Episode Notes

Hey friends, it feels so good to be back! As we start our new season all we wanted to do first was to give you a summary of the weekly lineup and our opinions about the new projects that have started. Here are all our notes to keep you informed. We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to follow us here and on our social media. Also let us know you thoughts, what are some projects you recently started and liked? Thank you for listening and see you on our next episode!

The ones with (*) are the new projects and you can find more info about their credits in the end.

Weekly Lineup

Monday

Uzak Şehir - Kanal D Kızıl Goncalar - Now

Tuesday

Bir Gece Masalı - ATV Bahar - Show *Kral Kaybederse - Star Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı - TRT

Wednesday

Annem Ankara - Kanal D Kuruluş Osman - ATV - on its 6th season Leyla: Hayat…Aşk…Adalet *Sahipsizler - Star Sandık Kokusu - Show

Thursday

İnci Taneleri - Kanal D *Başka Bir Gün - ATV Hudutsuz Sevda - Now Siyah Kalp - Show

Friday

Arka Sokaklar Kanal D Zembilli - ATV Bir Zamanlar İstanbul - TRT Yalı Çapkını - Star Kızılcık Şerbeti - Show

Saturday

Can Borcu - ATV Gönül Dağı - TRT Sen Ağlama İstanbul - Star - Sadly ended its run on the 8th episode. Piyasa - Kanal D

Sunday

Kardelenler - ATV Şakir Paşa Ailesi - Now Teşkilat - TRT Deha - Show

New Projects

*Kral Kaybederse - Produced by OGM. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu, stars Halit Ergenç, Aslıhan Gürbüz, Merve Dizdar, Nilperi Şahinkaya. Directed by Yağmur Taylan, Durul Taylan and Cem Toluay. Screenwriters are Ertan Kurtulan, Eylem Akın and Sedef Bayburtluoğlu Gürerk.

*Sahipsizler - Produced by OGM. Stars Hazal Subaşı, Reha Özcan, Burak Berkay Akgül. Directed by Cem Karcı. Written by Selin Arapkirli, Ramazan Demirli, Özgür Ağaoğlu and Elif Hamamcı.

*Başka Bir Gün - Produced by Ay Yapım. Adapted from a British thriller called Keeping Faith by Rana Mamatlıoğlu and Bekir Baran Sıtkı. Director Çağrı Bayrak. Stars Ezgi Mola, Salih Bademci, Berkay Ateş, Şükran Ovalı.

*Can Borcu - Producer Mehmet Yiğit Alp, director Semih Bağcı, writer Onur Uğraş. Stars Bülent İnal, Ebru Özkan Saban, Mine Tugay.

*Kardelenler - Producer Nazlı Heptürk, Director Serkan Birinci, writer Gül Abus Semerci. Stars Barış Falay, Serhat Kılıç, Ayda Aksel, Uğur Uzunel

*Şakir Paşa Ailesi: Mucizeler ve Skandallar - Producer Fatih Aksoy, Director Bahadır Karataş, writer Hande Altayl. Stars Vahide Perçin, Fırat Tanış, Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu, Meryem Uzerli, Denize Capezza, Nilsu Berfin Aktaş.

*Zembilli: Producer Süreyya Yaşar Önal, Directed by ufuk Hakan Eren, Written by Fatih Özcan. Stars Sude Zülal Güler, Emre Dinler, Damlasu İkizoğlu.

*Piyasa: Producer Pastel Film, director Serdar Gözelekli, starring İlayda Alişan and Alp Navruz - From the writer of Yalı Çapkını and director of Baht Oyunu, Yürek Çıkmazı and Afili Aşk

What’s Coming

• Sustalı Ceylan - ATV - stars Sümeyye Aydoğan and Burak Yörük - Written by Sevgi Yılmaz, directed by A. Volkan Kocatürk - to be released soon
• Eşref Rüya - Kanal D - stars Çağatay Ulusoy and Demet Özdemir. Produced by Tims&B, written by Ethem Özışık and Lokman Maral. Directed by Uluç Bayraktar - to be released soon

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Episode Notes

In the final episode of 2024 and also the last episode of the third season of Dizi Friends, we really want to take a look back at the second half of the year especially starting from September and give you an update on all the new dizis that started. We also want to give you our version of Spotify’s Wrapped list and share a few numbers with you to give you an idea of the impact dizis have left on us this year.

