Imagine waking up and living the same day over and over again - an incredibly tedious fate, surely? And yet, as a slew of films and TV series have proven, the constraints of a time loop can actually provide the building blocks for brilliant stories, from romantic comedies to nerve-shredding thrillers.
The latest show to dabble in high-concept time-travelling is The Lazarus Project, which arrives on Sky Max on June 16. Written by Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton, it stars Paapa Essiedu as George, a man who wakes up to find he’s reliving a day that happened months before - and that everything that’s happened to him since then has been completely undone. So of course he is singled out to work as part of a secret organisation who turn back time every time the world is faced with extinction, staffed only by those who can still remember what happened before the timeline was reset.
