In which most men are scum and/or communicatively incompetence/emotionnally unstable and no women trust their companion.

That said, this was a very easy watch. The five episodes went by sweeftly. Without getting into specifics as not to spoil, here's what I appreciated: you barely get to know the victim. Everything you're told comes from others account, the show doesn't try to make her sympathetic or give her a strong backstory. This show is really much about the "potential" killer. It was really interesting trying to understand why someone would kill her and who she actually was through the diverging point of views.

Ultimately though, most people connected to Hattie (the victim) are men who are depicted in a myriad of ways ranging from unstable to psychotic. This makes really hard to care for any of them as you feel like they should all be locked up for one thing or another.

Mayday might have gone too far down the path of "yes, all men" and withdrew any stakes you have in watching. How could you care how it ends when they're all scum?

Therefore, Mayday is a show with a very interesting premise, great potential, but wastes it by being too stereotypical in its characterization.