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Patrick Melrose - Season 1
Benedict Cumberbatch is PATRICK MELROSE, son of a decadent and damaged aristocratic family who embarks on a one-man odyssey of redemption and recovery. Armed with considerable charm and a withering wit, Patrick navigates his debaucherous life from decade to decade, from the South of France to New York and London, proving the Melrose poison is the hardest habit to break.
1977, London, England, UK
17 June 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
11 March 1952, Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK
19 February 1953, UK
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria
1 July 1980, Oxford, England, UK
10 October 1955, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
May 14, 2018
But it's Cumberbatch's performance that will grab you from the start.
May 11, 2018
Cumberbatch's performance is a masterpiece of vulgarity.
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
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
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 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 10, 2018
Parts of it are wickedly funny; other parts are searingly dramatic. But all of it is riveting, and excellent.
May 11, 2018
Brilliant performance by a great actor in a desperately grim story.
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
Even those who believe posh, rich people don't deserve to have problems might be won over by Cumberbatch.