Netflix originals from Turkey have been very successful lately. Many of the nation’s own talents is found on the platform, including Yakamoz, The Gift, The Protector, and Fatma. Another self is the dynamic at work in a brand-new Turkish drama on Netflix.
This is a drama/romance series about three Istanbul friends who travel to Ayvalik, Turkey, to experience a life-changing journey. Sevgi, a cancer patient, attends group therapy about connecting with ancestors, which seems to improve her condition.
The show explores the characters’ skepticism about the role of ancestors in current suffering and their exploration of this. As a displaced scholar and historian of modern Turkey, the show has had a profound impact on the author’s understanding of events in Turkey that affected their family. The show focuses on issues facing modern Turkey as viewed through the eyes of many characters.
Following Sevgi, the other key characters, Leyla (Seda Bakan) and Ada (Tuba Büyüküstün), attend group therapy. Throughout the series, we see how an essential trauma suffered by previous generations—such as earthquakes, political repression, and sexual violence—affects their lives.
One of the main protagonists, Leyla, discovers she acquired her phobia of water from her great-grandmother, who was Greek with a Turkish husband and lived in Crete in the early 1920s.
The show illustrates what is known as the Great Population Exchange between two countries Turkey and Greece, which occurred when the newly developed Turkish republic agreed upon a mutual exchange agreement with Greece in 1923 as the outcome of the Turkish War of Independence against that occupies allied forces between 1918 and 1923. As a result of conflict between Turkish and Greek forces, both countries chose to exchange populations in the following years of the war.
The three women’s chemistry is ultimately what makes things fascinating. The three protagonists stand out even though the plot occasionally veers off into cliched, soap operatic terrain. This is a really relatable series because of their humor, varied quips, and the straightforward but powerful “girls stick together through thick and thin” motto. Still, it’s entertaining to see Another Self.
