Top of the Lake. Mmmm....

[partystress]

Weird but has me hooked. Anyone else watching?

I missed it on Saturday, did I miss any major stuff or will I be able to catch up?

You missed major stuff. It was worth watching.

I was at a wedding, I'll try I player, thanks!

I found it all a bit self consciously arty-farty I'm afraid. But maybe I've just seen too many things like it. Twin Peaks kind of redefined this idiom all those years ago.

All caught up now

I'm a bit more absorbed in it after tonight's episode but really some of it seems farcical.

would Robin's mum really have been injected with morphine like that? no oramorph?

what was the purpose of the naked hippy women in the lake scene?

I'm glad the mum is dead so will no longer be in it. I found her character really irritating. She was so serious and self absorbed and didn't respect her daughter's privacy at all. Mind you the daughter behaves more like a sulky teenager than a professional woman, lots of flouncing around and strappy tops.
Why does she wear shorts and pants to bed as well, especially if she's been having sex. Do some women have sex at night and then put their knickers back on and another layer on top for extra not quite sure what? It's obviously not cold in the houses as she's always just in strappy tops despite comments on it being cold outside which seems unlikley given the nude swimming and summer attire worn by everyone.
Does Jane Campion think all older women with long white hair have to sound like they're writing enigmatic self help manuals and talk... very... slowly...?
Love the Scottish guy, but there's no-on in it who seems normal or even particularly likeable.

Bloody sky plus cut out in the last 2 mins! I got up to robin on the phone listening to the message, what happened??

It ended with the message from her mum and then went to what happens next time so you didn't miss anything!

Agree about the cold weather comments then seeing Robin wearing very little at home and shagging naked in the forest....
We are wondering if robin and johnno will turn out to be half sister & brother and that's why the Mum was so dead against their relationship......

Tui's father is very toxic I really don't like him at all!

Oh yes totally with you on the continual strappy top wearing.

Robin's mother was a nightmare. Totally selfish.

The head police officer creeps me out.

Not keen on all the tattoos the men have, especially the eyebrows on Robin's mother's partner. I too have resorted to subtitles.

I reckon the head police officer slipped her rohypnol or something, but don't understand why she started laying into the wine when she'd driven there anyway, more irresponsible teenage type behaviour. You don't go to dinner with your boss and get trollied.

Did tattoo guy get fed up with the mum and overdo the morphine? It seemed highly unlikely that she'd go from hosting a dinner party to dead overnight, and have time to leave a phone message. You generally have a few days of being ill in bed then slipping into a coma with deaths from metastatic cancer. Her death was more like an opera heroine's with a phone call instead of an aria before she collapses in a heap.
Agree the bloke could be her half brother, but if so why didn't the mum actually tell her that, knowing that she was screwing him and she didn't have long to live.

Ahh! a top of the lake thread!

What the hell was the naked sex scene thing then naked johno confronting them? All I could do was laugh!!!

And also that police officer, most bizarre creepy proposal ever.

I agree I find Robin a bit like a sulky teenager,

Also that bit when Matt's soon said 'I used to see you passed out on Tui's bed with her walking around on top of you?' I was like

I knew he was implying something but a bit garbled.

I'm enjoying this more now. I think Robin's character has developed a lot over the last 2 episodes. Her anger and grief and self-loathing are heart breaking to watch. The line about how all she has to offer the baby she gave up is to keep the truth from her forever

Didn't like her mum's character either but agree that her death was all a bit sudden

Still no idea what GJ is all about or the significance of her character!

I wonder if Tui's dad got her pregnant as Tui wrote down No-one when asked who was the father of her baby and her dad kept saying no-one loved Tui as much as I do. He repeated it several times the other week?!?!

Yeah I thought that too

missing a lot due to terrible diction (as well as badly done accents) - Holly Hunter is always bad but some of the others are giving her a run for her money.

PMSL at the naked shagging in the forest. Looks like it was filmed in autumn/winter, when the south island is not warm, and in addition the area is full of sandflies. You would NOT want to be naked there. And Kiwi houses are always cold too, Robin would not really go round dressed like that.

sticking with it, but suspect it is six hours of my life that I will not get back.

Good I thought I was think, glad everyone else is confused too!
I think its excellent

Thick (perhaps I am)

I think its interesting those damaged women following GJ like lambs, to paradise when its clear she's dismissive at best and completely indifferent/couldn't care less at worst.

How is the situation with GJ any different from the situations most of them have just left?

Think I'm giving up on this. Watched 3 episodes & was so bored with number 3. All the random, wierd sex shit boring me senseless. I've got a bit sick of esoteric for the sake of it.

Disappointed as I think I was hoping for something more like 'The Killing'. You know, with a plot, or vague semblance of narrative coherence.

Lovely scenery though & Elizabeth Moss & HH are fab.

I watched a film on the making of it. Robin worse sensible clothes for the weather and they all looked more appropriately attired for the weather in their civvies than their costumes.
Actors and directors do talk a load of pretentious crap though.
It's a good advert for the NZ tourist board as it's beautifully shot, the content and believability is a bit lacking. Rather like the piano I suppose so maybe ii shouldn't be surprised.
Lots of earnest gazing into the sunset whilst you think "Naah, that would never happen"