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The dark humor of the popular Turkish phrase, ‘Silivri soğuktur,’ (Silivri is cold) conveys the chilling reality of crackdown on political opposition in Turkey.—
Afşin Yurdakul,
Time,
7 Oct. 2025 -
The sequence, with its jarringly melancholy musical choice and frenzied editing, conveys Mussolini’s personal and patriotic betrayals and dismantling of systems and relationships so devastatingly that the series doesn’t need to explicitly close the tragic loop.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Once loud and bubbly, Thorley, 51, now mainly communicates by typing on an iPad, along with sign language.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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Turns out, Marte communicates similarly.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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