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Ethos

★ 8.4 33K votes 2020–2026 2 seasons · 12 episodes Ended Netflix
Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 9/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 9/10Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 8/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10Mental healthPsychological struggle treated with real seriousness.This show: 7/10Contemporary lifeRecognizably the present day, ordinary life included.This show: 7/10NaturalisticUnderstated, lifelike performances and look.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Öykü KarayelFatih ArtmanFunda EryigitDefne KayalarSettar TanrıöğenTülin Özen
Starring
Öykü KarayelFatih ArtmanFunda EryigitDefne KayalarSettar TanrıöğenTülin Özen

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"A gentle, searching portrait of a divided society"

A young cleaning woman in Istanbul begins therapy after fainting spells, and her sessions become a doorway into the lives of the people around her: her employer, her brother, the psychiatrist herself, and others whose paths quietly intersect. The show moves slowly and talks a lot, but it uses that space to examine class, faith, and the gap between secular and religious Turkey with unusual tenderness. It never lectures. Instead it lets contradictory people sit in the same frame and be understood. Patient, literary, and quietly devastating rather than dramatic in the conventional sense.

Watch it for

the way it humanizes every character's worldview without ever picking a side.

Maybe skip if

you need fast plotting rather than long, talky, contemplative scenes.

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Season 12020
8.26K86h 27m
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Öykü Karayel Meryem
Fatih Artman Yasin
Funda Eryigit Ruhiye
Defne Kayalar Peri
Settar Tanrıöğen Ali Sadi
Tülin Özen Gülbin
Bige Önal Hayrunnisa
Göktug Yildirim Ismail
Gökhan Yikilkan Hilmi
Alican Yücesoy Sinan

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