Tomb Raider Netflix show will help Lara deal with her grief so she can finally “start working on other sh*t”

The Tomb Raider animated series will be making its debut on Netflix later this year. The show is set to follow on from the events of the rebooted Survivor trilogy, which those who have played the games will know saw Lara Croft lose more than one friend (in fact, Rhianna Pratchett admitted to me the first game in the series became a “cavalcade of death”).

Now, speaking with Nerdist, the Tomb Raider series’ showrunner Tasha Huo said Lara will deal with the resulting grief in the first season of The Legend of Lara Croft, so she can finally “start working on other shit”.

“This series… really acts as a bridge between the origin story to the Lara that we fell in love with in the ’90s, when we first started picking up the games,” Huo told the publication. “That Lara was very quippy, very confident.”

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