Director: Yusuf Pirhasan
Nothing Umut has ever seen or heard fades from his memory, and in "Tas Kagit Makas" that rare condition becomes the only weapon he has to save his father from a death sentence.
What is Tas Kagit Makas about?
Umut lives with hyperthymesia, a condition that lets him recall almost everything he experiences in exact detail. When his father is convicted and sentenced to death for a crime Umut believes he did not commit, that unusual memory stops being a curiosity and turns into a mission. He trains as a lawyer, assembles a small team willing to dig where official investigations stopped, and starts reopening cases the courts considered closed. Each new client and each new file forces Umut to weigh what he remembers against what the evidence, the witnesses, and the people in power are willing to admit. The show follows his cases week to week while slowly circling back to his father's file, tightening the connection between the son's fight for justice and the legal system he has chosen to work inside of.
Cast & crew
Ekin Koç leads as Umut, playing the character's memory as both gift and burden rather than a simple superpower, while Serra Arıtürk and the rest of the ensemble give the surrounding legal team distinct personalities instead of interchangeable sidekicks. Director Yusuf Pirhasan keeps courtroom sequences tense and grounded, letting the emotional stakes of the father's case drive the pacing of the wider mystery.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, the series belongs to a familiar but reliably popular format in Turkish television: a case-of-the-week legal drama anchored by one long-running family mystery. What sets it apart is the hyperthymesia hook, which gives the writers a built-in reason for Umut to reexamine small details other characters, and other shows, would simply skip past.
Where & how to watch
"Tas Kagit Makas" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking audiences follow the courtroom dialogue and the family drama in full. The show's page is free to browse without an account; watching the episodes themselves only requires logging in, inside an interface designed with the Farsi-speaking diaspora in mind.