To start off with some positives; the acting, costumes, set design and the idea of the club was really really good. I also quite liked how it presented the time's Alafranga vs Alaturka scenes in Turkey, which translates to European vs Turkic in lifestyle and art.
But unfortunately, yet again, a Turkish series must have human relationships as its' main plot. While the show's name remained "The Club", it was never really about the club, was it? The club was merely a side plot where you'd wait for some story development every episode, yet the characters and their relationships would take almost the entirety of each episode.
I must add the story was quite interesting still with a minority community of Istanbul being delved into, yet it couldn't save itself from cliché and stereotypical events in the end. I believe this story was written perhaps before Netflix sponsored it, to fit the Turkish production budgets, and therefore it "lacked".
But unfortunately, yet again, a Turkish series must have human relationships as its' main plot. While the show's name remained "The Club", it was never really about the club, was it? The club was merely a side plot where you'd wait for some story development every episode, yet the characters and their relationships would take almost the entirety of each episode.
I must add the story was quite interesting still with a minority community of Istanbul being delved into, yet it couldn't save itself from cliché and stereotypical events in the end. I believe this story was written perhaps before Netflix sponsored it, to fit the Turkish production budgets, and therefore it "lacked".