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Response:

Calculated Shard: 107 (from laksa093)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa107.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.vogue.com/article/chernobyl-hbo-miniseries-review\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.vogue.com/article/chernobyl-hbo-miniseries-review\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/chernobyl-hbo-miniseries-review","crawl_time":1775844336,"first_indexed_time":1556986009,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,vogue!www,\/article\/chernobyl-hbo-miniseries-review s443","src_root_hash":"10319582172195527707","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"HBO’s New Miniseries Chernobyl Will Give You Nightmares | Vogue","meta_descriptions":["Chernobyl* is not classical horror—but it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen on TV in ages."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"The five-part HBO mini-series\nChernobyl\nis\nnot\nclassical horror—it’s a meticulous recreation of the 1986 Russian nuclear meltdown, dignified and somber throughout—but it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen on TV in ages. I dragged my feet watching the first episode, which airs Monday, May 6th, thinking that this seemed like the epitome of bummer TV (death, death, and more death) and don’t we have enough bummer in our lives? But the first episode, which begins (after a prologue) inside the Chernobyl control room, as technicians try to understand a mysterious explosion outside, creates an excruciating atmosphere of tension and dread. I cleared my schedule to watch the whole thing. And woke up with anxiety nightmares along the way.\nThe series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series\nThe Last Panthers\n) has done something stunning:\nChernobyl\ncreates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. There are no jump scares or needless gore in these episodes. The most frightening thing about nuclear radiation, of course, is that it is invisible and everywhere. The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days.\nMeanwhile Soviet apparatchiks who run the plant refuse to admit the scale of the disaster. They rely on cheap, useless radiation monitors to downplay the threat and deliver fake news to Moscow—this while a plume of radioactive smoke is poisoning every living thing nearby. It falls to a nuclear physicist played with dignity and gravitas by the wonderful actor Jared Harris to raise sufficient alarm to the central committee and to Gorbachev himself. He is joined by another physicist (Emily Watson) in tackling the scale of the disaster.\nThe titanic problems that have to be solved immediately—put out a raging fire, prevent an apocalyptic thermonuclear explosion, contain a melting core—involve dramatic acts of sacrifice and ingenuity by ordinary Russians who stoically down vodka and throw themselves into the fatal work. Visually these sequences (one breathtaking one involves a helicopter crash as it attempts to drop sand and boron on the burning core) are magnificently authentic, one after the other. If there is a weak link it is occasionally the script, by series creator Craig Mazin (\nThe Hangover Part II\nand\nIII\n), which flirts with melodrama by amping up the heroism and bureaucratic villany. But the sterling cast—mostly British actors (who thankfully do not try on Russian accents)—never let you forget how grave this episode was, and how pitiless. When Harris’s character tells his superior, a party member played with growling confidence by Stellan Skarsgård, that they will be dead themselves, of cancer most likely, in a few short years, the look the two men exchange of fear and hopelessness—and resolve—will buckle your knees.\nDeath, death, and more death:\nGame of Thrones\nmay not have enough of it these days.\nChernobyl\nis a haunting corrective, a reminder of what sky-high stakes feel like, how terrifying true tragedy can be.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/chernobyl-hbo-miniseries-review#main-content)\n\n[Your All-Access Pass to Vogue](https:\/\/vogue.smart.link\/84hdiudhc)\n\n[DOWNLOAD 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I dragged my feet watching the first episode, which airs Monday, May 6th, thinking that this seemed like the epitome of bummer TV (death, death, and more death) and don’t we have enough bummer in our lives? But the first episode, which begins (after a prologue) inside the Chernobyl control room, as technicians try to understand a mysterious explosion outside, creates an excruciating atmosphere of tension and dread. I cleared my schedule to watch the whole thing. And woke up with anxiety nightmares along the way.\n\nThe series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series *The Last Panthers*) has done something stunning: *Chernobyl* creates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. There are no jump scares or needless gore in these episodes. The most frightening thing about nuclear radiation, of course, is that it is invisible and everywhere. The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days.\n\n[![\\<strong\\>Tap Into Vogue\\<\/strong\\> \\<br\\>The \\<strong\\>Vogue app\\<\/strong\\> brings every trend to life. \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Save\\<\/strong\\> your favorite styles \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Shop\\<\/strong\\> editor-approved looks \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Play\\<\/strong\\> the fashion quiz daily \\<br\\>Be a part of fashion's inner circle: See, shop and share every trend. 