It's a successful remake of House M.d for Turkish viewers. Although the actor who plays Gregory House was criticised harshly at first for not resembling our doctor, Timucin Esen does a wonderful job acting as the Turkish version of House. He is A more acceptable, less annoying but as much cynical type as the original one. For someone who hasn't watched the original series before, Hekimoglu is worth watching.
15 Reviews
Certainly not a waste of time
d_tarman3 September 2020
Actors are very qualified and professional. Scenario well adapted from House m.d. but still as international as original. Educates you well about medical sciences. Every minute is worth watching, not much meaningless scenes. Lovable qualities in characters, you will not find much to hate in the series. Congratulations for the leading actor, Timucin Esen, for his remarkable performance.
Perfect
ecemturhan23 April 2020
Perfect
ghazalheidari26 January 2022
A great adatation
blkn_u24 March 2021
A production well above the Turkish TV series standards. House MD has no audience to understand in Turkey. Timuçin Esen is a great actor who deserves his role. Okan Yalabik and Ebru Özkan are very skilled actors. The drama will soon be final due to the ratings.
Between Two Entities
40milesanhour7 November 2020
This series is neither a proper adaptation nor a series on its own. It's rather a unique entity with both original ideas and adaptation. Which means it should be reviewed as such.
As a Turkish series it might be one of the best Turkish TV series with intriguing scenarios and unexpectedly well acting (at least for some actors).
As an adaptation it's, unfortunately, a bad one. The most important thing that went bad is its acting. Here you can't see enough the roguishness, sarcasm and hypocrisy of House. Usage of metaphors is uncomparable. The daring, games and sincerity of House are also not well preserved. Hekimoglu here is rather a mad genius physician than being House.
The diagnostics team is rubbish. I can't even watch them. Cause it clearly can be seen that they act neither natural nor like real ones. The dialogues between themselves are horrendous. When you watch House M.D you see that the dialogues between House and his team are beyond any standard team of colleagues. In House M.D you can see that the diagnostics team is like a group of individuals with no respect to each other, easily mock themselves out and generally harshly criticise House for his unproven diagnostics.
This series reminds me of another thing about why this series is a bad adaptation: Culture. American culture and Turkish culture are pretty separate. They have almost nothing in common in many aspects of life. They differ in lifestyles, the general attitude towards anyone, traditions etcetera.
In conclusion as a Turkish series, it's 8/10, as an adaptation it's 3/10.
The thing is If you want to make a successful adaptation with so much dissimilarity between two cultures, you either adapt it properly or not do it at all. Because with this rubbish dialogues and inadequate acting, this series will never be good as the real one.
As a Turkish series it might be one of the best Turkish TV series with intriguing scenarios and unexpectedly well acting (at least for some actors).
As an adaptation it's, unfortunately, a bad one. The most important thing that went bad is its acting. Here you can't see enough the roguishness, sarcasm and hypocrisy of House. Usage of metaphors is uncomparable. The daring, games and sincerity of House are also not well preserved. Hekimoglu here is rather a mad genius physician than being House.
The diagnostics team is rubbish. I can't even watch them. Cause it clearly can be seen that they act neither natural nor like real ones. The dialogues between themselves are horrendous. When you watch House M.D you see that the dialogues between House and his team are beyond any standard team of colleagues. In House M.D you can see that the diagnostics team is like a group of individuals with no respect to each other, easily mock themselves out and generally harshly criticise House for his unproven diagnostics.
This series reminds me of another thing about why this series is a bad adaptation: Culture. American culture and Turkish culture are pretty separate. They have almost nothing in common in many aspects of life. They differ in lifestyles, the general attitude towards anyone, traditions etcetera.
In conclusion as a Turkish series, it's 8/10, as an adaptation it's 3/10.
The thing is If you want to make a successful adaptation with so much dissimilarity between two cultures, you either adapt it properly or not do it at all. Because with this rubbish dialogues and inadequate acting, this series will never be good as the real one.
