Vichnaya Pamyat

This was... I lack words. I'm from Bulgaria, a soviet satellite for more than 40 years. I remember being in high school when this disaster occurred and I remember that there was nothing in the news, no information at all. More over, they took us - every single school in my town Varna - out in the open, picnic in the woods. That happened in the first days of May, when the radioactive cloud had already reached us. We had a great time... Skipping one boring day at school and enjoying the nature. What kind of people would do that?.. Again, I lack words. I never knew things went south so quickly and so badly. I cried on every episode, and now there are tears in my eyes as I'm writing this review. More than 750 000 people suffered this human stupidity, sacrificing their lives and health for us all. We never knew their names, we never knew their heroism, we never got to know the gigantic amount of work these people did, knowing that they risk their own lives. Thank you, HBO, for bringing it to the public. This miniseries totally washed out the shame of GoT. I'm a suspicious person who never believes what they're told. I always need a confirmation. So, I went searching for a confirmation. I read Legasov's audio tapes (you also could do that if you speak Russian), I listened to Dyatlov's confession, I watched the real footage from Chernobyl. All of these could be found on YouTube. In every detail the series were accurate. And this ruined me. I was hoping to find propaganda details, something to suppress my fear... No. This was the ugly, brutal truth. Reality could be more scary than the scariest nightmare a human imagination could produce. I was sorry I couldn't rate GoT's last season 0/10. Now I'm sorry I can't rate Chernobyl 20/10

There would be no possible way to imagine a better series finale.

Going to keep this short and simple:

One of, if not the best, episodes of television currently out there. Going into this episode, I knew HBO was going to knock it out of the park, but even this more than exceeded my expectations. This was the perfect finale in every aspect that can be imagined - the writing, the cinematography, the acting, etc. Hats off to HBO, Craig Mazin, Jonah Renck, and everyone who was a part of making this masterpiece.

Everything was tied up nicely and the creators achieved one of the most difficult things in cinematography: a satisfying end without sacrificing authenticity and maintaining the logic they started with. The ingenuity of the creators never ceases to amaze me in the way they manage to make people understand the more technical aspects.

I beg everyone to ignore the review bombing that is happening right now, it's disrespectful to the heroes that went through this tragedy and portrays the shallowness of the times.

Astonishingly wonderful horrific real story. The trial scene with such an understandable explanation made this episode one of the best finale of a series. The cinematography and screenplay of this episode were top notch. The lies and politics behind the chernobyl disaster came out eventually. The truth was told atlast. Everyone who sacrificed their life for resolving chernobyl incident were the true heroes, respect and a salute to them.

Special thanks to the directors, writers and all technical crews who made this miniseries possible. I hope HBO continues to give us good series like chernobyl, peace.