Sky has released the very first trailer for their upcoming original production Patrick Melrose, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character. You can see this first Patrick Melrose trailer below.
Patrick Melrose trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch leads the cast
Patrick Melrose is based on the acclaimed semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St Aubyn. The new five-part drama from Sky Atlantic and SHOWTIME® skewers the upper class as it tracks its protagonist’s outrageous journey, from a deeply traumatic childhood through to adult substance abuse and, ultimately, towards recovery. The Patrick Melrose saga is subversive, savage and above all funny.
Each episode is devoted to one of the five Patrick Melrose novels. From abuse to addiction, episode one opens as the twenty-something Patrick flies to New York to collect his father’s ashes and goes on to spend a drug-crazed 24 hours. Episode two, set in the South of France in the 60s, takes place in the family’s chateau where the sadistic and terrifying David Melrose (Hugo Weaving) dominates the lives of his son Patrick and his rich and unhappy American mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Episode three offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery, and episode four shows the now-married Patrick as a father, struggling with child rearing, adultery and his mother’s desire for assisted suicide. Finally, in episode five Patrick tries to solve the puzzle of his parents, and gropes towards tentative recovery.
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The star-studded cast also includes Anna Madeley (The Crown), Blythe Danner (Meet the Fockers), Allison Williams (Girls), Pip Torrens (The Crown), Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife), Prasanna Puwanarajah (Doctor Foster), Holliday Grainger (Strike), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) and Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Baby).
BAFTA Award nominee David Nicholls (Far from the Madding Crowd, One Day) has written all five episodes of the television adaptation. Director Edward Berger (Deutschland 83, Jack) has brilliantly recreated each era, with a unique visual style for each episode.
The series will be available in the UK and Ireland on Sky Atlantic and TV streaming service NOW TV later this year. Watch the Patrick Melrose trailer in the player below.
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