Samuel L. Jackson is unforgettable in the new Apple TV+ series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” even when he’s silent, slumped in a lawn chair, and fading away in a monumentally cluttered apartment.
With the help of excellent aging makeup and delicate prosthetics, Jackson gives a precisely physical, everyman performance that feels like his own “Forrest Gump.” Surrounded by canyons of stuff — triggers to his past lives — his aging, brittle character wrestles with dementia while sporadically being triggered by memories that poetically talk about Black America in the 20th century.
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