"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

88/100

Despite some of its sudden decadences, Chernobyl still remains as one of the sharpest, most proficient and though-provoking TV shows to have ever come out. A miniseries that isn't hesitant on taking certain risks in order to ameliorate the storytelling based on some trepidatory realities.

In a show full of up-to-the-mark aspects, the daring cinematography - that adapts between a shakier style and a more stable one as a way to deepen into the show's own narrating abilites -, and that fascinatingly ingenious sound design that fully allows itself to shine at the very end of episode two, have to be my personal highlights.

Notwithstanding the pleasant particularities, the show has a dangerously unstable screenplay that, in spite of its overall satisfying quality and ease to describe the events to us mortals (aka, non-physicists), the show has created enough of a bar set for itself that makes even its most inconsequential factors fall into dissatisfaction and mediocrity for some...

However, above all, that unsettling feeling the show achieves effortlessly makes every second feel efficient. It's engaging despite its intentional slow pace and dynamic regardless of the subject matter. It justifies the statement some have made these past years where it calls this era the "golden age of TV".