #4 control engineer at Chernobyl.
  • Joshua Lee as Igor Kirschenbaum, a senior turbine control engineer at Chernobyl.
  • Nadia Clifford as Svetlana Zinchenko, a doctor treating Vasily Ignatenko and others with radiation sickness.
  • Jamie Sives as Anatoly Sitnikov, the deputy chief operational engineer at Chernobyl sent to inspect the exploded core.
  • Baltasar Breki Samper as Alexei Ananenko [uk], one of the volunteers who drained water in Chernobyl's basement to prevent an explosion.
  • Philip Barantini as Valeri Bezpalov [uk], one of the volunteers who drained water in Chernobyl's basement to prevent an explosion.
  • Oscar Giese as Boris Baranov, one of the volunteers who drained water in Chernobyl's basement to prevent an explosion.

Guest

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date (EDT)[a] Viewers
(millions)
1"1:23:45"Johan RenckCraig MazinMay 6, 2019 (2019-05-06)0.756 (US)[5]
0.861 (UK)[6]
On April 26, 1988, Valery Legasov, former chief of the inquiry into the Chernobyl disaster, records tapes condemning engineer Anatoly Dyatlov for the disaster and Dyatlov’s light prison sentence. After hiding the tapes outside his home, Legasov hangs himself. Two years earlier, in Pripyat, firefighter Vasily Ignatenko's pregnant wife Lyudmilla witnesses the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploding. At the plant, Dyatlov ignores subordinates including Akimov and Toptunov as they realize one of the nuclear reactor cores is exposed, burning, and cannot be manually shut down. Responding to the fire, Vasily sees other firefighters suffering radiation burns and ARS from the radioactive wreckage. Plant manager Viktor Bryukhanov and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin receive a report from Dyatlov, but faulty information and overconfidence in the RBMK reactor design lead Dyatlov and the Pripyat executive committee to under-report the incident. Dyatlov falls ill from ARS, and Sitnikov, reporting the true severity of the incident, is sent to the roof for confirmation and exposed to lethal doses of radiation. On orders from General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Legasov is instructed by deputy chairman Boris Shcherbina to supervise the Chernobyl committee.
2"Please Remain Calm"Johan RenckCraig MazinMay 13, 2019 (2019-05-13)1.004 (US)[7]
0.891 (UK)[6]
Seven hours after the explosion, Ulana Khomyuk discovers a spike in radiation levels in Minsk. She deduces an incident has occurred at Chernobyl, and when her concerns are dismissed by the local authority, she heads to Chernobyl herself. At Pripyat’s overloaded hospital, Lyudmilla finds that Vasily has been evacuated to Moscow with other ARS patients. In Moscow, Legasov explains to Gorbachev that the situation is more serious than reported and is sent to Chernobyl with a skeptical Shcherbina. From a helicopter, Legasov points out nuclear graphite debris and a blue glow from ionizing radiation, indicating the core is exposed. Convinced, Shcherbina confronts Bryukhanov and Fomin, who accuse Legasov of misinformation, but General Vladimir Pikalov uses a high-range dosimeter to prove the high radiation levels. Legasov instructs the military to suppress the fire with sand and boron, which proves risky. As news of the incident spreads, Pripyat is finally evacuated. Khomyuk arrives and warns Legasov and Shcherbina of the risk of a destructive steam explosion from contact between corium and water pooling in the basement underneath the reactor. Legasov asks Gorbachev to order a lethal mission to drain the water, and Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov volunteer.
3"Open Wide, O Earth"Johan RenckCraig MazinMay 20, 2019 (2019-05-20)1.063 (US)[8]
1.100 (UK)[6]
The basement is successfully drained, but a nuclear meltdown has begun and threatens to contaminate the groundwater. Shcherbina and Legasov convince Gorbachev that a heat exchanger is needed under the plant, for which Mikhail Shchadov recruits from Tula coal miners, led by Glukhov, to excavate a tunnel in extremely adverse conditions. Shcherbina warns Legasov that they are under KGB surveillance. Legasov sends Khomyuk to a Moscow hospital, where she finds Dyatlov uncooperative but learns from dying Toptunov and Akimov that the plant exploded after Akimov initiated an emergency shutdown, a scenario thought impossible. Bribing her way into the hospital and lying about her pregnancy, Lyudmilla is allowed to visit Vasily but disobeys orders, staying longer and touching her husband. Following Vasily's death, Khomyuk finds Lyudmilla; aware of Lyudmilla's pregnancy, she threatens to report everything to the committee and is arrested by KGB agents, but is released on Legasov's insistence. As Shcherbina and Legasov report to the Central Executive Committee their decontamination plans requiring the mass mobilization of liquidators, Lyudmilla stands among relatives of other deceased ARS victims as Vasily, sealed in a lead casket, is buried in concrete at a mass grave.
4"The Happiness of All Mankind"Johan RenckCraig MazinMay 27, 2019 (2019-05-27)1.193 (US)[9]
N/A
Residents are evacuated from the wider Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and decontamination operations are underway. Civilian draftee Pavel is paired with Soviet–Afghan War veteran Bacho to patrol the Zone to shoot and dispose of abandoned animals due to radioactive contamination. Chernobyl liquidator commander General Nikolai Tarakanov deploys Lunokhod programme rovers to clear the plant's roof for a shelter. After a West German police robot almost instantly fails on the most irradiated level, Tarakanov is forced to cycle 3,828 liquidators to clear it by hand, allowed only 90 seconds each, once. Khomyuk investigates the Moscow archives and confronts Dyatlov, who knows the government is not interested in the truth. Meeting away from KGB bugs, Shcherbina and Legasov inform Khomyuk they must testify as experts in the trial of Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin, and Legasov will address the International Atomic Energy Agency. Khomyuk reveals an article about an identical incident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant in 1975, suppressed by the KGB, and tells them Lyudmilla gave birth to a girl who soon died from radiation poisoning. Khomyuk urges Legasov to tell the IAEA the complete truth, while Shcherbina urges caution to avoid government retaliation.
5"Vichnaya Pamyat"[b]Johan RenckCraig MazinJune 3, 2019 (2019-06-03)1.089 (US)[10]
N/A
Following Legasov's testimony to the IAEA in Vienna, in which he lies, Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin are put on trial in the abandoned city of Chernobyl. Shcherbina is called first to give testimony, explaining the general workings of a nuclear power plant. Khomyuk and Legasov testify on the events leading up to the accident, based on interviews with people in the control room. Flashbacks show that due to a ten-hour delay in the safety test and Dyatlov's impatience to carry it out, the reactor stalled, then experienced a power spike. Akimov activated the emergency shutdown, but a design flaw in the control rods spiked the power to ten times the reactor's limit before it exploded. Legasov reveals the suppressed information about the Leningrad plant, admitting he lied in his previous testimony in Vienna. He is detained by the KGB and informed that his testimony will be suppressed in the state media; furthermore, he is forbidden to speak to anyone about Chernobyl, he will receive no credit for his role in containing the disaster, and he will never work again. The ending shows pictures and video of the real Legasov and other major players, revealing their fates, as well as the ongoing aftermath of the accident.
  1. ^ Episodes were simulcast on HBO and Sky Atlantic, at Monday 9:00pm EDT/Tuesday 2:00am BST respectively.
  2. ^ Ukrainian for "Memory Eternal", an exclamation used in Eastern Orthodox funeral or memorial services.

