GamerTab That was an excellent one.

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

sacha_brady First of all, what I'm writing relates to series 2 only. I haven't seen series 1 so cannot say if it's any different.The cast features a great many excellent actresses and actors. So for the life of me, I cannot understand why the performances are so weak or so wooden. Elizabeth Moss seems like she needs someone to give her firmer direction; Nicole Kidman, who I really like, overacts and seems to be on a different wavelength to the others in her scenes. The characters lost me as they are so psychitzophrenic. Robin can decide if she's a mean, ruthless detective or a meek victim from scene to scene, Mary is much the same and it's really hard to understand what the point of Miranda is. Some of the scenes feel like they've just been thrown in and the whole thing lacks coherence. The characters don't develop much and it takes a long time to not go very far. Spoiler ALERT: there is a scene where Robin is in a huge room but manages to get cornered by a disabled man in an electric wheelchair that has a speed of about half a mile an hour.. Not exactly the car chase from"Bullet".The last thing that bothered me is that it seemed to portray all the main male characters bar Pike as leches, abusers, cheats or chauvinists. I could live with that if there was a point behind it--even if I didn't enjoy it, but it just seems a cheap way to make Robin and Mary appear sympathetic despite them having few redeeming features.

Tim Kerr-Thomson The acting maybe good. However, the story is so black and dark that it is thoroughly depressing. It you are entertained by such then you will enjoy

birgitenhans Jane Campion, Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie _and_ Nicole Kidman in season 2 of Top of the Lake of which season 1 was great. What could possibly go wrong?Well... everything.If you enjoy yelling at your TV "Why don't you do anything?" please go ahead. Maybe Jane Campion can chime in and explain why no one intervenes when the daughter continues to make one bad decision after another for no apparent reason but to irritate the audience. There is no explanation, no character development, no apparant reason why no one locks the daughter in her bedroom and throws away the keys or why the villian isn't arrested and put in to jail after assaulting the police and, spoiler alert, whoring the daughter. In the end everything just becomes laughably bad and you don't care about any of the characters anymore.

mj-04155 After enjoying watching season 1 almost 4 years ago we were excited about the season 2 release. Although the story contains the elements for a good police/mystery drama, it unfolds in an uneven, fragmented, and mostly disappointing way. I get that director wanted viewers to see how "damaged" the characters were, but please, do not make them act as lunatics. Not only they were damaged, but they were weak, irrational characters who behaved in deranged ways. Examples: Robin goes to court (?) to confront a man who had abused her previously, he goes into a room where she is waiting, locks the door and starts moving menacingly towards her. She does not raise her voice, does not try to leave the and does not defend herself until it is too late. Are we supposed to believe a police trained DETECTIVE would react this passively? Why would Miranda and the police chief decide to have a surrogate child while they were still lovers? During the ongoing affair, he was still married, and she herself had a fling with Robin's brother. If the body propped at a street curb was the brothel's owner who was shot AT the brothel, why was he moved? And who then was the body inside the ambulance? There were so many incongruences throughout the story so it became almost annoying to watch.