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Top review. The Rafters are just as good as they always were. Glad they are back. Email the author at kquinn theage. After eight years away, the Rafters make a welcome TV return. Please try again later. The Sydney Morning Herald. By Karl Quinn Updated September 19, — 2.

Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. But a visit to the city caused trouble for the pair, after Julie realised she missed being there. Fan favourites Erik and Rebecca reprised their iconic roles as Dave and Julie. When New Idea caught up with Rebecca and Erik ahead of the show's return, they revealed what it was like to pick back up from where they left off in and return to the world of the Rafters. They were not glossed over or rushed. Nor were there easy answers to anything, with problems resolved quickly.

Some issues were not resolved at all, just like in real life. At the end of the final season, Dave Erik Thomson and Julie Rebecca Gibney with their four-year-old daughter Ruby had left Sydney and their extended family to do what many Australians do in later life: travel the byways and highways in a campervan.

At the beginning of the new series, the recent past is recapped before setting up the new premise. After being on the road for six years, the van they are travelling in breaks down outside the small fictional town of Buradeena, and Dave, Julie and now year-old Ruby Willow Speers decide to plant roots in this picturesque rural village. But the internal conflict is the more relevant overarching arc of the series. Julie wants to move back to Sydney so she can better provide care for both her father and her children; Dave is resolute in his desire to stay in Buradeena.

They are torn between duty, responsibility, love and dedication to their family — but even moreso to each other. As Seinfeld is oft-quoted as a comedy about nothing, Rafters has always been a drama about the ordinary.

Ordinary people facing ordinary issues many of the viewers have faced in their own lives.