HBO’s recently-ended Chernobyl mini-series is easily one of the best shows of the year — and so much better than Game of Thrones season 8, by the way. The show tells the real story of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster as experienced by the ones who had to deal with the consequences.
Unsurprisingly, Putin’s Russia doesn’t like it. Not only that, but a Russian network is making its own Chernobyl, which will be a fictional story based on a conspiracy theory that claims the CIA — who else — sent an agent to the Chernobyl zone to carry out acts of sabotage.
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Russia hates HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ so much that it’s making its own series originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 23:09:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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