First of all, the actors are great but I have a high standard for dramas that I watch and I am fast to drop anything, that does not reach this standard. I dropped this for many reasons...
First: the abuse and torture.
If you consider watching this, you should be aware, that this drama practically contains nothing but abuse towards women. In every single episode (!) - 32 so far.
Trigger warning: there are two on screen near rape scenes. There are scenes, where the male lead threatens to kill the female lead.
In one episode she falls into a pool - she can not swim - and he watches her fight for her live and pulls her out only, when she is about to die. The female lead (FL) actually begs him to kill her at one point. He tells her, that he will torture her by day and her nightmares will torture her at night and that is why he keeps her alive until he is satisfied and then.... And YES, he really tortures her! There is physical abuse and there is mental abuse - degrading (a lot!!!), intimidating... The FL is traumatized, she is terrified, she cries permanently, she avoids his eyes - really, dear Esaret team, do you REALLY intend to sell me a love story coming out of this??? No way. There is no way, that I would ever believe, that the FL actually falls in love with the man, that abuses and tortures her for 32 episodes now. AND he is not the only one, there are other toxic characters around the FL. This drama is a circle of toxicity at an intensity, that I do not want to watch.
Second: I like "my" male leads (ML) to be intelligent - this one is not. He has proof, that the FL is innocent but decides to pause the video at the same point every single time! He says, he has it memorized, every single frame - but he only watches two minutes of the five minutes long video where the three minutes he does not watch proof the FLs innocence - well, isn´t that really illogical!?!
So based on this, we come to the third point and that is: I like a good skript, a logical storyline.
As the whole story is based on the revenge, that is based on the video, that the ML does not watch completely, the whole plot is worthless and could have been resolved in one episode. Not good, not entertaining, no depth...not my cup of tea.
Fourth: This is dragged out to the point of boredom. The story does not go anywhere. There is only abuse and degrading and intimidating and crying every single episode, without going forward.
There are too many, too good turkish dramas to waste my time with this one. Dropped.
First: the abuse and torture.
If you consider watching this, you should be aware, that this drama practically contains nothing but abuse towards women. In every single episode (!) - 32 so far.
Trigger warning: there are two on screen near rape scenes. There are scenes, where the male lead threatens to kill the female lead.
In one episode she falls into a pool - she can not swim - and he watches her fight for her live and pulls her out only, when she is about to die. The female lead (FL) actually begs him to kill her at one point. He tells her, that he will torture her by day and her nightmares will torture her at night and that is why he keeps her alive until he is satisfied and then.... And YES, he really tortures her! There is physical abuse and there is mental abuse - degrading (a lot!!!), intimidating... The FL is traumatized, she is terrified, she cries permanently, she avoids his eyes - really, dear Esaret team, do you REALLY intend to sell me a love story coming out of this??? No way. There is no way, that I would ever believe, that the FL actually falls in love with the man, that abuses and tortures her for 32 episodes now. AND he is not the only one, there are other toxic characters around the FL. This drama is a circle of toxicity at an intensity, that I do not want to watch.
Second: I like "my" male leads (ML) to be intelligent - this one is not. He has proof, that the FL is innocent but decides to pause the video at the same point every single time! He says, he has it memorized, every single frame - but he only watches two minutes of the five minutes long video where the three minutes he does not watch proof the FLs innocence - well, isn´t that really illogical!?!
So based on this, we come to the third point and that is: I like a good skript, a logical storyline.
As the whole story is based on the revenge, that is based on the video, that the ML does not watch completely, the whole plot is worthless and could have been resolved in one episode. Not good, not entertaining, no depth...not my cup of tea.
Fourth: This is dragged out to the point of boredom. The story does not go anywhere. There is only abuse and degrading and intimidating and crying every single episode, without going forward.
There are too many, too good turkish dramas to waste my time with this one. Dropped.