This year, we have experienced countless developments and shared thousands of news and content with you. As we leave the year behind, this time we would like to share our 2022 favourites.
We asked our team about their favorite books among the books they read this year, and their favorites among the TV series and movies they watched. The answers will be like medicine for those who are looking for a book to read, a TV series or a movie to watch!
A small note: While preparing the list, it is not the fact that the books, TV series and movies came out this year; based on what we watched and read this year.
Aysegul Can
- TV Series: House of The Dragon
- Movie: Split
- Book: Offspring – Patti Smith
Ayşegül’s favorite TV series from our content team was House of The Dragon, which locked everyone on the screen this year. For those who did not watch, the series, which takes place in the Game of Thrones universe but tells a few hundred years ago, was liked by the majority of the audience.
Split is a great recommendation for those who like psychological thrillers. A man with 24 different personalities kidnaps three young girls and keeps them underground. During this time, we meet all the personalities of the man, as well as witness the girls’ efforts to get rid of…
Ayşegül’s favorite book that she read this year is Çoluk Çocuk. The book, which tells the story of successful musician Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most successful and controversial photographers of the period, also successfully conveys the New York and artistic life of the period.
If you want to take a look at the book, you can click here.
Baris Cokmar
- Series: Undone & After Life
- Movie: Johnny Got His Gun
- Book: The Jungle by Harlan Coben
When we asked about Barış’s favorite TV series from our social media team, Amazon’s Undone and Netflix’s After Life gave the answers. Starring as well as producing and directing stand-up artist Ricky Gervais, After Life is a delightful production that tells the struggle of a man who lost his wife to continue his life, with plenty of black humor. Undone, on the other hand, is an interesting series in which a woman, who realizes that she can act differently in time after an accident in which she faced death, investigates the death of her father.
Johnny Got His Gun, made in 1971, which is one of the prominent films of the period among the anti-war American films, was the most successful film Barış watched this year.
Orman, on the other hand, is a book recommendation for those who like suspense, mystery and mystery. After two of the four young people who went to the summer camp died, and two of them were never heard from again, after twenty years, unexpected truths about what happened to the grieving families emerge…
If you are interested in the book, you can check it out by clicking here!
Beyazit Kartal
- Series: Dear Minister
- Movie: Blonde
- Book: Those who live by heart – Emrah Safa Gürkan
Our news director, Beyazıt, traveled through time in 2022 and watched the TV series My Minister, which was broadcast in 2004-2005. Haluk Bilginer and Kenan Işık are the leading roles in this series with plenty of references and a great cast.
Beyazıt’s favorite movie that he watched in 2022 was the movie Blonde, in which Ana De Armas gave life to Marilyn Monroe, which divided the audience into two.
Would you like to understand our species better by learning the sociological, anthropological and psychological reasons for some of our permanent habits that do not change for generations? Beyazıt’s favorite for 2022, Living by Memorization, is a book that helps us do just that.
If you want to read it too, you can take a look by clicking here.
Bora Fidanci
- TV Series: Black Bird
- Movie: The Big Lebowski
- Book: Main – Maxim Gorky
Bora, one of our social media team, answered Black Bird when we asked him about his favorite TV series he watched in 2022. In the series, we follow the story of Jimmy Keene, who, after receiving a 10-year prison sentence, accepts the deal offered to him by the FBI and is transferred to a maximum security prison to get confessions about the murders, befriended serial killer Larry Hall, who killed dozens of women as a ticket out of jail.
The Big Lebowski, where we watch the story of Jeffrey Lebowski, who got into trouble because he was mistaken for a millionaire with his namesake, ironically reveals two characters who have chasms between everything except their names. The production, which is full of references to films noir, is one of the most beloved works of the Coen Brothers.
Bora’s favorite book read this year is Gorki’s classic Ana. Ana, which tells the story of the working class, oppressed by the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie in Russia and living in misery, through the story of a mother who was devastated by violence and her son, a young worker who has adopted the socialist worldview, Ana, which made a great impression at the time of its publication and is still the most important in the literary world today. one of the narratives among his works.
If you haven’t read this literary classic yet, you can check it out by clicking here.
Emotion Long
- Series: The Sandman
- Movie: Gone Girl
- Book: Erebos – Ursula Poznanski
One of our content team’s favorite movies of Duygu’s is Sandman, the hit Netflix production. The series, about the ruler of the dream world, Morpheus, the King of Dreams, freed from his years-long captivity and embarking on an inter-world journey to regain his power, was also Netflix’s most expensive production.
