The actor plays a father taking a journey across New York City in search of answers about his family in this adaptation of Victor LaValle's novel.
LaKeith Stanfield, playing a single note with building intensity, stars as Apollo, a dealer in antiquarian books. As earnest about romance as he is about uncovered first editions, Apollo finds love with Emma . When Emma becomes pregnant, Apollo is determined to be a better dad than his own father , who abandoned his Ugandan immigrant mother . Or maybe he didn’t.
Believing himself the hero of this story, Apollo embarks on a journey trying to get to the root of what Emma did and why. But is Apollo’s hero’s journey toward answers or toward understanding that, when it comes to babies and their mothers, there are always things that even the most devoted and well-intentioned fathers can never understand? So who is actually the hero inbegins, narrated by LaValle, with the words “Once upon a time,” but its actual DNA is far more complicated.
In the fifth and six episodes, some actual progress is made and you can see the fairy-tale structure of the story beginning to take shape. There are welcome guest turns by a very funny Steve Zissis — in a show that desperately needs more humor and whimsy — as a denizen of New York City’s underground and Jane Kaczmarek as a woman with some answers. Then the seventh episode hits and embodies everything I respected and was exhausted by in the series.
For all of the variation in the story’s influences, there’s insufficient variation in the tone and my investment ceased to be in the characters or their circumstances; I was left, instead, just being generally curious what points the show would try to make next.
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