I’m old enough to remember this, although I was only 15 at the time.

It’s well done in Docudrama style.
There is a companion podcast that drops each Monday night after the episode.

https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pineapple-street-media/the-chernobyl-podcast

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

It’s interesting that my high school kids know lots of facts about the disaster, but have no context or frame of reference about the culture of the U.S.S.R.

Reminder for you content lovers, the companion podcast is done by Mazin and is also great.

It provides the fact and fiction of the show and why fiction was used in some areas.

The roof scene is 90 seconds to give the viewer a sense of how it was to be there. The speech to the men before they go up is also the exact speech they received.

Although dramatic license is used frequently in the show, some of the included details are great viewing.

I’ve started reading the book Midnight in Chernobyl. It’s quite good on the details and background.

Biubblehead,

Why would the control rods have tips that would briefly increase the reaction when inserted?

That part has confused me. It seems like it defeats the point of having the AZ5 / SCRAM mechanism.