Never has a series been so debated in Turkey.
Broadcast on the Netflix platform since November 12, 2020,
Ethos
(
Bir Baskadir
in Turkish) is more than just a fad.
Written by director Berkun Oya and filmed between Istanbul's skyscrapers and its more popular outskirts, it's an unprecedented fluoroscopy of the contradictions - and transformations - of Turkish society.
From the foreground, two characters face to face.
Meryem, a young veiled cleaning lady, caught between an authoritarian brother and his "hodja", a sort of religious guide.
Peri, a bourgeois secular psychiatrist, a fan of yoga and going out.
Nothing, a priori, brings the two women closer together in Erdogan's Turkey more polarized than ever.
But this is the strength of
Ethos,
watched by several million spectators from the first days of its broadcast.
It gives to see, better than any pavement of sociology, the complexity of this country of 83 million inhabitants which oscillates
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