In “Homecoming,” Stephan James played a soldier losing his memories as a treatment for PTSD. In “Surface,” he’s on the other side of the brain fog.
The Apple TV+ psychological thriller that premiered last week stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman who wakes up from an attempted suicide to find that she has no memories of who she is. As her husband and best friend fill in the blanks for her, James’ Baden, a detective who claims he’s working on Sophie’s case, only causes more confusion with his whispers about the truth no one will tell her.
Walter, James’ “Homecoming” character, faced a similar dilemma. Drugs intended to target specific trauma in soldiers so they would return to the battlefield without fear ended up wiping out names and places, the memories that make a person who they are.
