Harlan Coben’s Lazarus left viewers slack-jawed with its shock ending — however will the present be returning for a season 2?
“I’ve by no means executed a season 2 — and we’ve been supplied them up to now,” Coben, who created the sequence alongside Danny Brocklehurst, completely instructed Us Weekly earlier this month. “We opened a bit of little bit of a door to have a bit of enjoyable with you on the finish. But it surely’s probably not a cliffhanger a lot as it’s, form of, a door opener.”
Coben, 63, defined that he’ll “solely” do a second season of a present if he thinks it’ll be higher than the primary. The creator (who didn’t adapt this Prime Video present from one in every of his books) mentioned that viewers of his reveals will discover that there are not any lingering questions after the finale.
Sam Claflin as Joel Lazarus. Ben Blackall / Prime
“All of the questions that we begin with in episode one are answered in episode six,” he added. “It’s full. Will there be a season 2? I don’t know.”
However Coben is rarely saying by no means.
Spoilers for Lazarus, beneath.
The present, which premiered all six episodes on Wednesday, October 22, starred Sam Claflin as Joel, a forensic psychologist who returns residence after his father’s mysterious suicide. Whereas cleansing out his dad, Dr. L’s (Invoice Nighy) workplace, he begins to see ghosts of lifeless sufferers. Joel discovers that they’re all chilly circumstances — and he begins to resolve them.
The season finale of Lazarus lastly revealed the killer — effectively, on this case, there three killers. The primary killer was Sam Olsen (Edward Hogg), a former classmate who was obsessive about Joel’s twin sister Sutton (Eloise Little) and murdered her 20 years prior.
Regardless of his connection to the Lazarus household, he didn’t truly kill any of Dr. L’s sufferers. Who did? Dr. L himself. As soon as his transgressions had been found, he realized there was no approach out, which led to his loss of life.
The ultimate killer was, as Claflin instructed Us, a “whole wild card.” Earlier on within the season, it’s revealed that Joel fathered a son, Aidan (Curtis Tennant), with ex-girlfriend Bella (Karla Crome).
Within the present’s ultimate scene, Joel goes to go to the home of his therapist-turned-sort of affection curiosity and finds that her residence has been damaged into. Whereas investigating, Joel turns round to search out Aidan holding a bloody sickle, signifying that he was the ultimate killer, earlier than the display screen went black.
“The final episode fully blew my thoughts,” Claflin instructed Us. “I didn’t see it coming. There have been moments the place I believed Joel, I believed it was all him.”
What occurred when the display screen went black?
“I believe Joel completely doesn’t get killed. No approach,” Claflin added. “It positively opens up the chance of Joel — nearly like a Dexter state of affairs — the place I form of attempt to assist him.”
He added, “There’s positively room for a sequence two, however it’s less than us. It’s as much as an viewers, and if folks actually need that. I believe it [was] fantastically left open ended.”
All episodes of Harlan Coben’s Lazarus at the moment are streaming on Prime Video.

