Season 1

Time Goes By (Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki, 2010), Season 1 is a Turkish family drama you can watch online on iFILM — 38 episodes that open in a seaside town in 1960s Turkey, inside the home of the Akarsu family.

Ali, a sailor, spends long stretches away at sea while his wife Cemile holds the house together with their four children: Berrin, studying law; the teenagers Aylin and Mete; and little Osman. This first season plants the crack the whole story grows from — Ali's distance and his affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman he meets abroad. What breaks between the parents seeps into the kids, and each of them carries the strain differently. It isn't a season of loud twists; it's the slow undoing of a family that seemed solid.

The series became one of Turkish television's best-known family sagas and gave early roles to Aras Bulut İynemli and Farah Zeynep Abdullah. If you like unhurried sagas about family and the passing of years, start with Season 1. Watch Time Goes By online on iFILM.