The Gift

I have noticed many have complained about the acting and dubbing. To solve the issue you should see the drama in its original Turkish audio because the English dubbing is really horrible and destroys the acting of such a good cast. Please see with original Turkish audio and respective subtitles.

This seems like Turkey's answer to the great German series "Dark". Both involve a confounding circumstance where time is warped and multiple timelines get all mashed together and changed. Whereas "Dark" kept itself in a science fiction mode, "The Gift" utilizes Turkish mysticism as the mechanism for the reality upheavals that occur in the series.

The one thing the creators of "Dark" made sure was that there was some overriding structure to the frequently confusing events in the three seasons. So confusing that the creators have a website so you can try to make sense of what happened. It's a dense read but they did figure it out. Unfortunately I can't say that the creators of "The Gift" made the same effort. What was interesting and compelling for the first two seasons, flounders as soon as the third season gets underway. It's so bad that I came here to get reassured that I should stay with the series but unfortunately it seems my suspicions are accurate and it's time to bail. It's unfortunate as the first season was so promising. This is not the first high concept science fiction program to go awry like this. Maybe next time before putting all this effort into a series, the producers will make sure they've got the story arc right.

When I came into this show, I wasnt expecting much, as my experiance with Turkish cinema is only through cheesy Turkish soaps. Boy this is so far from it... From episode 1 I got hucked in to the story, and it didnt let go until the end. Really good job! Usually stories coming from Turkey are depicting traditional, conservative parts of society and struggles that come with them. Here, we have a strong, modern woman going on a mistical jorney to place in history that not many know off. Also, its really good tourist marketing campagne for Göbekli Tepe and Nemrut.

Season one was very promising, however I cant really say the same for the second season... It really examined my patience to watch or quit..

First of all I am a huge fan of Beren Saat and I was expecting too much from her but especially in 3rd season she is acting like frozen and she looks like bored anymore. Also third season story was so boring. I really don't search logic in this genre but I really really prayed for end. Also final was not good enough for me. Like every Netflix series, it started well, It finished bad.. But thanx for showing the beautiful places for us.