A cleaning mogul moves his family to the fancy side of Istanbul. Chaos ensues, obviously.
Season 2 • Episode 106
LatestA Turkish remake of "The Jeffersons". With Ihsan Yildirim's cleaning business booming, he insisted his family leave the "plain folks" and move up to Etiler with the "fancy folks." It is Ihsan's hope that relocation and his newly acquired wealth will mean the end of his problems in general and his troubles with neighbors in specific. But life in a luxurious high rise holds some unexpected pitfalls for the Yildirims, including Basar's struggle to convince his father that his marriage into a Turkish-Greek mixed family is cause for celebration, not disappointment. All events in Yildirim's lives is accompanied by its share of problems, confusion and most of all humor.
Acting
Haluk Bilginer's domineering patriarch perfection
Writing
Sharp class commentary disguised as domestic squabbles
Costume
Early 2000s Turkish nouveau-riche fashion archaeology
Creators
Haluk Özenç, Bora Tekay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adaptation swapped the African-American experience of The Jeffersons for Turkey's complex class and ethnic tensions, particularly the sensitive Greek-Turkish dynamic rarely addressed so directly in mainstream Turkish media.
Türkan Şoray, playing Sevinç, was already 'Sultan of Turkish Cinema'—her doing sitcom TV in 2001 was like Meryl Streep joining a network comedy. The casting was deliberate prestige.
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