Top of the Lake. Mmmm....

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Weird but has me hooked. Anyone else watching?

Hmmm much as I want to think the Creepy copper is involved, my current thought is that it's Johnno who is father of Tui's baby and that's why he turned up in his boat to get Robin away.

Still not clear why Robin started an affair with him. Surely every man in the vicinity is a suspect as a child abuser?

I feel like there can only be one ending to it, and to be honest am mainly looking forward to getting it over and done with, it's too bloody upsetting

EcoRi - I downloaded it online. But wait for next week!

And yes we wanted it over and done with too.

Aaah dontputaringonit DH and I were scratching our heads for AGES about the no of episodes! Watched the last one last night but will watch the Beeb version next week too. Having seen it all now, I love it more. The most compelling thing on TV for a good long while.

well without watching the last episode I am guessing that tui said no one because she was unconscious and raped and so has no idea how she is pregnant.
This would tie in with the girl who got hit by the car and the photos found on the computer?

I think this programme was a slow started but is getting better with each episode!

sparkles My theory is that Al is the organizer of a child trafficking ring fronted by the cafe for teens in trouble.

eco someone else explained it aired as 7 episodes with ads; the BBC has recut to 6

Ugh posted too soon. The 7 are available on Netflix and elsewhere online

We've really enjoyed this series - weirdly memorizing!

dh and I think they are half siblings (and that's why Matt was paying for robin's mums house) and Al is up to his neck in cover ups.

I think Al also drugged robin when she got drunk at his place - more so now Jamie had rihiponal in last nights episode.

But poor Jamie :(

I started to enjoy this series from episode three onwards, which is how long it took me to realise that Robyn is the centre of gravity in the story. As a massive fan of The Piano, I was so over-excited about the Holly Hunter--Jane Campion pair-up in this programme that I stuck resolutely to the wrong idea that Holly Hunter and the women's camp were the story's centre, and so far that part of the story has just been clunky comedy with meanings that I haven't yet penetrated.

But (accent problems aside) the woman playing Robyn has been completely brilliant, and Robyn's story is so mesmerising. Her rape is horrific, her energy and anger and violence are so gratifying and also so sad. Her relationships with Johnno and Al are intriguing. She is so believable both in her fearsome competence and in her mental disintegration and vulnerability.

Can't see Top of the Lakes on Netflix!

Hmm I read that it was on there googly. Maybe just in US. You can get it on tubeplus.me, free and presumably illegal

To download or not to download...what a moral dilemma! Have watched ep1-5 over the last 3 nights, am restraining myself so I can watch it on my proper telly next weekend.

I disagree that Robin drinking at her line managers house shows a lack of professionalism. There are many stressful jobs where close working relationships are cemented in the pub, etc. I do think she ended up drinking a bit more than she intended (she was driving after all) but this was due to the direction the conversation took and what that stirred up for her.

But the reason she passed out I think was because she had been drugged, hence her surprise/shock afterwards. Al had put her clothes through the wash, he made sure he very quickly took her car keys off her - he's clearly done this before.

Thanks Rooty

I think Al must have drugged her at his place and probably has incriminating photos of her - which is why he deliberately mentioned that he was a gentleman that night.
I agree the coffee shop is a front for something muchuch worse..... Will johnno really turn out to be bad??
But pleeeeease would they get their continuity right. It drives me nuts and makes things much more confusing than they need to be.

What do you mean papalazaru?

I am glad that I was not the only one very upset about Jamie's death. I cried for a while about that, tearing up now. Not sure why, but he was so brave and protective of Tui, not speaking even when being humiliated in the police station. A true friend.

Interestingly, I would have been upset if it had have been Tui who had fallen from the cliff, but not as much as it being Jamie.

Rohypnol is the drug used to subdue these girls that are being used in the sex parties featured in the photos. No wonder Tui doesn't know how 'it got in there'. Is it the last part next week, or the week after. I can't wait to see Matt get his comeuppance!

About the continuity Janek?
Well - this makes me look like a right geek but last night's one was this:- robin comes home from mother's funeral and has bath, presuming this is in the afternoon sometime. While in bed with Johnno gets phone call about Jamie. Goes to police station. Interrogation room clock reads 9.25 - he must be there a while so when she drives him home it's dusk, by the time they get home it's pitch black. So we keep being told its winter in which case it would be dark by 4/5pm. It's all wrong - and yes I know I should get out more . It also seems to have been winter now for the whole of Tui's known pregnancy - 7 months!
My latest thought is that johnno was somehow complicit in the rape and that is why Matt hates him. Remember that Matt and Al were part of the vigilante group who 'punished' the rapists? They must have been protecting someone from the police otherwise it should have gone to court shouldn't it. I wonder if Matt paid off Robin's mum to get her to leave just like he tried to pay off Jamie's ..... And then continued to pay for her house etc so she'd stay quiet.....

I also find the jumping from daylight to dark etc confusing I often have no idea of the time scale involved, and I still have no clue as to what relevance the hippy women by the lake have in the storyline at all??? Can someone enlightened me!?!?

The women are a contrast to the macho and patriarchy of the town I think. The programme is more esoteric than it first seemed, less formulaic mystery.

Papa- re winter lasting 7 months. We only found out she was preg at about 5 months gone.

I think i know what you mean papa, i think i may have noticed too, but without realising iyswim. There is also a really weird passage of time, i was surprised when it was suddenly the due date, but i guess that explains why the mother died so quickly... (ie she didn't).

I've been really enjoying this series and can't wait for the last episode to see how it all pans out. Anyone else read any significance into Matt Mitcham's impotence during his brief fling with the bonkers woman from the camp by the lake? Implying that he couldn't have fathered Tui's child ...

I think that there is an outside chance that Matt will end up looking not such a villain in the end.

It was mentioned that he was involved in punishing Robyn's rapists, so perhaps he is an anti-sexual abuse drug dealer??

If so perhaps he will end up supporting her against Al in the end......