
		May 29 2019

Conservatives Ought to Watch HBO's Chernobyl

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: HBO shocks us all by offering us one of the greatest television miniseries of all time — and one that conservatives should be giving a standing ovation; the mainstream media's biggest institutions flunk their latest test in the form of author Michael Wolff; and the Democrats finally begin laying out criteria to separate the real presidential candidates form the aspiring celebrities.

The Triumph of HBO's Chernobyl

How often do conservatives get to celebrate an offering from HBO with full-throated rousing cheers and applause?

HBO's miniseries Chernobyl is every bit as good as you've heard. The show is not fun to watch, unless you take a certain grim satisfaction in watching Soviet Union officials squirm in their seats, so terrified of the consequences of telling the truth that they assent to brazen lies that will lead to the painful deaths of hundreds and perhaps thousands of their countrymen. The Soviets experienced the biggest and most catastrophic nuclear disaster in human ... Read More


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