Chernobyl

"That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies." Grew up hearing about the last years of this system and the show gets the feel of it exactly right, not the cartoon evil, but the everyday fear. Everyone deferring upward, everyone protecting their position, the truth becoming whatever the person above you needs it to be. The reactor was the only thing in the whole apparatus that couldn't be intimidated into agreeing.