History Series / Raw

* TriangRelations: Jojo, Bobby and Rebecca in series one, Jojo, Bobby and Dylan after that. A few others are teased but those are the main ones.

* BrotherChuck: Tiny and Richard vanish after getting fired in Season 3.

* ShesGotLegs: Fiona. Even more impressive, seeing how, as of season 4, she's forty. Kate too. Given that she's Fiona's sister, this is no surprise.

* MeanBrit: Max in season 5. Tanya in Season 1 is a borderline example, but she's soon shown in a more sympathetic light.

* NeverTrustATrailer: A lot of Season 2 previews heavily featured the line from Geoff to Fiona "I have found the sexual tension between us intoxicating" - hyping up that the two might become a couple (and that Geoff might be BiTheWay). In the show it's just one moment of sarcasm and nothing else.

* StraightGay: Geoff, the second series suggested he might be BiTheWay, but Geoff has now confirmed he is only into men. Though he did have a green card marriage with Selena.

Not to be confused with [[Wrestling/WWERaw WWE Monday Night Raw]][[note]]Though amusingly enough, season 1 ''did'' air on Monday nights in Ireland. At the same time Raw is shown in the US (9 o'clock GMT).[[/note]]

* AscendedExtra: Maeve, [=JoJo=] and Shane's mother made a couple of appearances in the second season and becomes a full regular cast member in the third with a story arc of her own. Kate, Fiona's sister could count as well, being added to the season 3 opening credits
* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead: Pavel in series 4.]]

** It did seem very forced that the new owner in the second series was ''yet another'' London blow in. Are there no other cities in the ''Raw'' universe?

* TheCharmer: Bobby

* EveryoneMeetsEveryone[=/=]InMediasRes: A boatload of new characters suddenly arrive in the first episode of series 4. Kate and Fiona's father and sister suddenly rearrive in their lives bringing in-progress-offscreen plotlines with them. A produce-supplier turns up who coincidentally happens to have a history with Fiona. New recruit Philip has a dramatic past he's trying to escape from. And in episode two Geoff's old friend Selena arrived on his doorstep out of nowhere.

* HardGay: Geoff
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Geoff
* TheLadette: [=JoJo=]

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl/ UptightLovesWild: Deconstructed with Shane and Kate's relationship. It's fun at first but it ultimately fails because Shane wants a family while Kate wants to continue her wild lifestyle. The former seems to be the case with Shane's parents - and it goes through similar problems but they're ultimately together again by the end of the series.

* TheSilentBob: Tiny

Not to be confused with [[WWERaw WWE Monday Night Raw]][[note]]Though amusingly enough, season 1 ''did'' air on Monday nights in Ireland. At the same time Raw is shown in the US (9 o'clock GMT).[[/note]]

* ActorAllusion: A RunningGag 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.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Geoff is a male example. Comparing his season 1 behaviour with how he is now in season 4 the difference is astonishing.

* FakeBrit: [=JoJo=] and Shane for a [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles debatable]] value of 'Brit'; they are from Belfast but Charlene [=McKenna=] was born in Monaghan and Keith [=McErlean=] is really from Donegal. Both counties ''are'' in Ulster but not actually in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland.

* MeanBrit: Max in season 5.

'''''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 UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland and thus technically immigrants). Arguably, this is a case of TruthInTelevision. But by series three there are only two properly non-Irish in the lead cast.

* BlondesAreEvil: Rebecca, to auburn-haired [=JoJo=]. Kate as well. Though in series three Fiona went blonde too, but didn't go evil. By series 4 the haircolour=morality idea kinda goes out the window, though Kate does act like an AlphaBitch in series 5.

* LoveDodecahedron: The show makes GreysAnatomy look chaste. In the space of six episodes Jojo has lusted after Bobby, who was lusting after Rebecca, who was going out with Mark, Jojo tries to get over Bobby by getting Pavel drunk enough to bed him, but instead Pavel goes off with Geoff. While this is happening Shane has left his wife, and sort of entered a timid romance with Tanya (Mal's wife) but they opt not to pursue it, partly because his wife's come back. At one point there are two same-sex dates going on in parallel. One marraige is rekindled and then dissolves the next day. Another dissolves and is then rekindled the next day. An while all this is happening there's the comic relief of Tiny and Richard, two almost-mute hetero-life-partners. in ''six episodes''. The hormones level off in the second season though.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: The show, though set entirely in Dublin (and thus not even in Britain), is rather strangely fixated on London. At least four main characters have lived and worked in London before coming to Ireland for a fresh start.

** As well as Fiona having got a job there twenty years earlier.

* DemotedToExtra: Geoff for the first half of series 5.

* UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}

* LoveDodecahedron: The show makes GreysAnatomy look chaste. In the space of six episodes Jojo has lusted after Bobby, who was lusting after Rebecca, who was going out with Mark, Jojo tries to get over Bobby by getting Pavel drunk enough to bed him, but instead Pavel goes off with Geoff. While this is happening Shane has left his wife, and sort of entered a timid romance with Tanya (Mal's wife) but they opt not to pursue it, partly because his wife's come back. At one point there are two same-sex dates going on in parallel. One marraige is rekindled and then dissolves the next day. Another dissolves and is then rekindled the next day. An while all this is happening there's the comic relief of Tiny and Richard, two almost-mute hetero-life-partners. in ''six episodes''.
** The hormones level off after series one though.

* ShesGotLegs: Fiona. Even more impressive, seeing how, as of season 4, she's forty.
** Kate too. Given that she's Fiona's sister, this is no surprise.
* ShipTease: Pavel and [=JoJo=] in season 1, Shane and Tanya also.

* StraightGay: Geoff
** The second series suggested he might be BiTheWay, but Geoff has now confirmed he is only into men. Though he did have a green card marriage with Selena.

* HappyEndingOverride: Season 4 ends with Fiona and Ed finally hooking up after years of TheOneThatGotAway. First twenty minutes of season 5, she dumps him and gains sexual tension with Max.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl/ UptightLovesWild: Deconstructed with Shane and Kate's relationship. It's fun at first but it ultimately fails because Shane wants a family while Kate wants to continue her wild lifestyle.

'''''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 StrokeCountry and thus technically immigrants). Arguably, this is a case of TruthInTelevision. 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 StrokeCountry 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.

* FakeBrit: [=JoJo=] and Shane for a [[TheTroubles debatable]] value of 'Brit'; they are from Belfast but Charlene [=McKenna=] was born in Monaghan and Keith [=McErlean=] is really from Donegal. Both counties ''are'' in Ulster but not actually in [[StrokeCountry Northern Ireland]].

* StrokeCountry: [=JoJo=] and Shane come from there.

Not to be confused with [[WWERaw WWE Monday Night Raw]]

''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 StrokeCountry and thus technically immigrants). Arguably, this is a case of TruthInTelevision. But by series three there are only two properly non-Irish in the lead cast.

Currently airing its fourth series.

* CompressedVice: Geoff in series three.

* BlondesAreEvil: Rebecca, to auburn-haired [=JoJo=]. Kate as well. Though in series three Fiona went blonde too, but didn't go evil. By series 4 the haircolour=morality idea kinda goes out the window.

* PutOnABus: Mal, Tanya and Rebecca as of series 2. Richard and Tiny halfway through series 3. Ray at the end of series 3.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Jojo and Bobby, Pavel and Geoff.

** Series 5 has Zoe as the Betty and Kate as the Veronica with Shane as the Archie.

** Series 5 has Zoe as Betty and Kate as Veronica.