Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus hits Adult Swim in April
Today, Adult Swim announced today that Lazarus will debut on April 5th with encores hitting Max on Thursdays beginning April 10th. Along with the announcement, Adult Swim also dropped a new Lazarus trailer teasing how the show’s story is kicked into motion when people start discovering that a popular, seemingly-harmless painkiller is actually a deadly poison designed to eliminate humanity.
In a statement about the show, Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen sand Watanabe’s praises and said the network was “lucky to be able to watch this genius do his thing.”
“We’re talking Watanabe here — this show is an amazing mix of great characters, super fun high-stakes, brilliant directing, and of course, some pretty great music,” Ouweleen said.
When we spoke with Watanabe about Lazarus last year, he didn’t want to share too much about how the show will be a rumination on the real world opioid crisis, but he promised that “all my thoughts about the future are reflected pretty strongly in the series, and I want people to experience it for themselves.”