Yeni sezon geldi, hangi diziye başlayalım?
Lost’un yerine koyabileceğimiz bir dizi gelecek mi? Modern Family gibi anında içine çekildiğimiz yeni bir komedi var mı bu sezon? Martin Scorsese’nin dizisi geliyormuş, doğru mu? Amerika’da yeni televizyon sezonu demek, çiçeği burnunda dizilerin aylar öncesinden kendilerini tanıtmaya başlamaları, izleyicinin çoktan listesini hazırlamış olması demek. Burada ise durum biraz daha farklı. Yeni dizileri el yordamıyla keşfetmemiz gerekiyor. Bu sezon Amerika’da başlayan, kimi birkaç bölüm oynamış, kimi sezon sonuna yaklaşan, izleyiciyi giderek içine çeken beş diziye göz atalım.
Mahpeyker: Turkish biopic brings nothing new to Ottoman queen mother
Director Tarkan Özel’s debut feature, Mahpeyker, is an ambitious biopic of Kösem Sultan, the woman who left her mark on the Ottoman Empire for half-a-century and was a true force of nature in the first half of the 17th century.
Sadly, by the time Selda Alkor, the actress playing Kösem Sultan, utters in her regal voice the strongwoman’s immortal words, “I have chosen to let my poison out into the palace, and give my milk to my people,” you have already lost interest in the story.
Mahpeyker means “moon-shaped” – it was the name given to her at age 15 when she was captured and brought to Istanbul, to the harem of Sultan Ahmed I. Four centuries ago, comparing someone’s face to the full moon was not an implication that one was calling her chubby but a compliment emphasizing her beauty. The more popular, well-known name Kösem was given to her later by Ahmed.
As the older Kösem Sultan reminisces about her first days in the palace, how she was manipulated and shoved around by the older women in power, the story alternates to the later years of her reign and power.