Despite not quite stacking up the promise of its earlier episodes with an ending that felt rushed, contrived and cliched, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake was rightfully regarded as one of the best new shows of last season. And now it’s back for a second season. Good news for TV drama lovers but terrible news for ABC executives – who, despite significant Australian representation in the show’s cast and crew, famously passed on the series after it cast a non-Australian in the lead role.
The whodunnit? series – and it’s Australian/Kiwi creative team – Campion and co-writer Gerard Lee will be back for a second season of vaguely mystical peripheral characters, foreboding landscape shots and devastating plot twists.
The first instalment saw Mad Men everywoman Elisabeth Moss bungle her way through an Australian/Kiwi accent as a young Sydney police detective returning to her bucolic hometown in the South Island of New Zealand to solve a case involving the pregnancy and disappearance of a 12-year-old girl. Moss won a Golden Globe for her performance and the series landed one Emmy win from eight nominations, Aussie Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom, True Detective) winning for best cinematography for a TV movie or miniseries.
Further details are scant at the moment but one constant will be its production company, See-Saw Films (The King’s Speech, Shame, Tracks) returning to produce the series, which was commissioned by BBC2.
Condolences again to the ABC.
Via THR
