arsedoc md wrote:
a question on 'top of the lake' if anyone can-(i'm not a keeen keen watcher, so i tend to miss stuff, especially in these dead slow moving series) .. why is elisabeth moss called in from australia to new zealand just for the case? I don't know what i've missed.
5 episodes in , i don't even see that she's any kind of specialist. hasn't made any groundbreaking discoveries except lose her temper like all other weak and emotional female leads on tv and also persisting that the kid is still alive somewhere...on the basis of about nothing.
She wasn't specifically called in from Australia for the case. From memory (I watched it when it first came out here last year) she had been living in Australia and was back in NZ visiting her dying Mum in the same town (where she had grown up) where the girl went missing and she was some sort of specialist in dealing with child sexual assault cases and in particular dealing with the victims. So they called her as they knew she happened to be in town and had more relevant experience than the local police.
She was a good fit for the role and deserved the awards, and it was good to have an internationally known actress playing the lead in series based in NZ. But her attempt at an NZ accent was pretty bad. Was also funny (although probably not to anyone outside NZ who wouldn't know her) to see the one of the biggest NZ TV stars weirdly playing an American part (the blonde woman in the group with Holly Hunter).
