Good, gripping, informative and enjoyable, but for me not the greatest of documentary dramas. The dialogue and characters were often unrealistic and oversimplified, and it felt like facts were sometimes being twisted to fit in with the movie plot (which apparently is true to an extent). I'm not sure how much of the propaganda element was intentional, or whether it was just an excess of stereotyping. The speeches at the end about lies and truth were little more than cliches. For me, the main fault lies with the central theme of Chernobyl's plot, which is how secrecy led to a pattern of lies and bad decisions, rather than the greater moral question of whether it's right to use a technology that potentially endangers the lives of tens or hundreds of millions of people, given the flawed nature of people and their systems. Not once throughout the series did anyone question whether the use of nuclear energy itself might be at the heart of the problem (maybe it wasn't mentioned in the source material?). Instead, the message came through loud and clear that nuclear reactors are safe as long as the off-switch works. Perhaps the underlying question at the heart of the series should have been, "Does the potential danger of nuclear power outweigh the benefits?" rather than "Is the US political system better than the Russian political system?"