Patrick Melrose (2018)

05/12/2018 (GB) • 1h

Drama

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

Patrick Melrose

5 Episodes

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Eleanor Melrose

5 Episodes

Hugo Weaving

David Melrose

5 Episodes

Sebastian Maltz

Young Patrick Melrose

5 Episodes

Jessica Raine

Julia

5 Episodes


Last Season

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.

View All Seasons

Recommendations

The Age of A.I.

81%

Inside Lapenko

67%

The Fourth Estate

69%

Koffee with Karan

57%

The Hire

76%

The Last O.G.

63%

The Jim Jefferies Show

65%

Chinese Paladin

80%

V

70%

A Very English Scandal

71%

Time

76%

Mildred Pierce

70%

The Little Drummer Girl

70%

Shaun the Sheep

77%

Millennium

77%

The Kominsky Method

75%

GLOW

73%

The Signal

64%

Dracula

70%

The Goldbergs

75%

Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

based on novel or book

drug addiction

alcoholism

miniseries

© All Rights Reserved 2025