I watched 4 1/2 episodes of this due to friends basically forcing me to, and I do not understand the hype. It is so boring from start to finish. Yes it is well shot, yes it's pretty to look at, and yes it tells an important story, I understand all of that. What I don't understand is how this has became the "best show of all time" when I fell asleep watching it numerous times. What happened at Chernobyl was a tragedy, and I have 0 doubt that the story was told as well as it possibly could be in this series. With that said, this having almost a 10 on IMDB just makes no sense to me, and I've spoken to several people who agree that it's just a super boring show that should have been done in 3 episodes instead of 5, it just drug on way too long. I hope it eventually comes down to where it belongs, which is nowhere near the top.