Saturday, May 31, 2014

Kara para ask ~ A world of lies, deceit and betrayal

NEWS ALERT: We bring you the lastest news regarding the epidemic which has been gripping the whole of south asia and middle east slowly and gradually The lastest report says that 70 more people have been caught by this epidemic which is known to be the kara para ask fever. People with this fever have reported sleepless nights, restlessness, inability to pay attention to anything, staying on the internet till the wee hours of morning and inability to control their feels, among many other symptoms. Doctors say that it is difficult to find a cure to the KPA fever, they say that only thing that can control it right now is that, that the patients should be allowed to stay on the internet as long they want. 

And guys among those 70 people I've also got this fever and what can i say I REGRET NOTHING.
Kara para ask (Dirty money and love) is a trukish show and ITS BLOODY BRILLIANT! It has two of my favorite turkish actors as leads, Engine Akyurek, we know him from fatmagul and very hot asi star Tuba Buyukustun.



What is the show about?

Kara para ask is an unconventional love story of omer and elif. Their paths cross trough a series of unfortunate events and while lives throws them together. They find love where they least expect it.

Elif Denizer is a 31 years old successful designer working in a jewelery business. She lives in Rome, while her family, her dad Ahmet, Mother Zerrin and two sisters Asli and Nilufer live in Istanbul, Turkey.

While Omer Demir is a policeman in van. His family is in istanbul, his beautiful fiance sibel , his mother, his brother Hussain and his family.

In the first episode we see Elif returns to istanbul to celeberate her birthday with her family. At the airport she is recieved by her childhood best friend bahar and while she is here to spend time with her dad on her birthday she is completely unaware of the the surprise birthday her parents have planned for her she is completely taken by all the efforts her parents put in to make this day memorable for her.
But elif is not aware that her birthday night will be memorable for a completely different reason which she would want to forget. 
On the night of her birthday after the party is over her father is mudered. He is found dead in his car and along with him there is woman and she is Omer Demir's fiance Sibel Andac. 
When omer and elif  and their families learn about this they are devasted. 
But the BIG question is that what was Sibel, who is just a school teaher, doing in Ahmet Denizer's car?
What is a successfull business man Ahmet doing with Sibel at 2 am at night? What is their connection? All these questions haunt omer and he wants an answer to it and over there Elif is learning horrifying turths about her father. She learns that her father owes some people diamonds and she has to return them soon .Together Omer and Elif unite to hunt for diamonds and to solve this murder case. 

First 9 episodes at a glance:

Ten episodes have been aired so far but since the 10th is not available yet with i am going to wirte a quick review of the first 9 episodes.
In the first episode Elif's baba (turkish for dad) and omer's fiance are mudered in a mysterious manner. The case is assigned to Omer's friends Arda and pelin and his brother Hussain. Omer wants to be on the case as well but he is not allowed to work on it since he works in VAN and also because one of the victim is his fiance. But omer is determined to solve the murder and when he sees that the police department wants to close the case as soon as possible he takes the matters in his hands. 

Over therer Elif and her family learns that their company has gone bankrupt and Elif comes to know that her father owes some dangerous people some diamonds. Those men are now threatening elif to search for their diamonds as soon possible and they ask her not to tell anyone about it. Elif is scared and confused and does as she is asked.

Meanwhile Elif and omer's first meeting is at the police station and they find themselves arguing over the circumstances.

While Elif is desperately looking for the diamonds. Her youngest sister Nilufer and her get kidnapped on their way to airport. These men after threatening elif to find the diamonds release her, while Nilufer is kept hostage. Elif is very scared and confused and doesn't goes to the police as they will kill her sister if she does. Elif lies to her family as well and tells them that Nilu has reached NewYork safetly.
In the last scene of episode one elif is outside their company Denizer holdings, in a very confused state, omer sees her like that and immediateky figures out that something is not right. He asks elif but she refuses to tell him anything, meanwhile she recieves a call from one of the kidnapper Metin who asks her about the man she's talking to, elif is too confused to come up with anything she tells Metin that omer is her lover and to convince him she kisses Omer! 
YESS THEY KISS!  
I don't know what's with the writers these days giving us kisses in the first episode, Not that i mind or anyhting. 

Omer is taken aback by this sudden gesture but elif begs him to play along since they are being watched and the first episode ends there.

