Patrick Melrose

MONDAY, 9.30PM, FOXTEL BBC FIRST

Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes the titular role in this screen adaptation of the novels of Edward St Aubyn. The series follows the life of privileged Brit Patrick (Cumberbatch), from his childhood in the South of France to his fraught relationship with his abusive father and alcoholic mother and his slow descent into drug abuse in New York. Brilliantly harrowing.