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I started to watch it few months ago and shortly after a few first episodes it became a part of my daily life. I loved and followed and recommended it to every friend of mine because as an Iranian I related to many part of it culturally. It was well done and except a few minor (whys and how comes...), I truly hooked to this and it glued me to my monitor. I had my breakfasts, lunches and dinners for few months even in bed till 3 am on my tablet... do not need to say this was the longest tv series I have ever seen! I have to tell you this was my first Turkish series and I have to admit the way it ended in last minutes of last episodes (267) , was extremely disappointing, annoying and sadly with terrible impression!!! I expected after tremendous frustrations Emir must have had exploded and Kemal must have survived first if the director or writer of the last episode insisted to have minor changes in ending. The way it ended, gave me the feeling of my time is wasted, bribing and corupption wins at the end! It also brought misjudgment and trust in Turkish justice system. To be honest, just because of last episode and the way it was ended, I do not wish to watch any Turkish series for certain length of time! I do not know how much time I need to heal from the disappointment of the time I had spent watching this lovely series. It killed all the hope and struggle someone could wish when they fight for what they believe in: LOVE. I love to get response from the writer or director of ending episodes!

This was a brilliant production; in that casting was spot on ,the atmosphere and lighting were gorgeous and the writers know how to spin a good yarn but why did it all feel so pointless when I got to the end?

Okay everyone. You really have to take my word for this. Kara Sevda is one of the best series i have ever seen in my life. Its so emotional and real, the characters in the series are amazing! Really guys, if you haven't seen Kara Sevda yet, you have to go and watch it right now. I love the bond between Kemal and Nihan, i feel like its a real thing in the real world. I could watch this all day and never get tired. I have always loved to watch Turkish series, because I am familiar with the culture. I really recommend all of you to watch Kara Sevda, when I am at school everyday, I can 't wait to come home and watch It. And season 2 is out soon, i really can't believe it. Everything Is so dramatic in this series, the characters are so good. I mean, you can't even find that good characters in America. I really feel blessed, because i understand this series. If you haven't watched it yet, believe me.. you really should.

Started watching this series recently and completely in awe ! How can anyone make such a long story flawless. It makes you laugh, cry and above all love every bit of it to an extent you start living those characters. Best part is story and characters are quite real and relatable with subtle and genuine emotions portrayed. Its not that such love stories were never made, but the way its made and presented makes it stand high. Hats off to the entire team - story writer, director, actors, and the people working behind the camera. If i have to describe it in two words - Sweet Addiction

I don't have enough words to recommend this Turkish show - 1st episode - it takes a while to get into it, but you will be captivated by the end of episode 2. Love all the characters in the show - Script writers have done an amazing job with this TV series - I hope it will go on to series 3 - we will see. Kemal and Nihan - have got so much chemistry together - it's hard to imagine that it's otherwise in real life - Kemal's acting skills - BRILLIANT. Emir is the one person in the show that you will either love or hate. He is a psychopath - I can't describe him in any other way. I think it's filmed in Istanbul - location and views are beautiful - I watch the show with English subtitles .

The screen writers must all be sociopaths/narcissists. Evil always wins even in the end. Think they lived their evil, sick dreams through this story. I'm taking note of who screenwriters are and will never watch anything they write ever again.

I will definitely not watch season 2 of this series despite the excellent acting.

This story has many plots and twists which are good but evil always wins. Life is enough, and we watch stories to escape. But stories like this just emphasises the evil and glorifies it. It would've received a 10 rating from me if good could win in the end. This is a big no thank you from me.

Please please please, how can any director story teller let kara Sevda end in such a terrible cruel way??? I can now not think of this movie as being good. I would have given it 10 if Emir stepped on that landmine which he planted for Kemal. Revolting obnoxious most disappointing movie I have ever seen. Directors should be ashamed of themselves giving such a story where they fought so hard for love, such a cruel ending.👹👹👹👹Disgusting, I have no words and have no wish to watch it again. What for?? You made a fool of the public as well as the actors. What bad reports you got for doing this. Shame on the producers and directors of this movie, shame on you!!!!

It took couple of days for me to write the review of this magnificent show. Honestly, my heart is still hurt after watching it as up to now I still cannot accept the fact how it ended. Frankly speaking, the story was promising and captivating but at the same time it was devastating to watch the last two episodes. Each episode had me shocked and trembled to imagine what would come in the next episode.

The performance of each character was mesmerizing. Especially, the two main leads, they had such extraordinary chemistry to the extent that I couldn't have words to describe. The storyline was well-made, the cinematography was great and last but not least the plot twists and surprises you would experience in the entire episodes.

Well done, Kara Sevda! You have made my life like a roller coaster from the very first episode to the end. Thumbs up!! 👍👍👍👍👍

Kara sevda is the best series I've ever watched and after watching it I found all the other turkish dramas nothing compare to this. Neslihan's acting as nihal was just fabulous and also this is the first time I loved the villian's charecter in a drama I truly love this show till now. If you haven't watched it yet go and watch it this very instant.