Production

Development and writing

Writer Craig Mazin began researching for the project in 2014, by reading books and government reports from inside and outside of the Soviet Union. Mazin also interviewed nuclear scientists to learn how a reactor works, and former Soviet citizens to gain a better idea of the culture in 1986. Mazin also read several first-person accounts in order to bring additional authenticity to the story. He explained, "When you're reading the personal stories of people who were there — people who lived near the plant, people who worked at the plant, people who were sent to Chernobyl as part of the effort to clean it up — in those individual accounts, that's really where the story came alive."[11]

Mazin's interest in creating the series originated when he decided to write something that addressed "how we're struggling with the global war on the truth right now".[12] Another inspiration is that he knew Chernobyl exploded, but he did not know why. He explained, "I didn’t know why, and I thought there was this inexplicable gap in my knowledge ... So, I began reading about it, just out of this very dry, intellectual curiosity, and what I discovered was that, while the story of the explosion is fascinating, and we make it really clear exactly why and how it happened, what really grabbed me and held me were the incredible stories of the human beings who lived through it, and who suffered and sacrificed to save the people that they loved, to save their countrymen and to save a continent, and continued to do so, against odds that were startling and kept getting worse. I was so moved by it. It was like I had discovered a war that people just hadn't really depicted, and I became obsessed."[13] Mazin said that "The lesson of Chernobyl isn’t that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lying, arrogance, and suppression of criticism are dangerous."[14]

In preparation for the miniseries, Mazin visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.[15] Mazin made the decision in the early stages not to use Russian or Ukrainian accents, and instead, have the actors use their natural accents. Mazin explained, "We had an initial thought that we didn't want to do the 'Boris and Natasha' cliched accent because the Russian accent can turn comic very easily. At first, we thought that maybe we would have people do these sort of vaguely Eastern European accents - not really strong but noticeable. What we found very quickly is that actors will act accents. They will not act, they will act accents and we were losing everything about these people that we loved. Honestly, I think after maybe one or two auditions we said 'Ok, new rule. We're not doing that anymore."[16] Mazin also did not cast any American actors, as that could potentially pull the audience out of the story.[17]

