ozgecanoz

The show suffers from the usual shortcoming of Turkish shows that it needs to be long in order to have many advertisement breaks. the dialog and the scenes are then stretched and there are repeats. however, I'm pretty sure Gulse Birsel (writer and one of the actresses) is as unhappy about this as the audience. anyways.. overall, it is a very rich show with lots of 'typical' characters of a well known neighborhood of Istanbul. well of course, it is a comedy and all the typicality is pushed to the extreme and it becomes absurd and hilariously funny from time to time. the plot is about the clash of a group of artists with a rich but shallow family as they become the family's tenants. these artist characters all play in the same TV show as part of the scenario of Yalan Dunya and thus we also watch this other show as they act it. This show-in-show concept brilliantly makes fun of many aspects of some very popular but low quality TV shows in Turkey in not so subtle ways...