Letters From the Past Review: A Heartfelt and Complex Tale of Relationships | Leisurebyte
Director: Cenk Ertürk
Date Created: 2025-07-23 12:30
3.5
Letters From the Past Review: In this moving Netflix drama, Fatma Ayar, a teacher at a private high school, had instructed her Literature Club students to write letters to themselves in 2003 with the intention of opening them in 2023. However, when Fatma’s daughter, Elif, stumbles upon the letters, buried truths come to light that threaten to change everything around them.
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Letters From the Past Netflix Cast
Gökçe Bahadır, Onur Tuna, Selin Yeninci, Erdem Şenocak, Güneş Şensoy, Deniz Bakacak, Can Bartu Aslan, Nilüfer Bayraktutan, Kerem Alp Kabul, Çağıl Aydıner, Berk Özgür, Saygın Soysal, İpek Türktan, Banu Fotocan, Pelin Karahan, Yusuf Akgün
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Letters From the Past Series Director
Cenk Ertürk
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Letters From the Past Creator & Writer
Rana Denizer
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The series has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 35 minutes.
Letters From the Past Review
Relationships are complicated, and that is probably no more apparent than in Letters From the Past, a series that showcases the past coming to haunt everyone in the present. Much like messy high school shows, this one gives us a messy and chaotic story, wherein every semi-adult person is out to do no good, including doing drugs. I guess it’s not completely out of the realm of possibilities, but it does strike a similar chord.
Either way, I found Letters From the Past to be quite watchable and moving, although the end, regardless of how poignant, is quite obvious and clichéd. The story focuses on solving the issues between the students in Fatma’s Literature Club, along with Elif, Fatma’s daughter, and solving the mystery of who her birth mother is. It’s an interesting tale that showcases how tumultuous and unpredictable life can be and will leave you with a ton of questions. The answers aren’t always great, and neither are they perfect, but they are human, which will make you feel some sort of way.
Our protagonist here is Elif, and I must say that Güneş Şensoy does a great job with her role. She’s a warm, slightly innocent Elif, and she grows on you for the most part. I liked her journey from knowing this huge truth to coming to terms with her life. Meanwhile, we have a whole cast of characters from the 2003 Lit Club, and they are a different ballgame altogether. Of course, no one’s lives turned out to be what they could ever have thought of when they were kids, and that’s probably what makes it so watchable.
This isn’t some big mystery series that will keep you on edge, but it highlights the good and bad decisions that human beings tend to make, sometimes without any reason. I liked that part because it’s interesting to note that no one in this story is an evil person, just trying to make the best of their situation. They stumble and flail about a bit, but all of them are mostly good, kind people. I enjoyed the grey characters very much; it gave the series a realistic edge that we don’t always get to see.
Other than that, I think the cinematography was gorgeous, I enjoyed the music as well, and it’s overall a fine watch. Although there are moments in the series which I found to be a bit dragged out, I think the series is great for those who love watching drama and complicated relationships unfold.
Final Thoughts
Letters From the Past is a fine watch for drama lovers. The quest to find Elif’s mother is well done as we try to find the buried secrets in the past to come to terms with the present. Considering the runtime, I think viewers can give this their time.
I still can’t read the god damn fucking faint text. What the hell is the matter with you you fucking idiot? Have you even tried to read anything on your own website? I used to teach and research CS and if a student built a website with such callous disregard for their readers in the form of invisible text, I’d flunk the student and make sure they were kicked out of the Engineering program. Engineering and Mass Communications? LMAO.
PS sorry for any misspellings. i can’t fucking see what the hell I wrote. Unfuckingbelievable.