This article contains spoilers for the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl.Created by Craig Mazin in 2019 for HBO, Chernobyl is one of the more haunting horror projects made in the last two decades. Though, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who deems it horror at all, despite utilizing the tropes of the genre better than most full-fledged horror flicks. Written by Mazin, and directed by filmmaking partner Johann Renck (the duo later collaborating on the more conventional HBO series The Last of Us), the sprawling five-and-a-half-hour-long TV series masterfully weaves in disparate, genre-defying storylines that give a broad but chilling glimpse into the impact of the explosion of Reactor #4.