The Lazarus Project

Being an SF fan for over 50 years, I found this to be up there with the best of them.

Yes, it's not perfect and has some flaws in some of the acting and storytelling about how people are recruited etc. But, for a well thought out, keep you guessing sci fi, particularly Season 2, do not miss this one.

The story line was meticulously planned to last over the first 2 series and although some of the first series was a little drawn out, it is for that exact reason that all else revolves around, from, to and branching from the initial story that gets you truly involved.

Unlike many other series that no matter how good, get cancelled and leave you frustrated, you find that even if it stops at the end of Series 2, there was a type of closure letting you sit in in a euphoric understanding of the story, that even if no more are made, you are left content but longing for more.

(PLEASE let there be more!) IMHO, take no heed from those that rubbish this fine production, particularly those that choose to call themselves "expert reviewers" I have usually found them to be so full of it that I take no notice of them.

Joe Kmetyk.

Starts out as a fairly straightforward time-travel romp and slowly unpeels its characters to become an intense, brilliantly written and acted story of good people twisted and broken by the burden of a world saving power.

This is a really good and original show.

I binged through it and enjoyed every episode.

I really hope they make a second series.

I've no idea why people are giving this bad reviews.

It really is one of the best shows on Sky in a long time.

Give it a go.

You won't be disappointed.

The series is a bit "Tenet" and quite interesting. The Lazarus Project has some forgivable continuity flaws, but it's a good TV series that mixes old time travel ideas from The End of Eternity, Groundhog Day, and The Adjustment Bureau. Despite the lack of temporal logic: "mutants" can revive months side by side with normal agents (non-mutants who cannot revive months), although they can use a special drug to remember, which ends up causing a certain exponential unsustainability, because instead to go back in time, they would actually be creating multiverses. But time travel is just that, travel of the imagination.

Things are going well for George Addo (Paapa Essiedu). He gets a bank loan for his app. His girlfriend Sarah Leigh gets pregnant. They get married. Suddenly, it all goes wrong when a worldwide pandemic hits. He wakes up six months earlier and it starts all over again. Apparently, he's one of the few who naturally experiences time jumps. He's recruited into a secret organization, The Lazarus Project, which uses time jumps as the last resort to save the world. There's a machine and a singularity. Somehow, the group uses all that to return to the previous July 1st. They've done it many times. Their nemesis is former member Rebrov.

This show runs into the same problem as many time traveling shows. They just get so convoluted especially when they keep time traveling over themselves. It starts out great with an intriguing premise. It doesn't really dig into the technical details. There are some unlikely science going on. It's the constant looping that gets in the way. By the second season, the show becomes a convoluted ball of twine. It's canceled after two seasons.