WARNING: Slight spoilers below There was really no one better than Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Patrick Melrose. Showtime’s harrowing adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn’s novels depict the horrors of a half-known life of English privilege and waning aristocracy within a dysfunctional family. Based on the trailer, there appears to be a happier ending to what begins as a shock to the system. Not since the 1987 film, White Mischief, has a filmed event so perfectly captured dissolute and hedonistic ennui lavishly hovering over a hellish home life, this time inside a glorious chateau in the South of France. This fig […]
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