Having seen episode 4-5 now, I think the last episode was pretty good, and the technical breakdown was actually great. However, episode 4 also wasted an unacce

Having seen episode 4-5 now, I think the last episode was pretty good, and the technical breakdown was actually great. However, episode 4 also wasted an unacceptable amount of time; the intro with the old lady and the pet hunters' parts were heavy-handed fillers, and the time should have been much better spent on expanding more on the different operations (mentioned in a pitiful few sentences in the beginning of ep 4!) and also the biorobots. One part of my general feelings is summarized well by this article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-cher.... This is basically about grafting a western-style disaster movie narrative onto the story. The other part of my feelings is that they simply did not make good use of the runtime; they wasted most runtime on lackluster invented dialogues.