Bill Murray’s movie wrote the playbook, but TV is playing catchup with a rich haul of time-loop shows from Life After Life to The Time Traveler’s Wife and now The Lazarus Project. So why do the writers curse themselves every day?
in an increasingly crowded category: time-loop TV.
There is also an element of nostalgia, of yearning for past events and safe, familiar places. “I think nostalgia is hardwired into us,” says Barton. “We obsess over our personal histories and go over them constantly in our minds but can never actually access them. There’s that quote: ‘The past is a foreign country’, and we do look at it almost as a place that’s so close but impossible to reach.
There’s something underlying the human brain that makes us think we actually live like that. Who knows? Maybe we doThey might seem trippy, but there is a familiar rhythm to time-loop plots. They start with a spooky shiver of deja vu, escalate into sheer panic, then become a mystery box puzzle. There’s amusement along the way, as viewers spot both the sameness and differences in the repeating days.
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