Aldatmak could be a great series, the cast is excellent, but there is so much going on, that the main storyline is neglected to tend to the side issues.
The story is about a family where the mother, guzide ( Yahide Previn) is a judge who is always on the side of Justice; the father (Mustafá Urgurlu) is a scoundrel as a husband, father, and professional.
The daughter Oylum (Feyza Sevil Gungor) has a beautiful love story with Tolga (Caner Sahin). That is the most interesting part of the story, but almost entire episodes are wasted on countless side issues at the expense of the development of Toga and Oylum's love story:
1. The father, Murat has a 5-year relationship with a woman and makes her believe he marries her in a fake ceremony, they have a daughter, that's not really his, but woman, who is after his money, makes him believe the child is his.
2.the mother, Guzide Rekindles a relationship with her long lost love, whose daughter thinks Guzide is responsible for her mother's death, so the girl plots with three other friends to defame her by doctoring a recording and making Guzide sound corrupt.
3. The son, Ozan, marries a woman who, unbeknownst to him, has worked as an escort, and holds other secrets.
4. Toga's father, with lots of dark secrets himself, manipulates his son to keep him married to a woman he does not love. She tricked him into having a child, got pregnant, lost the baby, can't have any more children, but keeps secret from Tolga.
Oylum is forced into a loveless marriage to protect Tolga, discovers that she's pregnant by Tolga, but keeps secret from everyone. The husband is shot, is kept at home in a coma by his controlling mother , his cousin falls in love with Oylum...
If your head is not spinning by now, mine is. There is a maternal uncle there that I'm not sure what his role is and a couple of other aunts who are given way too much air time.
I only watch to see what happens between Tolga and Oylum so I fast forward a lot.
