Reviews

A very smart duplication of HBO's show 'the Cleaning Lady'. This one has many medical flows but it is still acceptable. Actings are good but Engine still uses his lips to express his feelings. He does not need that because his eyes talks to us perfectly and that is enough. He is amazing in this show. His acting is good. The boy's acting is excellent so is the actresses who plays Farah. The plot is good so are the twists. The police officer is as annoying as the one in HBO show. I cannot see the idea behind the family who are Farsh's friends but it is still engaging. My special thanks to the writers for reminding people of Iran's ongoing Revolution especially by using the song 'our House is Far Far away...'

I give seasons 1 and 2, 7 ratings but seasons 3 and 4 have many flaws that bring the ratings down. The dramatic twists are good most of the time but sometimes there are too many of them. The B- stories i.e., the relationships between the servants and field workers worked perfectly in seasons 1 and 2 but got boring along the way (seasons 3 and 4) Good performances and good character building in general.

The hospitalizations are too repetitive and cliché. Everyone who gets severely injured gets a cardiovascular stop and they get CPR etc. And come back again. Everything is predictable even the dialogs.

Bad face job along the way especially for Hilal, which is sad because her natural face looked more beautiful in the first season. She starts showing her feelings through her lips later on, which look fake. Her performance was much better in seasons 1 and 2.

It is good that Ibrahim Celikkol changes his acting style along the way and removes his fake smile from his face, and acts more seriously. The constant smile on his face in the first couple of episodes doesn't make sense at all.

There is a side-by-side refrigerator in the kitchen that actually came out in the 90s but they do their laundry in a very old fashion way. The washing machines came out in 1760 and were modernized in 1908. They were further developed in the 70s. I wonder why they wash their clothes the way they do in this TV show but use a side-by-side fridge in their kitchen.

One loses the tract of time in 'Bir Zamanlar Cukurova'. The dialogues show a lot of time has passed by but the babies don't grow up accordingly. In season 4 they celebrate Leyla and Karam Ali's 3-year-old birthday. From the beginning until Adnan's age in season four shows that 4-6 years have passed which is not as long to me as they express it in season 4.

Many crimes i.e., Ali Rahman's, remain unpunished. The relationship between Betul and Abdoulkadir does not make sense. I can't get it. Why does Zoleyha forgive Hakan? Maybe circumstances and things were different in the 70s? Now societies and legislation do not accept violence against women. To Zoleyka it is okay Hakan comes to her hotel room in Izmir in the middle of the night, wearing masks, and scares her to death. In conclusion, there are too many things that don't make sense to me in this show.

The show gets 8 stars for the story and the performance of the cast and 2 stars from me in general just because of the bad ending. The quality of the show fades from the episodes when Kurkut's pretended life dreams start when he is unconscious and culminate in its very bad ending in episode 36. I couldn't even imagine such a senseless ending can be made on such a good show. It takes a lot of guts to disappoint the viewers in this way. The show starts with a good pace, great dramatic twists, amazing acting though there is not good chemistry between the main characters, Kurkut and Ceylan. Emina carries on with amazing acting all through the show. I wish I could get back the time I spent on watching this show. Therefore, I think writing reviews on IMBD helps a viewers like me a lot.