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Inside (İçerde)

Inside (İçerde) (translated)

TV Series · 2016–2017 · 33 people

Ay Yapım produced İçerde, a Turkish television series mixing action, crime and drama. It builds on the Hollywood film The Departed, itself rooted in a Chinese film, and carries its double game to Istanbul. The series began on Show TV on September 19, 2016, ran for one season of 39 episodes and ended on June 19, 2017. Critics were mixed, yet the performances of leads Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli were praised.

At the heart of the story are two brothers separated in childhood. Sarp (Çağatay Ulusoy), raised inside the police, is asked by an Istanbul chief to infiltrate a mafia gang. He accepts in order to settle accounts with the gang's boss, Celal (Çetin Tekindor), who kidnapped his little brother and used the boy to keep their father quiet. Meanwhile Mert Karadağ (Aras Bulut İynemli), Celal's adopted son, is planted in the police as the gang's eyes, and is in fact the child taken some twenty years earlier. The brothers clash without knowing who the other is, and that drives the series. The cast includes Mustafa Uğurlu as Chief Yusuf and Bensu Soral.

Uluç Bayraktar directed, with Kerem Çatay and Pelin Diştaş producing. Episodes run about 140 minutes, and it was also shown in Romania on Happy Channel and TDC.

DirectorUluç Bayraktar
Production companyAy Yapım
NetworkShow TV

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Two brothers separated in childhood, one a cop and one the mafia's hidden eye: when they come face to face the tension rises by itself. The performances of Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli drew praise, and the double-game idea is right up my alley. Because episodes run very long, the pace can sag at times, and for an impatient viewer that is a challenge. Taking the face-off of two brothers, a cop and the mafia's hidden eye, all the way within a single season is reason enough for action fans who can put up with the length.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Icerde (Inside) carries Hollywood's The Departed, a story that itself grew out of a Chinese film, to İstanbul. The test of an adaptation is whether it can fit the logic of its source into a local setting. Critics reacted in mixed fashion, it should be said, but the two leads' performances were praised. Episodes as long as a feature film demand a feature's rhythm, otherwise filler is unavoidable, and how fully the script fills that time is debatable. Even so, the double-game structure offers a sturdy skeleton. The interplay between Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli is the production's strongest card, and the two brothers meeting without knowing each other gives scene construction a good ground for tension.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

To my taste, it is a rather harsh and dark world. The brothers being parted as children and meeting years later, though, recalls the theme of the old melodramas, and in that respect it holds you. Having names like Çetin Tekindor in the cast is reassuring too. But the cold air of the mafia and police world is foreign to the warmth of the classics. If you can attach yourself wholeheartedly to the two brothers' story, that reservation eases. That the two lead actors drew praise suggests the story's emotional side was also taken seriously.

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