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Overview

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

  1. David Nicholls

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Patrick Melrose

  2. Cast 1

    Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Eleanor Melrose

  3. Cast 1

    Hugo Weaving

    David Melrose

  4. Cast 1

    Sebastian Maltz

    Young Patrick Melrose

  5. Cast 1

    Jessica Raine

    Julia

Last Season

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Season 1

2018 | 5 episodes

Patrick Melrose is a man from a very privileged yet traumatic childhood in the 1980s. Patrick's father was a very abusive man and Patrick's mother put up with his behavior. Eventually, Patrick's trauma led him down a path of adulthood addiction and severe substance abuse in New York.

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**_Brilliantly acted; equal parts hilarious and harrowing_** > _No, he mustn't think about it, or indeed about anything, and especially not about heroin, because heroin was the one thing that really worked, the only thing that stopped him scampering around in a hamster's wheel of unanswerable questions. Heroin was the cavalry. Heroin was the missing chair leg, made with such precision that it matched every splinter of the break. Heroin landed purring at the base of his skull, and wrapped itself darkly around his nervous system, like a black cat curling up on its favourite cushion. It was as...

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeMiniseries

Original LanguageEnglish 

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