Harlan Coben’s Lazarus; Storyville

“Unlike previous Coben outings like Fool Me Once and Missing You, Lazarus has the decency to be a pretty good – and more importantly – streamlined story. Soon skeletons are falling out of closets, bodies start piling up, and hidden truths rise to the surface. While the series sometimes meanders, it knows how to drop in a new development at just the right point to keep you watching all the way through the six episodes.”
Tilly Pearce, The i

“It’s often clichéd: there are plenty of scenes where suspects either stand lurking in dark corners or stare moodily from under hoods, and Sam Claflin and co have to labour under some pretty chewy dialogue. And yet, as ever with Coben, Lazarus is embarrassingly compelling. As strange and often silly as the storyline may be, it’s plotted as if it has been precision engineered to hook you in; just when you think the main mystery is about to be all wrapped up, another curveball lands.”
Katie Rosseinsky, The Independent

“How much you enjoy this sort of thing depends on whether you feel ghosts delivering clues and giving the living valuable insights is a novel twist on the mystery-thriller formula, or whether you feel it is lazy writing bordering on the contemptuous from people who should know and are undoubtedly being paid better than this.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“The spark is missing. It’s a dour drama with a touch of the supernatural, and getting through all six episodes is a slog.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“This gentle, 90-minute documentary about a resort called Kuyalnik, left over from the Soviet era, was intriguing for its glimpses of a vanished Communist world. But it was the resident invalids and convalescents who made it memorable — grouching, grumbling, bickering and commiserating. Ukrainians, it seems, are only happy when they’re complaining.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail