If you think you are too comfortable, too optimistic or happy, this new HBO series is just the cure you need. We know the Chernobyl accident was bad, but this puts the viewer awfully close to the graphic horror, the vomit and radiation burns, the denial of the core explosion, and lots of sickening detail. Best not to watch just before sleep.

I cannot advise anyone to watch "Chernobyl", unless you have an appetite for this kind of bleak horror, or perhaps appreciate the better made series like this one, regardless the theme or atmosphere. Yes I'm one of those. I paused the first episode several times when I got too uncomfortable. Enjoy.

I gave it 8 stars. The language should have been Russian. Now, Russians will have to do a voice-over in Russian, hah that will be fun to watch.