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He is joined by another physicist (Emily Watson) in tackling the scale of the disaster.\n\nRelated Video\n\n[Ariana Grande’s ’60s Cat Eye and “Pretty In Pink” Makeup Look](https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/video\/watch\/beauty-secrets-ariana-grande)\n\nThe titanic problems that have to be solved immediately—put out a raging fire, prevent an apocalyptic thermonuclear explosion, contain a melting core—involve dramatic acts of sacrifice and ingenuity by ordinary Russians who stoically down vodka and throw themselves into the fatal work. Visually these sequences (one breathtaking one involves a helicopter crash as it attempts to drop sand and boron on the burning core) are magnificently authentic, one after the other. If there is a weak link it is occasionally the script, by series creator Craig Mazin (*The Hangover Part II* and *III*), which flirts with melodrama by amping up the heroism and bureaucratic villany. But the sterling cast—mostly British actors (who thankfully do not try on Russian accents)—never let you forget how grave this episode was, and how pitiless. When Harris’s character tells his superior, a party member played with growling confidence by Stellan Skarsgård, that they will be dead themselves, of cancer most likely, in a few short years, the look the two men exchange of fear and hopelessness—and resolve—will buckle your knees.\n\nDeath, death, and more death: *Game of Thrones* may not have enough of it these days. *Chernobyl* is a haunting corrective, a reminder of what sky-high stakes feel like, how terrifying true tragedy can be.\n\n[![](https:\/\/assets.vogue.com\/photos\/649468bd7ccc5800cdc34ab3\/1:1\/w_90%2Cc_limit\/TApic.jpeg)](https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/contributor\/taylor-antrim)\n\n[Taylor Antrim](https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/contributor\/taylor-antrim) is the Deputy Editor of *Vogue,* where he also writes features and essays—and reviews books, film, and TV. 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The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days.\n\n[![\\<strong\\>Tap Into Vogue\\<\/strong\\> \\<br\\>The \\<strong\\>Vogue app\\<\/strong\\> brings every trend to life. \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Save\\<\/strong\\> your favorite styles \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Shop\\<\/strong\\> editor-approved looks \\<br\\>\\<strong\\>Play\\<\/strong\\> the fashion quiz daily \\<br\\>Be a part of fashion's inner circle: See, shop and share every trend. 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Boilerpipe Text	The five-part HBO mini-series Chernobyl is not classical horror—it’s a meticulous recreation of the 1986 Russian nuclear meltdown, dignified and somber throughout—but it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen on TV in ages. I dragged my feet watching the first episode, which airs Monday, May 6th, thinking that this seemed like the epitome of bummer TV (death, death, and more death) and don’t we have enough bummer in our lives? But the first episode, which begins (after a prologue) inside the Chernobyl control room, as technicians try to understand a mysterious explosion outside, creates an excruciating atmosphere of tension and dread. I cleared my schedule to watch the whole thing. And woke up with anxiety nightmares along the way. The series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series The Last Panthers ) has done something stunning: Chernobyl creates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. There are no jump scares or needless gore in these episodes. The most frightening thing about nuclear radiation, of course, is that it is invisible and everywhere. The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days. Meanwhile Soviet apparatchiks who run the plant refuse to admit the scale of the disaster. They rely on cheap, useless radiation monitors to downplay the threat and deliver fake news to Moscow—this while a plume of radioactive smoke is poisoning every living thing nearby. It falls to a nuclear physicist played with dignity and gravitas by the wonderful actor Jared Harris to raise sufficient alarm to the central committee and to Gorbachev himself. He is joined by another physicist (Emily Watson) in tackling the scale of the disaster. The titanic problems that have to be solved immediately—put out a raging fire, prevent an apocalyptic thermonuclear explosion, contain a melting core—involve dramatic acts of sacrifice and ingenuity by ordinary Russians who stoically down vodka and throw themselves into the fatal work. Visually these sequences (one breathtaking one involves a helicopter crash as it attempts to drop sand and boron on the burning core) are magnificently authentic, one after the other. If there is a weak link it is occasionally the script, by series creator Craig Mazin ( The Hangover Part II and III ), which flirts with melodrama by amping up the heroism and bureaucratic villany. But the sterling cast—mostly British actors (who thankfully do not try on Russian accents)—never let you forget how grave this episode was, and how pitiless. When Harris’s character tells his superior, a party member played with growling confidence by Stellan Skarsgård, that they will be dead themselves, of cancer most likely, in a few short years, the look the two men exchange of fear and hopelessness—and resolve—will buckle your knees. Death, death, and more death: Game of Thrones may not have enough of it these days. Chernobyl is a haunting corrective, a reminder of what sky-high stakes feel like, how terrifying true tragedy can be.
