Mayflies

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Season 1
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8

Critic Reviews

  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    100
    Mayflies emerges as a fearlessly expressive poem about life, death and love, at once heartbreaking and uplifting. What a powerful drama to see out the old year.
  2. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Oct 16, 2023
    100
    It was lyrical and profound, a two-hour meditation on male friendship and childhood bonds, which can sometimes prove as grand a passion as romantic love. It was also a study of what constitutes a "good" death and the importance of dignity in the midst of suffering.
  3. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Oct 31, 2023
    80
    Mayflies is an affecting story of a friendship tested by end-of-life issues, with some fantastic performances from Compston, Curran and Jensen.
  5. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Jasper Rees
    Oct 16, 2023
    80
    This story of departures – from home, from life – couldn’t cast too gloomy a pall. It was also a warm, sentimental hymn to friendship with all its rites and reference points (De Niro, Dalglish, Aztec Camera).
  6. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Stuart Jeffries
    Oct 16, 2023
    80
    Anyone who has witnessed a loved one’s struggle for dignity and control amid the general rout of death, or been at a wedding where one of the couple is dying, will find the drama resonates.
  7. i
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Oct 16, 2023
    80
    Anchored by Compston's thoughtful and big-hearted performance opposite Tony Curran, it was a beautifully raw portrait of male friendship and the struggle, which kicks in from middle age onwards, to come to terms with mortality.
  8. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Nick Hilton
    Oct 16, 2023
    80
    Tender, to a fault, Mayflies poignantly captures life's terminal evanescence.