When I saw and reviewed the first season of The Lazarus Project on TNT last November, I said it was "the best time-travel series I've ever seen on television, bar none." Having just seen the first episode of the second season on TNT last night, I feel exactly the same.
Time travel as a genre brought to the screen excels in protagonists going back in time and doing the same thing with suitable modifications over and over until they get it -- saving a life or taking a life -- over and over, again, until they get it right, or not. George is the perfect character for this. And Paapa Essiedu's face shows just the right range emotion of someone going through this.
[Spoilers ahead ... ]
But George is on the outside of The Lazarus Project now, excluded from the group, and the from the gun-carrying elite, because, as he aptly put it, he put love before loyalty to the project and its all-important mission. And this is especially hard on George, given that the recipient of his costly love, Sarah, has now taken his place with group.
The other big development in this episode is that a group headed by Dr. Kitty Gray, at first thought to be separate from Lazarus, has developed its own old-fashioned time machine. Wes, understably worried about what this H. G. Wells inspired machine could do to Lazarus's struggle to save existence, wants someone to keep an eye on Kitty and her work. All the more surprising, then, to see Wes in a photograph in the audience of a group taking in a lecture by Kitty. Apparently Kitty and her time machine are not as separate from Lazarus as Wes would want us to believe.
A good set-up for the second season, the rest of which I'm eagerly awaiting!
See also The Lazarus Project season 1: Time Travel Done Superbly Right
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