Top of the Lake: episode-by-episode
Top of the Lake: China Girl finale recap – uneven and bizarre to the bitter end
As it draws to an agonisingly poor close, Robin embroils the world’s worst police force in a game of Where’s Wally on Bondi beach. How can this show have gone so awry?
Top of the Lake: China Girl recap, episode five – we're finally getting somewhere
After four horrible weeks, this show is settling in to its own pace at last – and it is as strange and surreal as the beloved first season. But is it too little too late?
Top of the Lake: China Girl recap, episode four – the fiasco continues
After last week’s plot catastrophe, I hoped we might see an improvement. But from the bizarre nose-biting to the enforced sex work, there was no such luck. Can anything redeem this show now?
Top of the Lake: China Girl recap, episode three – what went wrong?
Thursday’s best TV: Top of the Lake; Princess Diana’s ‘Wicked’ Stepmother
Top of the Lake: China Girl recap, episode two – the new Cagney & Lacey
Robin and Miranda’s reluctant partnership is the best thing about the Jane Campion drama so far. But has their murder case got one too many coincidences?
Top of the Lake: China Girl recap: episode one – and we're off!
Our favourite troubled detective returns with the same old demons, a knotty murder case to crack in Sydney … and a new nemesis in Nicole Kidman
Top of the Lake recap: episode six – No Goodbyes, Thanks
Rebecca Nicholson's episode blog: Did you see it coming? And if you did, with a showdown so horrific and grimly satisfying, did you actually mind?
Top of the Lake recap: season one, episode five – The Dark Creator
Rebecca Nicholson: More masculinity, more religious allusions and more stags' heads as Jane Campion continues to crank up the drama
Top of the Lake recap: season one, episode four – A Rainbow Above Us
Rebecca Nicholson: The mysteries intensify as Robin makes a confession and we are forced to watch some tough flashbacks. But you might need to keep the tissues handy for this episode's ending
Top of the Lake recap: season one, episode three – The Edge of the Universe
Rebecca Nicholson: Robin is unravelling – and little wonder. Meanwhile, Tui seems to be slipping further and further out of reach
Top of the Lake recap: season one, episode two – Searchers Search
An outstanding performance from Elisabeth Moss in a second episode of intrigue, terror and dark comic relief
Top of the Lake recap: season one, episode one – Paradise Sold
Rebecca Nicholson: There was a sense of foreboding throughout the first episode of Jane Campion's new drama, as a man drowns, a dog dies and a girl disappears. But what does it all mean?
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