Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (Seasons 1–2)

Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları, 2017) is a Turkish family drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Gökçen Usta and Günay Günaydın, the show stars Nazan Kesal as the scheming, sharp-elbowed Fazilet alongside Deniz Baysal, Hazal Türesan, and Afra Saraçoğlu as her daughters.

Fazilet has modest means and outsized plans. Her eldest, Hazan, coaches boxing and has no interest in her mother's matchmaking; her younger daughter Ece is still figuring out what she wants. That uncertainty is exactly the gap Fazilet intends to exploit. She has set her sights on the wealthy Egemen family of Istanbul and is pushing her daughters toward them whether they agree or not. Çağlar Ertuğrul plays the Egemen heir who ends up at the center of Fazilet's ambitions.

What separates this series from standard Turkish romance is the unsentimental look at how family love can curdle into control — Fazilet is manipulative and occasionally absurd, but rarely simply wrong about how the world works. Stream all episodes of Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters online on iFILM.