We look back at the dizis of 2024 in three categories and here are the dizis we mention during the episode:

First Category: Survivors

• Leyla: Hayat... Aşk... Adalet...
• Siyah Kalp
• Deha
• Bir Gece Masalı
• Annem Ankara
• "Holding"
• Uzak Şehir
• Şakir Paşa Ailesi
• Sen Aglama Istanbul
• Can Borcu
• Sahipsizler

Second Category: Dizis That Are Ending Soon

• Yabani
• Yali Capkini
• Sandik Kokusu

Third Category: Cancelled

A few more dizis have ended but we only mention two that really affected us.

• "Kalpazan"
• "Kara Dut"

Our Dizis Unwrapped Answers:

MAHA’S ANSWERS

MOST WATCHED DİZİS Leyla, Uzak Sehir FAVORITE ACTOR ACTRESS Ozan Akbaba from Uzak Sehir, Cemre Baysel (Leyla) and Gonca Vuslateri (Nur) from Leyla: Hayat... Aşk... Adalet... NUMBER OF DIZIS WATCHED Kızıl Goncalar, Leyla, Bahar, Bir Gece Masalı, Uzak Şehir MONTH YOU WATCHED DIZIS THE MOST September and October MOST HATED VILLAIN OF THE YEAR Sadakat from Uzak Sehir

EDA’S ANSWERS

MOST WATCHED DİZİS: Kızıl Goncalar, Kızılcık Şerbeti FAVORITE ACTOR ACTRESS Erkan Avcı (for playing Sadi Hüdayi), Mina Demirtaş playing Zeynep NUMBER OF DIZIS WATCHED 6, Kızıl Goncalar, Kızılcık Şerbeti, Bir Gece Masalı. Apart from these some episodes of Kalpazan, Siyah Kalp and Annem Ankara MONTH YOU WATCHED DIZIS THE MOST September and October MOST HATED VILLAIN OF THE YEAR Vahit from Kızıl Goncalar played by Tolga Tekin

We are grateful to have completed another year and two more seasons of our podcast during this year with you. It was a year of humble milestones for us and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank every single one who has been listening, sharing, commenting and supporting us.

See you next year on brand new episodes, there's lots of fun content we planned for the year ahead! If you still aren't following us on social media, make sure you do so you're notified of our new episodes each time!

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Episode Notes

There is a new dizi in town and this week Maha and Eda discuss the hype around "Uzak Şehir" (remake of the Arabic series "Al-Hayba") and why it might be such an instant favorite.

• The iconic Lebanese singer mentioned in the episode is Fairouz (also known as Fairuz). Her song "To Beirut" is the one that the theme song is based on- take a listen to her amazing voice here:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ayX6ZSpBgg

Join us for a fun discussion on this new dizi and don't forget to send us your thoughts through our social media.

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This week, Maha and Eda have a guest on the podcast; we get to speak with the person behind Derin Universe. Derin is a Turkish blogger who lives abroad and studied business in France and is starting her Masters in Creative Industry which includes TV and Films in London. She mostly writes in English so you can follow her writing easily. Interestingly, Eda discovered her blog through an article where she wrote about dizis and why there were not enough female producers.

Join us for this interesting chat and we hope you will learn fun things along the way! Also interesting that this also includes the podcast's first Turkish guest. It's a rare and valuable insight to have two Turkish women from different generations talking about dizis. Things discussed in this episode center around women and the dizi industry, some things discussed may be triggering for our listeners who are sensitive around topics such as violence against women so please keep that in mind.

Check out Derin's article that is mentioned on the podcast: https://derinuniverse.com/f/t%C3%BCrkiye%E2%80%99de-filmler-ve-diziler-yap%C4%B1mc%C4%B1lar%C4%B1n-ataerkil-g%C3%B6sterisi

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Episode Notes

In this episode Eda and Maha are doing some dizi therapy and are sharing some things that are bothering them about the dizis they are watching. We know for many people who watch dizis it's a way to let off steam but lately dizis have been causing Eda and Maha some stress too so if you are interested in why join us for an engaging conversation between two dizi friends.

