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Everyone plays this outlandish supernaturally charged whodunnit with a remarkably straight face, except for Bill Nighy, who looks like he’s having the most fun
Psychiatrist Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin, right) has a heart to heart with the ghost of father Jonathan (Bill Nighy) in the silly Lazarus. Photo: Prime Video
You don’t go to the trouble of hiring the great Bill Nighy only to kill his character off in the first five minutes.
So it’s neither a surprise nor a spoiler to reveal that eminent psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Lazarus (Nighy), who dies, apparently by suicide, at the start of Lazarus (Prime Video, all episodes available Wednesday, October 23), reappears at the end of the first epis