Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

outtahr34 My eyes were crossing by the third episode and I knew that there was no way to save this script. Self-indulgent acting by otherwise good actors, a script that dies quite soon after Hattie did and direction that pulled out every bit of scariness -- fish eye lenses, ultra closeups, trees waving mysteriously in the wind, scary music -- enough!! BBC is usually quite good about taking a spare three to five episodes and making for a satisfying story that would take most American series 26 episodes to complete. No more episodes would save this turkey. By the last episode, I wondered who killed the script, not who killed Hattie.

kempe-25086 Started watching it expecting it to be a classic bbc crime series. As such it started out good, classic girl in the woods murder, and everybody having a motive for murdering her. The lack of a central view "inspector" was refreshing, following the story from multiple angles, even though that did make the viewer know more than the people in play.But not giving a satisfactory ending, leaving to many questions unanswered however is unforgivable, largely because I don't buy into the paranormal theme, as in other bbc series, it is supposed to be treated as lunacy, even though hints of it working may be allowed.*who stole the evidence bag, and why? *How did hatty's sister knew who did it? *Will the REAL killer ever be arrested? *Will his criminal wife be arrested too? *Is seth dead or alive? *will seth's brother find seth back at all? *will the eventual killer of seth be arrested or killed himself, either by the police or by somebody else? *what was the crime linus's dad did that made the black woman frame him?and thats just the tip of the iceberg.Also didn't quite liked how they made the black sheep black. She had to be black, timid, soft voice, strange hair, and glasses, a little to much of imprinting ugly = criminal, pretty = hero.On top of that no-go-error, She was not even a well developed character. Starting as genuine afraid of her husband being the murderer, only doing an investigation out of denial, to a full blown criminal herself, who is willing to knowingly cover up her husbands crime, get rid of all evidence and planting it on a different person, all for the sake of keeping their family together, having no problem destroying the only person Linus has. Thats not a believable character shift at all.So thats why it gets only 3 stars, it does not has the quality of a proper bbc crime series at all.

chaoticprime Mayday was something else. The world that surrounds the characters, its diegesis, is absolutely everything. Its a murder mystery at heart, probably, but its not one that the viewer is meant to solve. Most similar stories progressively paint guilt on a guilty party as they progress. Mayday's narrative does mostly different--it paints everyone guilty and then peels it off the innocent a little at a time. The final episode explained more than just "who did it," but also the intentions behind many other scenes from throughout previous episodes, though for the latter, not by way of a flashback--pay attention.The "who" does not nearly matter so much as the "why." What Mayday was, was not a show about action. It was a show about reactions, specifically the wrong kinds that come from bad information. Watch for that. They were all reactions to things that happened before the show began, also. You must essentially reverse-engineer what you see. Had the show's producers omitted the incriminating flashback from the final episode, there would still have been more than enough explanation--its use is also my only criticism.If nothing else, you can afford to spend five hours of your TV time with Mayday. Even if you end up not liking it, it was still pretty short.

pawebster The premise was quite good (although a girl murdered in the woods is hardly a new story idea) and in the first couple of episodes it was interesting to see how the various males were suspected by their family members. Max Fowler was convincing in his role (which was however seriously undermined by a ridiculous revelation in the last episode). As is usual with these over-consecutive-nights serials, there was a lot - and I mean a lot - of spinning out to fill the time. For example, the police knock on the door. Then we have a long drawn out scene of the occupant hesitating about opening it - for about two minutes, I'd say. Then she opens it anyway and no one minds about the pointless delay. Was this necessary to the story? Did it add excitement and tension? Nope. The police involved themselves only minimally in the murder enquiry and as for the media circus that would descend in such cases - it wasn't there at all. Most people lived on a housing estate, but somehow, the minute they stepped out of their houses they were in the woods. The conclusion, as already indicated, is weak. All those stones - presumably inserted to add a touch of spookiness.Forget it.