Best Television Show Tournament round 2a: The West Wing (20) vs Chernobyl (45)

[Chris]

The West Wing
Plot: Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
Genres: Serial drama, Political drama
Created by: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen, Janel Moloney, Stockard Channing, Joshua Malina, Mary McCormack, Jimmy Smits, Alan Alda, Kristin Chenoweth
On-air: September 22, 1999 – May 14, 2006


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Chernobyl
Plot: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
Genres: Historical drama, Disaster, Tragedy
Created by: Craig Mazin
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Emily Watson, David Dencik, Mark Lewis Jones, Alan Williams, Alex Ferns, Ralph Ineson, Barry Keoghan, Fares Fares, Michael McElhatton
On-air: May 6 – June 3, 2019​

 

[John McHenry]

Looks like I'm going to have to fight some fools.

 

[Keith]

I could see Chernobyl going on to be a great but it’s too early put it up there with a true great like The West Wing which holds up over multiple rewatches.

 

[Lady Redfield]

Chernobyl

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Chernobyl is just dismally depressing since it really is based around a real event, and some of the events are painstakingly true.

That's why I voted it. Never cheap out on your energy source and never commit to stupid, avoidable tests, all for the sake of a few people's ego.