HBO's 'Chernobyl'
Is the Top-Ranked
Show of All-Time The five episode miniseries
has a 9.7 star average rating
on the movie and television
database website, IMDB. Chernobyl is now ahead
of Breaking Bad, Game of
Thrones and Planet Earth II. 140,000 users
have rated the show. The series is a dramatization
of the worst nuclear power
plant disaster in history. In 1986, reactor four of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant —
located in the former Soviet Union —
exploded during a safety test. The explosion released
more that fifty tons of
radioactive material
into the atmosphere. Created by Craig Mazin,
the series stars Jared Harris,
Stellan Skarsgaard and Emily Watson.