Scrublands

A washed up journalist visits a small town to do a puff piece on the recovery of a small outback town from a terrible mass shooting a year before. He discovers more than he bargains for and begins to peice together what really happened, rediscovery his journalistic mojo and picking up a new girlfriend along the way.

I enjoyed this pretty faithful adaptation of the novel. I didn’t think it was hugely demanding on the viewer, largely due to nicely colour graded flashback scenes which revelead a lot of the backstory - although much of this was known only to those present in the scene (who subsequently died) so could not be known to Martin Scarsden and the other protagonists. Probably a good decision as it was a fairly complex story but it did move along and held my attention.