I kind of like Turkish TV shows. If you have ever seen Ezel, another revenge series, you will recognize plot similarities in this show, known as Winter Sun on Netflix. A car with a man and his young son are pushed off a cliff and the boy is thrown free. His father is killed and the car pushed the rest of the way off a drop into the sea. Twenty years later the boy is a man without a memory of the event due to amnesia. He learns that a man found him and placed him with a family to raise him to be the fisherman he is today. He learns that he wasn't in an accident as he believed, but that his father was murdered. He meets his identical twin brother, who is murdered that same night before his eyes. Now he sets out on a mission to impersonate his dead brother while investigating who it was that killed both his father and his brother. The man who saved him as a boy helps him investigate to find the truth, to find the man who gave the order for his father to be killed. A conspiracy to illegally smuggle arms through is father's company is unearthed, along with the men responsible. Along the way he meets his childhood girlfriend, now his late brother's widow, and falls in love with her. But his brother's mistress, who doesn't realize her lover is dead and his identical brother is impersonating him, seeks to continue the relationship.
There are many twists and turns, and many soapy characters you will "love to hate". It gets a bit too soapy for me at times. And like the other revenge show I mentioned, Ezel, this show has an unsatisfying ending, in my opinion. The writers of both shows want to end on a happy note, with the bad characters rehabilitated and redeemed at the end. Characters who were almost pure evil during the 50 episode series wound up becoming sweet and loving at the very end. I like the film noir, crime doesn't pay, approach to dealing with nasty people, especially in a 'revenge' type show. It didn't sit right with me to see them suddenly and drastically change at the end.
There are many twists and turns, and many soapy characters you will "love to hate". It gets a bit too soapy for me at times. And like the other revenge show I mentioned, Ezel, this show has an unsatisfying ending, in my opinion. The writers of both shows want to end on a happy note, with the bad characters rehabilitated and redeemed at the end. Characters who were almost pure evil during the 50 episode series wound up becoming sweet and loving at the very end. I like the film noir, crime doesn't pay, approach to dealing with nasty people, especially in a 'revenge' type show. It didn't sit right with me to see them suddenly and drastically change at the end.