The story of Amy and Nick, a couple just about to celebrate their anniversary, turns into a suspenseful drama when Amy suddenly disappears and Nick is blamed. Gone Girl is one of David Fincher’s favorite productions.
Duygu’s favorite book is Erebos. The game called Erebos, which appears on a mysterious CD that suddenly appears in a school and is circulating in hand, manages to attract the attention of all students. However, after a while, the tasks that the game wants and the color of the work begin to change.
If you like to read mystery and suspense-filled books, you can check out Erebos here.
Emre Omer Zehir
- TV Series: House of the Dragon
- Movie: The Redeem Team
- Book: The Land of Quality
One of our content team Emre’s favorite TV series was House of The Dragon. His favorite movie is The Redeem Team, which is broadcast on Netflix and tells the struggle-filled story of the USA Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that participated in the 2008 Olympics.
Emre’s favorite book that he read this year was Marc-Uwe Kling’s successful work, The Country of Quality. An error-free algorithm, the best country in the world where everything ‘goes great’, and the biggest company in the world that claims to make no mistakes… Country of Quality, which offers a satirical look at today’s and even the future society, with the humor of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1984” It is expressed as ‘a clever combination of the darkness of fame!’…
If you want to take a look at the book, you can click here.
Emirhan Kelesoglu
- TV Series: Better Call Saul
- Movie: The Great Gatsby
- Book: Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
The favorite series of Emirhan, one of our content team, was the legendary series Better Call Saul, which said goodbye to the screens this year with its final season. The production, which Emirhan couldn’t resist and said “it even became one of my all-time favourites”, tells the story of lawyer Saul Goodman, who is getting more and more corrupt and becoming more and more famous. We also know Goodman from Breaking Bad.
When we look at the movie, there is the Great Gatsby, where we watched Leonardo DiCaprio’s magnificent performance that was the subject of countless memes. Adapted from the cult novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the film follows the events between Jay Gatsby, the mysterious young millionaire known for his lavish life and famous parties, and Daisy Buchanan, with whom he is obsessively in love.
Emirhan’s favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the building blocks of literary history. The work, which tells how a character who was slandered and lost everything from his lover to his father, is reborn from the ashes and turns every life he touches upside down on his journey to “do what is necessary for God’s justice”, is a cult novel that everyone should read.
If you say “I haven’t read it yet, but I would like to read it”, you can take a look at the book by clicking here.
Eray Kalelioglu
- Movie: Bergen
- TV Series: Breaking Bad
Eray’s favorite movie from our news team has been Bergen, which has been among the productions that made a lot of noise from the moment it was released. You can watch the production on Amazon Prime, which tells the story of Bergen, who is known to everyone with his life full of pain and sad voice.
Eray’s favorite TV series this year is Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad, one of the unforgettable cult productions that has made a name for itself for years, tells the “drug swamp” journey of Walter White, a good family man and a teacher, after learning that he has cancer, to leave a good future for his family.
Erkan Ceylan
- Series: Severance
- Movie: Top Gun: Maverick
- Book: Carl Sagan – Cosmos
Erkan, one of our content team, liked Severance the most among the TV series he watched in 2022. In this series full of mystery and suspense, we take a look at the experiences of employees at a company called Lumen Industries. Employees who remember only work information when they are at work, and only their private lives outside of work, with a chip that serves to completely separate work life and private life, after a while realize that something is not right and the tension increases.
Erkan’s favorite movie was Top Gun: Maverick, for which Tom Cruise received great praise for his performance. Pate “Miverick” Mitchell is tasked with transitioning into the air force and a special mission where he doesn’t want to be too involved. This mission will make him face his fears.
Cosmos, which will completely change your view of the universe and learn new things on every page, has become Erkan’s favorite book that he read this year.
You can click here to browse the book.
Gurhan Earli
- TV Series: House of the Dragon
- Movie: Dark Water
- Book: Telepathy Series (Telepathy, Memory, Utopia)
One of our content team, Gürhan’s favorite TV series, is House of Dragon. When we asked about the favorite movie, we got the answer of Dark Water. Investigating the increasing number of deaths with unknown cause, a lawyer realizes that the world’s largest company is behind it. The lawyer, who is in a tough fight to reveal the truth, risks his life and everyone in his life for this cause…
Telepathy, a fantastic series about the experiences of two young people living in different parts of the world through their teleptic communication, brings together many intriguing elements from parallel universes to time travel in a successful story.
