#On the Particular Devastation of the ‘Chernobyl’ Premiere
“#On the Particular Devastation of the ‘Chernobyl’ Premiere” This essay is part of our series Episodes, a column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This entry revisits the first episode (“1:23:45”) of HBO’s limited series Chernobyl. History is, more often than not, a horrorshow. Some…