Scrublands

Scrublands

2023
★★★★☆ 7.3/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 8 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
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In a small town, a priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later, a journalist arrives to investigate the tragedy, and after digging beneath the surface finds himself in a life-and-death race to uncover the truth.

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Seasons

Season 1
2023 • 4 Episodes
In a small town, a priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later, a journalist arrives to investigate the tragedy, and after digging beneath the surface finds himself in a life-and-death race to uncover the truth.
Season 2
2025 • 4 Episodes
It’s been a year since the life changing events of Scrublands and award-winning investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Arnold) has returned to his coastal hometown, Port Silver, to set up a new life with partner Mandy Bond (Heathcote). When he arrives to find his childhood friend Jasper brutally murdered and Mandy the prime suspect, Martin struggles with doubts – about Mandy and about his own ability to recognise the truth. As he pushes forward to find the real murderer and absolve Mandy, Martin confronts secrets about Port Silver and his long-buried past.

User Reviews

Peter McGinn
★ 9/10
This miniseries from Australia is excellent, extremely watchable. With just four episodes, the storylines aren’t stretched out thin. The script and dialogue is realistic and people pretty much stay in character while a few still show some growth. The five characters who were the shooting victims seem to be given short shrift in character development, even for flashbacks. The plot over the four episodes has a few twists but is believable taken as a while. If you have a real aversion to on-screen violence, there is a certain scene they run multiple times for effect, but I wouldn’t characterize it as gory or anything. I don’t see myself as wanting to watch Scrublands again, but it was worth my time the go go round.
December 2, 2023

Crew

Producer
Ian Collie, Rob Gibson, Felicity Packard

Network

Stan

Production

Easy Tiger, VicScreen, Nine Network Australia, Third Act Stories, Abacus Media Rights, Stan, Sundance Now

Keywords

journalistbased on novel or bookpriest