Dirilis Ertugrul, Kurulus Osman

Dirilis Ertugrul : Season 5

• Last I had watched till Episode 145 
• Finally I completed the entire Ertugrul series with 5 seasons.
• This series is to Turks as Ramayana and Mahabharata aired in Doordarshan in late 1980's is to Indians.
• When Ramayana and later Mahabharata got aired in India, streets used to get deserted and people never used to miss the airing of the episodes.
• Similarly for Ertugrul in Turkey.
  
• I first got to watch it after Pakistani PM Imran Khan recommended it to the world during first phase of Covid in 2020. Link 1
• I started watching Ertugrul Season 1 since June 29, 2020.
• And I completed yesterday i.e. December, 14, 2023 so it took little less than 3 and half years for me to complete the series.
• I do not regret watching the series.
• I enjoyed it and in fact when I was watching last episode I got kind of sad that it would get over.
• Coming back to the series from Episode 146 to 150, they do not show the Western front (i.e the remnants of the Byzantine empire) of Turkish mainland.
• They show only internal Turkish struggle and the struggle with Mongols in those last five episodes.
• New Mongol villian Arkbukka is introduced.
• And series ends with a positive note.
• I started Season 1 with watching on Youtube.
• Then I watched on Netflix till Season 4.
• Season 5 I started watching then first Netflix removed Season 5 from its catalogue.
• Then on March 31, 2023 Netflix removed entire series from its server.
• So I found other ways to watch it.
  

Kurulus Osman Season 1 - Episode 1

• Immediately after Ertugrul series ended I started with Kurulus Osman first episode.
• I can say the quality of filming of Kurulus Osman is far superior to Dirilis Ertugrul.
• They have used super HD camera and tiny details like even droplets of water when the horse crosses streams becomes visible.
• They have shown several mountains, streams, rivers, forests and even sea in Dirilis Ertugrul but they never showed a snow capped mountain but now in very first episode of Kurulus Osman they have shown it.
• Horse battles shown in Episode 1 is like never seen before.
• It exceeds all horse battles shown in entire 5 seasons of Dirilis Ertugrul.
• As I see now, more than 139 episodes have already been aired of Kurulus Osman.
• I have started with Episode 1 and hopefully it will not take 3 years to watch those 140 episodes.
• I hope to complete or "catch up" early.