... The Affair with Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, & Maura Tierney was wildly popular for several years, running 53 episodes from 2014 to 2019... this Turkish version of the exact same story (minus 4-seasons) ran in 2021 only garnering a small fraction of a Western audience (if much-at-all) that the earlier-version had... ie- IMDb showing more popular one at having 48K ratings to 400+ ratings for the other
... actually they both have viewing-merit, both-well-acted-produced... nit-picking, one could say Ruth Wilson is more authentic than Hazar Ergüçlü in that character's role, and maybe Defne Kayalar more than Maura Tierney, but the overall storyline comes through well-enough with any of them cast in respective roles
... was it necessary for another version to be made.. indeed, as much of the Eastern segment of the world population has to react-relate better to language-actor-familiarity one over-the-other... infidelity a-popular-genre world-over
... note- Hazar Ergüçlü a solidly-good-actor.. 27yo she just looks-appearing in this production many instances substantially-younger.
... actually they both have viewing-merit, both-well-acted-produced... nit-picking, one could say Ruth Wilson is more authentic than Hazar Ergüçlü in that character's role, and maybe Defne Kayalar more than Maura Tierney, but the overall storyline comes through well-enough with any of them cast in respective roles
... was it necessary for another version to be made.. indeed, as much of the Eastern segment of the world population has to react-relate better to language-actor-familiarity one over-the-other... infidelity a-popular-genre world-over
... note- Hazar Ergüçlü a solidly-good-actor.. 27yo she just looks-appearing in this production many instances substantially-younger.
