The first episode of “The Lazarus Project” shows much potential for the future of this series. It opens innocuously enough with the everyday stories of George (Paapa Essiedu) and Sarah (Charly Clive). George is an app developer who, in a meeting at the bank on July 1, gets a loan to develop an app that tracks trends in the marketplace.

Later, he and Sarah find out that they are pregnant. George and Sarah get married. Then everything goes awry.

I must admit that I liked the scenes of the first relationship between George and Sarah. It showed a mature couple making their way in the world.

The second relationship after the time reversal was a little more difficult for me. I felt that the show wasted too much time on watching George come to pieces as he started to relive his life again while Sarah and the rest of the world remained clueless to the time reversal.

Frankly, I would be thrilled to have this happen to me because I could re-do that time period with the knowledge of what was to come. This reminded me of the superb movie “About Time,” where the lead character, if he has had a bad or stressful day, can relive it and present a better face to the world.

All of that being said, George does not take his chance to relive reality very well. He searches on the Internet for explanations. He knows that a pandemic is coming but can’t convince Sarah of its inevitability. She leaves in frustration.

The lead-up to and immersion in the Lazarus Project were well-done. I found the name interesting because it is obviously a Biblical reference. Yet no mention of the origin of the name is provided. Was this a deliberate choice to avoid making the show seem too Christian?

I did like the explanation of the singularity and the time constraints that were imposed on the group. There was a possible error in saying the world ended in 1963 when the Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened in 1962. But it could be argued that the 1963 conflict was the result of bitter feelings after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Apparently when time reversals are initiated in the group, no one except those in the know in the Lazarus Project, and mutants like George and Shiv, notice that this happens. I thought that this was an acceptable explanation of the ignorance of the mass of the population to this change. Although as a non-mutant, I would miss the opportunity to be able to be cognizant of the change and alter my life.

This explanation also avoids the Butterfly Effect since now the world is reborn. The idea that everyone would proceed in their ignorance to do the exact same thing though may be pushing the realms of believability. But then it doesn’t really matter, does it, since this is a new reality.

So far the issues of what happens to the old timelines has not been addressed. Are these timelines ongoing, albeit with a destroyed Earth, sometime and somewhere in the Multiverse? Or do they simply vanish into oblivion due to the singularity’s effect?

I very much liked the car chase scene. This was one of the most realistically rendered depictions of what a real car chase would look like, in all its messiness and carnage.

The idea of coming back to life after being killed in the previous timeline strikes me as creepy, first of all. Secondly, it begs the question of the nature of life itself. If there is an afterlife, if you die in the previous timeline and then come back to life, what does this say about an afterlife? It would pose serious dilemmas to be in the afterlife, if it exists, and then be yanked back into reality.

The ending also was perfect, even though you could see it coming. The teasers for the forthcoming episode or episodes present interesting possibilities. Among them, how much responsibility do you have for a failure in one timeline leading to a negative result in the revived timeline?

I look forward to watching the dilemmas of the Lazarus Project unfold.

When George wakes up one day and finds himself reliving a day from months ago, he thinks he’s lost his mind. All of his recent milestones have been undone, including his success at work and his marriage to the love of his life Sarah. Worst of all, he seems to be the only one who has noticed what’s happened.

That is, until he meets Archie, who recruits George for the Lazarus Project — a secret organisation that has harnessed the ability to turn back time every time the world is at threat of extinction. Like George, those who work at Lazarus are the few people on earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back. Alongside colleagues like Archie, standoffish Shiv and their steely leader Wes, George works to prevent global catastrophe — including trying to track down the formidable Rebrov, a wanted criminal intent on detonating a nuclear warhead and destroying the world.

Then a freak accident harms someone close to George. Lazarus won’t let him turn back time to undo it — unless there is the threat of global extinction. Now George must choose to stay loyal or go rogue, as he is faced with the question: if you had the power to rewrite your past, what would you sacrifice to do it…?