Network: FOX
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: January 23, 2014 — June 27, 2014
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Greg Kinnear, John Ortiz, Necar Zadegan, Bojana Novakovic, David Harbour, Tara Summers, Miranda Otto, and Ian Colletti.
TV show description:
A legal drama, based on an Australian series of the same name, this show follows the comedic and chaotic life of a criminal defense lawyer. Keegan Deane (Greg Kinnear) is often described as many things but none of them are very flattering.
Brilliant and frustratingly charming, Keegan is one of life’s great addicts. His staggering lack of discretion and inability to self-censor land him the cases that nobody else will touch. Behind that lies a resolute optimism and belief in justice that fuel his dogged determination to defend those who seem beyond redemption.
He always tries to do the right thing, but at the same time struggles to save himself from the many self-destructive elements that plague his own life, such as his overindulgence in women, gambling and other excesses.
Keegan gets a majority of his cases from his best friend since law school, Ben Leon (John Ortiz). Ben’s married to Scarlet (Necar Zadegan), another of Keegan’s old friends. She’s an Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney and quite often Keegan’s opponent in court.
Keegan also has plenty of personal trials and tribulations, including his mounting debt to his bookie and his overlapping liaisons with various women. Melissa “Mikki” Partridge (Bojana Novakovic) is his favorite prostitute and de-facto love interest.
And then there’s his ongoing battle with the IRS. He’s being prosecuted by David Potter (David Harbour), an IRS tax attorney. He looks ten years younger than his age and has been nicknamed “Harry Potter” by Keegan.
Thankfully Keegan has Leanne Zander (Tara Summers), his no-nonsense assistant, to help clean up his messes. His ex-wife, psychologist Maddy (Miranda Otto), begrudgingly acts as his therapist. She’s also the mother of their hormonal son, Finn (Ian Colletti), who displays many of the same tendencies as his father.
Episode #13 — “Man’s Best Friend”
Keegan defends a close friend and well-respected doctor accused of animal cruelty, Scarlet’s campaign against David Potter takes a nasty turn when information about Mikki’s past gets leaked to the press and Ben gets tied up in a federal investigation when his firm’s finances are questioned.
First aired: April 5, 2014
What do you think? Do you like the Rake TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season?
Love,Love the show!!!!
Love this show!
Great show, shocking but true content. I hope it stays on!
This is a great show. Please don’t cancel it.
Please keep the series Rake going , I liked it can I thought the actors and actress’s were great !!
We LOVE this show – why are they cancelling it already? Greg Kinnear is perfect in the part and so is the whole cast. I hope they reconsider. We look forward to it each week already.
Not much of a TV watcher, but love RAKE. The writing is superb; absolutely hilarious! The actors couldn’t be more well cast. We need more TV shows of this caliber. I guarantee it will be a big hit. Please do not cancel.
Great show! Not happy about the coc k fight, but otherwise, very entertaining.
RAKE is a great show- but please, tell the writers… NO MORE ANIMAL ABUSE. Not sure who wrote the script with the cockfight… but if they want to keep their ratings up… they better wise up! Greg Kinnear is terrific- plays the part of Keenan perfectly! Look forward to it every week- please don’t cancel this show!!
I will never watch Rake again, seeing the c ock fight made me sick, how can they even show such inhumane action on television, I watched this episode until they show a coc k fight, and turned it off, I will never watch Rake again.
Please tell me we are not going to lose this crazy,what’s going on,makes no sense but
so great to watch tv show …do the cutting on the reality (what a joke) shows
one of the best shows on tv ,brillant writers ,greg is terrific, fast moving ,one seems like 30 minutes needs to be advertised more DONT CANCELL THIS SHOW//////
great show, hope it goes on forever
I love this show! It is the best show on TV… in my opinion. The writing is brilliant and I love Greg Kinnear’s face. I am so sick of reality shows… Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty… are you kidding me? We need more shows like this!
I love the show and what could Fox possibly replace it with, so don’t even try. I remember seeing the first pro mo for the show. Every reminder alarm etc on my ipad , I initiated.