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 There are a lot of conflicting stories in Showtime's new miniseries Patrick Melrose: riches, acquired riches (which is extraordinary), class (which is still distinctive), terrible parenting, drugs, liquor, defeated desire, melancholy . It is quite a considerable summary. In any case, nothing compares to the sensational resonance at the center of the series: when you hurt a child, the damage lasts forever. In England, the five Patrick Melrose books by the writer Edward St Aubyn, who constructs them in the light of his own life, are revered as 21st-century artistic fortunes that reflect on the English class framework, state-funded schools ( which are their form of our non-public schools), the hardened assumption of the British and how, shocked by most of that, shocking occasions are usually not discussed or acknowledged by any stretch of the imagination. Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving The five-part co-generation of Showtime and Sky Atlantic uses each...