The podcast, made up of five episodes of interviews and afterthoughts with Mazin and Sagal, mostly dealt about the process of writing, casting and directing the show. It delved into the historicity of Chernobyl’s drama, the politics surrounding the nuclear accident in 1980’s Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union, and the relevance the government-sponsored war on truth has had as of late. This bonus episode, however, kicks off with Mazin’s reflection on even more relevance now that Russia has acknowledged they shot a missile recently, which spiked up radiation levels 16 times higher than normal. Has a new arms race started?
The rest of the episode has Harris talking about his acting experience as he starred in one of the most watched shows of all time. Chernobyl is deals with the precise moment the nuclear accident took place on April 26, 1986, as well as the steps the Soviet government took to downplay the effects of the accident, to save face internationally disregard thousands of innocent lives. It also seeks to do justice to Valery Legasov, who committed suicide to years to the date of the accident.
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