The events surrounding Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe deserve honest and unbiased account.

Yet, despite all these years since the events, nothing of sorts made it to the film screens. HBO's Chernobyl is no exception.

The movie uses real events as a pretext to weave in fictional characters, events that didn't happen, as well as skew some of the real events to suite the director's vision.

Examples: Legasov's notes were never secretly dumped into trash, Khomyuk character never existed, the Bridge of Death is an invented event, helicopter never crashed when dumping sand and boron onto exposed reactor (this happened much later when helicopter crashed into a crane that was installing the Shelter), there was no suicide mission to drain the water tanks, the Pripyat evacuation was not delayed, etc.

So many intentional inaccuracies and lies.

During Chernobyl events there were a lot of mistakes made, there were right decisions made, yet TV series focus is all black. Tens of thousands of engineers, specialists, able citizens, from all over Soviet Union, volunteered to help in Chernobyl clean-up effort, TV series never talks about that.

The director's vision is to portray Soviet government as monsters, and Soviet people as backward brutes. This alone is an insult to the unprecedented and heroic effort undertaken by liquidators of the Chernobyl accident consequences.

On a side note, kudos to the props team: the cloth, items, buildings, furniture and the surroundings are very close the to the mid 80s Soviet Union. Even some cast looks somewhat like 80s Soviet citizens, not all of them, by far, yet it still shows an effort taken.

I will wait for much more truthful movie adaptation of the Chernobyl events, the HBO Chernobyl series deserves 2/10 from my perspective.

P. S.: I love how everyone downs vodka at every turn, like it's water. In the height of the Gorbachev's dry law campaign, yeah, right.