Doyamadim

The series is an epic on the destructive dynamics between men and women. Cem, as usual, smacks us in the face so sweetly by picking up, embellishing and coloring the bitter truths which our ears are not ready to hear yet; softening them with jokes so that we don't experience a reaction shock. He always tells us the truth, only the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth. This episode is mainly a fairytale satire of both toxic femininity and toxic masculinity but the jokes made me feel like I was watching one of his stand up shows since I laughed non stop from the beginning to the end. Like all of Cem's works, its value will be appreciated 20 years later because the majority of the society is not yet ready to correct their hurtful mistakes yet. Cem Yilmaz is a brilliant mastermind and lives 20 years ahead of the majority of the society. It seems like this is finally a subversive and immensely offensive production for Turkey in terms of comedy made for adults. I see terrifyingly high number of people complaining for not being able to watch this show with their under age kids even though it has TVMA rating! This has been one of the perplexing concern Turkish audience has and attacks to Ersan Kuneri because this is NOT A FAMILY SHOW. Lately, many people suggest and urge the state to ban this show where there is not a single scene contains nudity, sex, even a suggestive kiss. It's a fact that so many children in Turkey expose to the adult experiences since there is not healthy boundaries between adults and children and teens. Psychology says this kind of old world mistakes cause deep toxic shame in people, for that reason many people furious about the adult language used in Ersan Kuneri. In this episode, Cem Yilmaz and Ercan Saatchi did an incredible job with its songs as well. I cannot stop humming and smirking while listening Ne Oldu Yaram, Doyamadim Ama, Kaldiramam, Sen, and of course Bir Bakman Lazim made by Ozkan Ugur, a member of legendary music group MFÖ of Turkey.

Where should I start? It is not easy to talk about Cem as is known for his multi-dimensional comedy. I even doubt the logo represents vagina, in fact it is more likely to remind us to look for different layers in Ersan. Cem loves to bring out the humour from life's darkest moments. He always mixes up misery with whimsicalness to teach us how to make our lives more bearable. His jokes always carry a touch of blues. He is the master of putting a hilarious punch line on top of pain, sadness, disappointment, grief and even failure.

Life is sometimes too much to handle, isn't it? We swear when we are frustrated and our stress hormones decrease in the response of swearing because swearing helps relieve pain. Many mistakenly believe that habitual swearing is linked to low intelligence, but studies show it's actually linked to higher than average intelligence. You should not watch Ersan Kuneri if you are not a real fan of Cem Yilmaz' works because you will see nothing but a bad mouth adult movie actor.

Cem has earned his notable reputation with his revolutionary style, his passion and courage to always try new things, opening new gutters for others to express themselves better. He has always refused using cliche or easy political humor to gain crowd's sympathy. Therefore, he has been criticized as much as he was praised because it is not easy to challenge societies' bigoted habitude.

Ersan Kuneri, again, is a rebellious work where women exist with their femininity and full sexuality in a comedy show for the first time in Turkey, a mostly Muslim culture where it is considered perversion for women to not to hide their sexuality as much as possible to avoid 'dissension and discord in the society' Therefore, it is understandable why conservative people execrate poor Ersan for his movies where the women can talk about dick, swear, try to initiate sex with their partner, enjoy their femaleness, show up with their femininity, plus being funny while being woman. These are all unacceptable traits for 'virtuous' women in a highly traditional society where slaughtering women for 'honor' is still sort of generally acceptable practice.

Anyway.. In this episode Cem Yilmaz mocks old fatalistic and depressed Turkish movies with his unique genius style. You will find yourself bursting into laughter where you were supposed to be badly crying.