Where can I stream Chernobyl?

Chernobyl streams on HBO Max. It ran for 1 season (2019).

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Q: Is Chernobyl worth watching?

Chernobyl has a Celluloid Score of 91%, averaged from critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. It comes recommended overall. Created by Craig Mazin.

Created by Craig Mazin · 2019

Quick Verdict

Chernobyl has a 91% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. Celluloid Pick — recommended. Streaming on HBO Max.

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85%Fan Score

Seasons: 1 · 5 episodes
Network: HBO Max
Cast: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson

Is Chernobyl worth watching?

Yes — Chernobyl earns a 91% Celluloid Score. Celluloid Pick, created by Craig Mazin and streaming on HBO Max.

Critics Consensus

A monumental miniseries — procedural, terrifying and morally exacting — that turns bureaucratic catastrophe into some of the most gripping television ever made.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

What is Chernobyl about?

In April 1986 a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, and a scientist, a party official and countless unnamed workers are thrown against a catastrophe the state refuses to admit is happening — a five-hour anatomy of disaster, denial and the cost of lies.

Critic Reviews

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Chernobyl Review: The Cost of Lies, Measured in Roentgen

★★★★★ 5/5

Craig Mazin's five-hour miniseries stages the 1986 reactor disaster as a horror film about epistemology — a state allergic to truth colliding with physics, which does not negotiate — and produces one of the greatest achievements in television history.

A masterpiece — procedural, terrifying and morally exact. The standard by which historical drama on television is now judged.