Top billed cast

1. 

   Benedict Cumberbatch

   Patrick Melrose

2. 

   Jennifer Jason Leigh

   Eleanor Melrose

3. 

   Hugo Weaving

   David Melrose

4. 

   Sebastian Maltz

   Young Patrick Melrose

5. 

   Jessica Raine

   Julia

6. 

   Prasanna Puwanarajah

   Johnny

7. 

   Pip Torrens

   Nicolas Pratt

8. 

   Indira Varma

   Anne Moore

9. 

   Anna Madeley

   Mary Melrose

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Current Season

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.

Reviews

A review by Stephen Campbell

Written by Stephen Campbell on 2019-06-21

**_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...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Patrick Melrose

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• drug addiction
• alcoholism
• miniseries