Joan Pua

This is an epic historical show complete with huge villages made with yurts, amazing costumes on the women and very macho men with elaborate leather protection from the swords and knives they carry (even the women carry knives in their belts). Lots of violence so beware. But what is charming is all actual blood, gore and wounds are blurred so as not to offend. The fighting is more street style than refined but highly effective. Lots of horseback riding, sub plots and cliff hangers with every show. I guess the Turks have a thing about sex as no matter how much in love or married a couple is, apart from touching hands and the male kissing the woman on the forehead like she was a two year old, there is no sex. Sorry westerners! What was a real pleasure though was seeing Sufism at its mystical and most powerful best with a saintly wanderer (based extremely loosely on a historical figure) and his followers a part of the storyline. Is it historically accurate? Perhaps vaguely but it is epic!