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Mayday

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Mishap Mon 04-Mar-13 15:47:52

Anyone watch the first episode? It will be the last that we watch!

Compared to the Scandinavian thrillers/detective films that we have become used to this is a really lightweight programme.

So many of the British offerings have gone down the Midsomer Murders route - fanciful and surreal - and Lewis has been heading that way too. Mayday even had a Midsomer Murders type village green.

None of the characters were remotely believable; and the obligatory "bonk on the sofa" added nothing at all to the tale.

Hackneyed ploys of making children's toys, rocking horse, bits of dolls look sinister have all been done before ad nauseam - and done better by the likes of Hitchcock. What a disappointment that was - it had been built up as being really good.

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shysal Thu 07-Mar-13 22:16:37

I stuck with it to the end - but what was the end of the story, or am I being thick? Was the right person going to be convicted? Did Seth die? I HATE endings like that! What a waste of my viewing time. confused

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harrigran Fri 08-Mar-13 12:51:42

We recorded all of Mayday before starting to watch it. Thank goodness for recorders, what a load of garbage, BBC are really scraping the barrel. I know now why I rarely watch TV.

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LullyDully Fri 08-Mar-13 13:56:39

Yes we stuck it out to the end. The wrong person was framed but the real murderer was pointed at in the end with a view to no escape.

{sorry to be obtuse but realised I was about to spoil it for anyone with the stamina to watch it through on catch Up.}

But it was daft and ends were not tied up properly.

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j08 Fri 08-Mar-13 14:32:07

It was an unsatisfactory ending. But's that's ok.

I didn't see anything to suggest the real killer was not going to get away with it.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Grannyknot Fri 08-Mar-13 22:53:39

shysal two hours of your life that you'll never get back. I hate that feeling! I watched the first half hour and then - because there wasn't a single character that I felt any sympathy for or could identify with - I bailed. Thank goodness I did.

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j08 Sat 09-Mar-13 09:19:02

Horses for courses.

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Grannyeggs Sat 09-Mar-13 09:33:30

DH and I really enjoyed the end, murderer is now being pursued by "ghost" of girl he murdered, the dog is eating the remains of his unpleasant master,great stuff! Complete nonsense, but we loved it!

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j08 Sat 09-Mar-13 09:47:46

Oh yes! The dog's meal! shock grin

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