HBO's 'Chernobyl' <br />Is the Top-Ranked <br />Show of All-Time The five episode miniseries <br />has a 9.7 star average rating <br />on the movie and television <br />database website, IMDB. Chernobyl is now ahead <br />of Breaking Bad, Game of <br />Thrones and Planet Earth II. 140,000 users <br />have rated the show. The series is a dramatization <br />of the worst nuclear power <br />plant disaster in history. In 1986, reactor four of the <br />Chernobyl nuclear power plant —<br />located in the former Soviet Union — <br />exploded during a safety test. The explosion released <br />more that fifty tons of <br />radioactive material <br />into the atmosphere. Created by Craig Mazin, <br />the series stars Jared Harris, <br />Stellan Skarsgaard and Emily Watson.
