# İşler Güçler (2012)

> Three actors navigate their careers and romances in a web of playful modern lies.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/43325

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 41
- Episode runtime: 86 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Selçuk Aydemir
- Network: Star TV
- Cast: Ahmet Kural, Murat Cemcir, Sadi Celil Cengiz, Melike Emiroğlu, Yeliz Şar, Ceren Moray, Nazlı Tosunoğlu, Şinasi Yurtsever
- TMDB rating: 8.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2311418/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: playful, witty, breezy, mischievous, light

## What critics say

Audiences rated the series acclaimed for its fast, mischievous comedy and the chemistry of its three lead actors.

## Synopsis

İşler Güçler (2012-2013) is a Turkish comedy series created by Selçuk Aydemir for Star TV. Its three leads, Ahmet Kural, Murat Cemcir and Sadi Celil Cengiz, play exaggerated versions of themselves as actors whose days are shaped by ambition, romance and the constant need to cover one small lie with a bigger one. Melike Emiroğlu plays Aşkın Özdemir, Yeliz Şar plays Tülay Çinko, and Ceren Moray plays Zehra Cengiz, each adding friction to the central trio's schemes. The engine of the show is the comic escalation of fabrications, where a minor fib about work or love spirals into an elaborate charade that the characters must keep patching in front of friends, family and romantic rivals. Each of its forty-one episodes, running long at roughly eighty-six minutes, leans on quick banter, mistaken identities and sly observational jokes about celebrity and Istanbul social life. Presented as a single continuing season rather than a case-of-the-week format, the series stays light, breezy and affectionate in tone, with a playful, mischievous spirit. Fans of How I Met Your Mother and Entourage will find resonance in its ensemble of young friends and its appetite for witty deception, and the show remains a notable example of Turkish television comedy from its era.

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