"The Top of The Lake"

10 years ago

We've just finished watching this powerful (and raw) series. (It stars Elisabeth Moss, one of the actors in "Mad Men".)

I'd be interested to hear what others think about this. I'm glad we saw it, but it contains some extremely difficult themes.

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YogaLady1948
10 years ago
We watch it when it first came out, I really liked it. I am a murder mystery fanatic~~I loved where it was filmed also~
alisande
10 years ago
Thanks, you two. I just added it to my Netflix list.
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chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
The breathtaking grandeur of the land provides quite a foil to the petty doings of the humans living on it.

We're starting the last "Doc Martin" for some needed comedy after this!
chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
The breathtaking grandeur of the land provides quite a foil to the petty doings of the human beings.

We're starting the last "Doc Martin" for some needed comic relief.
oldfixer
10 years ago
Never heard of it.
joaniepoanie
10 years ago
We watched it when it came out and enjoyed it. We also enjoyed The Killing (two seasons, different cases), and Broadchurch.
Granlan_TX
10 years ago
Chisue, I also liked this series on Netflix.
chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
This is a whole 'nother world from "Broadchurch", which I felt was a soap opera plot worth two segments, but dragged out into a series.

"Lake" may have seemed more raw to me because we don't watch any of the current commercial TV series. Did anyone else find "Lake" characters astoundingly 'frontier crude'?
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10 years ago
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joaniepoanie
10 years ago
I didn't find Broadchurch soap opera-ish at all and comparable in its storytelling as the others mentioned. All these series could probably do some cutting. The Killing was much more raw and gritty to me than Top of the Lake.
chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks, Joanie. The totally amoral community in "Lake", plus gang rape, plus implied incest, plus impregnation of a minor are not themes I commonly encounter in a TV series. Guess I'll pass on seeing "The Killing", eh?
joaniepoanie
10 years ago
Chisue....you are probably right about these themes not being prevalent in TV up until the last few years, but they have all been portrayed in cinema in the last 50 years so I guess that is why I wasn't particularly shocked or alarmed by them, but, yes, unsettling to watch nevertheless. I think the line between cinema and TV is definitely diminishing. Overall, I felt the characters in The Killing were more compelling. If you enjoy murder mysteries I think you would enjoy it.
Shelgal
10 years ago
Broadchurch is not available streaming from Netflix. Those who have watched it, how did you get to see it? Was it on a cable channel?

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