Plot
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.
Cast
as Patrick Melrose
as Eleanor Melrose
as David Melrose
as Young Patrick Melrose
as Julia
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 12, 2018
Last Aired Date
June 9, 2018
Production Companies
Little Island Productions
Two Cities Television
SunnyMarch
Rachael Horovitz Productions
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
5
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Gallery
Reviews
**_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 …
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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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