Chernobyl

Craig Mazin's five-episode HBO masterpiece about the 1986 nuclear disaster became the highest-rated show on IMDb upon its release. Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, and Emily Watson deliver career-defining performances in a story about the catastrophic cost of lies. Every frame drips with dread, and the final episode's courtroom sequence is the most devastating hour of television in the 2010s.