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Top of the Lake

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Grannyknot Sun 28-Jul-13 15:57:31

gangy5 when I can't follow something, I go online and search for an 'Episode Guide' there are any number of sites to choose from, and I catch up by reading about the previous episodes of a show, or sometimes even the one I'm busy watching!

Grannyknot Sun 28-Jul-13 15:56:28

Tegan the lead character is also in Mad Men. We started watching it from Episode 2, think we'll stick with it, but it is a bit strange. Holly Hunter talks as if her teeth are loose in her mouth... I can actually ignore her character and still follow the story grin Also I just drift away a bit and watch the scenery. It's beautiful.

gangy5 Sun 28-Jul-13 15:55:20

Quite enjoyed the first 2 episodes but am afraid I threw in the towel yesterday evening!! (about half way through) Couldn't manage to tie things up and found it all rather weird.

PRINTMISS Sun 28-Jul-13 15:54:24

I am intrigued by it, and will continue to watch. I can't get my head round the men, though, and let's be honest the women are rather odd, aren't they?

Ana Sun 28-Jul-13 15:53:01

grin

Tegan Sun 28-Jul-13 15:33:32

We knew what we meant; a word that's spelled like that deserves to be spelled [spelt?] wrong; sounds like an anagram of itself anyway.

Ana Sun 28-Jul-13 15:27:17

Oops! Just realised it should be 'misogynistic'...blush

Tegan Sun 28-Jul-13 15:13:18

I'm looking forward to seeing The Returned in it's entirety when I buy it [no adverts!]. The girl in TOTL looks familiar; was she in Whale Rider [yet another film that I bought years ago but never got round to watching]? Yes; I'm surprised at how mysoginistic the men are; perhaps our antibodean gransnetters will inform us smile.

HildaW Sun 28-Jul-13 15:07:11

Husband, who loves his dark Nordic things, also gave this ago having read the recommendations - he loathed it, much prefers The Returned.
Mind you, I loved The Piano but felt instinctively he would not....and was right.

Ana Sun 28-Jul-13 15:01:31

I'm enjoying Top of the Lake, although are NZ men these days really still so mysoginistic? Wonderful scenery, and I like the fact that the lead actress isn't at all glamorous!

Charleygirl Sun 28-Jul-13 14:59:19

I only watched the 1st episode, found it very strange and the characters weird so I gave up.

Tegan Sun 28-Jul-13 14:47:33

I've got 4 more episodes to go sad but think I'll stick with it. Not sure if it's my hearing these days but often struggle to make out what they are saying [especially Holly Hunter who talks as if her mouth is full of cotton wool]; think it's due to the slightly different accent [or perhaps that's why I tend to prefer programmes of this kind with subtitles nowadays]. And The Mill is starting tonight as well; thought it might be awful but has had good reviews. So many programmes; so little time [and still haven't seen The Returned so have to buy it on dvd].

moomin Sun 28-Jul-13 14:47:00

I fell asleep during last week's episode but watched it (with sub-titles as both OH and I cannot get past the mumbling!), it's rather strange but somehow I need to know what is going to happen next!

merlotgran Sun 28-Jul-13 14:42:06

I've given up hmm

Tegan Sun 28-Jul-13 14:40:20

Is anyone else watching this? I caught up with the first two episodes on iplayer and was surprised to find that it was set in [I assume] New Zealand, although, being by Jane Campion I should have realised. Not sure if I'm enjoying this but found myself wanting to watch episode three when it was on last night [which must mean that I am confused]. It's certainly different.