Chernobyl (2019)

The redeeming feature of the series is that it motivates one to consult Wikipedia, with which the series competes in dramatic depth and to which it loses in factual accuracy. There is nothing particularly Russian or Soviet about the characters, who are presented as generic Europeans, as if recreated by a creative committee from images on ancient vases and poems scribbled in a tongue long foreign to the modern ear. The visuals are compelling.