Abstract
Despite all the developments in technology, television continues to be an indispensable part of people's lives. Ever since it entered the lives of individuals, it has managed to focus people's attention around its fascinating box. Television, which has been in front of its audience with many different program formats since it was invented, has given a special importance to TV series that appeal to large audiences. Through the virtual reality window that the television opens to its audience, the audience can have a good time watching the series with pleasure, find sections from their own lives, and identify themselves with the characters of the series. In this study, it is aimed to reveal Sen Anlat Karadeniz series, which started broadcasting on ATV in January 2018 and ended its broadcast life in November 2019, based its fiction on the violence experienced by a woman, how is received by female viewers. The research was carried out by in-depth interview method, one of the qualitative research methods. In this study, 9 housewives with different socio-demographic characteristics, residing in Ordu, were reached by snowball sampling method and in-depth interviews were conducted. Participants' evaluations of the series were analyzed according to Stuart Hall's decoding strategies through a pre-prepared questionnaire. In the study, it was seen that the texts in the series were read in different ways by the participants. An important finding obtained in the research is that the majority of the participants expressed that they were very uncomfortable with the scenes of violence against women, which were clearly shown in the TV series, and they evaluated that these scenes would legitimize violence against women, and they made dissenting readings against the relevant texts.