You can take a look at Telepathy, Gürhan’s favorite series read in 2022, here.
Gokhan Setting
- TV Series: Tulsa King
- Movie: The Gentlemen
- Book: Memoirs of a Stock Speculator – Edvin Lefevre
One of our content team, Gökhan’s favorite TV series is Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone. The series, in which we watched a New York mafia boss who got out of prison years later, was fired from a criminal organization that included him and he started everything from scratch by forming his own team with ‘colorful’ characters in Tulsa, where he was exiled, was among the productions that were mentioned a lot this year.
The Gentlemen, on the other hand, is Gökhan’s favorite movie watched this year and is again a crime story. Guy Ritchie is in the director’s chair of the production, which tells the story of a man who wants to leave his criminal empire behind and return to America with his family.
The Memoirs of a Stock Exchange Speculator, which tells the story of Wall Street trader Jesse Livermore, who is considered one of the greatest stockbrokers of all time and became one of the richest names in the world with his earnings from the stock market, full of mistakes, successes and contradictions, is a work that will change your view of human psychology and ‘money’.
If you want to take a look at the book, you can click here.
Koray Kutun
- TV Series: House of the Dragon
- Movie: The Gentlemen
- Book: The Dark Elf Trilogy – RA Salvatore
Koray’s favorite series from our video team was House of The Dragon, and his favorite movie was The Gentlemen.
When we asked about his favorite book, we got the answer of RA Salvatore’s legendary Dark Elf Trilogy. One of the beloved authors of fantasy and science fiction, this trilogy by Salvatore chronicles the long journey of a dark elf prince, Drizzt Do’Urden, filled with mysteries and struggle.
Melihcan Örus
- Series: The Sopranos, HBO
- Movie: The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson
- Book: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Melihcan’s favorite TV series from our video team was The Sopranos, one of the most successful productions where crime and drama go hand in hand. The production, in which we watched the lives of the American-Italian mafia family boss Tony Soprano and everyone he touched, managed to make a name for himself for years.
Melih’s favorite movie that he watched this year was Wes Anderson’s production The French Dispatch, which received great acclaim. Inspired by three true stories published in The New Yorker, we watch the preparations of the last issue of a fictional newspaper’s office in France. In the focus, there is a series of stories that will be released in the number…
The Old Man and the Sea, in which Hemingway makes each page feel like a real moment, tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman’s struggle with a giant swordfish in the open sea when he gets caught in the gulf current.
If you want to take a look at Melih’s favorite book, you can click here.
Nagehan Sergeant
- Series: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Movie: Burning
- Book: There Will Be a Day Asra Bedel – Chingiz Aitmatov.
It’s time for my favourites. My favorite series to watch this year is The Marvelous Mrs. It was Maisel. Living a very ‘traditional’ life in New York in the 60s, Mrs. The production, which tells the story of Maisel’s sudden abandonment by her husband, being cheated on and her transformation into an incredibly talented stand-up artist who finds herself on stage while trying to get over them, is both a great comedy and a successful production.
Your favorite movie is Burning. The film, which tells the story full of tension, anger and surprises between a poor man, an old friend he came across by chance, and a rich and arrogant man, managed to become one of the productions that stuck in my mind even though I watched it late.
My favorite book that I read this year is the Day Olur Asra Bedel, which I read many years ago in the first year of high school and fell in love with it and decided to read it again almost 15 years later. Aitmatov’s masterfully written book tells the journey of a worker living a miserable life in the middle of the steppe, on a camel to bury his lost colleague. However, this journey almost turns into a time travel and turns into a wonderful story that draws lines between the past, the future, the cold war, the first space studies, science, tradition, modern life, the struggle of the working class, the oppressive regime and practices of communist Russia.
If you want to take a look at the book, you can click here.
Oktay Yildirim
- TV Series: The Man in The High Castle
- Movie: Top Gun: Maverick
- Book: Simulacra and Simulation
Oktay’s favorite TV series from our content team is a successful production that takes place in a parallel universe seeking an answer to the question “What would happen if the Nazis had won the war?” His favorite movie was Top Gun: Maverick like Erkan.
