Home > Chernobyl > Miniseries « TV Series Page Chernobyl: Miniseries (2019) Want to see Episode List Miniseries Chernobyl Critics Consensus Chernobyl rivets with a creeping dread that never dissipates, dramatizing a national tragedy with sterling craft and an intelligent dissection of institutional rot. 96% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 95 98% Audience Score User Ratings: 2556 See score details Other TV Shows Rate And Review Submit review Want to see Edit Submit review Super Reviewer Verified Super Reviewer Verified Edit Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit How did you buy your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Episodes 1. 1:23:45 Air date: May 6, 2019 April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant. View Details 2. Please Remain Calm Air date: May 13, 2019 With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent. View Details 3. Open Wide, O Earth Air date: May 20, 2019 Lyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley), a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's (Adam Nagaitis) contamination; Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks. View Details 4. The Happiness of All Mankind Air date: May 27, 2019 Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) consider using lunar rovers to remove radioactive debris, while Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) faces government hurdles in determining the truth about the cause of the explosion. View Details 5. Vichnaya Pamyat Air date: Jun 3, 2019 Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) and Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl. View Details Chernobyl: Miniseries Videos 0:44 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Date Announcement Teaser 1:00 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Featurette - Behind the Curtain 1:15 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Trailer - In The Weeks Ahead 2:28 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Trailer 0:44 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Episode 3 Trailer 0:39 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Episode 4 Trailer 3:23 Chernobyl: Season 1 Episode 4 Featurette - Behind the Scenes 2:28 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Featurette - After the Aftermath 3:27 Chernobyl: Mini-Series Episode 5 Featurette - Behind the Scenes View All Videos (9) Chernobyl: Miniseries Photos View All Photos (14) Tv Season Info CHERNOBYL dramatizes the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst human-made catastrophes in history, and tells the story of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster, all the while battling a culture of disinformation. Genre: Drama Network: HBO Premiere Date: May 6, 2019 Creator: Craig Mazin Exec. Producers: Carolyn Strauss, Jane Featherstone, Craig Mazin Cast & Crew Sam Troughton Akimov David Dencik Gorbachev Adrian Rawlins Nikolai Fomin Emily Watson Ulana Khomyuk Paul Ritter Anatoly Dyatlov Mark Lewis Jones General Pikalov Jessie Buckley Lyudmilla Ignatenko Stellan Skarsgård Boris Shcherbina Con O'Neill Viktor Bryukhanov Ralph Ineson General Tarakanov Jared Harris Valery Legasov Craig Mazin Jane Featherstone Carolyn Strauss Johan Renck Show all Cast & Crew News & Interviews for Chernobyl: Miniseries Chernobyl, The Crown, Fleabag, and Giri/Haji Lead BAFTA 2020 TV Nominations 1917‘s Sam Mendes Wins Best Director at 2020 Directors Guild Awards, Cements Place As Oscar Favorite Best-Reviewed Movies and TV Shows 2019 View All Chernobyl: Miniseries News Episodes 1. 1:23:45 Air date: May 6, 2019 April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant. View Details 2. Please Remain Calm Air date: May 13, 2019 With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent. View Details 3. Open Wide, O Earth Air date: May 20, 2019 Lyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley), a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's (Adam Nagaitis) contamination; Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks. View Details 4. The Happiness of All Mankind Air date: May 27, 2019 Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) consider using lunar rovers to remove radioactive debris, while Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) faces government hurdles in determining the truth about the cause of the explosion. View Details 5. Vichnaya Pamyat Air date: Jun 3, 2019 Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) and Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl. View Details Critic Reviews for Chernobyl Miniseries All Critics (95) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (91) | Rotten (4) ...created with an awesome attention to historical accuracy and detail, brought back that harrowing event with frightening clarity and a superbly orchestrated sense of danger and dread. Dec 17, 2019 | Full Review… Graeme Blundell The Australian Top Critic With renewed interest in the 33-year-old disaster has come a curious sense of moralizing proprietorship - which makes you wonder what, exactly, people are getting