• Director(s)

    Greg McLean

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote, Jay Ryan

TV Show

Scrublands

SCRUBLANDS is an Australian mystery crime drama series; in this episode, a journalist arrives in a remote Outback town to interview the locals about a massacre that devastated their community one year ago.…

SCRUBLANDS is an Australian mystery crime drama series; in this episode, a journalist arrives in a remote Outback town to interview the locals about a massacre that devastated their community one year ago.

  • Director(s)

    Greg McLean

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote, Jay Ryan

strong violence, language, injury detail, child sex abuse references
Classified Date:
25/10/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
The episode depicts a mass shooting, featuring spurts of blood and sight of panicked victims attempting to flee the shooter. A flashback shows a person pointing a gun at an armed police officer in order to provoke a lethal response, but in this case the shooting occurs off screen.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’, ‘motherf**ker’). Milder terms include ‘arsehole’, ‘arse’, ‘bloody’, ‘piss’, ‘bullshit’ and ‘shit’.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are non-graphic verbal references throughout the episode to allegations of child sex abuse against a priest.
injury detail
There is a brief strong image of blood and brain matter from a head injury resulting from a traffic accident. We also see blood pooling rapidly around a dead body after a shooting.
additional issues
Teenagers on a motorbike play ‘chicken’ with an oncoming car, leading to a fatal crash. A proposed newspaper article about a massacre is described as "trauma porn".
strong violence, threat, language
Classified Date:
25/10/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There are multiple shootings, creating spurts of blood.
threat and horror
A driver chases another car at night, runs it off the road and shoots the terrified occupants. A recap of the previous episode shows a mass shooter killing frightened people as they attempt to flee.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘shit’, ‘bloody’, ‘piss off’, ‘arsehole’ and ‘bastard’.
additional issues
There are non-graphic verbal references to allegations of child sex abuse against a priest. A man discovers a pair of human skeletons surrounded by flies. In another scene, a hunter shoots a rabbit and breaks its neck, without strong detail or evidence of real animal cruelty. There is also moderate innuendo, when a bingo caller refers to the number 69 as "dinner for two".
strong language, violence, sex
Classified Date:
25/10/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes a scene of bloody shootings by a sniper. There are also scenes featuring gun threat.
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('prick', 'screwing', 'bullshit', 'shit', 'bloody', 'dick', 'balls', 'hell', 'Jesus', 'Christ' and 'God').
sex
There is a scene of brief thrusty sex between a couple outdoors. There are also accompanying references to sex.
additional issues
A man briefly smokes a joint. There are visual and verbal references to the growing and distribution of marijuana, including by teens. There are also verbal references to child sex abuse, but these are not graphic.
very strong language, strong violence, child sex abuse references, racism
Classified Date:
25/10/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is shot in the head, resulting in a large spray of blood. However, this lacks any accompanying bloody wound or aftermath detail.
language
There is infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t'), as well as occasional use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'bullshit', ‘bloody’ and ‘piss’.
discrimination
A man uses a racist slur towards an Aboriginal woman and refers to her unborn child as a 'half-breed mongrel'. Racism is not condoned by the work as a whole.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A character falsely alleges that a man sexually abused his son. References to child sex abuse are undetailed and occur within the context of a journalistic investigation.
additional issues
Screams and gunfire can be heard during an off-screen mass shooting, however, this is brief. During a flashback, a child witnesses a shooting while hiding in a vehicle. The episode recap features brief and undetailed moderate sex, as well as a brief scene of cannabis misuse. Infrequent verbal and visual references are made to Class A drug manufacturing. A reference is made to a man being ‘into meth’.
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  • Classified date

    25/10/2023

  • Distributor

    Spirit Entertainment

  • Language

    English