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No, this is not the US remake of “honey in the head”! The six-part miniseries, based on a novel by Walter Mosley, sees a Samuel L. Jackson at his best, who, in the role of the demented Ptolemy Grey, is not a loveable, forgetful Zauselopa à la Dieter Hallervorden, but a fierce 91-year-old messy who is abandoned and lives forgotten in a smelly, cluttered apartment with no working toilet and subsists on canned beans.
Only with difficulty does he gain confidence in the teenage girl Robyn, who moves in with him and brings order to his life. “Sometimes I just want to forget,” he claims, but is persuaded to try an experimental drug that will give him a brief pause in his thinking before dozing off in a sleep of forgetfulness for the rest of his life. And the first thing he does when he regains his sanity is to solve the murder of his grandnephews. But the newfound clarity also forces Ptolemy Gray to confront his own past. (AppleTV+)
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