Gelin

I've finally finished episode 107 episodes of this series, and I can honestly say I regret wasting my time. I can't put myself through another 100 plus episodes of this nonsense. What started out as a somewhat decent plot quickly spiraled into the same recycled formula we've seen too many times: a rich, strong, successful man reduced to nothing by a weak and insufferable woman.

The acting across the board was flat and amateurish. The writing feels like it came from a twenty-year-old who mistakes strength in women for endless screaming, victim-playing, and running men in circles. The female lead is unbearable, selfish, manipulative, and completely unaccountable for her actions. Meanwhile, the male lead is stripped of all dignity, left groveling for someone who doesn't deserve it.

I thought Emanet was bad, but this one actually manages to top it. A complete disappointment.

I have never written a review for a series until today. I do not know what the screenwriters think about the audience. The writing especially for season 2 is very insulting to the audience. Season 1 was slow but better because we got to see the couple happy and together but season 2 has been a total chaos. The ex wife becomes the female lead and gets away with everything and the female lead and male lead becomes weak characters that cannot stand up for themselves. I feel so bad for the actors and I hope they get to feature in better projects where their talents would be recognized well. Gelin is a total mess, the series should be CANCELED!!

Watched 1 hour of episode 1 and am disgusted over the acting, plot and situation. Where do scriptwriters come up with such plots with utter disrespect for values. The mother of a wealthy family manipulates the entire family with the sole purpose that the male lead who is his son produces a male heir. He is made to divorce his wife because of failure of birth of a child from their marriage, finds a poor girl and gets her married to his son with the promise to his ex wife that once a son is born by the new wife, the new wife will be divorced and the ex wife gets reunited with the male lead. The entire tone of the the 1 hour is haughty, stressful and cruel - so, you know what to expect of this series. Switch it off and avoid this!

Hanca and Cihan are a gorgeous couple. Toxic relationship. Why wasn't a surrogate used since that's what happened with this request?

Some of the series I have seen so far show evil sides and intrigue from the opposition. Sometimes the evil treatment is so devastating, i cannot continue to watch. Beyaz and Cihans mother plotted against Hanca although their attempts failed. I'd like to know if Beyaz was treated like Hanca by Cihan. Why do the men in some of the series along with their mothers accuse the women of I'll behavior without asking. Some of the remarks made by Cihan to Hanca were so demeaning. Hanca was innocent and pure and only wanted to help her brother.

While I love this storyline. It can be misconstrued as denergrating of women who are asked, as it this case, to marry and have a child, by a rich family when the woman proposes conditions. It was unusual but Cihan could have said no or he changed his mind. I truly disliked Hancas greedy sister in law. She made Hanca look cheap when she was the negotiator.

Furthermore, I do not perceive Hanca's "condition" as ill repute. There was no sex involved. Therefore, if I had the choices she had with entering into an arranged marriage as a surrogate without benefits, only abuse or agreeing to an arranged surrogate marriage with a one-million dollar benefit to save her brother, the latter would have been my choice. Why did Beyaz allow Cihans mother to convince her to divorce when all they needed to do was pay a surrogate? I am patiently waiting for season 2 when it's revealed that Beyaz could in fact conceive but chose to have an abortion because she was going to have a girl and did not want a girl. Her friend previously threaded Beyaz with a picture of the ultrasound she had. The intrigue continues.

Is there at least a happy ending to this series?

The Turli series, I really like the actors, both juniors and seniors, almost all of them have good acting skills. In terms of production, it is also parallel to Western Serial production. But what is very worrying about the Turkish series is that in terms of story content, it is still very outdated. There are still many Turkish series that explore physical and mental abuse and violence against women, against wives, against daughters. As if to show that men are more valuable, smarter, more powerful than women. These are medieval themes that should have lost their relevance. Maybe the regeneration of authors in the Turkish film industry is absolutely necessary, old authors with old ideas must be replaced with young authors who are more creative and fresh.