Cruel Istanbul (2019–2020)
7/10
Contains some beautiful moments and caracters !, but can be frustrating too.
7 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This série really is confusing, it countains some wonderful moments, and some extremly frustrating évents...

At first i though nedim was the main caracter, but The focus was a bit more on cenk and his réactions (fascinating caracter by the way, really)..., i expected to hate him, but he just carried the show, Dolunay's acting make u quickly realise he is just as disabled as Nedim...,

But then why this ending ?, the moment he finaly gets to recieve his father's love, both die ?

Ceren losing all her caracter developpement instead of completing it... (brilliant performance tho)

And cemre... the scriptwriters wanted to make her so perfect that they didn't realise she was taking advantage of another disabled man without ever apologizing (when cenk accepted to divorce and she refused she just lost his consent for playing that game, especialy as at that moment he didn't know the reason why she choose to stay married = making nedim more angry about their mariage which would help him recover, yes, couldn't be more stupid but that's what we got) she just saw how tourmented and unbalanced cenk was, and thought "yes why not, let's use him", she was supposed to be the most noble person out there and she didn't realise people don't marry for these kind of things ? She knew the biggest secrets of senise and she though that mariage was the only solution ? She literally had all her family living there, they could have helped her uncover the truth, instead nah, let's make my sister hâte me even more by marrying her crush ..., and they always portray her as so perfect, so pure... So humble...

the triangle love, is the worst thing by far..., no wonder why the big majority wanted cenk and cemre to end up together, obviously their chemistry was much bigger, With nedim it was just... Giving brother sister vibe... But even if it HAD to be nedim/cemre, why to make cenk fall in love with her then ?... Is she the only girl in the world ? Couldn't she not just help him and both would move on?, it should have been either full romance between them or no romance at all

We all waited the moment nedim would recover, and boy wasn't i disappointed, he didn't stop talking about his plan of revenge, but it was just and excuse from the script to cover senise... As obviosuly it was agah who did all the punishements without nedim's help..., his caracter was going no where, he was entering and leaving his vilain arc again and again, it was really like the scriptwriters didn't know what to do with him, except making him endgame with cemre...

As i Said before the show really contains some beautiful moments, the révélations of the big secrets are on point (agah++) so for me it's worth watching, especially for cenk and agah... But don't expect it to be perfect... I think the script was never about satisfying us anyway...
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