To be fair most people by default treat nuclear energy as a lovecraftian being. Like it will inevitably be the monster that kills us all no matter who is looking after it. Chernobyl didn’t have to try hard to make it that.

Whereas if most took the time to understand the new modular nuclear reactor designs and actually had a layman understanding of how it all worked there would be less hysteria.

People still act like it’s this unworldly creature in which no matter if the smartest and most responsible humans on earth were looking after it, would kill us all.

I get why you used the word scary to describe the show as it showed feelings of the characters having absolutely no control, no chance, and suffering hell. They made it personally realistic.

I feel you would enjoy the movie Gravity which I also compare to the same feelings and it just felt like a scary movie.