Lazarus season 2 future addressed by showrunner as Prime Video thriller premieres

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from Lazarus.

Prime Video drama Lazarus is now available to stream, but what has been revealed regarding the thriller's potential future?

Featuring Bill Nighy and Peaky Blinders' Sam Claflin, the six-episode series centres on Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin) who experiences visions of victims from unsolved murder cases that were previously treated by his late psychiatrist father Dr Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy).

Joel subsequently discovers far more than he anticipated, which ultimately guides him towards uncovering the reality behind his father's demise as well as his sister's killing 25 years earlier.

Prior to Lazarus launching on Prime Video, co-creator Harlan Coben discussed with Screen Time whether plans exist for a second series.

While he acknowledged that a second season remains unlikely, he clarified that it wasn't completely ruled out.

Coben revealed: "This is a complete story. We've agreed from the beginning when we started working together that we were not going to be that group that doesn't answer all the questions.

"So you get all of the answers by the end of the show. Do we leave a door open? Yeah, perhaps.

"I don't know about a season two. The only thing we've all agreed is if we don't think a season two is going to be as good or better than season one, let's just move on to our next story, we've been lucky enough to do that.

"If people watch it and demand it and we come up with an idea that we all love, yes, and if not, no. We're not going to push it.

"People need to leave happy with what they've seen, not frustrated that they haven't got what they wanted", said executive producer Nicola Shindler.

However, the final episode of Lazarus suggests there might be room for the thriller to carry on.

In the concluding episode of Lazarus, Joel confronts DS Alison Brown (Kate Ashfield), convinced she's responsible for his father's death.

He suspected her of being the killer who either murdered his father's patients or used them as scapegoats to make it seem like she was solving her cases.

But a tape recording of a conversation between Alison and Jonathan revealed the shocking truth.

Joel's father had been the murderer, thinking he was aiding the "broken" by ending their suffering or eliminating those who were a threat to others.

Alison, who had agreed to conceal his murders and attribute their deaths to others, now burdened with guilt, threatened to disclose everything to the authorities.

She then presented him with the choice to end his own life, giving Jonathan a gun which he reluctantly accepted.

Jonathan's ghost informed his son that he believed time was "cyclical" and that Joel possessed the same killer instinct, something he refused to acknowledge.

It was only in the last few months when Lazarus went to visit his love interest Laura that he found his son Aiden standing in the doorway, holding a bloodied hooked knife.

So, could Jonathan have been correct about killer instincts being inherited?

And does this leave the door ajar for another series?

Lazarus is available to watch on Prime Video.