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I dragged my feet watching the first episode, which airs Monday, May 6th, thinking that this seemed like the epitome of bummer TV (death, death, and more death) and don’t we have enough bummer in our lives? But the first episode, which begins (after a prologue) inside the Chernobyl control room, as technicians try to understand a mysterious explosion outside, creates an excruciating atmosphere of tension and dread. I cleared my schedule to watch the whole thing. And woke up with anxiety nightmares along the way. The series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series The Last Panthers) has done something stunning: Chernobyl creates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. There are no jump scares or needless gore in these episodes. The most frightening thing about nuclear radiation, of course, is that it is invisible and everywhere. The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days. [![\<strong\>Tap Into Vogue\</strong\> \<br\>The \<strong\>Vogue app\</strong\> brings every trend to life. \<br\>\<strong\>Save\</strong\> your favorite styles \<br\>\<strong\>Shop\</strong\> editor-approved looks \<br\>\<strong\>Play\</strong\> the fashion quiz daily \<br\>Be a part of fashion's inner circle: See, shop and share every trend. 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When Harris’s character tells his superior, a party member played with growling confidence by Stellan Skarsgård, that they will be dead themselves, of cancer most likely, in a few short years, the look the two men exchange of fear and hopelessness—and resolve—will buckle your knees. Death, death, and more death: Game of Thrones may not have enough of it these days. Chernobyl is a haunting corrective, a reminder of what sky-high stakes feel like, how terrifying true tragedy can be. [![](https://assets.vogue.com/photos/649468bd7ccc5800cdc34ab3/1:1/w_90%2Cc_limit/TApic.jpeg)](https://www.vogue.com/contributor/taylor-antrim) [Taylor Antrim](https://www.vogue.com/contributor/taylor-antrim) is the Deputy Editor of Vogue, where he also writes features and essays—and reviews books, film, and TV. Previously he’s held positions at Architectural Digest, Men’s Vogue, and Forbes. He’s the author of two novels, Immunity and The Headmaster Ritual, and his short fiction has been published in ... 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Readable Markdown	The five-part HBO mini-series Chernobyl is not classical horror—it’s a meticulous recreation of the 1986 Russian nuclear meltdown, dignified and somber throughout—but it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen on TV in ages. I dragged my feet watching the first episode, which airs Monday, May 6th, thinking that this seemed like the epitome of bummer TV (death, death, and more death) and don’t we have enough bummer in our lives? But the first episode, which begins (after a prologue) inside the Chernobyl control room, as technicians try to understand a mysterious explosion outside, creates an excruciating atmosphere of tension and dread. I cleared my schedule to watch the whole thing. And woke up with anxiety nightmares along the way. The series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series The Last Panthers) has done something stunning: Chernobyl creates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. There are no jump scares or needless gore in these episodes. The most frightening thing about nuclear radiation, of course, is that it is invisible and everywhere. The technicians who rush out of the control room to investigate the explosion have killed themselves by doing so—they just don’t know it yet. The firemen who assemble at the burning plant, getting close enough to the exposed nuclear core to train hoses on it, who handle irradiated graphite in the debris and feel metal in their mouths, will burn (horrifically) from the inside out in days. [![\<strong\>Tap Into Vogue\</strong\> \<br\>The \<strong\>Vogue app\</strong\> brings every trend to life. \<br\>\<strong\>Save\</strong\> your favorite styles \<br\>\<strong\>Shop\</strong\> editor-approved looks \<br\>\<strong\>Play\</strong\> the fashion quiz daily \<br\>Be a part of fashion's inner circle: See, shop and share every trend. CTA: DOWNLOAD NOW](https://assets.vogue.com/photos/698b5dbf1b9d11bdf7a099f4/original/pass/VOB_Control_In-Content_450x140_2x.gif?format=original)](https://www.vogue.com/v2/offers/vob010?source=Site_0_JNY_VOG_DESKTOP_IN_CONTENT_0_US_MARTECH_ROS_CONTROL_ZZ) Meanwhile Soviet apparatchiks who run the plant refuse to admit the scale of the disaster. They rely on cheap, useless radiation monitors to downplay the threat and deliver fake news to Moscow—this while a plume of radioactive smoke is poisoning every living thing nearby. It falls to a nuclear physicist played with dignity and gravitas by the wonderful actor Jared Harris to raise sufficient alarm to the central committee and to Gorbachev himself. He is joined by another physicist (Emily Watson) in tackling the scale of the disaster. The titanic problems that have to be solved immediately—put out a raging fire, prevent an apocalyptic thermonuclear explosion, contain a melting core—involve dramatic acts of sacrifice and ingenuity by ordinary Russians who stoically down vodka and throw themselves into the fatal work. Visually these sequences (one breathtaking one involves a helicopter crash as it attempts to drop sand and boron on the burning core) are magnificently authentic, one after the other. If there is a weak link it is occasionally the script, by series creator Craig Mazin (The Hangover Part II and III), which flirts with melodrama by amping up the heroism and bureaucratic villany. But the sterling cast—mostly British actors (who thankfully do not try on Russian accents)—never let you forget how grave this episode was, and how pitiless. When Harris’s character tells his superior, a party member played with growling confidence by Stellan Skarsgård, that they will be dead themselves, of cancer most likely, in a few short years, the look the two men exchange of fear and hopelessness—and resolve—will buckle your knees. Death, death, and more death: Game of Thrones may not have enough of it these days. Chernobyl is a haunting corrective, a reminder of what sky-high stakes feel like, how terrifying true tragedy can be.
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