This is a way better thriller than it's often rated to be. The final fifteen minutes include a series of breathtaking twists and turns - often a bad thing, but in this case each one makes perfect sense. Well-acted and perhaps counter-intuitively satisfying, because you aren't spoon fed a conclusion, but you know that things are going to turn out well for two of the characters and badly for another, even though as the titles roll the status quo is otherwise. Well worth five hours of your time.

In which most men are scum and/or communicatively incompetence/emotionnally unstable and no women trust their companion. That said, this was a very easy watch. The five episodes went by sweeftly. Without getting into specifics as not to spoil, here's what I appreciated: you barely get to know the victim. Everything you're told comes from others account, the show doesn't try to make her sympathetic or give her a strong backstory. This show is really much about the "potential" killer. It was really interesting trying to understand why someone would kill her and who she actually was through the diverging point of views. Ultimately though, most people connected to Hattie (the victim) are men who are depicted in a myriad of ways ranging from unstable to psychotic. This makes really hard to care for any of them as you feel like they should all be locked up for one thing or another. Mayday might have gone too far down the path of "yes, all men" and withdrew any stakes you have in watching. How could you care how it ends when they're all scum? Therefore, Mayday is a show with a very interesting premise, great potential, but wastes it by being too stereotypical in its characterization.

This is not a police procedural or even a mystery the audience can solve. Its genre bending messes with the logic of the film. A great cast giving great performances. Lots of red herrings but ultimately I was disappointed with the resolve. I give this 5 part series a 6 (fair) out of 10. [Drama Mystery Fantasy]