If I had to say something positive about this series, the first thing that comes to mind is the intro, which is incredibly atmospheric and visually stunning, although it hardly fits the series. Another positive thing is the music - it is varied but broadly speaking great, much of it being synth-based and reminiscent of something like "Half-Life"; however that cyberpunkishness, like the intro, doesn't feel like it quite belongs.
This is a crime drama about a serial killer, where the murderer is the protagonist and the cops hunting him down are the secondary protagonists. However, even though the killer is with whom we spend the most time, the audience remains in the dark as for his motives and reasons until - literally - the last two episodes. Sure, we get some breadcrumbs in the meantime, but the logic of the narrative feels a bit disjointed, where we have no idea what Agah, the murderer, is after, and the cops follow up on leads quite arbitrarily. The whole plot is honestly a bit arbitrary, and a few plotlines just end without resolution or explanation. Others end with some explanation, but quite unsatisfactorily.
The production values are quite cheap at times, and continuity is dreadfully overlooked: in the worst case, a character might warp from one side of the room to another from shot to shot, all within the same conversation. The at times just awful camerawork makes it even more confusing (seriously, almost half of the shots don't seem to have any particular reason behind them, as if the camera was placed on whatever spot a fly happened to land in the room). The series also suffers a bit from a certain prudishness, where they want to tease the audience with erotic shots of attractive female characters the way them western series do sometimes, but the most they can show is a bra, if that. Finally, the acting is hit or miss - while it's difficult to judge while watching with subtitles, quite a few scenes left me with a raised eyebrow or a felling of cringe instead of the desired emotion (ex. Agah's breakdown about the phonecall at the automechanic's).
With all that said, the actors are generally charismatic and enjoyable to watch, and as a person quite distant from Turkish culture, getting a slice of life from Turkey and learning/unexpectedly recognising some Turkish words is an interesting thing by itself.
(I've watched this series in Turkish with English subtitles)
This is a crime drama about a serial killer, where the murderer is the protagonist and the cops hunting him down are the secondary protagonists. However, even though the killer is with whom we spend the most time, the audience remains in the dark as for his motives and reasons until - literally - the last two episodes. Sure, we get some breadcrumbs in the meantime, but the logic of the narrative feels a bit disjointed, where we have no idea what Agah, the murderer, is after, and the cops follow up on leads quite arbitrarily. The whole plot is honestly a bit arbitrary, and a few plotlines just end without resolution or explanation. Others end with some explanation, but quite unsatisfactorily.
The production values are quite cheap at times, and continuity is dreadfully overlooked: in the worst case, a character might warp from one side of the room to another from shot to shot, all within the same conversation. The at times just awful camerawork makes it even more confusing (seriously, almost half of the shots don't seem to have any particular reason behind them, as if the camera was placed on whatever spot a fly happened to land in the room). The series also suffers a bit from a certain prudishness, where they want to tease the audience with erotic shots of attractive female characters the way them western series do sometimes, but the most they can show is a bra, if that. Finally, the acting is hit or miss - while it's difficult to judge while watching with subtitles, quite a few scenes left me with a raised eyebrow or a felling of cringe instead of the desired emotion (ex. Agah's breakdown about the phonecall at the automechanic's).
With all that said, the actors are generally charismatic and enjoyable to watch, and as a person quite distant from Turkish culture, getting a slice of life from Turkey and learning/unexpectedly recognising some Turkish words is an interesting thing by itself.
(I've watched this series in Turkish with English subtitles)