Chernobyl is an Odd Choice to Challenge IMDB
There's been a giant proliferation of columns this week explaining last week's news release about the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl , achieving the highest ever rating on IMDB. The internet movie database is an index of everything TV and movies, the site to visit for information on cast, crew, ratings, and reviews. The IMDB ratings mean squat, though. They do have an algorithm at work, so it's not just a popularity contest, but it's still mostly a popularity contest. All the recent columns have said as much: basically, Chernobyl is good, but don't trust the ratings. It just strikes me as a strange time to be having this conversation, because it's not out of the question that Chernobyl might be the best thing that's ever been on television. If something like Friends or NCIS were at the top of the list, then surely the columns are justified. Chernobyl is just good, riveting, beautifully shot, insanely well done TV. Conceived of and written by th...