Fatma Series Review: This Netflix Series Has Some New Twist in Serial Killing

Director: Özgür Önurme

Cast: Burcu Biricik, Mehmet Yilmaz Ak and Other.

Streaming Platform: Netflix

Filmyhype Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Using the means of an action thriller, the creators of the new Netflix series Fatma want to show viewers what life is like as a woman in poverty in the glittering metropolis of Istanbul, but also elsewhere in male-dominated societies. And they show that invisibility can be a strength, for example when you develop into a contract killer.

Fatma Series Review: What is the Fatma series about?

Burcu Biricik lives a modest life on the outskirts of the city in a small back house or rather in a barrack. She has lost her great happiness, her family. Her husband disappeared after four months in prison and her son died. Fatma keeps herself afloat as a cleaning lady. She cleans for wealthy Istanbul residents, including a modern woman and a quirky author. But she also cleans in shopping malls and offices. It is everywhere, only nobody notices it. Because she is a cleaning lady, slips from inconspicuous work clothes into even simpler private clothes; for most of the people it meets, it blends in with the background.

She is constantly looking for her husband Zafer. She tries to hang up his pictures and talk to his old clients, but everywhere she comes across ridicule, rejection and repeated aggression. Already in the pilot episode we learned that her life was not an easy one. When her drunken landlord pounds on her door at night, obviously with no good in mind, Fatma brings back memories of other occasions from her childhood when she had to hide from men in the hope of avoiding sexual violence.

She keeps going to Mr. Bayram, her husband’s former employer, to find out more about Zafer’s whereabouts. He reacts just as annoyed and latently aggressive as the others, but still throws her small pieces of information. During the visit to the pilot episode, Fatma sees him depositing large amounts of cash and a pistol in his safe, which he then leaves open and goes to a meeting. Fatma, who has just found out that her husband probably owed a certain Sevket, sneaks to the safe and takes something.

Shortly afterwards we see her paying a visit to Sevket to find out if he knows anything about Zafer. But the man reacts extremely aggressively and attacking. Fatma takes out the gun and pulls the trigger. Horrified, she leaves the scene and turns to Bayram, where the police appear at the same time. While the officers search every inch of the office because they suspect that Bayram was behind the murder, Fatma walks out of the office unmolested, weapon in hand. After all, she is invisible in every way, and a woman like her does not play a role in the murder investigation.

Even when Fatma makes a confession in the police station, it has no consequences, the investigator simply blanked her out, as he usually does with cleaning women. He just doesn’t hear her. Bayram recognizes the potential behind this mixture and sends a henchman to deliver another assignment to Fatma. During the conversation, he thinks that it could also be profitable for him and explains to Fatma that from now on she will have to pay him a percentage for every contract killing. Fatma’s reaction is one of the first refreshing surprises of the pilot.

Fatma Series Review: The Performance

Burcu Biricik puts in a superb performance as Fatma, who we discover is exactly that form of individual. She appears meek and powerless, strolling round Istanbul in her shapeless attire and babushkas, trying just like the world-weary person with a grind of a job she is. However when her again is to the wall, effectively, she’s a power to be reckoned with.

Fatma Series Review: The Last Words!

The parts featuring Fatma are very highly effective, and the finale packs a wallop. In any other case the remainder of the drama is amateurish. Fatma feels just like the form of show that can build to a crescendo as the principle character goes further and further down a violent rabbit hole. We love shows like that, so long as it retains ratcheting up the stress because the season goes alongside. Our ratings for the series is 3 our of 5 stars.