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Many people are talking about how #Chernobyl is exceptional television. It's also worth mentioning the companion podcast which is the rare official podcast that actually gives interesting insight into the writing of the series and the history of the event podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/id1459712981
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Craig Mazin has also made all the scripts for the series openly available at johnaugust.com/library which is unusually open for mainstream American entertainment. It's a poetic contrast to the closedness of the Soviet Union w/r/t documentary evidence of the Chernobyl event.
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'Open' is of course a relative term. "openly available" here refers to access rather than open licensing. The scripts are 'Copyright© 2018 Home Box Office, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED'. This is 'open' for mainstream American entertainment companies but not meaningfully 'open'.