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Posted Wednesday 6/12/19 at 1:16PM EDT
Chernobyl creator calls for selfie-taking Instagram influencers to be respectful when visiting the nuclear disaster site
"It's wonderful that #ChernobylHBO has inspired a wave of tourism to the Zone of Exclusion.
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Posted Wednesday 6/12/19 at 2:50AM EDT
Chernobyl is science fiction in a very different sense of that term
The HBO miniseries, says Emily Todd VanDerWerff, is "a fictional recreation of a real scientific event, and it is a...
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Posted Monday 6/10/19 at 10:34PM EDT
2019's best TV shows so far happen to be those that aren't stretched out
"It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that television episodes are getting longer," says Sophie Gilbert.
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Peak TV meets "Must-Endure TV" with Chernobyl and When They See Us
"Immersive re-creations of historical horrors from the 1980s—a Soviet nuclear meltdown, a grotesquely racist miscarriage of justice in New York—these...
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Posted Friday 6/07/19 at 7:21AM EDT
HBO's Chernobyl strikes a cord in India, leading to calls for a similar miniseries on the 1984 Bhophal disaster
The HBO miniseries has "sparked online discussion in India about one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the fatal gas...
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Posted Thursday 6/06/19 at 12:58PM EDT
Report: Russia plans to make its own version of Chernobyl that makes American spies the villain
The Russian government has launched a "mini-crusade" against the HBO limited series, according to The Moscow Times.
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Posted Wednesday 6/05/19 at 1:27PM EDT
Could there be a Chernobyl Season 2?
Chernobyl was originally supposed to run for six episodes, but creator Craig Mazin says "I took two episodes and squished...
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Chernobyl became this year's scariest show, with terror injected into the most benign of things
"With every episode, HBO’s chronicle of the 1986 disaster has broadened its scope to investigate, often horrifically, the breadth of...
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Posted Tuesday 6/04/19 at 1:45PM EDT
Chernobyl became an unlikely Monday night hit for HBO
The limited series based on the 1980s nuclear disaster that wrapped up its five-part run last night saw its ratings...
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Posted Tuesday 6/04/19 at 5:31AM EDT
Chernobyl creator: "The last thing I wanted to do was just make homework"
Craig Mazin explains why his five-part HBO miniseries began with nuclear accident at Chernobyl and waited until Episode 5 to...
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TV Today: So You Think You Can Dance Is Back with New Judges
For the 15th consecutive summer (with one fall season crammed in there), we get to spend the summer dancing on...
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An Appreciation of Jared Harris as Chernobyl's Tragic Hero
Jared Harris dies a lot on screen.
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Posted Thursday 5/30/19 at 4:55PM EDT
Mikhail Gorbachev says he plans to watch HBO's Chernobyl
Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who was in power during the 1986 nuclear disaster, was asked on...
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Posted Thursday 5/30/19 at 3:07AM EDT
Memes are helping viewers process the horrors of HBO's Chernobyl
The five-part miniseries on the 1986 nuclear disaster "has quietly grown in popularity in the aftermath of Game Of Thrones’...
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Posted Tuesday 5/28/19 at 9:30AM EDT
Chernobyl creator understands if viewers want to skip difficult scenes
Monday's Episode 4, in particular, contained some especially hard-to-watch scenes.