Top of the Lake

Season 1: 97 Season 2: 73

[thru season 2] [s01] As a study in character and related gender issues, it's pretty excellent. It's shot in such a way that landscape reveals much about character motivation. Unfortunately, the end is a mess, with a mish-mash of events that merely serve to terminate the series rather than to conclude it. [s02] Very different totally, but still quite interesting.

It really is good and everything, but I can't get rid of the feeling, that the last episode was something they just had to whip up as they were running out of time, like not enough thought was put into it (like GJ's last line, what's with that??). But generally I like how it evolved (and ended) - though it headed in a different direction than I expected after episode one.

Season 1: ✰★★★★•𝘽+

The first season is a solid must watch. Skip the second.

extremely underrated,impeccable crime&mystery show. jamie dalton's death and funeral scene was one of the most haunting thing I have ever seen

S1: The broad outline of the plot had promise but the acting (except for Moss and Wright), dialogue, and just about everything else was cringeworthy. Christ this was bad.

Rating is for the first season, a more female-centric, less mystical Twin Peaks inspiration set in New Zealand. Moss & Mullan are fantastic but the ending is abrupt. Second season would get something around 30/40 and can be skipped, it loses almost all of the atmosphere when moved to Sydney. Worse is the overracting by Kidman/Christie/the daughter and the jarring tonal shifts between light comedy odd couple police work and the actual plot, which breaks suspension of disbelief at several points.

moss çok iyi oyuncu, holly hunter'ın karakteri büyüleyici. bir suç dizisi olduğunu söylemek ne kadar doğru, emin değilim. çünkü ne dedektiflik kısmına ne suçlu kısmına odaklanıyor tam itibariyle. sinematografinin gücünü aldığı mekanlarla beraber daha çok ufak-kasaba temasıyla ilerliyor. sert, güçlü.

Shot so beautifully and with a pretty impressive cast, this series was a lot of fun but it always seemed to totter on the edge of something awesome. The ending wasn't the sort of intense revelation I was hoping for, but it was still well written and results in a captivating mystery.