{"id":41796,"date":"2025-01-23T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/lovers-anonymous-is-a-clever-turkish-dramatic-comedy\/23\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:11:08","slug":"lovers-anonymous-is-a-clever-turkish-dramatic-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/lovers-anonymous-is-a-clever-turkish-dramatic-comedy\/23\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lovers Anonymous\u2019 Is a Clever Turkish Dramatic Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLovers Anonymous\u201d is an eight-episode Turkish dramedy about the \u201cdisease of love\u201d \u2014 treatable at the Love Hospital, thank goodness, under the dedicated care of specialists. Though perhaps the cure isn\u2019t all that wonderful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The show (in Turkish, with subtitles, or dubbed), available on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81614605\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>, centers on Cem (Halit Ergenc), the embittered genius behind the facility\u2019s techniques. His life is a bonanza of Freudian strife, beginning with his parents\u2019 divorce and continuing with his contentious relationship with his mother. He categorizes different kinds of love \u2014 young love, \u201cstupid love,\u201d \u201cany port in a storm\u201d love but described more crudely \u2014 and each has a scientific treatment protocol to alleviate the symptoms and return one to a life of self-possession and sanity. The heart monitors aren\u2019t tracking only cardiac activity: Alongside the spikes and valleys of an EKG, the paper readouts also have the outlines of hearts, a measurement of one\u2019s romantic health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cem is also pulling a weird Cyrano act at the beginning of the show. A faux-Cem is the public face of the organization and treats the patients, while the real Cem murmurs instructions through an ear piece. But the farce hits a snag, and once the jig is up, there\u2019s room for a new love doctor in town: Hazal (Funda Eryigit).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Except Hazal loves love. Hazal\u2019s specialty is finding people\u2019s soul mates, and her methods incorporate smell, horoscopes and kooky social engineering. She wears goofy turtlenecks and patterned berets, but she and Cem maybe aren\u2019t so different: Her relationship with her father casts a shadow over her whole existence. Also her father is the chief administrator for the Love Hospital and is Cem\u2019s sort-of boss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Along with its serialized plots, \u201cLovers\u201d also has episodic arcs, with various patients facing critical heartache: the womanizing rock star who suddenly finds himself waiting by the phone, beholden to an indifferent lover; the flight attendant whose drippy boyfriend cheated on her, which has soured her on love in general; a woman who wonders if there\u2019s any point in rekindling the spark with her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The show is its most fun as an exaggerated fable, with Cem and Hazal perched on each patient\u2019s shoulder, arguing about love\u2019s merits and pitfalls. \u201cLovers Anonymous\u201d can be silly and zany, and it occasionally floats into dreaminess in its depiction of cute romance and fluttering hearts. But it can also be biting and festively cynical about the contrivances of modern love and about the hucksterism endemic to much of society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/arts\/television\/lovers-anonymous-netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Lovers Anonymous&rdquo; is an eight-episode Turkish dramedy about the &ldquo;disease of love&rdquo; &mdash; treatable at the Love Hospital, thank goodness, under the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/lovers-anonymous-is-a-clever-turkish-dramatic-comedy\/23\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}