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In this season, police detective Robin Griffin returns to Sydney in an attempt to rebuild her life, where she throws herself into the case of a dead Asian girl who turns up on Bondi Beach.
While there is a deliberately unsatisfying, incomplete air to the series - kind of like real life - you can't fault Top of the Lake for its ambition or its performances, which remain, as before, entirely enthralling.
In some ways, it's not quite as successful as the first-it's hard to repeat that kind of breakthrough brilliance-but it's undeniably challenging and way more complex than most mystery television.
Thanks especially to its actors, Top of the Lake: China Girl succeeds at putting forward a vision that... shines a spotlight on the horrors inflicted on women. And this time in our own backyard.
Call it television, call it a six-hour movie, call it "the future," it doesn't matter. Whatever the hell you call it, Top of the Lake: China Girl is as beautiful and soul-stirring as anything you'll see on any kind of screen this year.
Yes, there's a murder-mystery plot - the faceless corpse of China Girl washed up on Bondi in a suitcase - but that's more of a decorative flourish than the real bones of the series.