Chernobyl

Honestly doesn’t really hold up years down the line. Voyeuristic, morally simplistic and kind of patchwork with the angles it picks from at will. The explanations of what happened to the core itself are compelling — especially in the almost overly cinematic climactic courtroom scene — but often comes off as almost edutainment: Jared Harris endlessly explaining nuclear physics to Stellan Skarsgård ends up reading like a high budget infomercial or classroom chemistry tape. Not to say it isn’t entertaining or compelling, but maybe the Russian government’s initial reaction to this was right. Like if this ain’t propaganda…