Kara Para Aşk (Black Money Love): Bölüm 1 (2014)

Series Summary (from Fun Network): Omer is a police officer. After the death of his fiancée he suffers great pain. Sibel, Omer's fiancée's, body was found on the top of a cliff, in a car next to a fairly old, rich business man. After the shock of her sudden death and the accusations of his love cheating on him, Omar realizes that there is more behind her suspicious murder.

Aşk 101: Bölüm 1 (2020)

Series Summary (from Netflix): While trying to make their teacher fall for a basketball coach, four misfits and a model student find friendship, love, and the courage to be themselves.

I'm watching this because at this point, it's like "why not?" when I hear about a dizi. I actually watched the first episode long ago, as I stumbled across it on Netflix, but it didn't grab me. After more than a year of being fully immersed in dizi culture, I was ready to give it another shot.

Episode Reaction: Aşk Mantık İntikam Bölüm 10

I know ... I haven't even written about Aşk Mantık İntikam's first episode yet. But I had to get these thoughts down now, and this seemed like the perfect place to do it!

I just finished the episode that sent the fandom into a meltdown. And while I can understand why people are upset, also, I kind of feel like we've seen this movie before, and we survived. I can't imagine that the Ozan-Çağla relationship will be nearly as maddening as amnesiac Serkan and Selin in Sen Çal Kapımı. I realize that SÇK left some fans with a bit of dizi PTSD, but I figure if I can survive the SÇK 30's, I can survive anything diziland wants to throw at me! (It probably helps that I'm so wholly satisfied with SÇK season 2...) Also, I happen to love fighting Ozan and Esra, so bring on the hurt, angst, and yelling.

Erkenci Kuş: Bölüm 1 (2018)

Series Summary (from IMDb): Sanem, a young girl with aspirations of becoming a writer, is forced by her parents to choose between an arranged marriage and finding a proper job. Rushing into a new job at an advertising company, she soon falls for her boss, Can.

I watched this because I stumbled across this gif in a "sweet and clean" romance group I'm in on Facebook.

I'm Back!

Hi, friends! This blog has been dormant for seven years. Honestly, I never expected to post on it again. And then ... I found the dizi, and a whole new (and wholly wonderful) world of television opened up to me.

I wrote a post on my other blog about how much I'm loving dizis, but I thought that constantly posting about them might be too much for my regular readers, who come for book recommendations, not dizi gushing! So I'll be posting here every so often. My initial thought is to keep the old format and review the first bölüm (episode) of several dizis, and then also write season and/or series reviews. Who knows, maybe you'll catch the dizi bug and find your next favorite show!