Without fanfare, Chernobyl has become unmissable TV.
The Sky Atlantic show, which concludes on Tuesday, is harrowing and unrelentingly bleak, with some complicated science to get to grips with.
It is also a western-made drama about a disaster that occurred in the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago, of which details such as the number of deaths are still debated. There was much that could go wrong.
And ultimately, we know how the story pans out.
Chernobyl: The ‘untold story’ about the world’s worst nuclear disaster
‘This is a story about humanity and the cost of lives; a story about the worst that humans can do, but also the best’
But seemingly from nowhere, this five-part mini-series is now the show that everyone is talking about. (Sorry, Game Of Thrones).
After just three episodes, Chernobyl topped film and TV database IMDB’s list of the greatest 250 TV shows of all time. It currently has a score of 9.7, based on more than 96,000 votes. Fan-voted charts obviously have their problems and are by no means definitive, but it is still quite an accolade for a drama series just four weeks and four episodes old.
To put it into context, Game Of Thrones (73 episodes and eight years old), scores 9.4, with more than 1.5 million reviews.
It is a gripping show. But what is it that has made the series so popular? We spoke to a nuclear scientist, a TV writer and a journalist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union to get their views.
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