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Yeah Nah. But as I wrote on the Media and Entertainment board yesterday.
Best Australian drama or sit com this century and for a long time before that. The first episode of this series where he was screwing the NSW premier was ****en brilliant. Up there with the episode when Sam Neil played Dr Chandler and was having sex with the family dog!
The writing is what is bloody brilliant. Its always about good writing. That's why Shakespeare has lasted 400 years. It's easier to find good actors than good writers. When you have both the results can be dynamite.
I heard Richard Roxburgh on ABC morning radio in Adelaide the morning of this seasons first eposide and he talked a lot about the writers and the scripts and how good they are as well as how much fun, plus about his fellow actors.
Lots of highlights in eposide 1 (inc the hydrogen peroxide and anal bleaching bit in court) but the best bit was the bit with the drunk clown at Scarlet and Barney's son's 7th birthday party. The clown recognises Clever from the papers as his affair with the premier was all over the news, calls him a Tory and then Clever gives a monologue why right wing chicks are better to screw than left wing chicks. Love how it ends with him saying;
And this Mr Clown is the real reason why the left has carked it,
Because the right are out there procreating whilst the left are grooming a dead dog.
Clown drunk says - my mother was a communist,
Clever says - oh so you were adopted.... Clown shoves Clever into birthday cake stand and destroys the day
If you want to watch the whole monologue then move the cursour to 34:00 minute mark.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rake/episodes/s02ep01.htm
I was really disappointed the way episode 4 finished. I was hoping the Julian Assange type character was going to be there for 2 or 3 episodes and Clever with his new found wealth would get up to some new shenanigans.
This is the best stuff Richard Roxburgh has done since he played Detective Roger Rogerson in Blue Murder. He has done plenty of good work in between in films and TV around the world including playing Bob Hawke in Hawke, but these two roles he has been truely brilliant.
