The first is spread out across the entire run-time, revolving around this Big Boy missile and stopping a nuclear war. In essence, the show plays with two different storylines. The exploration of character is why the show works so well and across the story, we see each of the different characters and learn how they’ve come to be part of – or working against – the Lazarus group. This is where The Lazarus Project excels. As we soon come to learn though, he’s not quite the evil mastermind we came to expect. This is scheduled to go off in the near future (hence the current time loops George experiences) and Dennis Rebrov, a rogue agent, seems to be the orchestrator. We learn very early on that the latest threat revolves around a nuclear warhead nicknamed Big Boy. What’s particularly interesting here though his how the show plays with the idea of morality. That’s partly thanks to the way this show has nailed the “show don’t tell” mechanics of seeing these constant loops and different mechanics at work for ourselves.
The explanation I’ve given may seem a little complicated and difficult to follow but suffice to say, a few episodes into The Lazarus Project and everything becomes much clearer. Fail to stop the world from ending? Well, we’re back to the 1st July again. This organization happen to be in charge of stopping global-level extinction events, and do so by resetting time to the latest “checkpoint. These “checkpoints” always occur on the 1st July every year, and through a simple video game analogy, each successful year of stopping threats allows this checkpoint to move forward a year before restarting the cycle again. When George is approached by a woman called Archie, he’s recruited to join the Lazarus Project after being told he has a special “mutant gene.” This is incredibly rare and allows him to naturally experience these jumps without the aid of a special serum that the others are taking. There seems to be no hope… until George suddenly finds himself jumping back six months to 1st July. Right off the back of COVID, Mers-22 is spreading, causing the whole world to spiral out of control. The story itself revolves around a man called George, who finds himself experiencing life in the heart of a deadly pandemic.
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These moments are wrapped up into an action-packed 8 episode series that starts with a bang and ends with an even bigger explosion in terms of excitement and shocks. Instead, it polishes what’s already there, borrowing from numerous different influences the repeating of a time loop at a single point seen in 11.22.63 the morally grey areas of changing time in Twelve Monkeys trying to save a deceased love one in The Time Machine trying to do things differently each loop in Russian Doll. The Lazarus Project then is an interesting series in that respect because it doesn’t really reinvent the wheel. Wells or small screen wonders like Twelve Monkeys, each of these have taken the concept of time travel and time loops and added their own spin to the formula.
Whether it be in book form like The Time Machine by H.G. All of these questions have been explored in different forms of media, across various different mediums.
There have been a lot of time travel stories over the years, tapping into that niggling question of “What If.” What if you could go back and stop someone from dying? What if you could choose a different path in life? And what if you were forced to relive the same day again and again for eternity.
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