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Poder y Traición/Yalı Çapkını (Kingfisher)

I can’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner! Telemundo is playing this dizi at 12:30 am on my NYC station. They’re already 16 episodes in. I watched all 101 Turkish episodes of this dizi as it aired each week in Türkiye. It broke ratings records and has been sold to over 120 countries.

IMHO, the first season was phenomenal. I was hooked from the first episode. They fiddled too much with it in the second and third seasons, but I continued watching because of the amazing performances and extreme chemistry of the leads, Afra Saraçoğlu (Seyran) and Mert Ramazan Demir (Ferit). The supporting cast is excellent.

Güldiyar Tanrıdağlı created an exquisite, award-winning soundtrack, and the choice of additional songs were fantastic. I expect that Telemundo won’t give us the songs though.

I have YouTube TV and they have all the episodes posted. I’ll start recording them. I’m curious to see how much they will chop. I know they will and it’s a shame.

If you have a chance, find the first few episodes and give them a try. Let me know what you think. I would love to have a discussion even if we can’t recap. This deserves to be in prime time.

 

Poder y traicion

Dondi, I watched a few episodes several years ago understanding nothing because it was in Turkish, but I liked it. The first scene is compelling in any language.

It’s available on youtubetv and is on peacock. I started the first episode today in Spanish on peacock. I would enjoy commenting with you. I don’t think I can catch up to episode 16 anytime soon. Maybe after Lejos winds up.
I’m open to any suggestions of how to do it.

It was called Golden Boy as well IIRC.

Babachita
 

lejos

Here’s another quickie. Alya is increasingly suspicious of Fikriye and the photo with Boran in it. Fiko lies, saying she never showed it to anyone.

Halis finds out Fiko was not murdered and is irate.

Nare’s operation was successful. The family is happy. Sahin and Zerrin also hear this. Ozkan didn’t mention his drinking problem, so he’s in bad shape. He had an embolism during the surgery and may have brain damage.

Fidan comes to the hospital and is rejected by both her children.

Nare wakes up. Cihan, looking through the glass at her, cries from the emotion.

Kadir comes home and is fussed over by the staff, including Pakize.

Cihan talks with Fiko. She wants him to swear he’ll never abandon Alya. Never let go of her hand. He promises.

Fiko is playing with Deniz. Looks like he got a bike. Alya looks but doesn’t find anything to allay her suspicions when she searches Fiko’s room.

Nare is conscious. Alya comforts her, saying they all love her. She’s moved from the ICU to a room. The whole family comes to visit. Sada thanks Allah. [She wouldn’t be needing a transplant if her mother hadn’t shown up in divorce court.] When Nare asks, Cihan tells her that the donor was Ozkan. Nare looks miserable and says she wishes she’d have died. Sada is stricken. I’m surprised Nare gets to her feet, but she looks in on Ozkan.

Mine is still trying to find Ugur’s “evidence”. She gets up on a wheeled chair, a bad move, to get to a high place. Whoops. I’m sure this is how the writers solved the inconvenient fetus, but no. It’s fine, despite the hard fall and some stomach clutching by Mine.

Alya searches Fiko’s purse that she left at the hospital and finds the photo of Fiko with Halis from six years ago.

Fiko goes to the prison again. Alya follows. Fiko accuses him of the attack. She also tells him she recorded a video about Halis likely being behind Boran’s death. She sent it to her lawyer. If anything happens to her… Alya shows up and hears Halis say he’ll tell Sadakat and say it was Fiko who was paid for showing him the photo. Alya yells at Halis. You did it! She asks if Fiko showed it to him. There’s a lot of shouting.

Cihan shows up, aghast. Alya faints. At the konak Cihan grills Fiko. She’s still evasive. [When she understood that’s how Boran was found, she should have confessed it all to Alya, saying she had no idea what would happen. She’s just made it worse, looking like she might have done it for money.]

Cihan tells Fiko he saw the recording of her accident. Someone tried to kill her. Alya comes into the room and shows Cihan the photo of Boran, Alya, and baby Deniz. Cihan tells Fiko she lied, saying Boran was not in the photo. He asks if she sold his brother. Fiko gets a call. Cihan orders her to put it on speaker. It’s Halis, asking if she told Cihan. She says she did not. He says that if she tells Cihan, he’ll say Fiko did it for money. Cihan seems to suspect that might have been the case.
 

"CASILLAS"
Howdy from the Alamo City CarayCaray Family. Here's my super-short recap of last night's episode.

*Ultimos Capitlos: Roberta & President Carmela meeting inside Roberta's office discussing something that I hadn't comprehend.

*Paco having his Mess Around & Find Out moment with Hothead Diana.

*Why is Gullible Angela always following Paco around like a damn dog ?

*Crazy Vic & Nutty Ofelia hiding & lurking at the local cemetery.

*The Bodyguards of Slick-Haired Glasses Dude & Lizzie kill that uppity snitch & dump his body inside the large container or whatever that is.

*Ismael speaking with Roberta. Looks like Ismael & Co., are going to find out about the juicy dirty little secrets of Roberta & Ligia very soon 😃