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'''''Raw''''' is an Irish [[Dramedy]] focused on the young, good-looking, hard-partying staff of a hip Dublin restaurant, named 'Raw'. Uniquely (by the standards of Irish television), most of the characters are foreigners - only four of the eight main characters in series one are Irish (and two of those four are from [[Stroke Country]] and thus technically immigrants). Arguably, this is a case of [[Truth in Television]]. But by series three there are only two properly non-Irish in the lead cast.
The main character is JoJo, a 22-year-old heavy-drinking, heavy-drugging, short-tempered cook from [[Stroke Country]] who unexpectedly takes in her older brother, Shane. Shane, a solicitor, married man and heretofore success story, has gone on the run from his job and wife and is now employed as a lowly kitchen porter in 'Raw'. JoJo and Shane live with English barman Bobby, a charming chancer who is the unrequited love of JoJo's life, but has eyes only for waitress and student Rebecca. Then there is the tyrannical Australian Sous Chef Geoff, the timid Czech waiter Pavel and, above them all, dissolute Chef Mal and his ambitious English wife, Tanya.
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This all changes fast in series two though.
Not to be confused with [[WWE Raw|WWE Monday Night Raw]]
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: A [[Running Gag]] in season 1 is people mistaking Pavel for Polish when he is Czech. The character was originally written as Polish but the nationality was changed when Czech actor Krystof Hadek was cast.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: JoJo seems like she's heading in this direction in series 4.
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