YMMV / Chernobyl S1E2 "Please Remain Calm"

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In his review for The Moscow Times, Leonid Bershidsky noted that it's not possible to fly to Chernobyl by helicopter. However, the helicopter that Shcherbina and Legasov fly on is a Mil Mi-8, which has a ferry range (absolute maximum distance from Point A to Point B with minimal cargo) of 600 miles, more than enough to cover the 432 miles from Moscow to Chernobyl. It's true that Legasov and Scherbina didn't journey directly from Moscow to Chernobyl via helicopter in real life (they went from Moscow to Kyiv, and then from there to Chernobyl by car), but it wouldn't have been impossible for them to do so.