LOS ANGELES, May 13 — A second season of Australian crime thriller Top of the Lake is on the way after a four-year break, with Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) discovering how a young woman’s murderer is connected to her own adoptive daughter.

Once playing the daughter of a president in The West Wing and then an upwardly mobile secretary in Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss is returning to the role of Detective Robin Griffin for a second season of Top of the Lake.

In a trailer shown ahead of the TV series’ September 2017 debut, and as Season Two is screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Moss’s Griffin meets the adoptive mother of her daughter, the elder played by Nicole Kidman.

When a body washes up on Sydney’s shores, she takes a fellow police officer (Gwendoline Christie) to investigate; the murder case soon leads to the business interests of her daughter’s predatory boyfriend.

Season one of Top of the Lake blended horrific crime with personal trauma for its heroine, and in season two, Top of the Lake: China Girl appears destined to do the same.

Five Primetime Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nods (plus a win for Moss,) two Screen Actors Guild Awards nods and a New Zealand Film Award win followed after Top of the Lake first aired in 2013.

The series was co-created by Palme D’Or and Academy Award winner Jane Campion of The Piano, Bright Star and In The Cut; her own daughter, Alice Englert, plays the role of Griffin’s daughter, Mary.

Top of the Lake: China Girl will premiere on SundanceTV in the US in September 2017, the network announced, with episodes made available to stream through Hulu, sundance.tv and the SundanceTV app the day after they air. — AFP-Relaxnews

 

A screengrab from ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ that stars Nicole Kidman and Gwendoline Christie among others.