Top of the Lake (2013)

Genre

crime film, drama fiction

Country

New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 405 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective returns to her childhood home in New Zealand to investigate the disappearance of a pregnant 12 year old girl. The case forces her to confront the town's secrets and her own past.

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What happens

Top of the Lake is a mystery drama television series created and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis. It was broadcast in 2013, and the sequel, entitled Top of the Lake: China Girl, in 2017. It is Campion's first work for television since An Angel at My Table in 1990. Series 1 follows Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) and deals with her investigation of the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl in New Zealand. Series 2, China Girl, is set in Sydney five years later, as Detective Griffin investigates the death of an unidentified Asian girl found at Bondi Beach. Top of the Lake was co-produced for BBC Two in the UK, BBC UKTV in Australia and New Zealand, and Sundance Channel in the United States. It has been generally very well received. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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