Kuzey Güney
I wrote a couple of times. At the end of the last season of North South, we were left in a very bitter but also very delicious place in terms of story. Last Wednesday, we watched the first episode of the new season, which came after the season break and I was even more excited to see that it was going to be one shocking story after another. I wrote after last season that the most important development for the series was not the departure of Rıza Kocaoğlu, who played the character of Ali , but the change of director Mehmet Ada Öztekin.
PLASTIC CHARACTER
As you know, he was replaced by Hilal Saral , who directed the series “Fatmagül’ün Suçu Ne?” for the last two seasons. For my part, I was a bit disappointed when I watched the first episode, the first fruit of this major change. Saral changed the color palette of the series as the first thing he did. He preferred more pastel and pale colors instead of the bright and intense colors we got used to last season. This, in my opinion, dealt a serious blow to the perception of the series by the audience. Especially in low-light scenes, the blacks have a strange, matte-looking grain on them. The show’s chirpy sense of reality has been replaced by a dull and semi-dark mood. He has obviously changed his understanding of light. Mehmet Ada Öztekin preferred to use more ambient light. The shadowy sides of the characters would be dark, but a dramatic reality would be gained from this. Now this one is gone too. But most importantly, the way the characters dress has changed. Especially the women of the series took a big share from this. Bade İşçil‘s character Banu was positively affected by this, but Öykü Karayel‘s character Cemre suddenly turned into one of the plastic characters who walks around with a blow-dry and heavy make-up both in the neighborhood and at home, who has no equivalent in daily life, but is very popular in the TV series world.
I AM ALIENATED TO THE SERIES
Naturally, Saral tried much different angles. However, in doing so, it has destroyed the universe of the series that the audience has been watching for a year, getting used to and, most importantly, believing in. This sense of alienation alienated me from the series to such an extent that even the declaration of love by the character of Kuzey, played by Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, to Cemre, which I waited for a whole season last year, could not surpass the scene in which Cemreopened up to Kuzeyaccompanied by Mehmet Erdem ‘s song last season. It turns out that the North South story looks better through the eyes of a male director.
