Chernobyl has been shocking audiences since it aired with its disturbing depiction of the 1986 disaster in a Ukraine power plant.
Refusing to hold anything back, we've seen everything from miners stripping naked to dig a tunnel, to some of the shocking injuries resulting from the explosion.
But the show creators have insisted that they do have a line – and there was something they cut for being just too bleak.
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Speaking to EW, creator Craig Mazin said: "Episode 4 is a tough one.
"The scenes with the liquidators and the dogs was really hard for a lot of people to watch, and that story actually got worse [in real life]. And it was a first-person story – I was not making it up.
"This is an account that somebody told in Svetlana Alexievich's book Voices from Chernobyl. We shot it, but it was just too much."
He added: "It felt abusive, and there's a really weird line between, 'No, you need to look at this and see this and know that it happened', and [taking it too far] – and the line is different for different people."
Craig continued: "I'm just grateful that it seemed like after episode 4 aired, for most people, we got it right. For a few people, we did not.
"If we had done this other thing, I think a lot of people would have just been like, 'You know what, no, now you're just being mean'."
Chernobyl airs on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Tuesdays. You can also watch Chernobyl on NOW TV.
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