Now omer is 100% convinced that eilf is in trouble and he is determined to find out the root cause of it becaue he believes that, that it will lead him to the killers but elif is too stubborn to tell him. Omer, though is not among those who back away easily. 
Elif recieves phone call from metin to find the diamonds otherwise they will kill her sister but all the efforts of finding the diamonds are fruitless. Elif learns that her father was involved in illegal business of money laundering and now metin asks her to do but elif refuses to go down that path.
Omer learns that elif is looking for diamonds and later he also learns that Nilufer is kidnapped and elif is being threatened by Metin. He tells his friends Arda and pelin about the situation with elif and thet decide to help.
Metin threatens to kill Nilu if elif doesn't launder money for him. Elif is then forced to do the deed, she lies to her family about business work and goes to Rome. Omer follows her there. 
There is this cute scene of them in the plane. ASDFGHJKASDFGH


In rome elif launders money for metin without the knowledge of omer, metin records the whole video of elif in the bank.
They come back from Rome without the diamonds. Omer somehow convinces elif to let him help her and elif finally lets him. Omer, Arda and pelin work together to find Nilufer.
Elif recieves phone calls from Metin now and again. Elif's family still doesn't know about the Kidnapping and the diamonds. 
Meanwhile elif is searching for the diamonds we learn a lot about different characters.
We learn that elif 's bestfried Bahar is actually a selfish bitch, she is not sincere to elif and she has her own personal motives.

Elif's older sister Asli is a crazy wacko and her husband tanar is cheating on her.

Their family friend and father-fugure Tayyar uncle is actually behind Nilufer's kidnapping and also behind the money laundering business, we also learn that Sibel used to work for him and Metin is the illegal son of Tayyar. 



Tayyar's mistress Pinar is having an affair with Asli's husband tanar.

By the end of episode 8 Nilufer is rescued by Omer and the whole family learns about the kidnapping and the diamonds. But elif is still being threatned by Metin to do money laudering work but this time he is using her video in the bank as a threat. 

While searching for Nilufer, Elif and Omer get close and in episode nine elif realizes that she is in love with Omer. She kisses him again this time for real. Omer on the other hand  is not aware of his feelings for elif. His mother and his friend arda tell him that he has fallen hard for elif but he refuses to acknowledge his feelings. 

My thoughts?

I am head over heels in love with this drama. I watched all 9 episodes, each episode of two hours, in less than a week and now I am desperately waiting for the tenth one to be subbed.

I am shipping omer and elif so so hard you guys have no idea. They have such a sizzling chemistry together, 
They have nothing in common and belong to a completely different world but don't they say that opposites attract.
Omer is not born in riches, he is just a policeman BUT they are by no means poor. They live comfortably he has loving and supporting family. He has the sweetest mother and his older brother Hussain is always by his side protecting him, loving him and guiding him. 
He has amazing friends Arda and pelin, who will do everything to help him if/when he is in trouble.

He is hardworking, intelligent and strong. 

He is dedicated to his job, when he promises elif that he will find nilufer. He fulfills his pomise. He is calm, easy going and very loving. He is everything you would want in a man. *swoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon*

On the other hand elif is the middle daughter of the denizer family. She is her baba's favorite child.
She is strong independent and runs her own company. Like omer she loves her family. She is wonderful a friend and a caring daughter and a pretty amazing sister. She would do anything for her loved ones and that is the reason she becomes the target of Metin's blackmailing. She is stubbron as hell.
She is private person but when she loves, she loves fiercely and unconditionally. She carries her heart on her sleeve, She is not shy in showing her emotions to the people she loves. We see that in episode eigth when she makes the first move and kissed omer, She is not your traditional girl.

Bahar in the 6th episode describes elif perfectly 

and i will quote her: "She's (elif) a very cold peron and doesn't give up easily. She is cautious but if she lets herself go, she walks on air. I read somewhere that people who work for a common goal fall in love with each other more easily and passionately.
 She lives in luxury but she is not in love with luxurious places. I don't know, she goes to the market and buys a blouse and, she wears shoes and puts on some makeup. She matches everything she wears so well that you don't even think about her buying it from market. She does not complains that her hair will be ruined nor does she complains about the mud or rain she even camps and is very comfortable with it. But she always wants strong men around her who are smart and successful in their work. When Elif is in love; she starts to draw. She rides her bike and goes wherever she can go. She finds herself in a deserted place and then she starts drawing trees and birds. Women show their love like this, some play with their hair, while others turn to dance, Elif draws."

