Patrick Melrose (2018) Reviews & Ratings

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Patrick Melrose reviews

Patrick Melrose holds a 7.5/10 average from 343 TMDB ratings.

**_Brilliantly acted; equal parts hilarious and harrowing_** > _No, he mustn't think about it, or indeed about anything, and especially not about heroin, because heroin was the one thing that really worked, the only thing that stopped him scampering around in a hamster's wheel of unanswerable questions. Heroin was the cavalry. Heroin was the missing chair leg, made with such precision that it matched every splinter…
— Stephen Campbell (7/10)

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

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