Patrick Melrose (2018)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 2018-05-12
Last Air Date: 2018-06-09
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 5
Created By: David Nicholls
Networks: Showtime
Top Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick Melrose
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Eleanor Melrose
- Hugo Weaving as David Melrose
- Sebastian Maltz as Young Patrick Melrose
- Jessica Raine as Julia
- Prasanna Puwanarajah as Johnny
- Pip Torrens as Nicolas Pratt
- Indira Varma as Anne Moore
- Anna Madeley as Mary Melrose
- Holliday Grainger as Lady Gravesend
Seasons
Season 1 (2018)
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.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Bad News
London, 1982. Patrick Melrose, 23 years old and in the grip of an all-consuming heroin addiction, flies to New York to collect his father's ashes.
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Ep. 2: Never Mind
France, 1967. During a hot summer's day at the Melrose chateau in Lacoste, 8-year old Patrick explores the grounds, a sanctuary of hiding places from the complex adult world.
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Ep. 3: Some Hope
England, 1990. Patrick Melrose, now 31, is finally clean and practicing law. Despite avoiding social situations and their inevitable temptations, Patrick is persuaded to attend a high society event in the Cotswolds by best friend Johnny.
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Ep. 4: Mother's Milk
France, 2003. Patrick, 44, is now married to Mary, with sons Robert and Thomas. Patrick may be off the heroin, but is back tackling his troubles with substance abuse.
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Ep. 5: At Last
London, 2005. Having always dreamed of being an orphan, Patrick now has his wish at the age of 46. No longer with Mary, Patrick is clean and living alone in a grim bedsit.
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