 Elif at first believes that omer is not the type of guy that she would date but slowly and gradually when they work together they get to know each other. 

Elif belongs to a world of money but her life is not ruled by it, omer does not belongs to a high society but he is everything elif wants in a man.
They are brought together by grief and then they work together to for their loved ones, Elif to save her sister and omer to prove sibel innocent and to find their killers.

Omer is the only one who knew about the Nilufer's kidnapping, in front of him elif was not pretending that everything was right in her world. When she was stressed omer was there to help her, When she was scared omer was there to comfort her, When she was sad he would make her laugh, Whe she broke down omer consoled her, 

When she lost hope omer was there to give her hope.


When everyone learned about the kidnaping and hell broked loose in the denizer house and everyone was angry at elif for lying. Omer was the first person to ask her how she was.

Omer was there for her during her hardest time, he knew how mentally elif suffered during Nilufer's kidnapping. She carried the weight of the world on her shoulders and omer realized that.

In the same way elif did not judged omer, omer belonged to a low class but it didn't matter to elif.
Omer saw how even being born with a silver spoon in her mouth she did not had an ounce of arrogance. She came to see his brother Hussain when he got hurt, she was very humble and sweet to his friend arda and pelin. He saw how protective she was of her family.

And this is why it was not difficult for them to fall in love with each other.
Although Omer is being a dick right now and refuses to acknowledge his feelings for elif. He hurt her pretty badly when he pretended that the kiss between them never happened. I hope he will come back to his senses soon.

I fucking LOVE these two together and since romance between these two has such just started, I AM HAVING LOTS OF FEELS!!!!

Sexiness in one gif 

A woman in LOVE 


I can't wait for all kinds of excitements this show is going to bring next!!
Except for the romance I am also loving all the thriller and suspense.

You can watch Kara para ask with english subs here, here and here 
And last but not the least a big shoutout to the wonderful fans who are subbing the show. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! çok teşekkür ederim

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Doctor Stranger ~ Episode 8 Review

There was not much drama or action in this episode instead it was a little bit mellow, that's good because we have dealing with lots of craziness lately.
In this episode we just saw them going back and forth selecting their teams for that big competition by the end i was just like "Do the damn surgery already!' LOL

We are now 100% sure that seung hee is the real Jae-hee and hoon also knows about it but he is pretending to believe that he is not aware. That means he knows that seung hee must have strong motive for behaving like this though he is not aware of that motive that is why he has asked chag-yi to spy on her.

In the last reviews i told you guys that i don't feel anything for jae-joon i feel indifferent towards him, well this episode changed that. I am not not liking him AT ALL. I have slowly started hating him and the stunt that he pulled with Dr Oh, I can't tell you how much i hate him for that. That was low even for Jae-joon.
He first asks Oh to be his first doctor and then he quickly replaces her! He says that she is not qualified enough to be a first surgeon. Then why exactly is he with her? He should just let her go but he wouldn't do that because he can only become the owner of Mwyeongwo hospital if he is with the daughter of the chariman. 

That man has no regards for anyone's feeling he just thinks in terms of position and status. 
And when Hoon asks Oh to be in his team he acts like a calculating bastard!
I love how Oh and Seung-hee/Jae-hee and Hoon are on the same team together. Yaaaaaay take that Jae-joon.
I love this trio and when they are together everything is 10x better.

and especially the cafe scene.
where Oh is asking hoon about Jae-hee

I love how hoon whenever he said anything about jae-hee looked at seung-hee.
Oh is unaware but hoon and seung-hee were having a conversing with their eyes and with the subtle glances the whole time.

It seems like Oh might have some feelings for Hoon but hoon doesn't feel any romantic attachment towards her.
It's understandable for Oh to feel like that because she has not been lucky in the relationship department.
She didn't had much affection from her mother and her step-brother and step-mother hate her. She is not lucky in the love department as well jae-joon is just using her to achieve his goal. At this moment Hoon is the only one who understnads her so it shouldn't be surprising if she feels something for him.

