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Fazilet Hanım and Her Daughters (Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları)

Fazilet Hanım and Her Daughters (Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları) (translated)

TV Series · 2017–2018 · 17 people

Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları (Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters) is a Turkish drama made by Avşar Film. It began on Star TV on March 25, 2017, aired as long weekly Saturday episodes, and finished after two seasons with its 50th episode on June 9, 2018. Sırma Yanık wrote it and Şükrü Avşar produced it; Murat Saraçoğlu and Günay Günaydın directed the first season and Gökçen Usta the second.

The story follows Fazilet, who raises her daughters without a father and in hard financial circumstances, and her drive to lift the family's social standing. While she steers her younger daughter Ece toward the fashion world, her older daughter Hazan, a fitness instructor, falls for the wealthy Sinan, a love that changes the fate of two families. Nazan Kesal plays Fazilet, Deniz Baysal is Hazan, Afra Saraçoğlu is Ece and Alp Navruz is Sinan, with Çağlar Ertuğrul, Mahir Günşıray, İdris Nebi Taşkan, Hazal Türesan, Ecem Baltacı and Sevinç Erol in the cast.

In 2018 it won four Turkey Youth Awards: Best TV Series, Best TV Actor (Çağlar Ertuğrul), Best TV Actress (Deniz Baysal) and Best Supporting TV Actress (Afra Saraçoğlu). It also traveled abroad.

DirectorMurat Saraçoğlu
Production companyAvşar Film
NetworkStar TV

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Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları tells the rich-versus-poor contrast so common in Turkish series through a mother's ambition this time. Raising her daughters without a father and in hard financial circumstances, Fazilet turns social climbing into a family project: while she steers her younger daughter Ece towards fashion, her older daughter Hazan falls for the wealthy Sinan, a love that changes the fate of two families. The series captures well how the wish to move up a class breeds tension inside a family, and it invites us to see Fazilet not only as an ambitious figure but as a woman shaped by poverty. That complexity, however, is sometimes overshadowed by conflicts that verge on caricature.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Nazan Kesal's Fazilet is the heart of this series: an ambitious, exhausting mother you just cannot look away from. Deniz Baysal and Alp Navruz carry the romantic side as Hazan and Sinan, while Afra Saraçoğlu's Ece seems to be the strand that grows the most. Winning four Turkey Youth Awards shows how much the cast was loved. Across two seasons and 50 long episodes, though, some conflicts feel stretched, and in the second season in particular the story starts circling itself. Even once the second season starts circling itself, it is Fazilet's scenes that carry the series to the end.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları is a family series mothers and daughters can watch together. An ambitious mother chasing her dreams through her daughters gives you plenty to talk about at home. The episodes are long and may bore young children. Fazilet's pressure on her daughters can be tense to watch at times; with teenagers, it is worth talking about why that is not the right way.

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