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Airdate: Top of the Lake

Next month ABC will finally get to screen Jane Campion's miniseries starring Elisabeth Moss & David Wenham.

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ABC originally rejected backing it but next month will finally get to screen Jane Campion’s miniseries Top of the Lake.

The BBC mystery went on to receive plenty of critical acclaim and award wins from Golden Globe Awards, AACTA Awards, Logies, ASTRA Awards, Creative Emmys, Critics Choice Awards and nominations from Emmy Awards.

It has since been renewed for a second season.

Starring Elisabeth Moss, David Wenham, Peter Mullan, Tom Wright and Holly Hunter, Top of the Lake is a powerful and haunting mystery. Set against a vast, varied terrain – moody, pure and remote – Top of the Lake is a story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts its dark twin, the fall.

Twelve year old Tui Mitcham, daughter of the local drug lord, is pulled from the freezing waters of an alpine lake in New Zealand. She is discovered to be pregnant and won’t say who the father is. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin is the straight-talking detective experienced in child protection who is called in to investigate. But as Robin becomes more and more obsessed with the search for Tui, she begins to realise that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself – a self she has kept well-hidden.

9:30pm Sunday May 10 on ABC.

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  1. Loved this.
    Yes, the plotline had a few holes in it but very atmospheric.
    Peter Mullen was outstanding as the disturbed, volatile “hard man”.
    Well worth a look when it screens on ABC.

  2. I loved this, thought it was very well written and I loved the scenery. Elizabeth Moss was terrific. I binged watched it in one hit, couldn’t make myself stop after one episode.

    I didn’t realise that it hadn’t aired here yet, that’s a shame it’s so late after all the buzz.

    I don’t understand though why they are doing a second series, can nothing just stick to a mini series anymore?! It was great as a stand alone series, same thing with Broadchurch, I wish they wouldn’t milk these things and therefore dilute the impact of the original series.

    2. Loved this!
      Quite agree Kristi, one season of some shows is enough – with the story completed.
      Must confess to enjoying Broadchurch S2 though, despite this. Silly conclusion though.

  3. Watched this on Blu-Ray. It won and was nominated for various awards but I thought it was only ok. Performances were great, scenery was fantastic (shame ABC will be showing it in SD),….just the story had too many irrelevant characters that added nothing to the plot and a major part of the resolution was totally implausible.
    Program was original made into 7 episodes but was reedited into 6 on the Blu-Ray, so will be interesting to see what version the ABC shows.

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