The HBO series Chernobyl dramatises one of the world’s worst man-made catastrophes due to an explosion in a nuclear plant. The series was released only a couple of days back and has become the top-rated show on IMDb’s all-time TV surpassing epic shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad.
The five-episode series is written by Craig Mazin and directed Johan Renck and has gained a 9.6-star rating out of 10, based on 152,634 users, as of June 6.
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The 9.6-star rating has put it ahead of Breaking Bad (9.5), Planet Earth II (9.5), Band of Brothers (9.5), Planet Earth (9.4), and Game of Thrones.
‘Chernobyl’ is a dramatisation of the massive explosion that took place in a nuclear power plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, and its aftermath. The explosion released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe, according to Variety.
The show has earned critical praise because of its narrative style.