The major aim of this production seems to be to preach to the choir of hardcore Western capitalists what they already believed about the USSR and even Socialism in general. In this it obviously succeeded. While the technical aspects of the incident are mostly presented accurately, the malevolence of Soviet officials is comically exaggerated, their unwillingness to request outside help likewise, and there is gross scientific disinformation on the health effects of radiation exposure, introduced just for shock value. All I can hope is that this show made more people web-search "was Chernobyl TV show accurate" than it made blindly up-vote this show on ratings websites.