Keep going.
It's going to be one of those series that you'll need to go back and rewatch for the subtleties.
Legasov (Jared Harris) and Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) are so good, and they basically aren't in the first episode.
Also this is me in utter astonishment about someone not knowing about the Chernobyl disaster, like at all, yet not asking: Seriously? WTF?