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Top of the Lake · Season 2 · BBC Two / Netflix

Top of the Lake Season 2

Top of the Lake Season 2 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 6.8/10. 6 episodes on BBC Two / Netflix from 27 July 2017.

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BollyMeter6.8/10Rotten Tomatoes scored China Girl at 72% and Metacritic at 73 ('generally favorable'); critics found the Sydney setting looser and the tone less tightly wound than the debut's New Zealand precision.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Top of the Lake: China Girl aired from July 27 to August 31, 2017, co-directed by Campion and Ariel Kleiman and moving Robin Griffin's story from New Zealand to Sydney - a new setting that brought Nicole Kidman and Gwendoline Christie into the cast. The consensus - 'impressively idiosyncratic but not quite as tightly wound as its predecessor' - captured the divergence accurately.

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Season Over Season

Moves Robin to Sydney with a larger and more overtly political case; gains in thematic scope but loses the geographic and tonal compression that made Season 1 a near-masterwork.