Patrick Melrose

About Patrick Melrose

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.

Patrick Melrose is a drama series made for Showtime. It ran for one season of 5 episodes between May 2018 and June 2018.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Patrick Melrose, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Eleanor Melrose, Hugo Weaving as David Melrose, and Sebastian Maltz as Young Patrick Melrose. It comes from Rachael Horovitz Productions and SunnyMarch. The story is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under drug addiction, alcoholism, and miniseries.

Looking for Alaska, The Shining, and Run Away make useful companions to Patrick Melrose. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 349 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.