Mayflies is a two-part British television drama series starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran, adapted by Andrea Gibb from Andrew O'Hagan's 2020 novel of the same name, and directed by Peter Mackie Burns.
Thirty years later, Jimmy received a heartbreaking phone call from Tully that he has terminal cancer.
[2] Compston described the process of adapting an acclaimed novel “terrifying” while Curran said they had tried to “honour” the book.
[4] The Financial Times reviewed a “thoughtful exploration of how death liberates the soon-to-be deceased, and devastates those left behind” with an “array of stirring performances”.
[5] The Guardian described it as “beautifully told” whilst “Curran is deeply moving as a man who refuses to let death have the last laugh, with Ashley Jensen as his firecracker wife Anna.”[6] Mayflies at IMDb