7.059 minSeason 5 • Episode 8
LatestMorrow has been toppled, aided and abetted by his half-brother Joe, Cal McGregor is now PM. Following an international incident and a monumental cover up, will the capitol implode whilst our heroes chose to explode?
Cleaver Greene is not about politics or morality or even justice. Cleaver Greene is about the law. And it is his passion for the law that drives him to use his formidable intelligence to defend people whom society and the justice system might otherwise convict without a fair trial. He uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of human nature and the Byzantine intricacies of our legal codes to guarantee that his clients get what is theirs by the law; the right to a diligent defence.
Acting
Richard Roxburgh's gleeful self-destruction is magnetic
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it'll cut you — then buy you a drink
Production
Sydney's seedy underbelly never looked this seductive
Creators
Richard Roxburgh, Peter Duncan, Charles Waterstreet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Co-creator Charles Waterstreet is a real Sydney barrister whose life inspired Cleaver's most unhinged cases — art imitates life imitates absolute chaos.
Rake became Australia's answer to House — both feature brilliant men who'd be unemployable without their genius, and both somehow made audiences love them anyway.
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