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Patrick Melrose - Season 1
Based on Edward St. Aubyn's series of novels, Melrose hilariously skewers the upper class with the odyssey of Patrick Melrose, an aristocratic and outrageously funny playboy who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned the behavior.Each of the five episodes will tackle one of Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last. The first book illustrated Melrose's childhood abuse at the hands of his father, while the sequels tracked his life through drug abuse, recovery, and fatherhood.
3 August 1970, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
14 May 1973, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
11 December 1948, Paris, France
24 September 1950, London, England, UK
5 May 1973, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
30 November 1964, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales, UK
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1954, London, England, UK
12 September 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
1977, Cork, Ireland
13 April 1988, Connecticut, USA
May 14, 2018
Stream it, but only because of the great actors involved. But we're wary that this will be a showcase of excess that doesn't play well on TV.
May 14, 2018
Lucky the first episode of Patrick Melrose, based on the book Bad News, which aired on Sky Atlantic last night, renders all fears misplaced.
May 10, 2018
Parts of it are wickedly funny; other parts are searingly dramatic. But all of it is riveting, and excellent.
May 11, 2018
Cumberbatch's performance is a masterpiece of vulgarity.
May 11, 2018
Difficult to withstand, more often than not, Patrick Melrose is much more than just an acting showcase for Benedict Cumberbatch and Hugo Weaving.
May 14, 2018
A limited series can't only be about one man's performance, even if the actor does his part to earn the responsibility.
May 11, 2018
Brilliant performance by a great actor in a desperately grim story.
May 14, 2018
But it's Cumberbatch's performance that will grab you from the start.
May 11, 2018
Cumberbatch puts in a magnificently mercurial shift in a five-part adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's chronicling of childhood trauma and the substance abuse that became its terrible corollary in adulthood.
May 11, 2018
Even those who believe posh, rich people don't deserve to have problems might be won over by Cumberbatch.
