Mayflies Episode 1 (BBC Scotland Wednesday December 28, 2022)

Today Wednesday December 28, 2022, there is a new episode of Mayflies.

Episode 1

When Tully asks Jimmy to help him take control of a fatal cancer diagnosis by taking him to Switzerland to die on his own terms, the relationship between the two men, which has lasted for 30 years, is put to the test.

Airdate: Wednesday December 28, 2022 at 00:00 on BBC Scotland

Season 1 Episode 1

Everyone has a Tully Dawson – the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. 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. 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…

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.

Featured image credit: BBC Scotland