We really like to see new content on the platforms, such as the Elisabeth Olsen series either the Netflix series I started watching because a friend told me it looked like HBO. But as in fashion, the classics never fail, and surprisingly there is a classic that has once again been the most watched on HBO Max, just as it was in 2019, the year it was released.
The data is provided to us by the platform Flix Patrol and it has left us very much in shock. Not because the most viewed on HBO Max doesn’t deserve it, it is in fact one of the best series on hbo of history, but because in Spain has taken the position of our dear, beloved and now that it is over, longed for, succession.
With 14 nominations, this series became the most nominated fiction of 2019, reaching the record for nominations for a series. At the Golden Globes he got 4 nominations and 19 more nominations at the Emmy Awards, of which he got 10 awards, including best miniseries, best direction, script, photography and music.
We are talking about an absolutely brilliant miniseries. Chernobyl.
Chernobyl It is the most watched on HBO Max four years after its premiere
The official synopsis tells us how on April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union, suffered a huge explosion that released radioactive material throughout Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, reaching Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Valery Legasov, a brilliant Soviet nuclear physicist and part of the tragedy response team, is one of the first to become aware of the unprecedented catastrophe that has just occurred.
Embarked on the almost impossible task of recreating the story of the nuclear accident, HBO was marked with this miniseries an authentic masterpiece. Photography and music, mixed with the sounds of the accident, manage to envelop you. But if something does Chernobyl It is the great series that it is, it is its cast.
From Jared Harris who plays the Soviet nuclear physicist Valery Legasov to Jessie Buckley, the wife of one of the firefighters who came to put out the fire at first. Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Con O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Sam Troughton and a long etcetera that make us feel the uncertainty of those responsible, the anguish of the workers and the fear of the injured.
Written by Craig Mazin and directed by Jonah Renck, this miniseries shot in Lithuania is an HBO/Sky co-production produced by Sister Pictures and The Mighty Mint.
And although we do not know the reason for the rise of Chernobyl on HBO Max’s most-watched list four years after its premiereWhat we do know is that today is a good time to relive this series. Although its crudeness, necessary and overwhelming, gives us goosebumps again like in 2019.
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Photos | Chernobyl (HBO Max)
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