Acorn TV to Premiere Limited Series 'Mayflies' This October
Streamer Acorn TV has announced it will exclusively premiere the 2022 limited series Mayflies this October, a heartfelt exploration of male friendship and the lengths we're willing to go to for the people we care most about.
Based on Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling (and award-winning!) 2020 novel of the same name, Mayflies is both an everyday tragedy and a meditation on the joys and costs of love. The limited series follows the story of Jimmy Collins (Martin Compston) and Tully Dawson (Tony Curran), who've been best friends since they first met and bonded over music and films in their small Scottish childhood town. Now, thirty years later, Tully has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one final, shocking request for his lifelong friend: To help him die on his own terms.
Tully wants to end his life via assisted suicide in Switzerland and he wants Jimmy to be there to help him. Devastated, Jimmy must wrestle with this life-changing moral dilemma, and in the process, the two men reminisce about a magical teenage weekend in Manchester, where they made promises about how their lives were going to turn out.
