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Patrick Melrose Confronts his Demons in "At Last"

Add caption Words are not enough to express how much I loved Showtime’s Patrick Melrose. The first few minutes of the first episode already had me hooked. I was in awe of how much Benedict Cumberbatch became this character. In Patrick Melrose, he became a recovering drug and alcohol addict who was sexually abused by his father at a very young age. After the first episode, we got a bit more insight into the real reason why Patrick kept pumping himself of heroine, cocaine and alcohol. “At Last”, Patrick came to terms with the fact that he was actually abused by his father and somewhat neglected by his mother. He has to confront his past one last time at his mother’s funeral. He was not able to do he eulogy and he had a panic attack. This scene was one of my favorite scenes and I couldn’t help but feel so terrible for Patrick because I kept thinking about what a little child could go through under the hands of a sexually abusive parent. Add caption The finale is just as ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is a Troubled Addict in Patrick Melrose

I consider Benendict Cumberbatch as one of my favorite actors so I was so excited when it was announced that he would play the very troubled titular character of Showtime 's Patrick Melrose. Cumberbatch is a phenomenal actor and I knew he was going to be superb in this role. There's just something about him and the characters he plays and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a bit obsessed with the Sherlock actor. The five-part mini-series based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn tracks Patrick from a privileged but deeply traumatic childhood in the South of France through severe substance abuse in his twenties in New York and, ultimately, toward recovery back home in Britain. I couldn't think of anyone more fit to play this role than Cumberbatch. It was intense, funny and filled with a lot of emotion. Patrick has regular mood swings and through flash backs we see that he was abused by his father when he was much younger. He was an addict and within the first ...