Will there be another season of Patrick Melrose?
Though nothing has been confirmed officially, it looks like the Sky mini-series will just be a one-off.
Patrick Melrose premiered on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV on May 13.
It ran for five episodes and ended this weekend.
The series was billed as a limited series which means it is unlikely to continue.
Based on the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn, each of the five episodes was based on each of the five novels in the series.
So the story of the character of Patrick Melrose (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is concluded.
Cumberbatch himself that the role was something he had been very interested in portraying on-screen since reading the books.
“When he’s pushing himself to the very limit of his capacity to consume drugs, at near a suicidal limit, and that sort of leaps off the pages and actually, like oh my God, that would be an extraordinary thing to try and play or portray,” he told Deadline.
When will Patrick Melrose season 2 be released?
It’s highly unlikely that there will be a second season so fans should enjoy the current five episodes as a once-off work of art.
Some fries go beyond their source material, The Handmaid’s Tale for example, but this will likely not be the case for this show.
The huge ensemble cast would also be difficult to gather again due to there schedules.
Cumberbatch for instance, is currently listed as having nine upcoming projects on IMDB.
The other in-demand cast members in the series include Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Celia Imerie and Blythe Danner.
Screenwriter David Nicholls said that adapting the novels into a series was “daunting”.
“Pile the five books on top of each other and that’s 900 pages of prose, page after page of brilliant dialogue, scores of named characters, events covering 40 years plus a complicated family history,” he said.
“It was all quite overwhelming, and I don’t think I’ve ever worked quite so hard on a project. We wanted to remain faithful to novels that were never intended to work as a TV show.”
Patrick Melrose is streaming on NOW TV