House M.D vs Hekimoglu
mtt2362 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
One cannot divorce this adaptation from the original, House M.D. So there always will be a comparison between two, which is quite natural. And I'm a fan of House M.D, but I gotta say there are lots of things that bother me watching this.
Firstly, I gotta give Okan Yalabik his due, he is a great actor and he is one of the reasons I kept watching. Other reason was the curiosity, because obviously it's an adaptation of one of my favorites. Also I'm taking a Film Studies class this term where we're studying movie adaptations.
There was a point where our lecturer told us that the adaptations may be 10-15 minutes longer or shorter because there could be some additions or omissions. But I still can't understand how an adaptation of a series that has around 40-minute long episodes could have around 2-hour long episodes. What is with the additions? How is this even possible?
I'm dying a little bit inside every time the overly dramatic hospital soap opera pops up in the series, because House M.D was mocking with them, but Hekimoglu is one of them. Oh the irony.
And don't get me started with the product placement. Seriously this is Kanal D, one of the biggest TV channels in Turkey. How much money do they take to make themselves irritable as hell? I cringed at my own being watching that product placement.
Also what's with the Ebru Ozkan who's playing the Lisa Cuddy role? Why is she trying to look exactly like her? That hairdo was from early 2000's, and it looks ridiculous now. You didn't need to copy everything one by one. This is an adaptation not a knockoff.
Honestly the dialogues especially from first a few episodes reeked clumsy translations and bad localization. It got better but at what cost? Now at later episodes there is the "classic Kanal D overly dramatic scenes" addition. Why can't you just let me enjoy this show?
My biggest disappointment was the money. I've worked on 4 different short movie sets and it was hard as hell. But this is a professionally produced series from one of the biggest TV channels of Turkey and they even miss some elementary points like objective correlative, coherence, unity and decent acting.
Lastly I couldn't let it go without telling you how much I hate the classic Kanal D camera movement and zooms especially during the stressful conversations. Watching this series was an experience of masochism.
Firstly, I gotta give Okan Yalabik his due, he is a great actor and he is one of the reasons I kept watching. Other reason was the curiosity, because obviously it's an adaptation of one of my favorites. Also I'm taking a Film Studies class this term where we're studying movie adaptations.
There was a point where our lecturer told us that the adaptations may be 10-15 minutes longer or shorter because there could be some additions or omissions. But I still can't understand how an adaptation of a series that has around 40-minute long episodes could have around 2-hour long episodes. What is with the additions? How is this even possible?
I'm dying a little bit inside every time the overly dramatic hospital soap opera pops up in the series, because House M.D was mocking with them, but Hekimoglu is one of them. Oh the irony.
And don't get me started with the product placement. Seriously this is Kanal D, one of the biggest TV channels in Turkey. How much money do they take to make themselves irritable as hell? I cringed at my own being watching that product placement.
Also what's with the Ebru Ozkan who's playing the Lisa Cuddy role? Why is she trying to look exactly like her? That hairdo was from early 2000's, and it looks ridiculous now. You didn't need to copy everything one by one. This is an adaptation not a knockoff.
Honestly the dialogues especially from first a few episodes reeked clumsy translations and bad localization. It got better but at what cost? Now at later episodes there is the "classic Kanal D overly dramatic scenes" addition. Why can't you just let me enjoy this show?
My biggest disappointment was the money. I've worked on 4 different short movie sets and it was hard as hell. But this is a professionally produced series from one of the biggest TV channels of Turkey and they even miss some elementary points like objective correlative, coherence, unity and decent acting.
Lastly I couldn't let it go without telling you how much I hate the classic Kanal D camera movement and zooms especially during the stressful conversations. Watching this series was an experience of masochism.
Worst. Adaptation. Ev- Well i guess it is better than staring at a wall... sort of?
skilletstayla24 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
They directly adapted most parts of the original show and couldn't even translate them properly. And this sentence you've just read is the closest thing to a positive one to be said about this adaptation.
Timuçin Esen's House doesn't have the wit of Hugh Laurie's House's, or his sarcasm, or his expertise in showing his body language. His disdain for religion is toned down by 99% with an enormous example of it being the removal of an early season episode where they treated a nun (1x5, Damned If You Do.) They essentialy removed anything that made the character work and interesting and added things that made him even more boring.
