Scrublands

Matt Roush says...

Why would a priest who’s seemingly beloved by his small-town Outback community suddenly open fire on his flock, killing five parishioners in broad daylight? This horrific incident opens a brisk, compelling four-part mystery adapted from Chris Hammer’s Australian rural noir novel. The story unfolds a year after the killings, when a journalist (Luke Arnold) arrives to write a feature on the remote town’s healing, getting a cold shoulder from locals who mistrust his “trauma porn” angle. The reporter soon realizes that dark secrets lurk beneath the impoverished village’s shattered surface, more than a few involving the true nature of the late Father Byron Swift (Jay Ryan).

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