“Chernobyl,” the HBO miniseries that ends Monday in the U.S., ... and Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev took 18 days before he spoke about it to the nation. By then, ...

However bad you think the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was, it was worse. And HBO’s five-part miniseries about it is the grimmest thing you’ll see on TV this year.

Chernobyl Review: A Good Disaster Series About Slow Suffering and Bad Politics HBO's miniseries functions as both a horror movie and a cautionary tale Keith Phipps May 7, 2019, 2:04 p.m. PT ...

But “Chernobyl” is a bleak cautionary tale most of all, as we see Soviet officials including then-General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (David Dencik, with a port-wine stain on his head) eager ...

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ a sobering, prophetic view Fri., ... all members of whom reported to Mikhail Gorbachev – the last General Secretary of the USSR’s Communist Party. ...

“Chernobyl”Liam Daniel/HBO. In that way, “Chernobyl” can be a parable for the looming, ... Having Mikhail Gorbachev in that room adds in an inescapable political layer to the show.

HBO's "Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes" shows actual scenes around the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster. ... the Soviet Union regime under then-president Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the filming, ...

HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl is every bit as good as you’ve heard. The show is not fun to watch, ... Mikhail Gorbachev appears in a few scenes, ...

HBO’s “Chernobyl” asks: What’s the price of a lie? by Sam Eifling June 4, ... Had the Soviets not figured out how to contain the core, as Legasov has to explain to Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Fifteen minutes into the second episode of HBO’s gripping saga of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear ... the series has Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declaring angrily that the accident had to be kept ...

The sudden spike in demand is all to do with Chernobyl, the HBO miniseries that concluded its five-part run on Monday night. ... man” would be the take is Mikhail Gorbachev himself, ...

What HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ teaches about Trump . June 20, ... At least the Soviet Union had Mikhail Gorbachev, with his instinctive decency and honesty, at the top during that crisis.