No, your eyes don't deceive you – Harlan Coben's Lazarus is coming to Prime Video on October 22. Why is this unusual? The bestselling author's name has become synonymous with Netflix, so much so that there's an entire Harlan Coben Collection you can browse at your leisure.
Past hits like Missing You, The Stranger and Fool Me Once all make up the roster, which came under a five-year adaptation deal Coben had with the streamer. As of 2025, that's come to an end, and Coben's first big project after has gone to its rival. So, is this the end of the Coben-Netflix partnership we've come to know and need?
I was convinced this was the case, and Prime Video would now be home to any other Coben series he might want to pursue. But after talking to him and his team, both platforms might have equal access to any future projects.
Harlan Coben 'loves' working with Prime Video and Netflix equally
"Prime Video has been a wonderful partner in this, and Netflix has been a wonderful partner in other shows," Coben explained. "We we feel extraordinarily blessed to work with both them, we love both of them. It's not like 'we are this or that,' or care about that sort of thing, but we do enjoy having partners, who understand what we're doing, give us that space and add to it.
"You hear a lot of nightmare stories about network executives and things like that... we've been extraordinarily lucky in the case of Lazarus, that we had really great people to work with."
Given the colossal success of Fool Me Once, it's not too surprising that the team would want to keep both partnerships happy. Prime Video has roughly 250 million subscribers less than Netflix, meaning it might struggle to recreate the epic water cooler moment with Lazarus.
"Obviously Fool Me Once was enormous," co-creator Danny Brocklehurst adds. "None of us expected it to go so big, and it was fantastic. But I don't think you can necessarily expect that you're going to have that kind of hit every time. We do obviously aspire to aspire to be as popular and successful as we can, but I don't think there's pressure."
In my ideal world, Netflix would be the home of Harlan Coben books adaptations, while Prime Video took gambles on Coben's original scripts, created with Brocklehurst. Then everybody gets the best of both worlds, and not in an unfeasible way.
All we know for now is that other Coben projects are certainly at some stage of development, so watch this space.
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