A sign of a great series is when you end up researching the background to events. Chernobyl gripped me so much much from the first five minutes.

Firstly the production values were so high. It is HBO after all. Second the actors were almost unrecognisable. Jared Harris I recognised the jaw line, but Stellan Skarsgard was so different and convincing. The grime of a 1980s Soviet power plant was ingrained into the workers.

I could go on and on. But what really did it for me was the depth of the characters. The old men who really believed that Communist state would do right by them. They were real people in that era just before the USSR broke up. HBO got them dead right.

A great show