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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Lazarus review – this Harlan Coben adaptation is absolutely woeful

The two men talk in a study.
Daddy issues … Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy in Lazarus. Photograph: Ben Blackall/Prime

Dame Edna Everage (and if you are too young to know of the housewife superstar that was Barry Humphries’ greatest creation, get yourselves to YouTube and gaze upon her glory, possums) once begged South Bank Show presenter and prolific novelist Melvyn Bragg to stop writing: “Give us all a chance to catch up.”

I feel the same way about Harlan Coben’s TV career. With the possible revision that once we have caught up, if he doesn’t feel refreshed enough to give us something better than Lazarus, he could extend his hiatus until full reinvigoration has been achieved.

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