Some things we discuss during the episode:

-Why we are not happy with love stories now -Writers being over-confident and ruining storylines -Why weekly dizis could learn from daily dramas -Karadut and the problem with instant love -Kızıl Goncalar - problem with Cüneyd and Mira -Bahar - concept of second season losing plot -Gizli Bahçe - the return of harquelin romance -Bir Gece Masalı - too many villains -Siyah Kalp - same instant love problem -Yabani- instant love with main leads and slow burn with supporting characters -Finance - ratings system in dizis- problem with online platform shows (Netflix, Amazon) not knowing if it will be renewed -Machine of storytelling- you have to build up to perfection -Difference between dizis of 90s and 2000s and the dizis of now

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In this episode Maha and Eda get to interview a friend, Sofia, also known as @BayanSofia on X. Sofia is from Italy and in her spare time she makes wonderful edits on dizis. The girls have some questions for her as they get to learn how dizis are perceived though the eyes of their friend. Many things are discussed and we get to learn how Çukur, Can Yaman and Maraşlı have something in common. :)

Some of the things that are mentioned:

-The first dizi Sofia watched: "Erkenci Kuş" (starring Can Yaman and Demet Özdemir) (mentions also "Siyah Beyaz Aşk" after that) -Sandokan is the name of Can Yaman's new project. -Sofia's OG dizi is "Çukur" -Her favorite dizi of all time is "Maraşlı" -Her favorite couple to edit (make videos of) is "SadGül" from "Gelsin Hayat Bildiği Gibi" -Her favorite dizi composer is Toygar Işıklı and her favorite soundtrack is the "Hercai" soundtrack. She also mentions Ezel. -Eda's favorite dizi soundtrack is from "Binbir Gece" and Maha's is "Aşk ve Ceza, both are composed by Kıraç -They also talk about Sezen Aksu and Cem Adrian (Sofia's favorite Turkish singer) -Her favorite actress is Birce Akalay and favorite actor is Aras Bulut İynemli.

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Episode Notes

This week Maha and Eda take a look back at the last season. The day after this episode airs, on the 30th of September, the first episode of the new season will grace our screens. That's why we wanted to discuss and analyze the last 19 episodes, some themes and the main characters. Please let us know your thoughts and feelings about this episode as well as the new season of Kızıl Goncalar.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 - 00:15 00:15 - 02:18 Summary of plot 02:18 - 07:32 Meryem's character journey 07:32 - 15:01 Zeyney's journey 15:01 - 24:12 Levent's journey 24:12 - 29:55 Cüneyd's journey 29:55 - 32:40 Sadi's journey 32:40 - 36:00 Suavi's journey 36:00 - 40:20 Müyesser's journey 40:20 - 48:52 Themes: child marriages & education of girls 48:52 - 53:44 Asking ChatGPT to find similarities between Cüneyd and classic lit. characters 53:44 - 56:10 Asking ChatGPT to find similarities between Zeynep and classic lit. characters 56:10 - 58:28 Zeynep learning to protect herself and her ideals 58:28 - 01:07: 57 Our thoughts about what the future might look like for CünZey 01:07:57 - 01:17:00 Themes: healing 01:17:00 - 01:20:38 Themes: unconditional love 01:20:38 - 01:28:36 New season news and our thoughts/wishes

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Episode Notes

Hi friends! This week Maha and Eda are talking about the most popoular dizis which are returning to our screens this fall season. They discuss new additions to the cast and summarize briefly where they left off last season and what's to expect from their new season. This episode is a bit longer than previous ones but we think our listeners will find it useful to start the new dizi watching season on the right foot.

Time Stamps:

00:00 - 01:07 Introduction 01:07 - 09:05 Kızıl Goncalar 09:05 - 14:26 Bahar 14:26 - 23:37 Kızılcık Şerbeti 23:37 - 30:41 Yabani 30:41 - 37:18 Teşkilat 37:18 - 42:24 Yalı Çapkını 42:24 - 54:14 İnci Taneleri 54:14 - 01:00:10 Hudutsuz Sevda 01:00:10 - 01:05:38 Kirli Sepeti 01:05: 38 - 01:09:07 Taş Kağıt Makas 01:09:07 - 01:28:13 Sandık Kokusu 01:28:13 - 01:31:41 Support your dizi!

-"At Night They Dance" is the documentary about Egyptian belly dancers. (while talking about "İnci Taneleri") Find more about it here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959446/

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Episode Notes

In the Season 3 premiere Eda and Maha spend time talking to Haley- the founder of Dizilah. The first online English platform tracking news of dizis, provides english summaries, and ratings. Dizilah recently also started going on Dizi sets to interview and photograph everyone's favorite stars. Join us for this fun conversation as Haley gives us the çay (tea) on all things Dizilah and Dizis!

Some Haley Stats:

First Dizi: Binbir Gece Favortie Dizi: Kiralik Ask Celebrity she wants to meet: Kerem Bursin Favorite Dizi currently airing: Hudutsuz Sevda

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Episode Notes

Are you as excited as we are? A whole new season of new dizis is upon us and TV channels have started to launch plot summaries, share cast members and even teasers. This week in our season finale of the Dizi Friends Podcast Season 2-Maha and Eda talk about these new projects, share some details you might have missed, and share which ones they are excited for.

