Name: Patrick Melrose
Released: 2018-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Allison Williams

TV Show · Drama · Comedy

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.

2018 · 59m

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Allison Williams

Director Edward Berger

EPISODE 1

Bad News

Despite being in the grip of an all-consuming heroin addiction, Patrick flies from London to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Assuring his friends that he will detox during the trip, Patrick indulges in a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in an attempt to supress his past.

57m
EPISODE 2

Never Mind

It’s 1967, Lacoste, and the Melroses are hosting a dinner party for their friends in their chateau. However, it is also the time when eight-year-old Patrick’s world is turned upside down after he endures a traumatic event which will cloud his life forever.

58m
EPISODE 3

Some Hope

In 1990s England, we see Patrick, now thirty-one, clean and practicing law. The invitation to a high society event in the Cotswolds allows Patrick to see this decadent world through sober eyes for the first time and comes one step closer to resolving his troubled childhood.

55m
EPISODE 4

Mother's Milk

It’s 2003 and Patrick is now forty-four and married to Mary with two sons. Patrick may be off the heroin but is struggling with substance abuse when his ill mother makes an illicit request, and the Melrose family return to London to face the future.

55m
EPISODE 5

At Last

It’s 2005 and Patrick’s life-long wish comes true with mixed results which allows him to think about his future.

55m