Speaking of adding things, to fill up the slot for the Turkish audience who are used to staring at the screen for two hours like a weak-minded person staring at the yoyo of a hypnotizer, they added about an hour of unnecessary stuff to pad the running time. Needless to say, it didn't work when your production department can't even hire good translators.
Also, as Turkish audience is fond of "love romance" and "even more drama", Chase of this adaptation has a breakdown in earlier episodes about how his life was as a young boy, Cuddy and House start flirting much earlier, Foreman warns House about having a dinner with Cameron by saying "She is not only my workmate but also a really close friend" etc.
I guess they were able to pay people on the Turkish websites to say good things about this terrible attempt of a remake/adaptation but as you can see, they weren't able to find a lot of people with knowledge in English language to say good things about this show on here, but as i've mentioned earlier, if they had them they would've used them for translating the script properly i guess.
Timuçin Esen's House doesn't have the wit of Hugh Laurie's House's, or his sarcasm, or his expertise in showing his body language. His disdain for religion is toned down by 99% with an enormous example of it being the removal of an early season episode where they treated a nun (1x5, Damned If You Do.) They essentialy removed anything that made the character work and interesting and added things that made him even more boring.
Speaking of adding things, to fill up the slot for the Turkish audience who are used to staring at the screen for two hours like a weak-minded person staring at the yoyo of a hypnotizer, they added about an hour of unnecessary stuff to pad the running time. Needless to say, it didn't work when your production department can't even hire good translators.
Also, as Turkish audience is fond of "love romance" and "even more drama", Chase of this adaptation has a breakdown in earlier episodes about how his life was as a young boy, Cuddy and House start flirting much earlier, Foreman warns House about having a dinner with Cameron by saying "She is not only my workmate but also a really close friend" etc.
I guess they were able to pay people on the Turkish websites to say good things about this terrible attempt of a remake/adaptation but as you can see, they weren't able to find a lot of people with knowledge in English language to say good things about this show on here, but as i've mentioned earlier, if they had them they would've used them for translating the script properly i guess.
They tried but failed. Go watch House md instead
aylink-973201 January 2021
If you are like me and was hooked on House md then you will not like Hekimoglu. Acting and the script is just not fun and good enough. I don't know why but everything feels so fake. One episode takes about 2hours of your precious time which is toooo long. I also don't like the same music which you will hear over and over each episode (very annoying). In my opinion just go (re)watch House md and skip this one.
Bad Copy
magisterinel13 December 2020
Of House M.D... and with that I don't mean it is similar to House M.D.. It is the same series the screenplay is identical, the episodes are reproduced almost identically. The only difference is that the employees of hekimoglu are not as professional as in the original..
What a waste of money and time. Instead of synchronizing the original series in turkish, they reproduce the entire series badly changing the ingenious protagonist Hugh Laurie to someone who cant even imitate a deep voice naturally..
What a waste of money and time. Instead of synchronizing the original series in turkish, they reproduce the entire series badly changing the ingenious protagonist Hugh Laurie to someone who cant even imitate a deep voice naturally..
Just terrible
roryucer30 October 2020
For those who gave this more than a 3 I really don't think we watched the same show. This. Show. Is. Terrible. From the amateur acting to the poorly copied plot lines i hated everything. If i took a shot every time I cringed watching even the first episode I wouldn't even last the whole episode.
It is just terrible plain as that
Disappointing
Ahmadq-685-59575620 June 2021
Nothing New Here, Move On
yusufkaanatanur9 March 2021
This isn't something new. This show is like every other medical soap-operas out there. They tried to change some stuff by putting in dynamic camera movements with these weird, pastel lights shining on people's faces but you don't achieve good cinematography by flashing colourful lights around so it just looks like an extremely childish thing to do. The actors overdo their roles and act to a point where it becomes cheesy and unwatchable. The directing is horrific as there is no established tempo or theme of the show. It's like they don't even care. All in all, one would never watch this while there is "House MD" out there.
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