HBO’s Chernobyl explores the horror of institutional failings

There are numerous hit TV shows that explore our fears of how the world will end, whether it’s a zombie plague The Walking Dead, nuclear war in Fallout, or a deadly pandemic in Station Eleven. Craig Mazin added to that trend as co-showrunner of The Last of Us,but before he adapted Naughty Dog’s game about fungal zombies, he wrote an even scarier show for HBO.