Top of the Lake

Where's Ana? She can't have missed the last episode ! I've just realised what she meant by 'whose father' as well [I knew what I meant, I think]. It were a bit good, this series. I was watching it in bed last night and the biggest spider I've even seen dropped onto the bed and ran straight at me which added to the excitement.

Don't tell me I am an episode behind.

Whose father, Tegan?

I'll see what the blog thinks....

Ana; I was just going to write that!! Especially as it turns out that he owned her mum's house. It also means she may be related to Tui as well, doesn't it? Do you think he was going to tell her that on the boat? And that he had something to do with the death of her father?

Well, the action certainly speeded up last night - last episode next week!

I'm a bit concerned about Robin and Johnno's relationship though, as Matt Mitcham seems to be the father of most of the town's inhabitants under the age of 40...

Nah; half watch it then check the blog; simples ...

I agree that you certainly can't afford to miss a few minutes here and there or you risk losing the plot entirely!

Hadn't realised about the actress being in Mad Men as I never saw that; lots of Emmy nominations floating around for the people in it. henetha; it's worth checking out the Guardian blog after each episode [I started doing that with The Killing]. It did say it was a bit Twin Peaks'ish, which can't be bad and goes some way to explaining why I haven't got a clue what's going on most of the time....

Wasn't episode 3 weird! But I shan't give up on it as it's kind of compelling and I love the scenery and some of the actors.

Watched episode 1 so far. Lead actor played the president's daughter in West Wing as well. It is very similar in mood to The Killing only that was urban rather than rural.

Have just checked out the Guardian blog so I [kind of] understand what I've been watching; don't know what I'd do without the Guardian blog .

Got it all recorded, but not seen any of it yet. Last episode of The returned tonight - really looking forward to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_rSH8mRMA
this is the other 'local boy makes good'; I'd like to pretend that I'm doing the dancing [but I'm not].

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0unB04j_lw

No reason why the name should have reminded me of the other one, other than it had the same sort of rhythm and structure to it and both were rather obscure in their own way! Strangely enough one of the members of Late of the Pier had been working in New Zealand, having formed a collaboration with someone over there, but the group are now recording as themselves again [you learn something new every day]. Aka; don't even begin to try to understand my reasoning about this or anything else for that matter . I gave up years ago...

No - the white one's OK (for the moment...)

This was in the first episode - the dog hairy Scotsman offered to Robin...

Not watched last nights yet. I'm guessing it's that little white one

The dog incident was shocking, wasn't it? Wasn't expecting that.

Yes, the Matt and Judy show has me wondering.....

I'm pleased your memory has returned Tegan though I'm struggling with the reasoning here. Ah! 'of the lake' and 'lake of the' ....got it

Have just remembered one of my all time weird guilty pleasure TV series. Few series got me hooked quite like Twin Peaks.....I've even got the music somewhere and would play it quite regularly. Now that was seriously weird!

D'you think the departed dog might turn up in The Returned as well, Aka? One good thing about Top of the Lake is that I've been trying to remember the name of a local group for ages and, for some reason Top of the Lake has reminded me that they were called Late of the Pier [no wonder I couldn't remember their name].

I think I'll watch The Mill tonight. We normally watch Countryfile but they've changed the time and it has turned into the Matt and Julia show which is really annoying.

I keep on watching both 'The Returned' and 'Top of the Lake' hoping to make some sense of them. I'm just waiting for Tui to pop up, reincarnated in the former, and all the water to drain out of the lake in the latter.

Thanks Grannyknot - that's something I was unaware of. I'll have a look at the gen on episode 3 and maybe pick it up again.