• "Leyla" (previously known as Hayat Hırsızı) is directed by Hilal Saral (known for Kara Sevda, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne, Aşk-ı Memnu, Kuzey Güney) , written by Aybike Ertürk (Düğün Şarkıcısı, Kızlar Yurdu, Emret Komutanım). It is adapted from Avenida Brasil. Starring: Cemre Baysel, Alperen Duymaz, and Halil İbrahim Ceyhan.
• The X thread we mention about Leyla is this one: https://x.com/lixzolys/status/1824653353197912314
• "Siyah Kalp" (Black Heart) is directed by Uluç Bayraktar (known for Çarpışma, Ezel, Karadayı) and written by Ayfer Tunç (known for Binbir Gece, Paramparça and Aliye). Starring: Ece Uslu, Aras Aydin, Leyla Tanlar and Hafsanur Sancaktutan.
• "Deha" is directed by Umut Aral (Mostly known for recent Netflix projects; Who Were We Running From, The Protector, Love 101, Yakamoz S245). The writer is Damla Serim known for, Çukur, 3 Kuruş and Babil. Starring: Aras Bulut İynemli, Taner Ölmez, Ahsen Eroglu, and Melis Sözen.
• "Bir Gece Masalı" is directed by Emre Kabakuşak, he is known for; Sefirin Kızı, Kaderimin Oyunu, Aşk Taktikleri, Bir Küçük Günışığı. The writer Eda Tezcan is known for Hercai and Aziz. Starring Burak Deniz and Su Burcu Yazgı Coşkun.
• "Kötü Kan" is directed by M. Çağatay Tosun known for Suskunlar and Merhamet. It is written by Barış Erdoğan (Afili Aşk, Mutlu Ol Yeter) and İlker Aslan (Afili Aşk, Tatlı İntikam). Starring: Ertan Saban and Damla Sönmez.
• "Annem Ankara" is directed by Faruk Teber (Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, Hanımın Çiftliği) and written by Başak Angigün (Hercai, Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam). Starring: Bergüzar Korel and Mehmet Günsür.
• "Kör Nokta" is directed by Yusuf Ömer Sınav (Sen Anlat Karadeniz, Yalnız Kurt). It is written by Funda Alp (Leyla and Mecnun) and Didem Kaplan (Sevgili Geçmiş). Starring: Ismail Ege Saşmaz and Rabia Soytürk.
• "Kalpazan" is directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin (Atatürk, Fatma, The Club) and written by Sema Ali Erol, Mahir Erol, Ayşenur Sıkı. Story by Mahir Erol known for Hercai. Starring: Çağlar Ertuğrul, Deniz Baysal, and Timuçin Esen.
• "Bir Aşk Masalı" is directed by Recai Karagöz (Adım Farah) and the writers are Emre Özdür (Azize)and Hazar Kozice (Azize). At the time of episode recording, the writers have not yet been disclosed. Starring: Murat Yıldırım and Ebru Şahin.
• "Holding" is directed by Deniz Yılmaz Sayir (O Kız, Gençliğim Eyvah) and the Limon Yapım writing team. We don't exactly know who they are yet. Starring: Bade İşçil, Musa Uzunlar, and Ali İl.
• "Kara Dut" is directed by Murat Saraçoğlu (Aldatmak, Bir Zamanlar Çukurova), written by Sırma Yanık (Masumiyet, Zalim, Kardeş Çocukları). Starring: İrem Helvacıoğlu and Şükrü Özyıldız.
• "Güzel Atlar Diyarı" is directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül and the writer has not been disclosed yet. Starring: Özgü Kaya and Burak Berkay Akgül.

Time Stamps

00:00 - 00:40 Introduction 00:40 - 09:41 "Leyla" 09:41 - 15:20 "Siyah Kalp" 15:20 - 20:59 "Deha" 20:59 - 30:38 "Bir Gece Masalı" 30:38 - 35:35 "Kötü Kan" 35:35 - 42:01 "Annem Ankara" 42:01 - 46: 06 "Kör Nokta" 46:06 - 51:41 "Kalpazan" 51:41 - 56:34 "Bir Aşk Masalı" 56:34 - 01:02:22 "Holding" 01:02:22 - 01:05:25 "Kara Dut" 01:05:25 - 01:09:00 "Güzel Atlar Diyarı" 01:09:00 - 01:14:00 Recipe for a Turkish Dizi :) 01:14:00 - 01:16:28 We want to hear more from you <3

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