'Scrublands' Season 2 Will Be "Silver" As First Trailer Arrives

Not every country has a signature homegrown streamer the way the U.S. has Netflix. Launching a successful streaming service without viewers already feeling deeply familiar with the studio it's tied to is tough. It's not an accident the most successful streaming service in New Zealand is Neon (the county's HBO equivalent) or that BBC's iPlayer reigns supreme in the U.K. Australia, meanwhile, has the popular 9Network's service, the very Aussie named "Stan." It's taken a while for Stan's programming to make its way around the globe, but the country's big hits are starting to turn up top side, like Scrublands.

Based on the Chris Hammer novel series and named for the opening novel, Scrublands Season 1 featured Australian star Luke Arnold (Black Sails) as journalist Martin Scarsden, who is assigned a "one year on" story to check in with residents after a horrific massacre was committed by the town priest, Byron Swift (Jay Ryan). The slow unraveling of what led to the tragedy was far more twisted than most might guess, as Martin gets local bookstore owner Mandy Bond, played by Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle), to confide in him.

Season 1 was initially commissioned in February 2023 and aired late that year down under before finding its way to Sundance Now and AMC+ in May 2024. Season 2, based on Hammer's follow-up novel, Silver, was commissioned a month later. Unsurprisingly, now that the trailer and key art are out, the second season is called Scrublands: Silver.