Originally Posted by
John
I've just looked at the filmography of Craig Mazin, the sole writer of Chernobyl, and fuck me it's grim. Bugger knows where he's pulled this from, because everything else he's done has been deeply shit. The third and fourth Scary Movie films, the second and third Hangovers, Superhero Movie (exactly what you think it is), a sequel to fucking Snow White and The Huntsman, and Identity Thief, a film in which Melissa McCarthy steals Jason Bateman's identity. Surely nobody, in any field, has gone that suddenly from abject, embarrassing shite to work that's bordering on perfect.
I thought the fourth episode was every bit as good as what's come before.