Chernobyl is a tragic story about an unfortunately very human disaster.

This docuseries portrays several events during and after the Chernobyl catastrophe focusing on the horrible aftermath of the spread radiation and on the corrupt politics in the Soviet union. Mistakes of the western world were not portrayed (which also exist, even in this Soviet crisis) - I think they would have enriched the show.

The show was very beautiful and spends a lot on setting the scenery. On the other hand, it is at times quite slow and while I understand that scenes like the wife and scenes like killing animals are absolutely necessary parts of this show to portray the aftermath of the explosion, I also did feel quite bored during these scenes.

It definitely took me a while to get through the show for one since it is slow and on the other hand since it is not easy to digest with heartfelt scenes.

No matter what, though, you do not waste your time by watching this show - you will learn something about a real nuclear catastrophe.