A tremendous, vivid and powerful documentary-drama displaying what went wrong at Chernobyl and the Soviet republic. Everything from the chilling music score and the actors give life to a story so strong that you almost get the wind knocked out of you. The series is not just good; it's a must see! This series is a testament to what was wrong with the socialist system and what the result was. I don't want to take away from the heroics of the Russians and Ukrainians and more that was firemen, liquidators, soldiers; they did a tremendous job. But the system: Always cutting corners, the total disregard of human costs, the endemic corruption produces the worst disaster ever recorded in the history of nuclear power production. Thankfully none of the reactors in the west was built with this technology nor this poor standard, don't make the mistake of believing this could ever happen in a nuclear reactor in the west. See it! You will not regret it.