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Forget Game of Thrones. Watch Chernobyl. The writer and director have done something extraordinary. They have (I believe) taken Svetlana Alexievich's oral history and turned it into the most compelling television since The Wire. It is aesthetic and narrative perfection. 
This is the most economic and effective use of creative license. The only invented bits are for exposition, to drive the story along. The rest remains faithful to historical facts. The presence of a diffuse, lethal, invisible force is perfectly evoked.
