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Performances we love: The understated brilliance of Jared Harris in 'Chernobyl'

The worst nuclear disaster in history led to the best television performance of last year.

The silver lining around humankind's deadliest radioactive cloud is Jared Harris and his stellar performance as the late Soviet-era scientist Valery Legasov in HBO's chilling miniseries, "Chernobyl."

Set in 1986 around the deadly meltdown of Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, researcher Legasov was called in by authorities to advise a cleanup committee on how

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