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Jochan Embley

The Lazarus Project review: Sky’s time-loop thriller has a human core

Remember how we miraculously got a Covid vaccine mere months after the start of the pandemic? It’s only thanks to a shadowy organisation that kept turning back time until we landed on an iteration of history in which humans were able to develop the jab before coronavirus made the human race extinct.

At least, this is the alternative version of reality presented to us in The Lazarus Project, Sky’s new eight-part thriller, which explores the tangled morality of resetting the clock each time humanity gets itself into such an existential pickle that the only option is going back and trying again.

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