"chernobyl": 1:23:45(2019)

: Critics from IGN and Film Inquiry praised the episode for its immersive, "eerie and daunting" atmosphere, which plays like a horror movie by focusing on the invisible, "spectral" threat of radiation. Scientific and Historical Context

: The narrative then shifts back to the night of the accident. Inside the Control Room of Unit 4, a safety test goes horribly wrong. "Chernobyl" 1:23:45(2019)

: Inhabitants of Pripyat gather on a railway bridge to watch the "beautiful" blue beam of light emanating from the reactor, as radioactive "snow" falls on them, oblivious to the danger. : Critics from IGN and Film Inquiry praised

: The episode follows Vasily Ignatenko and his fellow firefighters as they arrive at the plant, completely unaware of the lethal radiation. They handle chunks of glowing graphite —the "guts" of the reactor—with their bare hands. : Inhabitants of Pripyat gather on a railway

: Soviet chemist Valery Legasov (played by Jared Harris) records memoirs exposing the truth behind the disaster before taking his own life at exactly 1:23:45 AM, coinciding with the disaster's anniversary.

: Composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir , who used ambient sounds recorded at a decommissioned nuclear power plant.