The Life and Movies of ErÅŸan Kuneri (2022)

Watchseries; He is a great actor and writer but if you start watching it with that feeling and opinion, most likely you will be disappointed. I liked the idea of this project however it did not meet my expectations. I gotta admit that he is one of his kind but maybe we have to be more understanding, cause everyone expects him to do better things than gora which is the best, has been done years ago. Hence, some times even for Cem Yilmaz, creativity is a level that can not be easily reached. But I still respect him.

He is a great actor and writer but if you start watching it with that feeling and opinion, most likely you will be disappointed. I liked the idea of this project however it did not meet my expectations. I gotta admit that he is one of his kind but maybe we have to be more understanding, cause everyone expects him to do better things than gora which is the best, has been done years ago. Hence, some times even for Cem Yilmaz, creativity is a level that can not be easily reached. But I still respect him.

The Life and Movies of ErÅŸan Kuneri watchseries. The series takes off badly. Frankly saying, the first episode is just bad. I guess many people watched that and stopped watching. But I believe it's a mistake. Starting with the secon episode things get better. Then it makes an early peek becaus the third episode is the best one among the eight. But after that it never falls down to the the level of first one. So overall, it's really worth watching. Almost 90 percent of the jokes are for the Turkish audience. It's a shame that enjoying this show fully is almos impossible for an international viewer but it's the formula of the show. The more you watched Turkish cinema of the 60's, 70's and 80's, the more you love this show.

Decided to update my review after zafer Algoz's unfortunate comments about Gibi. It has great actors (except Zafer Algoz) but scenario is a mess, tries to be edgy and clever but fails miserably.

After reading the reviews with no real review and polarized ratings of 1 and 10's, I actually expected a cult movie like "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam". But this isn't.

The series starts with Kuru Murad which is kind of unfortunate. In my opinion, this is one of the worst episodes. It is pretty much horny teenager jokes. Maybe they wanted to characterize porn industry as just genitals and no brains. Whether this is real depiction or just sarcasm, tasteless it is nonetheless. To be clear Netflix did a great job translating to English, so 90% of those silly Turkish jokes made it to the subtitles.

I saw that people wrote that there is no story. To be fair Seinfeld or Friends were also shows about nothing. They didn't have a real story or a real message. But the writing and execution were superb. So you can make a movie with no real story line and succeed. This Netflix series is NOT that. At least it is not consistent. The writing and acting is hit or miss. I would rate some episodes 3 while some others 7-8.

The first episode was a mock of Kara Murat. They did an awful job. Almost unwatchable. I forced myself to watch the 2nd episode; that was kind of funny with some signature Cem Yilmaz jokes. Episode 3 goes down again; totally pointless. Episode 4 becomes absurd and funny and so on.

If you are native Turkish speaker and you can ignore the first episode, you may find episodes that you can like. If you are American, you may also find some good jokes (English translation is not bad).

PS: I am not trying destroy Turkish cinema. What is this automatic reaction to any negative reviews? Please don't be "hamamcilar birligi baskani".

I think Cem Ylmaz's interesting sense of comedy should be appreciated. Those who watch the same type of comedy series should not come to this platform and complain. I think you should experience different kinds of comedy.

People are looking for excuses to lynch. It was a very good and different series. Actors, characters, places are great. Each episode has different topics and it's pretty cool. I advise. Watch and let everyone watch.