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Tyler Aquilina
Tyler Aquilina is a former digital writer at
Entertainment Weekly
. He left EW in 2022.
March 28, 2019 7:14 p.m. ET
REACT
HBO has released the first trailer for its miniseries
Chernobyl
, and it’s predictably intense. The trailer features nigh-apocalyptic imagery–birds falling out of the air, skies filled with smoke and fire–and plenty of chilling dialogue to match.
“A just world is a sane world,” intones the opening voice-over. “There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.”
The trailer also shows off the prestigious cast, including Stellan Skarsgård as the Soviet deputy prime minister, along with two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson, and
Mad Men
‘s Jared Harris as nuclear physicists.
The five-episode miniseries is a dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, during which a massive explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union released radioactive material across the country and into Western Europe. The disaster remains the deadliest and costliest nuclear power plant accident in history.
Chernobyl
premieres on HBO May 6. Watch the full trailer above.
Related content:
HBO orders two new Mike Judge comedies — including one about a-holes
Midnight in Chernobyl
author on how a workers’ paradise became a nuclear nightmare |
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# See the chilling first trailer for HBO's *Chernobyl* miniseries
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HBO has released the first trailer for its miniseries *Chernobyl*, and it’s predictably intense. The trailer features nigh-apocalyptic imagery–birds falling out of the air, skies filled with smoke and fire–and plenty of chilling dialogue to match.
“A just world is a sane world,” intones the opening voice-over. “There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.”
The trailer also shows off the prestigious cast, including Stellan Skarsgård as the Soviet deputy prime minister, along with two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson, and *Mad Men*‘s Jared Harris as nuclear physicists.
The five-episode miniseries is a dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, during which a massive explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union released radioactive material across the country and into Western Europe. The disaster remains the deadliest and costliest nuclear power plant accident in history.
*Chernobyl* premieres on HBO May 6. Watch the full trailer above.
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HBO has released the first trailer for its miniseries *Chernobyl*, and it’s predictably intense. The trailer features nigh-apocalyptic imagery–birds falling out of the air, skies filled with smoke and fire–and plenty of chilling dialogue to match.
“A just world is a sane world,” intones the opening voice-over. “There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.”
The trailer also shows off the prestigious cast, including Stellan Skarsgård as the Soviet deputy prime minister, along with two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson, and *Mad Men*‘s Jared Harris as nuclear physicists.
The five-episode miniseries is a dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, during which a massive explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union released radioactive material across the country and into Western Europe. The disaster remains the deadliest and costliest nuclear power plant accident in history.
*Chernobyl* premieres on HBO May 6. Watch the full trailer above.
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