Those interested in watching the show with English subtitles can do so on YouTube.Back in the mid-1750s, Reynolds was the star portraitist in a country coursing with the surging energies and radical aspirations of the industrial revolution.
Many viewers were offended by the portrayal of this icon’s private life, and some were upset by the revealing dresses, bathing scenes, and intimate kisses on the screen. Despite its popularity and success, the show was criticized by Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as misrepresenting Suleiman the Magnificent. The show grabbed the attention of the Western press because it captured the Turkish fascination with the Ottoman past, and also Arab fascination with Turkey. Since the sultan’s hobby was jewelry making, his mother, sister, wife, and even some slaves wear dazzling pieces throughout the show. The wardrobes of the countless slaves are as intricate as those of the main characters. The ornate set is matched by delightfully elaborate costumes. It has become a major tourist destination for Arabs who watched the show, helping divert Arab tourists to Turkey from the European destinations that were more popular before Arabic TV channels began broadcasting Turkish TV shows. The palace is now a museum and an archive open to the public. Magnificent Century was filmed at Topkapi Palace, which was built over an 18-year period, from 1460 to 1478. German-Turkish actress Meryem Uzerli captivated viewers as she enticed and later manipulated the sultan.
Viewers are introduced to the heroine in the first episode, when her family and community are massacred by the Tatars in front of her, and she is taken as a slave. Many of the dramas of his life as sultan are planned carefully by the feisty Ukrainian slave Alexandra with whom he falls in love and later marries. This is the beginning of his reign, and also the beginning of many complicated palace intrigues that would end with him ordering the killing of his own son. The show begins with Prince Suleiman’s ascension to the throne as sultan. This month it began airing in the United States on MundoFox, dubbed in Spanish. Hundreds of millions of viewers watched the show, not only in Turkey but also in Pakistan, Bosnia, Croatia, China and other countries, including several in the Arab world (where it was called The Sultan’s Harem and dubbed in Arabic). The reign of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I and his love life were the inspirations for the Turkish TV soap opera Muhteşem Yüzyıl ( Magnificent Century), which ran for four seasons starting in 2011, and came to a close this year.
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