She is thristy for love and affection and hoon is giving her all that but I just hope the writers keep their relationship on the friendship level. I don't romance between them. Period.

 There was this scene between Hoon and seung hee which i loved.
They are discussing about the competition, hoon is angry that seung hee has refused to be his anestheologist when she promised him that she will.
 Hoon says pretty harsh words to her, he says that if she would have been his jae-hee she would have never cared about the damn competition. She would have only wanted to save the twin babies who are not even 1 month old. Seung-hee leaves with tears in her eyes.

Seung hee is very effected and hurt by hoon's words obviously seung- hee didn't like when he compared her to jae-hee. All this while hoon believed that seung-hee is jae-hee but this time he completely rejected seung-hee. He said that his jae-hee will never do anything like that and that stung because seung-hee is jae-hee and knowing you are the cause of diaapointment for your loved ones makes one really really sad and that's exactly what seung hee feels.

We also got some cute baby moments with hoon in both the episodes.

*swooooon*

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Doctor sranger ~ Episode 7 Review

Doctor stranger messes with my feels each week and i am not even sorry.
In this episode the level of craziness was toned down and i am so glad, so so glad for that because to be quite honest all these mind fuck moments since the last few episodes were giving me a whiplash. Seems like the writers of the doctor strangers know exactly what the viewers want.

For the first time in doctor stranger a episode was not based around the mystery of jae-hee!
Yaaaaaaaaaay i am so fucking glad because if one more time i would have seen hoon searching for jae hee i would have broken my laptop. 
This episode starts from the scene where hoon is hugging jae-hee to check her hearbeat and we learn that hoon was wrong and seung hee is not jae-hee then hoon says sorry to Dr seung hee and apoligizes for his behaviour. He all together gives up on trying to prove that seung hee is jae-hee. Just like that. Seems fishy right? Yeah to me too.

Dr Moon though is another story all together and he is more determined to to know who is this Dr seung hee? To prove that she is jae-hee he goes as far as asking the department head to conduct her medical exam. He does this to see if Dr seung hee has two kidneys or one and we learn that Dr seung hee has two kidneys not one. 

For hoon all this is not a surprise, It seems as if he alreadys knows. Could Hoon know that seung hee is jae-hee? and now he is also pretending to believe otherwise. That's my theory. I believe that hoon is now aware that seung hee is the real Jae hee because he not only gives up on his claim that seung hee is jae-hee he even asks Dr choi to stop looking for her. Weird right?

Now lets talk about Dr oh, shall we? You guys have no idea how much i am loving Dr oh. I really really realy love her. I really want Oh to get her happily ever after at the end but her love life with Jae joon doesn't look so promising. UGGH i don't understand why jae joon is like that! On one hand it feels that he has real feeling for Oh 

On the other hand we see Jae joon is looking at the castle and saying to his parents that he will succeed and that they just have to wait a little longer.

Really what's up with him? Is he just using Oh to achieve his goal or to get revenge?

I really didn't wanted this show to have a love triangle but it seems as if we are heading towards that.
Oh might develop some feeling for hoon,
I DON'T LIKE IT!!!

As much as i LOVE Oh and hoon together i don't want them to be in a romantic relationship. Their chemistry, their interaction, their relationship is A++++ BUT i don't want romance between these two!
Can't a man and woman just be friends without developing feelings for each other?

Two of my favorite moments of this episode were. First the scene between Dr choi and Hoon.
In this scene we learn all about the reasons hoon's father went to North Korea. Through flashbacks we learn all about the back story.
I just love daddy hoon :)

And then we see how hoon almost beaks down and is at the verge of tears. He talks about his difficult time in North and how being a doctor who is supposed to save people's life, he was forced to kill them and how he hates himself for that and how is father would be dissapointed in him.
I love all shades of hoon's personality we have seen him as lovesick teenagers to crazy lover who's looking for his lost love. We have also seen his playful side 

And then in this episode we see him distraught man who has his own regrets 

I love lee jung suk's acting in this scene! Brilliant

The second favorite was the scene where hoon saves those twins. I FLOOOOOVED that scene.
That was such a touching moment. How he does a cpr on that tiny baby I almost teared up 

Its crazy how there is not a minute of boredom while watching Doctor stranger. I am hooked and i am craving more.