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Sadly true of most of Netflix's shows, there is a horrible model of thinking through only 1 or 2 seasons, and then getting greedy and trying to milk a 3rd or 4th season that become nothing but wild, poorly written, rabbit holes that sometime have zero coherence with previously established plotlines. Such was the case for Atiye. Gripping, interesting first season, lots of interesting plot threads. Second season follows up on them, but by the third season, it goes completely off the rails. Do better, Netflix, and stop wasting our time!

This series had the potential to be a damn masterpiece. For the first and most of the second season, it was an engrossing drama about tragic characters with stories we cared about, superbly and subtly acted, well-paced, with moving moving and thoughtful cinematography. The central conflicts and questions in the characters' lives were interesting but not far-fetched. What happened between the second and the third season was beyond comprehension. It felt like another set of writers and directors took over and completely ruined it, made it like a cheap version of Game of Thrones, with story twists that were completely out of place and character revisions that were also completely out of step with what they had spent 40 hours building. At the end, we are just left with exasperation. I'm so disappointed!!! The first and second seasons were brilliant but they ruined it trying to go for a cheap thrill. Still, the acting, especially by Murat ( Teoman Kumbaracibasi),Umut (Alican Yücesoy) Tarik ( Tugrul Cetiner) and others was top notch. Shame on the writers/ producers who mangled the last season.

Every line of every scene of this pretentious movie was hopelessly contrived, self-consciously striving to be profound or whimsical or ironic by turn. The director desperately wants to let you know he "sees" Paterson, a once-might city known right now for a high crime rate. You could see the actors struggling to find anything natural about their lines. The attempts to anthropomorphize the dog through cheesily cut shots were intolerable. Attention hollywood: just because you make a film about a place like Paterson that is riddled with social problems doesn't mean that it's a well done film. Paterson the real city and real people actually deserves a better movie!