The relationship between the audience and Behzat Ç has always been...significant. While the direction of the emotions shifted the magnitute has always been huge; once a darling for a certain portion of the Turkish audience became a target after its creator went through a difficult phase in his life.
It is also widely accepted that after the show moved to the streaming world it lost some of its magic. With the new "Gül ve Çekiç" series, we once again meet our favorite local crime fighters sans dear Harun whom we almost all adored. We now have Osman Harun as a replacement with similar goofy characteristics but with a darker past. Overall I found the season satisfying because my experience with Behzat is mostly related to Ankara being the centerpiece of the story and it is still undeniably there. But for someone who is not a local or who is less sentimental on the point will not find it hard to come up with problematic issues. For me the biggest issue is the caricaturization of the main figures; all of the personal traits and pecularities were taken to the max, harming the believability of them at many points.
I am not sure if the main story carries the viewer along, for me it did not. I always struggle to buy in the evil characters in Turkish productions and unfortunately this was not an exception. Demirdelens as a family did not resonate to me, neither with their stories nor with the acting.
Finally, sorry to say but Sule has never been a part of the story that I could understand or like but this was the most forced addition of the character into the center of the story; it could unfold so more fluidly without her I felt...
The main problem with Behzat is that he already went through hell, a few times more than a mortal can endure; putting him into similar challenges is nothing but unfair to our memories with him. After all, this is not Mission Impossbile: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi.
