tatiange_ley Review of Brave and Beautiful

Brave and Beautiful (2016–2017)

Disappointing script, cold acting, unrealistic characters

[1/10 · 8 June 2017]

The story of Cesur Ve Güzel started as a story of revenge. Cesur, with a false identity, arrives in a town of his enemy Tahsin, the man who killed her father and his grandparents when he was a child. He met Tahsin's daughter, Suhan, and plans to approach her in order to get revenge on Tahsin. Cesur falls in love with Suhan too fast, he doesn't think, he does not question himself. That is not credible, because he has a goal, that is revenge. Suhan is an undefined character, it is not clear who is she and what are her objectives in the life. She lives in a farm but wears clothes of a top model. She wears miniskirts and short-pants when she is managing her own company. Is that realistic? A breaking point happens at the end of episode 7. Everybody discovers the true identity of Cesur and what is his goal. In a story of revenge the true identity is a secret that is discovered little by little. Suhan is disappointed of Cesur, she fell in love with him and knows the real intention of Cesur. She is in the middle between Cesur and her father, but she doesn't suffer much. Suhan confronts Cesur about his true identity at the room of the hospital, that could be a great dramatic scene, but Suhan is almost quiet, Cesur, the man who wanted revenge, suffers much than Suhan. At the end of episode 8 Cesur confess his love to Suhan. Probably that would be part of his plan of revenge, but he seems very honest. Tahsin do things in order to destroy Cesur but affects Suhan, so she is angry with Tahsin and asks for marriage to Cesur. Wedding happens in episode 11. After that the story falls into a deadlock, it become in a tug-of-war between Cesur and Suhan. Suhan loves her father and wants Cesur forget his revenge, Cesur loves her but doesn't want to give up his revenge: they have arguments, they reconcile, they separated and join again and so on, finally they get divorced and after few episodes they get married again. Cesur that started as a strong character, as a relentless man becomes in a weak man, surrendered at Suhan's feet. Suhan, the undefined character shows her selfishness. It was supposed that Suhan would be the victim of Cesur, not Cesur the victim of Suhan, what kind of revenge is this? Tahsin wasn't like a villain, he was like a grumpy grandfather, he is not a strong enemy for Cesur, so the writers introduce a new villain, Riza, a psychopath. The story has a breaking point again. Since the first episode writers left many issues without solving. Supporting characters and their sub-stories are not interesting and not are well interlaced with the main subject. Characters are in black or white, they are good or villains. All the villains against Cesur and Suhan is boring. There is not evolution in the main characters, they plays in the same way. In the same number of episodes, Kivanç had more romantic scenes than in other series he played, however he didn't match with Tuba. Most of their romantic scenes were cold.