Under the pretext of finding the murderer of his nephew, an old man suffering from dementia accepts a clinical trial allowing him to recover his memory. A moving inner thriller in six episodes.
Adaptations of novels in series are commonplace on American screens. Rarer, on the other hand, are those which are scripted by their author, such as The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grayin VF), declination in miniseries of the eponymous book of the African-American writer Walter Mosley (author of Devil in blue dress).
This intimate drama, the first episodes of which are available on Apple TV+ on Friday March 11, features Ptolemy Gray (Samuel L. Jackson), a nonagenarian suffering from dementia, who lives reclusively in a decrepit apartment where his memories are piled up. When his only contact with the outside world, his nephew Reggie (Omar Benson Miller), is murdered, he accepts a clinical trial allowing him to recover his memory, and all his faculties… for a few days. He is accompanied, in this ultimate return to life, by a young friend of the family, Robyn (Dominique Fishback), who settles in with him.
At first, we think we are dealing with a thriller with light fantasy accents – the medical procedure is purely fictitious – but Ptolemy’s investigation and his “miracle” treatment are only pretexts. What really matters is the double confrontation of a man at the end of his life with his memory on the one hand, and on the other with a young woman in search of a new beginning.
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