
Shows that feel likeChernobyl (2019)
If you loved Chernobyl, the closest series we have are When They See Us (2019), Silo (2023) and The Last of Us (2023). All three share Chernobyl's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Unbelievable (2019).
If Chernobyl hit the spot, these will too

Institutional lies destroying ordinary lives, meticulously told
The difference: American injustice, five boys

Both are built on the same subject: disaster
The difference: Trades the dread of Chernobyl for an angle of its own

Bleak and contemplative in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less dread-soaked than Chernobyl does

Both lean on dread more than on drama
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Chernobyl does

Drama with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: miniseries

One thread runs through both: a true story

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Both sit in the same gritty register

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

Both run bleak where it counts

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