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Drama based on the novels by Edward St Aubyn, following the life of witty and wealthy aristocrat Patrick Melrose as he attempts to recover from a severe drug addiction he developed as a way to deal with memories of a deeply traumatic childhood. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jennifer Jason Leigh
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David Butcher
Benedict Cumberbatch has a ball here playing the damaged hero of Edward St Aubyn’s lacerating novels. Sure, watching an upper-class drug addict careering around 1980s New York won’t be everyone’s idea of fun, but Cumberbatch makes it a joy to watch – in a decadent, depraved sort of way.
We’ve got used to seeing him in superhero roles like Sherlock and Doctor Strange, so it’s great to be reminded what a classy comic actor Cumberbatch is, equally at home with a sardonic one-liner or a pratfall – of which there are plenty.
Patrick is a wealthy waster, a brilliant wreck with a terrible pain from his childhood that no amount of uppers or downers can quite erase. When he gets a phone call telling him he needs to collect his dead father’s remains from New York, it sets up a plot you might precis as, “Seems I picked the wrong week to kick heroin.”
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rolenamePatrick MelroseBenedict CumberbatchJohnny HallPrasanna PuwanarajahBridget Watson ScottHolliday GraingerJuliaJessica RaineEleanor MelroseJennifer Jason LeighThomas MelroseDainton AndersonDavid MelroseHugo Weaving
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