NIKKI McCHRISTIE.
Editor
Mayflies - 2022
Synchronicity/BBC
Ep2
Director - Peter Mackie Burns
Producer - Brian Kaczynski
Exec - Claire Mundell
Mayflies is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Andrew O'Hagan, and tells the story of lifelong friends Jimmy and Tully.
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The official synopsis for the series says: "Everyone has a Tully Dawson (Tony Curran) - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit.
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"With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently.
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"Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit...
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"Mayflies is a memorial to youth’s euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love."
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