Synopsis
Rake (2010) is the Australian legal comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. At its centre is Sydney barrister Cleaver Greene, played by Richard Roxburgh — brilliant in a courtroom, a wreck everywhere else.
Cleaver takes the cases nobody else will touch: cannibals, bigamists, the desperate and the plainly guilty. In front of a jury he's electric. Out of court he's drowning in unpaid tax, gambling debts, cocaine, tangled affairs and a friendship with a sex worker who has more sense than he does. Every win he scores, he manages to undo with some fresh personal disaster.
Creator Peter Duncan based Greene loosely on a real Sydney barrister, and the show ran five seasons on ABC before spawning an American remake with Greg Kinnear. Roxburgh carries the whole thing — charming, self-destructive and utterly incorrigible. A good fit for fans of sharp legal dramas like Boston Legal, only meaner and grubbier. Stream every season of Rake (2010) online on iFILM.
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