Craig Mazin voice: I gave you five episodes, a podcast, and a reading list. Is that not enough?

Ulana Khomyuk voice: I'm sorry. But it depends who’s asking.

Written largely over the week of 3-8 june, when it was too hot to sleep and my room in LA didn’t have internet. Now, it's still too hot to sleep but I can write and post online. As such, the only references I’m pulling from are the primary sources of the scripts (found at https://johnaugust.com/library) and the podcast transcripts I pulled off of youtube.
I think the conversation about people being disappointed in or confused by the last episode of Chernobyl has largely dissipated, and I’m certainly not straying back into tumblr with this because no one asked for more fuel on that fire, but I put together a good long ramble of meta and I’m not throwing it aside:

So, I talked about this in the tags of a few tumblr posts already, but in the interest of having everything a) in one place and b) actually tied together, here's a more organized presentation on my take coming out of the chernobyl miniseries. I accidentally sorta started something on the htp server, so that was my reminder to express myself in a more concrete way.

First up, I'm going to say all of this in the most charitable of fashions, because I think this is a great miniseries.
( Part 1 )

But, I also feel like at the end of the day the tone shifted strongly in the last episode and really tipped Mazin's hand.
( Part 2 )

So, though, these issues come from the way it was either trying or expected to be too many things. Hear me out.
( Part 3 )

...Which I think is the struggle of writing anything based on matters of historical account.
This is a broad statement and I mean it. It’s also more related to what the htp thing was about, so that’s why it goes in this discussion as well.
( Part 4 )

Also, a personal aside.
( PS )