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The show taps into the true crime obsession that’s dominated the last decade, and the audience is overwhelmingly women.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2026 -
Launched in 2019, the festival also taps into the ecological challenges facing the Mediterranean port city of Gabès in Southern Tunisia, linked to an aging chemical factory producing phosphate fertilizers, as a hub for thinking about a different future for the city and its local population.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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Travelers are advised to inspect hotel rooms upon arrival and use precautions like plastic bags or luggage liners to prevent bringing bed bugs home.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2026
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Check the head and base and foot of the bed, peeling back the top sheet to look for evidence on mattress covers, box springs, dust ruffles, and the headboard—and most importantly, the mattress seams and piping because bed bugs like to hide in cracks and crevices.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
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When Claire and Frank retreat to Inverness on holiday following the end of WWII, Frank spies the spectre of a Highlander staring up into Claire's window that abruptly vanishes.—
Amy Wilkinson,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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Alma peers through a keyhole and spies her mother (Susanne Wuest) standing before a candlelit shrine to the family’s dead.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2025
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“Wiretaps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretaps. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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