Published: August 15, 2018
In its fifth and final season, Rake’s Cleaver Greene is a key player in the Australian Senate – and the ideal anti-hero for the Trump era
The fifth and final season of ABC TV’s ever-sparkling comedic drama Rake encompasses all manner of familiar political crises: celebrity-buffoon politicians, corrupt banks, sexting scandals and swift decapitations of sitting prime ministers.
And yet the political melodrama contains nothing quite as inflammatory as the current reality of #Auspol – and a parliament where defamatory, racially loaded and sexist remarks by elected leaders are now the norm.
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