Probably if I hadn't seen so much about the Pripyat nuclear accident, my rating of this series would have been higher.

I remember when I was very young to hear my grandmother disgusted talking about Chernobyl nuclear accident. In the Spanish Civil War my grandparents were refugees in Crimea, so Ukraine was their second home. They even tried to adopt children, but this wasn't easy and couldn't ever be done.

I happened to be really concerned about nuclear energy, always seeking the truth. There is a dilemma, because nuclear fision is the most dangerous in case of accident, but otherwise believe it or not is the less pollutant of the most extended ones. Except, of course, the natural renewable energy and the future nuclear fusion.

I was very curious to see this, and people never stopped talking about it since it came out in Netflix. Specially because it was all around Valeri Legásov. Because of his suicide, not many footage or information is held about him in documentaries, and to me this was the strongest achievement they could have done. My first impression was of a letdown, because my expectations were maybe really high, but there was so much to talk about and only six slow going episodes.

My reference is specially 2006's french docummentary "La bataille de Tchernobyl" not to say more docummentaries and data I've seen for many years.

I'm not saying the docummentary is better than 2019's Chernobyl, which it is, but that's not what matters. What is important is that the information here leaves the series as an inaccurate approach for many reasons I will try to write down:

1.- Legásov knows it all. Starting with the most annoying of all, as many of the things weren't even known back then. There isn't even a reunion of all the most important russian scientists, just this man knows it all with detail and he leads all. He doesn't even need a meter to know how many röentgens are anywere.

2.- Too many licenses were taken. Where is Igor Kostin? Vladimir Greveniuk? Nikolay Antoshkin? Vassili Nesterenko? real heroes left out. And who is Ulana Khomyuk? People like Lyudmilla Ignatenko or Dyatlov coworkers expressed the lack of accuracy. Anatoly Dyatlov, Gorbachov and company are represented like mindless evil people, it's beyond ridiculous. Very little respect for many people that some of then aren't in this world anymore.

3.- Cheap sensacionalism. The people suffering so fast at the hospital, people on the bridge, naked miners, the guy falling onto contaminated water, the divers death... things that never happened, as if the situation wasn't dramatic enough.

So much potential wasted. There were so many details untapped... There are good things to be said about the Chernobyl 2019 series, the acting is good and the recreation of the reactor 4 (never been there) for all the pictures and footage I've seen looks horribly accurate and believable, but not the rest of the facts.

Therefore, I cannot recommend this series, not because there aren't good things, but because of the misinformation. Go watch instead "La bataille de Tchernobyl", much more accurate, much more compelling and much, much more scarier.