Mayday

As others have noted, this has a Twin Peaks vibe, which is a good thing, but it also has big script problems. After taking four hours to build up the story and cast suspicion on everyone, the final hour wraps things up by introducing at least two major plot points that came rather unfairly out of the blue (the villains's motive and a supernatural bent in the finale). Had the story played fairer with the viewer, I would have liked this more. There are virtually no likable characters, and even the ones who might seem to be moral centers are not, and spending five hours with people you don't really care about is a real test of the viewer's constitution. Decent acting, certainly, and a nice mood is set throughout, but overall not satisfying.

I just across this series on Amazon Prime and I have to say that if you keep in mind it's described as a fantasy, mystery then all these other negative comments are just touch over-thinking! Don't analyze it just enjoy it! Contrary to a lot of the other posts I loved the ending!!

i think the only good thing about this series is the peculiar atmosphere. The story shows some promise but they do manage to f it up real soon. I didn't understand why it had to be sooooo slow and why there were so much blabbering. I hoped it would come to good avail, because I like slow films, on the whole. But here, naaah, they were just looking to fill the time and make this a miniseries when it could have been half as long. Seriously. And they weren't much clear on the story as well. This is usually a good thing, obviously, but here it left me feeling like the writer just couldn't decide which version of facts he liked better. Watch this at your own peril of wasting 5 hours of your life.

On the day that she's meant to be crowned May Queen, Hattie Sutton vanishes without a trace, all manner of village secrets are forced out into the open.

It's a decent five part series, it jumped on The Broadchurch bandwagon, where that succeeds on every level, this one falters, for two reasons, pacing and characters.

It's very slow, it seems to take an age for anything to happen, and when it does, your concentration may have dipped somewhat. The characters are too overdone, everyone is suspicious, sinister, and seems to have a motive, none of them are plain old fashioned nice either, you wait five hours for one singular act of kindness.

It's a gorgeous looking series, very well presented, beautifully shot, they make full use of the idyllic location too.

I've read a few reviews, where people have commented that the ending spoils it, for me it's perhaps saved by the ending, the first three episodes are quite slow, the last two, ridiculously fat fetched, but at least there's some entertainment.

It's worth seeing, but it's not as good as I remembered it being. 6/10.

Through the first four episodes of this five-parter, it seemed like any of several characters could have killed the May Queen. That the solution eventually comes through some mystical nonsense throws the previous four hours into the dustbin. What a disappointment.