Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Meltdown: Three Mile Island Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.2 |
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"A quiet cover-up scarier than the meltdown itself"
This four-part documentary digs into the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, mixing archival footage with interviews from engineers, officials, and a key whistleblower who claims the real danger was covered up. It plays like a slow-burn conspiracy thriller as much as a history lesson, building dread around bureaucratic denial and near-catastrophe. The pace is deliberate and talky, leaning on first-person testimony rather than flashy reenactments. It works best if you're drawn to procedural dread and institutional failure rather than pure disaster spectacle.
the whistleblower's testimony, which reframes a familiar disaster as a story of institutional denial.
you want visceral disaster footage rather than talking-head interviews and slow-building dread.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | The Accident | 7.2 | 309 | 42 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Women and Children First | 7.2 | 276 | 42 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | The Whistleblower | 7.4 | 265 | 48 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Fallout | 7.2 | 256 | 40 min |