Review of Lazarus

Lazarus aims to tell a high concept story and admittedly opens strongly with fun action, an outstanding premise and a grounded if advanced future that feels like a natural progression of the modern day. The show has clear relatively strong messaging that covers everything from environmentalism to military overreach and the profiteering of pharmaceutical companies which helps to elevate the world the show is setting and ground the narrative in, what will be to many viewers, political, economic and ethical struggles that many can relate to. However while the show succeeds in messaging, an incredibly rushed final 2 to 3 episodes, a disjointed episodic plot thatfails to adequately build towards its climax or proportionally increase the tension as the world draws closer to a catastrophic deadline and undercooked, rushed plotlines throughout that are not given time to breathe long enough for the viewer to become invested in them considerably drag the show down.

Much of the climax of this show leaves you feeling like the writer wanted to make cowboy bebop again without the length, structure or prior buildup that left allowed cowboy bebop to stick the landing.

Other than rushed plot points some narrative threads make little sense and the conflicts that are built up over the season often end in disappointing anti climaxes that leave the viewer feeling let down.

If nothing else the ending itself does manage to deliver a satisfying if haphazard end to the overreaching story.

Overall the show is a fun episodic, poorly paced romp through an interesting futuristic setting, that tries and fails to adequately explore a high concept narrative despite some successes in it's messaging.