Lazarus by Harlan Coben comes out on Prime Video on October 22, and I guarantee you’re not ready for the messy twists and turns of this six-part series.
Without giving away any spoilers, the series follows a forensic psychologist known only as Laz (Sam Claflin) who comes face-to-face with numerous unsolved cases after the death of his father, Dr. Lazarus (Bill Nighy). If anything, this synopsis massively downplays what’s to come, but it works to your advantage if you start watching with as little knowledge as possible.
But not too little, of course, because what good would that do? If you’ve watched Coben’s previous Netflix shows like Fool me once And I miss youyou’ll know the man is the king of a perfectly executed mystery with enough twists and turns to keep you up at night.
I don’t even know where to start and which twist is the most unexpected, so I asked star Alexandra Roach (who plays Jenna) for help – and her answer took me by surprise.
Harlan Coben’s biggest twist is in episode 1, says Alexandra Roach
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I’m obviously not going to tell you anything about what’s going to happen, but keep your eyes peeled for the end of Episode 1. When Roach first read the script, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
“Literally anything can happen and it does,” she tells me. “At the end of the first episode, you’re sitting there speechless. You think this is one thing and you’ve seen it before, and then all of a sudden it takes a hairpin turn. You’re in a completely different world. I loved reading it when it was sent to me.
“I remember getting to the end of Episode 1 and being so surprised by the ending. It comes from the mind of Harlan Coben, and he’s such a great storyteller. You just don’t know what’s going to happen next, and it’s completely surprising.”
But how prepared should you be when watching the series? I’m using my completely fake “surprise meter” to judge this. If a show like Midsomer Murders is at the bottom (i.e. totally guessable) and Utopia (the crazy dystopian thriller that Roach also stars in) is in the lead, where does Lazarus rank?
“I think it’s around an eight or nine on the scale,” concludes Roach (10 being the most surprising). “I think as humans we like to be surprised, and there’s so much to discover. We watch content on our phones and everything. It’s really nice to have that kind of raw experience of not knowing where this story is going to take us.”
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