My heart sings, cries, laughs, and warms as I watch this series. I find that I can not watch the American TV series as the modern producers seem to go for cheap sex, bad humor, and shallow content. My opinion may be viewed as being bias and general but as I compare the content, and the depth of the story and acting in Karadayi I can only say that it superior in every way. It successfully portrays real selfless love not just between the main two characters, Mahir and Feride but allow love for family, neighbors and friends. The characters, emotion, interaction with family all feel real and genuine.The love story and struggle has left me in tears many times. I look forward to coming home and spending sometime with these characters. Netflix customer service can provide no information on when or if the remaining series will be aired and so I wait with the hope that Netflix will stop streaming partial seasons of these foreign TV shows and either get all on the seasons and air them or not put them on the site for viewing; it is frustrating and annoying.
... View MoreI loved this series. I don't speak Turkish, but I found a way to see it through all three seasons.First, I loved the actors. All the principal actors were fantastic. The Kara family, Feride and her mother, the friends from the neighborhood, the other love interests, were all very believable. A few of the bad guys were over the top, but I guess the global audience loves seeing the bad boys being bad. Targut was kind of funny when he had his tantrums.I thought the plot was well developed and had lots of interesting twists. I enjoyed the backstories of all the characters. I fell in love with the Kara family, especially the parents, with their love, strength, courage and poetic embrace of life.The direction was good. The actors worked together seamlessly. All that emotion was pulled out of everyone. There were many beautiful romantic scenes. The director did not depend on cheap tricks, like showing the same events over and over, or holding onto facial expressions too long. The settings were interesting. I binge watched season 1 subtitled in English on Netflix. The rich voices of the actors made it easier to read along and know what was going on. After season 1, I looked around YouTube for more English, butjust found a few scenes. Then I found Resumen HD in Spanish. This became the Feride and Mahir show because they cut most of the other scenes that had other actors, keeping just enough to keep the plot together. There were things that I never did understand, like why Mahir's brother had a sudden change of opinion, but I still enjoyed watching the story to the end.
... View MoreMy husband and I binge watch this 1st series of Karadayi and enjoyed every episode and not wanting them to finish. We feel anxious now about when we might see the 2nd and 3rd series on Netflix in Australia?? This series is up there with Magnificent Century, 1001 Nights, Gran Hotel and we have had many late nights trying to fit in as many episodes as we could. Just lovedit!! The music, scenery and the acting are amazing all the actors had a depth that draw you in to their colourful worlds. We find that there is no going back to TV in general for us which has no content to speak of.The Turkish sure know how to put together a great series that keep you wanting to go back each night to catchup on their stories.Without good acting though the storyline would not be realised as it is in these series, wonderful actors who portray their characters so well.It's a 20 out of 10 for us!!Sue and Dan Australia
... View MoreKenan İmirzalıoğlu is one of the best actor in Turkey, and as his last TV Series " Ezel ", this one is also as perfect as it, if i summaries, the story is taking place in Istanbul at around 1973, and it tells about a murder of general attorney, who is killed at his own room. There is an old man called Nazif is accused of this murder, that there is a secretary witnessed this murder but the problem is that she only saw him with a bloody letter opener near general attorney's dead body. After that Nazif got captured and is waiting for the death penalty. Nazif has an ambitious, tough and intelligent son called Mahir. Mahir has 1 month to convince the adjudicator that this murder wasn't done by his father Nazif. He planned to go to the court as a trainee advocate, he prepared every fake necessary documents to start his internship with the adjudicator. This was a perfect planned assassination, that he needs to solve many things and also he should be careful to not to show his real identity. And the story begins !!
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