Netflix's Meltdown: Three Mile Island effectively covers the 1979 nuclear accident

Variety

The four-part docuseries "does an elegant job" of the two truths that "Three Mile Island was a narrowly averted nightmare scenario and that it lives on in the public imagination as an argument against nuclear energy," says Daniel D'Addario. "It can default, especially in its early going, to tools of the trade that feel underbaked — reenactments of, say, a phone ringing in a school where children wait for news about the disaster, the camera somewhat schlockily pushing in to amp up what’s already dramatic enough. But the power of the story Meltdown tells, as well as the insight of those on whom director Kief Davidson trains his camera, ultimately carries the day."