Rake

2010 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

4.8

132 reviews

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Season 4 episodes (8)

1 Episode 1

5/19/16

Season-only

Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene's decent to earth lands him straight into the clutches of a one time mentor and now powerful criminal on the run, Edgar Thompson. Meanwhile Barney is adrift above the Pacific, while a drug addled Missy blows into town from LA.

2 Episode 2

5/26/16

Season-only

Cleaver's been hiding out in the country posing as a writer, but his cover's blown when Barney appears on Australian Story, complete with images of his best friend. It isn't long before Thompson's goons arrive on the scene.

3 Episode 3

6/2/16

Season-only

Back in the city, Cleaver's been evicted and Wendy reluctantly takes him in. Meanwhile, a nervous Cal McGregor, Premier and DPP conspire to drop most charges against Thompson because he knows too much, but knowing Cleaver still has the goods on him, Thompson plans to frame him for the drug charges. Barney is reeling from the costs of his rescue, while David and Scarlet's romance is slowly being scuttled by her children. Missy is desperate for drugs, and Cleaver's good-hearted attempt to rescue her falls on deaf ears.

4 Episode 4

6/9/16

Season-only

Thompson has Cleaver just about stitched up on the drug charges until Wendy comes to the rescue. Meanwhile Missy's strange behaviour comes to the attention of Cleaver's' old nemesis Cal McGregor who sees a chance to bury Cleaver once and for all. David fights to keep Scarlet with devastating results, while a rejected Nicole is scrolling through her ex-husband Bevan's posts.

5 Episode 5

6/16/16

Season-only

In the wake of Scarlet's death, everyone is affected. David is charged with her murder, a devastated Barney is trying to care for the kids, and for Wendy, it's a wakeup call to move on with her life. Missy is off snorting cocaine with her newfound friend Cal McGregor, while Nicole's renewed her relationship with Bevan.

6 Episode 6

6/23/16

Season-only

David agrees to let Cleaver defend him, and Barney sees it as another betrayal. Meanwhile, Missy, held captive at Wendy's house to 'detox', enlists Fuzz to get her drugs and then seduces him. When Wendy has a date with an old flame, Jack, Cleaver springs into action to prove he's a changed man. When found not guilty, David announces he's standing for the Federal Labor Party in the Senate.

7 Episode 7

6/30/16

Season-only

After David's acquittal Cleaver and Nicole worry about Barney's state of mind, but for Cleaver and David their detente is at an end. Cleaver makes the news with an off the cuff remark about judges to a journalist and ends up disbarred, and Wendy kicks him out. Cleaver's senate candidate sister Jane badmouths him on television, and he claims that he could beat her, even "standing for nothing'.

8 Episode 8

7/7/16

Season-only

Cleaver confirms he's running as an independent Senate candidate, while David has announced he's now running as a Green. Cleaver's still determined to snatch Wendy back from Jack's clutches, but Jack is scheming to get rid of him for good. In 'do good' mode, Cleaver is also planning to get Barney and Nicole back together, while Fuzz has surprising news of his own.

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