A lot can happen in 17 months. Keeping track of who is in the cabinet is difficult enough, let alone remembering the finer details of a TV series you watched in June 2022. When that show is the complex time-loop thriller The Lazarus Project, that’s even harder.
So, to recap: season one established that the Lazarus Project is an organisation capable of going back in time to a set point – the first day of July – to undo cataclysmic events. Our protagonist, George (Paapa Essiedu) joined the Project thanks to his innate ability to remember multiple timelines, only to find himself in an ethical quandary when his girlfriend Sarah was killed in a road accident. Not content to focus on the task at hand, namely preventing apocalyptic events, he instead engineered the detonation of a nuclear warhead to force the Project to reset the timeline so that he could prevent her death. Unfortunately for George, saving Sarah didn’t mean rescuing his romantic life: as Lazarus project leader Wes (Caroline Quentin) says witheringly, “After all that, she dumped you anyway?”