On July 26, 2017, it was announced that HBO and Sky had given a series order to Chernobyl. It was HBO's first co-production with Sky UK. The five-episode miniseries was written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Mazin also served as an executive producer alongside Carolyn Strauss and Jane Featherstone, with Chris Fry and Renck acting as co-executive producers.[2][18] On March 11, 2019, it was announced that the miniseries would premiere on May 6, 2019.[19]

On June 4, 2019, Craig Mazin made the original scripts of all episodes available for downloading as PDFs from John August's Library site.[20]

Casting

Simultaneously with the initial series announcement, it was confirmed that Jared Harris would star in the series.[18] On March 19, 2018, it was announced that Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson had joined the main cast.[21] In May 2018, it was announced that Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adrian Rawlins, and Con O'Neill also had joined the cast.[22]

Filming

Soviet-era district of Fabijoniškės (Vilnius, Lithuania) was used to portray Pripyat

Principal photography began in April 2018 in Lithuania.[18] Initial filming started on May 13, 2018, in Fabijoniškės, a residential district in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was used to portray the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, since the district maintained an authentic Soviet atmosphere. An area of densely built panel housing apartments served as a location for the evacuation scenes. Director Johan Renck heavily criticised the amount of diverse and eye-catching modern windows in the houses, but was not concerned about removing them in post-production. At the end of March, production moved to Visaginas, Lithuania, to shoot both the exterior and interior of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, a decommissioned nuclear power station that is sometimes referred to as "Chernobyl's sister" due to its visual resemblance and the nuclear reactor design used at both Chernobyl and Ignalina (RBMK nuclear power reactor). In early June 2018, production moved to Ukraine to shoot minor final scenes.[23] The filming of Chernobyl took 16 weeks.[24]

Historical accuracy

According to Moscow-based correspondent Fred Weir, "Everybody [in Russia and Ukraine] seems to agree that the miniseries goes overboard with its characters, depicting Soviet officials and plant management as too evil and conniving."[25] Russian documentary producer Oleg Voinov who made film about the Chernobyl disaster said that Chernobyl is "wonderfully shot, professionally edited, and the special effects are great. But it doesn’t come close to reflecting reality. ... A lot of the facts presented are just not true."[25]

Russian Berlin-based journalist Leonid Bershidsky wrote: "Some lapses were probably too costly to avoid even when the filmmakers knew about them, like modern plastic windows in Soviet buildings. But there’s plenty more. Chernobyl is too far from Moscow to reach by helicopter ... Nor, of course, could Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina even imagine threatening to throw Valery Legasov, an esteemed member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, off a helicopter — this was 1986, not 1936. ... I know for a fact from several reporting trips that Russian miners don’t drink vodka right at the mine, before they wash off the coal dust. ... the soldiers in the series appear to hold their weapons U.S. style, butt to the armpit, not Soviet-style, across the chest. ... Soviet people in 1986 didn’t go calling each other “comrade” except at Communist Party meetings. Ilya Repin’s dramatic painting of Ivan the Terrible realizing he’d just killed his son was never housed in the Kremlin. And some uniforms in the series are from the wrong period."[26]

Reception

Critical response

Chernobyl received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 95% approval rating with an average score of 8.84 out of 10, based on 59 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Chernobyl rivets with a creeping dread that never dissipates, dramatizing a national tragedy with sterling craft and an intelligent dissection of institutional rot."[27] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[28]

Reviewers from The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and BBC observed parallels to contemporary society by focusing on the power of information and how dishonest leaders can make mistakes beyond their comprehension.[29] Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic hailed the series as a "grim disquisition on the toll of devaluing the truth";[30] Hank Stuever of The Washington Post praised it for showcasing "what happens when lying is standard and authority is abused".[31]

US ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of Chernobyl
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "1:23:45" May 6, 2019 0.2 0.756[5] — — — —
2 "Please Remain Calm" May 13, 2019 0.3 1.004[7] 0.2 0.716 0.5 1.721[32]
3 "Open Wide, O Earth" May 20, 2019 0.3 1.063[8] TBD TBD TBD TBD
4 "The Happiness of All Mankind" May 27, 2019 0.3 1.193[9] TBD TBD TBD TBD
5 "Vichnaya Pamyat" June 3, 2019 0.3 1.089[10] TBD TBD TBD TBD

See also

More: List of Chernobyl-related articles

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