Imagine that you are a very small chicken. You just hatched. You just opened your eyes for the first time. All ducks are yellow. And you too... But you are much more beautiful than the rest. You are special.
In 2021, while the pandemic had not yet loosened its grip on us, an article appeared in The New York Times. It spoke of a condition that many people had recently begun to experience. This widespread state, called languishing, was described as something that was neither quite burnout nor quite depression, but rather a vague sense of feeling joyless and purposeless.
Premiering in 2018 on a streaming platform, Şahsiyet (Persona) tells the story of the intersecting paths of Agâh Bey and Nevra. The series, a drama/crime story, was crowned with even greater success when Haluk Bilginer won the "Best Performance by an Actor" award at the 47th International Emmy Awards. Now returning to its audience with a second season, Şahsiyet follows Agâh, a sixty-five-year-old retired judicial officer living alone in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district. [...]
The Emmy Award–winning American drama Succession captivated audiences with its striking performances, the complexity of its family dynamics, and its sharp sense of dark humor. Over four seasons, the series presents the turbulent relationships within the Roy family, an empire in the media and entertainment industry. It takes little more than a single episode to recognize that the frame of the story rests upon the concept of Oedipal conflict.