Middle age hits an architect like a costume change in Uysallar, a Turkish comedy-drama that follows one man's punk reinvention while everyone around him is quietly falling apart in their own way.
What is Uysallar about?
An established architect, comfortable on paper and restless underneath it, starts slipping into a second identity as a punk — leather, attitude, and a rejection of the tidy life he built. The show treats that shift less as a joke and more as a pressure valve, and it widens out to the rest of his family, each of whom is navigating a private version of the same unraveling: marriages running on habit, ambitions quietly abandoned, and relationships that look stable from a distance and don't hold up close. Uysallar moves between comedy and drama scene to scene rather than picking one register, using the architect's double life as a thread that keeps pulling the family's separate crises into the same room.
About the cast
Öner Erkan plays the architect at the center of the story, with Uğur Yücel, Haluk Bilginer, Songül Öden, and İbrahim Selim rounding out a cast of family and associates whose own storylines run in parallel to his.
Context & significance
Director Onur Saylak builds the series around ordinary domestic spaces — offices, living rooms, family dinners — that make the architect's punk alter ego read as more disruptive by contrast than it would in a flashier setting. The show belongs to a wave of Turkish mid-life-crisis comedies that use one character's rebellion as a lens on an entire household, letting supporting characters carry as much weight as the lead rather than functioning as background.
Watching Uysallar on Ktime
Uysallar is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so its comic timing and family-dinner arguments land naturally for Farsi-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to watch, and the show is part of a growing slate of Turkish drama and comedy titles curated for the Iranian diaspora in a fully Farsi interface.