Rake

2010 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
4.8
132 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (8)

1 Episode 1
2/8/14
Season-only
Except for the food, the senseless violence and fear for his life, prison isn't all bad for Cleaver Greene. His cell-mate Malcolm protects him from those out to kill him, Cal, Col, and the Corella brothers.
2 Episode 2
2/15/14
Season-only
Armed with secret knowledge learned in prison Cleaver outsmarts the hanging judges on his appeal-bench, but life outside isn't all 'Vogue Living'. He is a legal pariah, jobless, homeless and phoneless, and while he has been inside, his world has been sliding towards chaos.
3 Episode 3
2/22/14
Season-only
Luck can turn on the toss of a coin. The humiliation of Missy's film (with a famous actor as Cleaver) leads to a drug-fuelled casino binge with young traders Horny and Paul, and enough winnings to buy a share in a restaurant.
4 Episode 4
3/1/14
Season-only
The seemingly random murder of a security guard at Tikki Wendon Enterprises brings Felicity back into Cleaver's life. However, if her friends are not the world's least competent murderers, they are definitely the least co-operative defendants.
5 Episode 5
3/8/14
Season-only
One man's meat is another man's misery. Cleaver is retained for a low rent tawdry sex offence. Royal Commissions that have decimated David's front bench mean that even barrel-bottom Cleaver Greene is getting briefs.
6 Episode 6
3/15/14
Season-only
Cleaver is determined to win Felicity's heart, but God has other ideas - wickedly nasty ideas that see Cleaver subjected to perhaps the worst relay race of humiliations he has ever faced.
7 Episode 7
3/22/14
Season-only
Siege veteran Cleaver leads Wendy, Fuzz and Prue out of Roger's hostage crisis, but is accidentally shot in the buttock. The emergency at least brings Felicity and Missy to his side and the baton is passed.
8 Episode 8
3/29/14
Season-only
Something is seriously awry in Cleaver's world. His practice is booming. Barney is thriving. Kirsty has bought him out of the restaurant and he is falling deeply in love with Felicity who, despite herself, seems to reciprocate.

About this show

Brilliant, iconoclastic and innately self-destructive, Cleaver Greene, played by Richard Roxburgh, is one of life's great addicts. Whether it's women, gambling or drugs, Cleaver can resist everything except temptation. His other addiction is the law - defending those who seem to be beyond redemption - society's hopeless: our drug dealers, our murderers, our cannibals. As charming and as irresistible as Cleaver Greene is, when you let him into your world, be warned, trouble is bound to follow.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
132 reviews
A Google user
August 27, 2016
I once worked in a DVD shop in Sydney, when a well dressed gentleman walked in and ask for a copy of rake on DVD. He said that his friend had a highly recommend it and when I ask why he replied ' I am a massive friend Rake and I'm in it'. I did him who he was what is mild and walked off. This is an epic series with dark humour which lends itself to those people who may not believe that this sort of stuff happens in life. Again it is true.
Jen Noble
July 22, 2016
Cleaver meets the classic definition of rake, a dissolute promiscuous self indulgent man which leads him his own progressive deterioration, he is not fashionable or wealthy but hey he is raking it in by every other a measure. What a clever name for the series. His character has charisma, the Aussie bloke, sentimental fool, a great lover, he truly does love all the women that are fortunate or unfortunate to cross his path and catch his wondering eye, and never a dull moment. The series is littered with an array of staple characters that give great supporting roles performances and enhance Cleaver's character through his miscreant ways and introduce new characters that keep the series a series you want to keep going back to just to see what is install for Cleaver and what will be inflicted upon him and those closest to him and how many bullets he can dodge, more often than not literal. The staple characters in his life evolve or at least try to, which keeps it interesting, but Cleaver never changes and he accepts all this albeit sometimes not that well, but in the end he deals with this. Great Aussie Drama.Simply Brilliant!
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Dean Gordon
August 30, 2016
Addictive.😅Say no more