Midnight at the Pera Palace
is a drama that originally aired on Netflix
The show was released on Netflix on March 3, 2022, with the first season consisting of 8 episodes. The series was inspired by the 2014 historical non-fiction book Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King. The show has been renewed for a second season which is in filming.
Esra (Hazal Kaya) is a young orphaned journalist in modern-day Istanbul. She is assigned to write an article about the upcoming 130th anniversary of the Pera Palace Hotel. The hotel's manager conceals that, in combination with a mysterious key, one of the hotel's rooms becomes a time-travelling portal. Together with Ahmet, she must find a way to stop the assassination attempt on Mustafa Kemal.