Patrick Melrose (TV Miniseries)

TV Miniseries (2018). 5 Episodes. Patrick Melrose (Benedict Cumberbatch) struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father (Hugo Weaving) and the mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who tacitly condoned his behavior... Each episode, devoted to one of the five novels of Edward St. Aubyn, is written for television by BAFTA Award® nominee David Nicholls ("Far from the Madding Crowd", "One Day") and directed by Edward Berger ("Deutchland 83", "Jack"). A co-production between SHOWTIME and Sky Atlantic, this saga encompasses the South of France in the 1960s, New York in the 1980s and Britain in the early 2000s.