Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.
I also wanna chime in with the Three Mile Island show run by Netflix. There was an incredible change on the language when the disaster was not the responsibility of the "baddies". I remember one scene where the energy company literally lies to the local government saying there's no radiation leakage. However when they're doing a press conference, the company officials just say there is. And the head of the local government is just like "Oh no, bummers" rather than, "Holy shit you guys lying about this is almost as big of a disaster as the meltdown itself"
is that a recommended watch?
I did have fun watching it after all. I am genuinely curious about nuclear energy, so I thought it'd be nice to see how these safety critical systems operated and failed on an engineering standpoint. But it doesn't have the show cinematography or the real life domino effect the Chernobyl had.