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Beautiful series, great actors, but ending was very bad....

Merhamet is a well written drama, which portrays every character well, the evolving of each character beautifully portrayed.If you are fan of good family drama, its your cup of tea. thank you.

Once one is accustomed to the Turkish series/dizi industry and understands that it is huge business with dozens of series running concurrently with massive competition for ratings, it is great to recognise when something has that extra brilliance. Given that audiences like some melodrama, plenty of emotions and rivalries, guns being popped out of suit pockets, anger and tenderness in contrast and invariably the presence of obscenely rich tycoons (often dallying in criminal fraud) and glamorous women who presumably do lift a finger to do a little work at times, it is possible that some very special stories can be found. That this series was based on books (which I have not read) doesn't necessarily guarantee good script-writing but the casting and script here is fine. There are some dashes of humour too.

Two distinct qualities in Merhamet are the heavy use of retro-recall; amber tones delving into past chldhood/youth life of the country town and its very deep-seated struggles, then the present story resolutions in 2013 Istanbul. Sometimes this seems to drag out, but later on it does offer important 'fill-ins' about what each of the lead couple andh several others had emerged from, before Istanbul days. The note states 1996. This is incorrect. It is 'the present' in 2013-plus.

The second dominant quality of Merhamet is that the lead actors earn the greatest commendation for their playing of double roles, teen-age and 30s adulthood - have not received rave reviews for the writing, acting and especially directing skills Magic. That Ibrahim Celikkol in real-life is a superbly-built handsome 30s+ aged man, could act and be assisted by excellent direction, and make-up/hair work convey accurate demeanour and persona as the naive, not-a-care-in-the world son of a very wealthy tycoon in their country ranch, and switch multiple times to wonderful effect as a presently successful Istanbul professional who for years had hollowness in his life because the love-life of his youth with Narin had totally vanished without trace. That is until Narin showed up by chance in top-end professional circles in Istanbul.

So much water had gone under the bridge and so much stress, grief and confusion had to be addressed if this erstwhile once so-loving late-teenage couple would ever re-capture what the audience could see is an essential outcome of the series. The actor playing Narin is illuminating. She from childhood is a top academic achiever, feisty, courageous, emotionally charged and desperate to do her best from way back for family, friends - often exhausting herself in the process. She goves a powerful characterisation. Expect plenty of raised passion in the voice - so be it! Sweetness is there too.

A wonderfully moving series, as long as cultural diverse nuances are embraced, as the audiences in this series (and all others in Turkey) are made for its own audiences who value much more dramatic, emotional story-telling - but experience over many dizi, has taught me to sometimes be alert for sometimes ambivalent Finales.

The look of Turkey, in every series I've seen, is like a Tourist advert for gorgeous Istanbul with Bospherus Suspension bridges, or the Maiden Tower from beautiful vantage points in every establishing shot, many foreshore scenes and various outpost destinations - contrasting with the country town poverty and simplicity. Many an overseas viewer might find themselves planning to visit this fascinating country. Let yourself be captured by this series.

The old Turkish dizis are really something else i am so drawn by the purity in acting of the actors they seem so realistic. The whole dizi was a full on rollercoaster of emotions. Loved the chemistry between the main leads. Özgü and Ibrahim have my heart :) , ibrahim never makes a bad drama that's a fact don't know where özgü is these days hope she is doing good <3 the plot was even far better than other nowadays dizis love how they potrayed everything with so much emotions and have shown reality to that extent.

I would have given this series easily an eight out of ten (8/10) but maaaaaan the ending was horrible, I mean what the actual hell? It had such an interesting plot line, it was beautifully executed, it had a beautiful cast, especially Ibrahim celikol was soooooo yum, and the girls were all good too, and also it didn't felt like stupid at times like most of the Turkish series does, I don't know what happened to writers? May be they were trying to do some unique but failed miserably, I am on a spree of watching Ibrahim celikols series and it seems like it's a constant with him, bad endings are his thing. But still what a waste.

Great story that could have been beutifull and memorable only if the twisted writers would have been less pretentious and awful. Turkish writers try too much to be something different and unique.thats not the way. To create such a beutiful story and destroy it for your their own selfish reasons is idiotic. Why ending such a great story like that? It's not even shocking or sad .its just plain stupid.