Adapted from a novel by former Fairfax journalist Chris Hammer, Scrublands is a compelling new entry in the burgeoning rural noir genre.
sits squarely in the genre of Australian rural noir. With its vast landscapes and tightly enclosed interiors, it conjures a palpable sense of both the vast space and the social claustrophobia of life in a small country town where everyone knows – or thinks they know – everything about you.
This being a mystery, everything is not really known at all, either by the locals of Riversend or by the viewers . Lifting the lid on the secrets that led Catholic priest Father Byron Swift to kill five parishioners before being fatally shot by local cop Robbie Haus-Jones becomes the job of an outsider.Martin Scarsden , a single mum and owner of the only bookstore in town.
Investigative journalist Martin Scarsden and police constable Robbie Haus-Jones in Scrublands.Written by Felicity Packard and directed by Greg McLean a franchise to rival itsseries, the show was shot in and around Maldon and Castlemaine in the goldfields region of Victoria . The town and landscapes are characters as much as the supporting cast, which includes Robert Taylor as the local patriarch and Alison Whyte as Mandy’s dying mother.
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