Parents guide

Several small kisses can be seen

Full frontal male nudity (non-sexual)

In one scene, many male miners are seen working in full frontal and rear nudity. Not sexual in any way.

Characters are depicted suffering the painful after-effects of acute radiation syndrome, with blackened, swollen lips and eyes and leathery white skin covered in bleeding sores. Very graphic, gory, and very unpleasant to watch.

A man hangs himself (mostly off-screen).

A character coughs heavily into a handkerchief, it is shown later with blood on it.

A character's hand is severely burned after handling a radioactive object. Chunks of flesh are missing and he screams in agony. Quick scene but graphic, shocking, and unexpected.

Men begin to vomit blood and get radiation burns on their faces, blood patches also soak through their white uniforms as their skin ruptures. One's face is completely covered in blood from high radiation exposure and presumed dead.

Multiple men and women are seen vomiting, on stretchers, with radiation burns and wounds in a crowded building, there's crying and panic.

A man is seen with bad radiation burns to the face and dazed.

Several men are seen with radiation burns to their face and body that worsen through the episode. By the end the burns are severely graphic as their skin dies and turns pale, with many bleeding area's or lesions, purple skin and black lips/eyes. No hair. The bed sheets are yellow.

A cow is shot off camera but seen dead. Multiple domestic animals, mainly dogs are shot and killed (on and off camera) wounds can be seen, one is seen suffering. Off camera shots and whimpers are heard. A group of puppies and their mother are heard killed off camera. A flatbed full of dog carcasses is lowered into a grave where cement is dropped.

A helicopter hits a crane cable and crashes. This is seen from a distance.

Overall the language in this show is pretty frequent, words like 'fuck' and 'shit' are used quite often throughout the entire show.

Characters are seen smoking and drinking copious amounts of vodka.

This show is based on a real-life disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear accident and is very dark, serious, and frightening throughout.

Scenes depicting radiation exposure and its aftermath are intense.

The atmosphere of the series is exceptionally dark, unsettling and frightening, as it aims to capture the nature of a nuclear meltdown and graphically portrays its effects and aftermath. One scene has men go into a dark dilapidated reactor building flooded with irradiated water, where their torches start to die, their dosimeters crackle frantically due to lethal radiation levels, and they panic. A similar scene is shown later on a roof.

The firemen are seen with severe injuries and their deaths are upsetting to most viewers.They are buried in a mass grave in large metal coffins.In the hospital, they wear bloodied shirts, lie on bloodstained pillows and scream in agony when checked by nurses.One death of a womans husband who is a fireman is especially distressing as they have a lot of moments to bond in one of the episodes.