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Top of the Lake: China Girl Debuts As Three-Night Event In September!

Elisabeth Moss as Detective Robin Griffin – Top Of The Lake: China Girl _ Season 2, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: See-Saw Films/SundanceTV

In Top of the Lake: China Girl we see Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realizes China Girl didn’t die alone.

Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl is set to premiere as a three-night event on SundanceTV, from Sunday, September 10th through Tuesday, September 12th (9/8C all three nights).

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Dangerous Relationships Trailer: Top of the Lake: China Girl!

Top of the Lake: China Girl – Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) – Photo courtesy of SundanceTV.

Detective Robin Griffin has returned to Sydney and things are beginning to feel normal again when a young Asian girl washes up on Bondi beach.

Top of the Lake: China Girl will premiere in September on SundanceTV.

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Suitcase on the Beach Trailer: Top of the Lake: China Girl!

Elisabeth Moss returns as Detective Robin Griffin in SundanceTV’s Top of the Lake: China Girl. Photo courtesy of SundanceTV.

After the events of Top of the Lake, Detective Robin Griffin returns to Sydney to try to rebuild her life.

The the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach. The case gets a break when Detective Griffin learns that she didn’t die alone.

Top of the Lake: China Girl premieres on SundanceTV in September.

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First Photo: Elizabeth Moss in Top of the Lake Season 2!

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When the body of an Asian woman washes up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Detective Robin Griffin is back on the job in season two of Jane Campion’s Emmy®-winning Top of the Lake.

Top of the Lake Season 2 will premiere on SundanceTV in 2017. Follow the jump for the first look photo of Moss as Detective Griffin.

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SundanceTV Makes Top of the Lake Available On Demand!

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With the announcement that a new season of Top of the Lake is going to into production soon, SundanceTV is making the first season of the critically acclaimed series available on SundanceTV On Demand until May 6th.

Set in the remote mountains of New Zealand, season one of “Top of the Lake” is a powerful and haunting mystery that centers on the disappearance of a 12-year-old named Tui who is five months pregnant.

Elizabeth Moss’ Detective Robin Griffin finds herself getting lost in the case as she encounters Tuli’s druglord father and a unique guru at a women’s camp.

Moss won a Golden Globe® for the role and the series also stars Oscar®-winner Holly Hunter and BAFTA-nominee Peter Mullan. For more, follow the jump.

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Campion and Moss Signed – Top of the Lake: Season 2 Is a Go!

Programme Name: Top Of The Lake - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. Episode 3) - Embargoed for publication until: n/a - Picture Shows: Robin Griffin [ELISABETH MOSS] - (C) See Saw Films - Photographer: Parisa Taghizadeh
Top Of The Lake – Picture Shows: Robin Griffin [ELISABETH MOSS] – (C) See Saw Films – Photographer: Parisa Taghizadeh
Elizabeth Moss has signed on a new season the critically acclaimed Top of the Lake.

Moss will reprise the role of Robin Griffin in the new season, dubbed Top of the Lake: Season Two: China Girl. Griffin has moved from New Zealand to Sydney Australia, where the body of an Asian woman washes up on Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach.

Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will have a major role. Jane Campion returns as co-writer (with Gerard Lee) and co-director (with Ariel Kliman). Top of the Lake: Season Two: China Girl will air in 2017. For further details, follow the jump.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Campion’s Bright Star Chronicles Doomed Love With Wit and Melancholy!

Jane Campion may not have cornered the market on melancholy, but she has definitely shown both a mastery of and a predilection for films that showcase that mood/tone. With Bright Star, however, she infuses the tragic love of Romantic poet John Keats [Ben Whishaw] and Fanny Brawne [Abbie Cornish] with the kind of wit, humor and charm that one expects from a Joe White [Pride & Prejudice].

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Keats died at the age of twenty-five, thinking he was a failure, though he is now considered one of – if not the greatest of the Romantic poets. He met Brawne during a fallow period in his writing and, as their mutual attraction grew into love, he regained his creativity. Bright Star is the title of a poem that was, very specifically, about her.

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