For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Chris BennionChernobylSky Atlantic, 9pmThe shooting of hundreds of dogs is not the most tragic or distressing thing about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. However, the power of Craig Mazin’s drama is that it takes this incident — Soviet soldiers were instructed to put down all the animals in the area — and turns it not only into one of the most gripping, stomach-churning scenes outside a horror film, but also into a microcosm of everything that Chernobyl represents: man’s recklessness and the suffering it caused. Even in this most dark of places, however, there is humanity. “Don’t let them suffer,” orders one gruff soldier to a greenhorn recruit. Meanwhile, as the land is…

Source: The Times May 28, 2019 00:00 UTC