The Lazarus Project2022

Watching Essiedu, Quentin and Salmon face off is a more straightforward pleasure, but keeping abreast of the various timelines appeals to the part of the brain that gets flooded with dopamine after solving a tricky sudoku. Even when the action pauses to make way for an exposition dump, the show injects enough humour to keep things afloat.

It's surprisingly good for a British sci-fi show and deserved more of a run than 2 seasons. It borrows a lot from the TV series Day Break but it does have a lot more ambition with decent action scenes and a lot of different plot ideas about how time travel could be used or go wrong. This being a British TV show, it does come with a lot of human drama in the first few episodes that might put people off but it's worth sticking with it as it does pay off towards the end. The most annoying bit about this show is the Sarah character. Her character is inconsistent and her motivation flips on a dime. I could honestly believe the writer for this put her in as a burn attempt on an actual ex.

One of the things we appreciated about the first episode of The Lazarus Project is that writer Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself) doesn’t torture George with dozens of time jumps before being introduced to The Lazarus Project. But what we also appreciate is that the first episode does just enough time jumping to set up what’s really going to happen in the series.