# Prime Video’s AI-created Turkish series Castle Walls looks crude and feels emotionally hollow

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/castle-walls-review-primes-first-fully-ai-generated-show-is-here-and-its-a-vaseline-smeared-mess/
- Published: 2026-10-28T14:00:05+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T15:07:16+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/29/castle-walls-review-prime-first-fully-ai-generated-tv-show
- Topics: Americas, Culture, Entertainment, Film, TV, World

## Key points

- Prime Video has released a series made with generative video tools.
- The first two episodes run for 17 minutes each.
- The review questions whether AI can deliver human-feeling art.

## Summary

Prime Video has released *Castle Walls*, a Turkish series billed as the first end-to-end AI-created show on a major streaming service. Its two episodes use generative video to depict 11th-century Alamut Castle, but the review says the artificial-looking characters, overloaded imagery and uneven pacing make the result feel visually crude and emotionally empty.

The story follows Hasan Sabbah as he arrives at Alamut and seeks to recruit the warrior Azazil. Turkish studio Ay Yapım says human screenwriters Kerem Deren and Çisil Hazal Tenim wrote the series, and human voice actors were involved. The review acknowledges the technology’s potential to change filmmaking, while arguing that AI should support rather than replace human creativity.

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