{"id":4024,"date":"2011-12-26T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2011-12-26T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:46:32","slug":"richard-roxburgh%e2%80%99s-rake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"Richard Roxburgh\u2019s Rake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rake_S1_BR_b.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2759\" title=\"Rake_S1_BR_b\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rake_S1_BR_b-120x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Running a compact 8 episodes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/p2r\/3879_RakeS1.htm\"><strong>Rake<\/strong> <\/a>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4018\">M<\/a>] (2010) may be one of the best shows to come out of Australia, and for the present time it seems it&#8217;s only available on\u00a0an (obviously) Australian DVD\u00a0&amp; Blu-ray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Star Richard Roxburgh plays Cleaver Greene, a human train wreck in-motion, consistently upsetting the personal and pofessional lives of friends, associates, peers, and family.\u00a0The lead character is more than faithful to the essence\u00a0and malicious potential\u00a0of a rake &#8211; one who is morally loose, at odds with conventional society, a great big shit.<\/p>\n<p>The series reminds me of a short-lived Canadian show, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385482\/\">This is Wonderland<\/a><\/strong>, which the CBC slowly destroyed by avoiding a consistent broadcast\u00a0schedule duing its second and third seasons.\u00a0Of the 3 years, only Season 1 appeared on DVD, and the show&#8217;s long forgotten, except by a small coterie of aficionados.\u00a0 (Guess who.) Both series\u00a0involve\u00a0oddball solicitors and clients, but <strong>Rake<\/strong> is genuinely special for its vicious black humour, and Roxburgh&#8217;s richly textured performance.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review, seek out the video, and relish\u00a0the immorality of <strong>Rake<\/strong>&#8216;s Cleaver Greene.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 1 review of Richard Roxburgh&#8217;s Rake (2010), one of the best shows to emerge from Australia, if not the most deliciously dark-witted in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[969,970,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-12U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}