Thanks to the great production, screen writing and awesome actors the term/concept kara sevda has been brought to the homes around Europe and the world. Kara Sevda drama romance (telenovela) with its modern and traditional elements, has reached a new level as a genre.The atmosphere of beautiful scenery, dramatic action, music and dynamic dialogues created a real work of art. Furthermore, the talented and professional acting has been done on a highest level. The wonderful presentation of a range of human emotions was immediately recognized and strongly felt by the audience (viewers). Also, the character development throughout the show was made on a highly original psychological level. As a result the show became a well deserved worldwide success. Kara sevda as a concept has its roots known in history, music, literature and poetry as well. Accordingly, the script, despite many reactions, is original, exciting and loyal to the story line and the title of the romance. To conclude, Kara Sevda with its many drama elements, exciting love story, adventurous plot and amazing characters is certainly worth of the critics to have their words about it in the future, as well as it deserves their respected analysis and attention.

Extremely believable acting by Neslihan. All the characters in this series have their dark sides, weaknesses, secrets, strange kind of love. KARA Sevda kind (Dark).

A lot of contradictions, exaggerations, and gaps in this work..Emir is not a god,Zeynep was not a lover she was a btch and a traitor,Kamal s family was so low,a heart breaking and terrible ending,life is already hard as it is the bad guys are winning couldn't you just let them lose in a TV series!...the most beautiful thing in Kara Sevda was Nihan..

There is irony in this title endless love, for it ends in a pretty harsh manner.

The realist, most passionate series I have ever seen, so much chemistry between the actors, so much emotion, and it is even making me the viewer emotional, I really hope that the producers will some day soon please bring us one or two more seasons, just two is not enough. I have started to watch the series from episode one again.

In Turkey, Turkish TV series are not very popular, especially among young people. They even become a subject of ridicule up to a point. But this series is not one of them. The series that the channels are obliged to produce every year and that easily make their finales receive bad criticism from people because they are like a kind of factory output. Most of them are copy and paste series that focus entirely on love triangles. However, there used to be good Turkish TV series. This series is actually one of them. So what makes this series different from them?

The series definitely started off well. I mean, it's good in general. I don't think anyone would object. The writers have a good story in mind. But story writers know that the story changes shape as they write. I think there is a good plot. The characters are good, they really make you feel. We have a very interesting villain. I mean a straight bad guy. Sometimes they do this and that in his past, but it doesn't really make sense. I mean, some villains are not so bad afterwards, I don't know if you're aware of that, but one of the best examples is Flowey from the Undertale series. He's probably the one that started this whole "curable villain" thing. But now people are really tired of these characters. At least I am. Emir, our villain, is definitely a psychopath and nothing more. Especially in the second half of the series, there are interesting scenes to sympathize (?) Emir. They also put some sweet music. But the character they wrote really doesn't fit this profile at all. I see it as a futile effort and I condemn it, but that's the bad thing about being broadcast and made for profit. Actually, our story starts off very well, but it goes on so unnecessarily long. During this prolongation, it manages to keep the excitement by being really interesting, but after a certain point, something really forced and illogical happens. In other words, neither the police nor the law works correctly in a series that approaches crime fiction. Just like in science-related works, they say quantum and get rid of everything, they prolonged this series by using the terms they wanted. I don't think there is really a need to drag it out this long, but I can't really deduct points because they really managed to keep the excitement alive despite this much dragging out. So what happens at the end of all this prolongation? Nothing very interesting happens. Look, I love bad endings. I love Sabahattin Ali's novels with pointlessly bad endings, I love reading Berserk, but what they did after taking so long is really pointless. Especially what they used as a method, if it was really 35 episodes, it could have done very well globally, but as it is, it is a series that started well and then used as a money machine. Don't be surprised by my score after talking about it so badly, because as I said, the writers have kept the excitement alive while doing these things and created episodes that do not advance the story but make you watch the series with a really successful sitcom. Since the elements such as the plot of the series and the side characters are strong, there have been series that have managed to survive until the last episode. Dear writers, we should not make endings for the sake of making them "bad", we should make endings because they make sense in the course of the story. I am sure that they are aware of this, because no writer would prefer such an ending, but it is as if orders came from somewhere.

Maybe it's because I was exposed for 185 hours, the acting is great. It's like they became people around me. The character characterizations are really good. The writers knew that the more specific the characters are and the more different they are from each other, the better they will work, and they definitely did a great job with that. And the actors really fit these characters. They fit so well that it is now possible to base these characters on these actors. I can say that the actors were really effective with their acting on top of that. Although Emir's villain performance definitely stands out, it would not be wrong to say that Nihan also shows her acting skills. Sometimes she cries as if these events really happened. I would love to be on set and watch how she does it, it can't be easy to cry like that.

The music is really good. However, 25 songs are really too few for a 186-hour series. There are 2-3 new songs towards the end but it's not enough. Despite this, the music is really beautiful and they reflect it well. At this point, it is necessary to say when Toygar Isikli made bad music. As for the shooting and visuals, I didn't see anything extra. In fact, the acting was better in this part. In other words, nothing extra was done in the series, there were no moments where I said what a beautiful shot, but I don't remember it ever grinning, and no series has the task of impressing me.

The series started off very well, but it was stretched out a bit with dozens of sitcom-like episodes, but that didn't stop me from watching it. I can even say that I loved it. I don't like love-oriented stories. It is a series that goes into different topics and handles them well enough without getting too far away from the focus on love (except for the extended episodes). I recommend it with peace of mind.

Excellent plot but too extensive 280 episodes. The plot could have been wrapping the drama in less than 280 episodes