from the miniseries. Jun 14, 2019 | Full Review… Alison Willmore BuzzFeed News Top Critic They've done a really great job depicting the emergency... [And] It's this amped-up version of the debate that we have now about issues like global warming and our inability to agree on facts apart from political spin. May 7, 2019 | Full Review… Eric Deggans NPR Top Critic Chernobyl returns HBO to the forefront of networks daring to tell difficult stories of import without any seeming concerns about whether or not they'll be "hits." May 6, 2019 | Rating: A | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic Chernobyl is a thorough historical analysis, a gruesome disaster epic replete with oozing blisters and the ominous rattle of Geiger counters, and a mostly riveting drama. May 6, 2019 | Full Review… Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic Top Critic Chernobyl is relentlessly bleak, but it has a remarkable cumulative power. May 3, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Top Critic Objectivity is Chernobyl's best ally. This is the best thing I watched in the entire year of 2019. [Full review in Spanish] Aug 20, 2020 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review… Victor Pineyro Seventh Art Studio The pleasure of the story, if you can call it that, is... knowing that we - all of us - are part of something bigger than ourselves; that doing what is right might not always be best for the individual, but serves the greater arc of civilization. Aug 4, 2020 | Full Review… Chris Plante Polygon Books, films, and spiritual practices which can serve as antidotes to our wayward capacities for violence. Feb 18, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Chernobyl is really the whole package - it's got a brain and a heart and some really thoughtful things to say. Dec 16, 2019 | Full Review… Ciara Wardlow Film School Rejects A riveting showcase for sheer storytelling craft ... Chernobyl is great TV - some of this year's best. Dec 10, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review… Mel Campbell ScreenHub While the first two episodes have been incredibly heavy, they have also been an exercise in stellar filmmaking and performing. Dec 5, 2019 | Full Review… Luke Hicks Film School Rejects View All Critic Reviews (95) Audience Reviews for Chernobyl: Miniseries Oct 18, 2020 Intense and sobering view on the human condition. Newt C Oct 09, 2020 Fantastic! Brilliant! Walter F Oct 05, 2020 Stunning! Petrifying! Gut-wrenching! Mge A Sep 30, 2020 masterpiece of a miniseries. Orbre x Sep 26, 2020 Oh my god this sound design and visuals are just...exceptional! Decent actors work. Solid script. Pretty fair from my perspective(from Russia). 5/5 YouAreNot M Sep 22, 2020 HBO's "Chernobyl" is just as terrifying as any horror movie out there. This series was one of the most talked-about back in 2019, so it had been pending on my list for a long time. Knowing only the bare minimum about the real-life disaster, this show kept me on the edge of my seat. It can be exhausting to get through it but it is superbly acted and well made. I think this a miniseries everyone should experience once, but it is definitely one that has many heavy topics to think about. It's a harrowing and tension-filled account of a real-life, man-made disaster that I personally won't be forgetting any time soon. Yash B Sep 13, 2020 The best historical series of all. Davide T Sep 06, 2020 Absolute masterpiece! This is well written and directed. The actors do an amazing job of portraying this real life event. I have watch the series four times over the past 2 days! This is a MUST WATCH! Michael J Aug 18, 2020 My favorite film! I absolutely love every aspect of this film from the sound design to the script. The camera work throughout the mini-series is some of my favorite, for example, the camera is almost always focused around one person in a scene which really creates a connection to the characters. The mini-series is also well-paced so you are never getting bored throughout your viewing. Alistair G Aug 14, 2020 How can I explain ... this miniseries was better than I thought, the construction of tension was good, the performances are spectacular and everything else ... a true modern masterpiece !!! jose r See all Audience reviews News & Features Best Horror Movies Top 200 of all time "Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrong" Our new podcast Worst Superhero Movies Thanks, <em>Squad</em> Best Netflix Series and Shows What to binge right now More News & Features TOP HEADLINES Best Horror Movies of 2020 Ranked – Rotten Tomatoes Fall TV First Look: Find Out What’s Coming – Rotten Tomatoes The Best Peacock Original Shows and Movies – Rotten Tomatoes 20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Inception – Rotten Tomatoes All Upcoming Disney Movies: New Disney Live-Action, Animation, Pixar, Marvel, and More – Rotten Tomatoes The Best Quibi Shows to Stream Now – Rotten Tomatoes The 64 Most Anticipated Movies of 2020 – Rotten Tomatoes Sundance 2020 Movie Scorecard – Rotten Tomatoes More Headlines Go back More trailers