Disney+The disappointing debut of ‘s new domestic drama after Escape Between the World and Me met the audience with the first 2 episodes. The script of the series we know from Ezel Pinar Bulut in the director’s chair of the production while carrying his signature Hekimoğlu, Courtyard, Resurrection: Ertuğrul Hülya Gezer, who directs productions such as The leading roles of the series, which play its cards on the differentiation of today’s relationships rather than love, Demet Özdemir, Buğra Gülsoy, Hafsanur Sancaktutan, Metin Akdülger, İbrahim Selim, Melisa Döngel, Ali Yoğurtçuoğlu and Zerrin Tekindor they share.
With the name reminiscent of Berkun Oya’s plays Between the World and Medeals with the struggle of a woman who wants to save her lost relationship, to cope with the consequences of a game she plays with her lover on social media. He questions this through the concept of commitment in relationships in the digital age.
first (Demet Özdemir) is a magazine manager, ambitious, beautiful, has a good environment and is a strong woman who can stand on her own feet. Tolga (Buğra Gülsoy), on the other hand, is a famous actor and a person who plays in mainstream TV series, productions that don’t even bother him, and is stuck between himself and the world. Their relationship, which started 4 years ago, is now losing its excitement. First of all, he comes from a profile that can’t watch Tolga’s TV series, in fact, he belittles him to some extent over his profession. Tolga, on the other hand, lives everything inside him by drawing a closed-circuit male profile. But most of all, he needs to be understood, to push his own limits, and maybe to be ordinary. Meanwhile, his close friend Burcin (Zerrin Tekindor) gives İlkin an advice, and opens a fake account on social media, enabling him to communicate with Tolga as another woman. However, Tolga comes one day and he wants to meet the woman whom he thinks he has read a little bit about this correspondence. First from the interns in his office. Sinem(Hafsanur Sancaktutan) in this role. But events get out of control and take an intriguing escalation. The tempo seems to increase even more with Metin Akdülger, who will join the series in the 5th episode.
NOT LOVE, RELATIONS CHANGE
Between the World and Me In fact, it is a production inspired by the world of chaos created by new pursuits in an age where many systems change shape and love is one of them. Although Demet Özdemir is an actress who can act even with her eyes in some scenes, it seems that she needs a little more time for such a star role. However, it can be said that he will take this road quite quickly with the role of İlkin. In Buğra Gülsoy’s character, Tolga, in the first 2 episodes, his range of motion is quite limited. On the one hand, she is stuck in male symbolism, who feels incomplete in the face of a strong woman. On the other hand, he is drawn to a more obscure woman without reason. Unfortunately, this section is not completely filled when viewed from the audience seat. In short, the heat of an intimacy does not pass to this side of the glass. Perhaps this may serve as an example of the new era of relationships and synergies where electricity is “everything”. However, that electrification does not create a convincing enough infrastructure on the part of the audience, and the more superficial the distance in the İlkin – Tolga relationship, the more flimsy Sinem – Tolga relationship remains in the air. On the other hand, it turns out that İlkin, who is originally a strong woman, is not such a strong woman. Maybe he is looking for a valid reason to let go of his lover, whom he tried to regain through someone else, by allowing him to deceive himself intellectually. He is dragging everyone, including himself, to an unknown end for now, with events that will bring a relationship that he has no power to end.
Although Disney + is in broadcasting life as a digital platform, it has its eyes fixed on the television audience and is taking firm steps on this path. Between the World and Me is one of the most watched TV series of the mainstream for years due to the topics it covers. Forbidden Apple Netflix production with Bird FlightIt has nuances reminiscent of. Another interesting thing is that the production also includes a serious criticism of the mainstream series. While Tolga’s nervous breakdown on the set is perhaps summarizing the experiences of many actors, directors, screenwriters and set workers in works that appeal to the general audience, Disney + actually winks at mainstream works from here.
Between the World and Me, for now, is on a course about the validity of a method – original in their own opinion – that will restart the relations that have stopped. With a kind of copy poster of One Tree Hills, we will either see the answer to this question in the following chapters or, as most of us are used to, we will again console ourselves with the answers to the tasteless, unending, forced relationships that can never be given.
Elcin Demiroz
Odatv.com