When we asked Oktay about his favorite book, we got the answer of Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. This work, in which the Simulation theory, which is still one of the most important theories of our age, is built, is a wonderful work in which Baudrillard’s ideas on reality and society are included. The work also deals a lot with how the media and culture disrupt and rebuild societies.
If you want to read the book, you can check it out by clicking here.
Pelin Sumer
- Series: Like
- Movie: A New Testament
- Book: The League of Fools – John Kennedy Toole
Our editor-in-chief Pelin Sümer’s favorite series has been like, which has managed to make us burst into laughter for three seasons in a row. As written by Feyyaz Yiğit and Aziz Kedi, it is about the absurd daily lives of İlkkan, Yılmaz and Ersoy.
His favorite movie is The Brand New Testament. The film, which tells the absurd story of ‘God’, a sullen father who controls people and the world from his computer seat, his daughter who escapes from his authority, and his wife, who, by chance, overthrew him, offers a wonderful look at social roles and the ‘father’ figure.
On the other hand, Union of Fools is again an absurd satire. The story of Ignatius, a nasty, gluttonous, vulgar man who hates everything and everyone, stands against society, is published 10 years after the suicide of its author, John Kennedy Toole, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel. The award is given to a deceased writer for the first time…
Sertac Tuzcuoglu
- TV Series: The Queen’s Gambit & House of Cards
- Book: The Art of Fighting Yourself – Fumitake Koga & Invasion
Our COO Sertaç Tuzcuoğlu’s favorite TV series, Queen’s Gambit, which tells the life story of a woman trying to achieve success in the male-dominated chess world, and House of, which tells the story of Frank Underwood, who implements a kind of revenge plan after someone else is appointed to the position of US Secretary of State promised to him. cards.
When we asked about his favorite books, we got answers from The Art of Fighting With Yourself, which is Fumitake Koga’s work that illuminates the obstacles to being oneself, and Invasion answers from Almighty Zerey, who tells us how to return to ourselves in a world where we grapple with news, social media, endless agendas and advertisements.
You can browse the books by clicking here for The Art of Fighting Yourself and here for Invasion.
Sahin Kilinc
- TV Series: Patrick Melrose
- Movie: Dry Days
- Book: The Politics of Lies – Yalın Alpay
Our content manager Şahin’s favorite series is Patrick Melrose, which tells the story of Patrick who is abused by his father and grows up with an apathetic, unaware mother.
His favorite movie is Emin Alper’s production of Dry Days, which received great acclaim. You should definitely watch this wonderful production while it is still in the cinema, where a young character appointed as a prosecutor in a small Anatolian town suddenly finds himself in the middle of a great tension and touches on countless social problems such as crime, corruption, media, rape culture, love of armchairs.
Can leaders lie with peace of mind as long as the masses who support him don’t care or even realize? The Politics of Lie, which offers a social analysis by seeking in-depth answers to this question, whose answer is unfortunately yes in today’s societies, is among Şahin’s favorites this year.
You can check out the book here.
Umit Kilinc
- TV Series: Better Call Saul
- Movie: The Peanut Butter Falcon
- Book: Brave New World
Ümit, one of our news team, has also become his favorite TV series Better Call Saul. His favorite movie is The Peanut Butter Falcon, which tells the journey of a character with Down syndrome who wants to become a great American wrestler and escapes from the facility where he stays for this goal, and his companions.
Ümit’s favorite book is Brave New World, the cult work of Aldous Huxley in which he builds a dystopian future. If you haven’t read the book yet, you can buy it by clicking here and get started right away.
Zühre Yıldırım
- Series: Succession
- Movie: Compartment no.6
- Book: Julio Cortazar – Animal Tales
One of our content team, Zühre’s favorite series, was the successful HBO production Succession, whose name we often hear. The series, in which we watch the rivalry of the children of Logan Roy, a father who thinks about the management of his company, which he built over the years due to health problems, and which has become his own kingdom, is a successful satire.
Zühre’s favorite movie is Compartment No.6, a successful production about an archeology student having to go on a planned trip with her lover alone and going to Murmansk, an icy Russian region, to see prehistoric murals.
Animal Stories, a Cortazar classic with interesting characters and stories, each oscillating between reality and fantasy, has become Zühre’s favorite for 2022. If you want to browse and buy the book, you can click here.
It was a pleasure to share our 2022 favorites with you. Do not forget to write your favorites in the comments, we wish everyone a great year ahead!
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