In Turkey, Turkish TV series are not very popular, especially among young people. They even become a subject of ridicule up to a point. But this series is not one of them. The series that the channels are obliged to produce every year and that easily make their finales receive bad criticism from people because they are like a kind of factory output. Most of them are copy and paste series that focus entirely on love triangles. However, there used to be good Turkish TV series. This series is actually one of them. So what makes this series different from them?
The series definitely started off well. I mean, it's good in general. I don't think anyone would object. The writers have a good story in mind. But story writers know that the story changes shape as they write. I think there is a good plot. The characters are good, they really make you feel. We have a very interesting villain. I mean a straight bad guy. Sometimes they do this and that in his past, but it doesn't really make sense. I mean, some villains are not so bad afterwards, I don't know if you're aware of that, but one of the best examples is Flowey from the Undertale series. He's probably the one that started this whole "curable villain" thing. But now people are really tired of these characters. At least I am. Emir, our villain, is definitely a psychopath and nothing more. Especially in the second half of the series, there are interesting scenes to sympathize (?) Emir. They also put some sweet music. But the character they wrote really doesn't fit this profile at all. I see it as a futile effort and I condemn it, but that's the bad thing about being broadcast and made for profit. Actually, our story starts off very well, but it goes on so unnecessarily long. During this prolongation, it manages to keep the excitement by being really interesting, but after a certain point, something really forced and illogical happens. In other words, neither the police nor the law works correctly in a series that approaches crime fiction. Just like in science-related works, they say quantum and get rid of everything, they prolonged this series by using the terms they wanted. I don't think there is really a need to drag it out this long, but I can't really deduct points because they really managed to keep the excitement alive despite this much dragging out. So what happens at the end of all this prolongation? Nothing very interesting happens. Look, I love bad endings. I love Sabahattin Ali's novels with pointlessly bad endings, I love reading Berserk, but what they did after taking so long is really pointless. Especially what they used as a method, if it was really 35 episodes, it could have done very well globally, but as it is, it is a series that started well and then used as a money machine. Don't be surprised by my score after talking about it so badly, because as I said, the writers have kept the excitement alive while doing these things and created episodes that do not advance the story but make you watch the series with a really successful sitcom. Since the elements such as the plot of the series and the side characters are strong, there have been series that have managed to survive until the last episode. Dear writers, we should not make endings for the sake of making them "bad", we should make endings because they make sense in the course of the story. I am sure that they are aware of this, because no writer would prefer such an ending, but it is as if orders came from somewhere.
Maybe it's because I was exposed for 185 hours, the acting is great. It's like they became people around me. The character characterizations are really good. The writers knew that the more specific the characters are and the more different they are from each other, the better they will work, and they definitely did a great job with that. And the actors really fit these characters. They fit so well that it is now possible to base these characters on these actors. I can say that the actors were really effective with their acting on top of that. Although Emir's villain performance definitely stands out, it would not be wrong to say that Nihan also shows her acting skills. Sometimes she cries as if these events really happened. I would love to be on set and watch how she does it, it can't be easy to cry like that.
The music is really good. However, 25 songs are really too few for a 186-hour series. There are 2-3 new songs towards the end but it's not enough. Despite this, the music is really beautiful and they reflect it well. At this point, it is necessary to say when Toygar Isikli made bad music. As for the shooting and visuals, I didn't see anything extra. In fact, the acting was better in this part. In other words, nothing extra was done in the series, there were no moments where I said what a beautiful shot, but I don't remember it ever grinning, and no series has the task of impressing me.
The series started off very well, but it was stretched out a bit with dozens of sitcom-like episodes, but that didn't stop me from watching it. I can even say that I loved it. I don't like love-oriented stories. It is a series that goes into different topics and handles them well enough without getting too far away from the focus on love (except for the extended episodes). I recommend it with peace of mind.
The series definitely started off well. I mean, it's good in general. I don't think anyone would object. The writers have a good story in mind. But story writers know that the story changes shape as they write. I think there is a good plot. The characters are good, they really make you feel. We have a very interesting villain. I mean a straight bad guy. Sometimes they do this and that in his past, but it doesn't really make sense. I mean, some villains are not so bad afterwards, I don't know if you're aware of that, but one of the best examples is Flowey from the Undertale series. He's probably the one that started this whole "curable villain" thing. But now people are really tired of these characters. At least I am. Emir, our villain, is definitely a psychopath and nothing more. Especially in the second half of the series, there are interesting scenes to sympathize (?) Emir. They also put some sweet music. But the character they wrote really doesn't fit this profile at all. I see it as a futile effort and I condemn it, but that's the bad thing about being broadcast and made for profit. Actually, our story starts off very well, but it goes on so unnecessarily long. During this prolongation, it manages to keep the excitement by being really interesting, but after a certain point, something really forced and illogical happens. In other words, neither the police nor the law works correctly in a series that approaches crime fiction. Just like in science-related works, they say quantum and get rid of everything, they prolonged this series by using the terms they wanted. I don't think there is really a need to drag it out this long, but I can't really deduct points because they really managed to keep the excitement alive despite this much dragging out. So what happens at the end of all this prolongation? Nothing very interesting happens. Look, I love bad endings. I love Sabahattin Ali's novels with pointlessly bad endings, I love reading Berserk, but what they did after taking so long is really pointless. Especially what they used as a method, if it was really 35 episodes, it could have done very well globally, but as it is, it is a series that started well and then used as a money machine. Don't be surprised by my score after talking about it so badly, because as I said, the writers have kept the excitement alive while doing these things and created episodes that do not advance the story but make you watch the series with a really successful sitcom. Since the elements such as the plot of the series and the side characters are strong, there have been series that have managed to survive until the last episode. Dear writers, we should not make endings for the sake of making them "bad", we should make endings because they make sense in the course of the story. I am sure that they are aware of this, because no writer would prefer such an ending, but it is as if orders came from somewhere.
Maybe it's because I was exposed for 185 hours, the acting is great. It's like they became people around me. The character characterizations are really good. The writers knew that the more specific the characters are and the more different they are from each other, the better they will work, and they definitely did a great job with that. And the actors really fit these characters. They fit so well that it is now possible to base these characters on these actors. I can say that the actors were really effective with their acting on top of that. Although Emir's villain performance definitely stands out, it would not be wrong to say that Nihan also shows her acting skills. Sometimes she cries as if these events really happened. I would love to be on set and watch how she does it, it can't be easy to cry like that.
The music is really good. However, 25 songs are really too few for a 186-hour series. There are 2-3 new songs towards the end but it's not enough. Despite this, the music is really beautiful and they reflect it well. At this point, it is necessary to say when Toygar Isikli made bad music. As for the shooting and visuals, I didn't see anything extra. In fact, the acting was better in this part. In other words, nothing extra was done in the series, there were no moments where I said what a beautiful shot, but I don't remember it ever grinning, and no series has the task of impressing me.
The series started off very well, but it was stretched out a bit with dozens of sitcom-like episodes, but that didn't stop me from watching it. I can even say that I loved it. I don't like love-oriented stories. It is a series that goes into different topics and handles them well enough without getting too far away from the focus on love (except for the extended episodes). I recommend it with peace of mind.