Synopsis
Top of the Lake (2013) is a crime drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Created and directed by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, it's set in the remote Southern Alps of New Zealand — a place that looks like paradise and functions like something else entirely. Elizabeth Moss leads as Detective Robin Griffin, with Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham in strong supporting turns.
A twelve-year-old girl, five months pregnant, walks into a freezing lake. Then she vanishes. Robin comes back to her home town for unrelated reasons and finds herself pulled into the case — one that keeps circling back to her own past. The town has its own code. The men who run it are used to not answering for what they do.
Campion, who won the Palme d'Or for The Piano, uses the crime format as a vehicle for something harder: a reckoning with male violence in isolated communities and the women who survive it. Holly Hunter's eccentric commune of women by the lake is one of the series' stranger and more memorable inventions. Stream Top of the Lake online on iFILM.
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