Winky face = text icon / emoticon i.e. “;)”
In the actual texts of the messages released by Congress such characters are specified by their unicode representations which is not clear when seeing.
Hearing the actors read everything does add an extra dimension; they were all verbatim. The actress playing Lisa Page does not do justice to her overbite but, aside from that, the exasperation and emotional aspects of things are well done IMO.
There are messages that are seemingly omitted; thus it’s not clear, at the end, when Page sends her last message telling Strzok not to ever message her again, she’d just been outed + ousted from the Mule’s op.
I think it’s a good medium for others that don’t follow this closely like “Q” aficionados but would watch a good movie ;)
Say Steven did you know that Rod Rosenstein has a wife-Lisa and a daughter-Paige? Some wild conspiracy theorists say that Strzok and Page were message drop boxes for comms.