# Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (2017)

> A mercenary mother pushes her modeling-prone daughter toward wealth while her sports-coach daughter falls for a rich, spoiled man.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/66294

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 50
- Episode runtime: 144 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Gökçen Usta, Günay Günaydın
- Network: Star TV
- Cast: Nazan Kesal, Deniz Baysal, Çağlar Ertuğrul, Mahir Günşiray, Tolga Güleç, Hazal Türesan, Afra Saraçoğlu, İdris Nebi Taşkan
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6756704/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: melodramatic, soapy, tense, emotional, glossy

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with the second season rated far higher than the first and viewers praising the acting and the surprising, emotionally charged love story.

## Synopsis

Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (2017-2018) is a Turkish family melodrama created by Gökçen Usta and Günay Günaydın for Star TV. Fazilet Çamkıran (Nazan Kesal) is a grasping mother determined to turn her younger daughter Ece (Afra Saraçoğlu) into a moneymaking model, and her plans collide with the wishes of her elder daughter Hazan (Deniz Baysal), a sports coach who falls for Yağız Egemen (Çağlar Ertuğrul), a rich and spoiled man from a wealthy family. The engine of the series is a tug of war between ambition and love: money, status, and manipulation shape every alliance, and each episode layers new schemes, betrayals, and complicated relationships onto the household conflict. Across fifty episodes spanning two seasons, the story moves through a long serialized arc rather than standalone cases, with the rich and poor families colliding repeatedly. The tone is melodramatic and emotionally heightened, mixing sharp family arguments with romantic tension and a steady current of suspicion. Fans of Kara Sevda, Dynasty and Gossip Girl will find resonance in its glossy class divide, soapy romantic entanglements, and mothers who will sacrifice nearly anything for status.

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