50m2

Mixing thriller and drama with a streak of dark humour, the Turkish series 50m2 comes from Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi, reached Netflix on 27 January 2021 and ran for a single season of eight episodes, each lasting around 45 minutes. It was released worldwide, including a German-dubbed version. Its central idea is that a second chance is easy to get but harder to make use of than one expects.

At its centre is Gölge, who remembers nothing of his childhood and works as a hitman doing the dirty business of Servet Nadir, the man who raised him. While tracing a photograph that links him to his past, he escapes with Servet's secrets and takes shelter in a 50-square-metre tailor's shop in a neighbourhood called Güzelce. The locals take him for Adem, the son of Adil, a tailor who has just died. Gölge starts living inside this false identity, and however tough the neighbourhood proves, he will change it just as it changes him.

Selçuk Aydemir directed and Burak Aksak wrote the script. Engin Öztürk, Aybüke Pusat and Cengiz Bozkurt lead the cast, which also includes Kürşat Alnıaçık, Tolga Tekin, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Murat Kılıç, Gaye Gürsel, Yiğit Kirazcı, Tuncay Beyazıt and Gürkan Uygun.