Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Tailor’ Season 2 on Netflix, A Turkish Love Triangle Where Everyone Just Seems Depressed Except The One Guy Out of His Mind On Cocaine

The Tailor, now in its second season, is a Turkish drama about two volatile best friends and the woman they both love. Filled with sex, drugs, and big family secrets, the new season supersizes the drama now that some of those secrets are out in the open and looming over everyone.

THE TAILOR (SEASON 2): STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: Peyami Dokumacı (Cagatay Ulusoy) sits alone at the bar in a nightclub. He’s clearly tormented. Music blares as he enjoys a drink alone until a woman he’s never met fills his glass and drops a pill in the drink. She can see that he’s depressed about something and tells him, “It’ll help you forget.” Bottoms up.

The Gist: At the end of the first season, Peyami, the tailor of the show’s title, was involved in a fight with his friend Dimitri (Salih Bademci). Witnessing this, Esvet (Şifanur Gül), who was engaged to Dimitri but fell in love with Peyami, pulled a gun and threatened to shoot Dimitri, her fiance. She missed, hitting Peyami instead. But now, Esvet and Dimitri are back together, and Peyami is all alone. You can see why he’d be sitting at a bar all alone trying to forget about all of that.

At the nightclub, Peyami ends up drinking and sweatily dancing the night away with this new woman, whose name is Cemre, and invites her out the next day, asking her to wear white. (She does not. Instead, she wears a light blue dress that’s made of about four sequins andone piece of string.) When they pull up to their destination, Cemre realizes they’re at a wedding and she dryly tells the man she met 12 hours earlier, “I’m the girl people don’t want at their wedding.” But this is the Dimitri and Esvet’s wedding, and Peyami needs Cemre there as a distraction. (Mission accomplished.)

As soon as he arrives, his assistant, Suzi, says there’s a problem with the dress Peyami spent the entire previous season making and it has torn. He rushes upstairs where he sees Dimitri and Esvet for the first time since he was shot, and it’s awkward. Dimitri is all smiles and full of bombast and coke, while Esvet looks like she’d rather be anywhere else – she is clearly still in love with Peyami, and he with her. Dimitri is wowed by Cemre though, pulling the classic asshole best friend shit where he’s like, “What does a funny hot babe like you see in a loser like Peyami?” (I’m paraphrasing. Then Dimitri offers Cemre cocaine, too and she obliges. They would clearly make the most ideal pairing.) Esvet looks like she wants to murder everyone in the room.

At the ceremony, Peyami is supposed to stand alongside Dimitri as his best man, but no one can find him. He and Cemre have gone inside and in a very weird, resentful move, he has sex with her while staring out the window at the ceremony below, which can’t take place without him.

We toggle back and forth between the ceremony, where an embarrassed Dimitri grabs a waiter to stand in as his best man and witness, to a room inside where Peyami rails his arm candy to completion.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? The Tailor is a high-octane love triangle like Rayna, Deacon and Teddy in Nashville or Olivia, Fitz and Jake on Scandal.

Our Take: On the one hand, nothing really happened in this episode of The Tailor – Peyami got drunk because he’s resentful that the woman he loves is with another (awful) man and then he got drunk again and had sex with another woman at the wedding of the woman he loves. Oh, and he got really mad at his father, who lives with him and requires 24/7 care because his dad is developmentally disabled. The takeaway here is that Peyami is going through some stuff and he’s acting out in ways that aren’t healthy.

While all of that is fine and I don’t need a show that moves at a speedy clip to be enjoyable, there’s also the problem that none of the characters in the show are people you want to root for. Everyone is hurt or high or grumpy all the time and aside from Cemre who, it turns out, IS someone you want at a wedding, there’s just no joy to be found in any of these people, which makes it hard to care about them. Each of them spent so long hiding their secrets for their whole lives that now that they’re exposed, they’re just damaged.

Sex and Skin: As referenced above, Peyami and Cemre have some seriously intense “we should be at the wedding” sex.

Parting Shot: There’s no elegant way to put this: Peyami blows his wad while he looks out the window as Esvet says “I do.”

Sleeper Star: I’m not sure if Berrak Tuzunatac, who plays party girl Cemre, will be a recurring character this season, but she’s definitely a scene-stealer at the wedding.

Most Pilot-y Line: Aside from saying “I do,” Esvet has almost no lines this episode, but the sad look on her face, which she maintains in every scene she’s in, is some serious smell-the-fart acting.

Our Call: SKIP IT.Considering the fact that much of this episode was dedicated exclusively to stolen, sad glances between Esvet and Peyami, it’s clear that we’re going to have to endure a lot of “will they or won’t they” drama and I’m not sure I have the energy to wait it out and see what happens to them all.

Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction.