Jane Campion's six-part series for television makes it UK debut on BBC2. Set in New Zealand's beautiful South Island, detective Robin (Elizabeth Moss, spreading her wings from 'Mad Men's Peggy and the London stage) returns from Sydney to visit her ailing mother and is drawn into the strange life of young girl Tui (Jacqueline Joe), twelve and pregnant, and by the end of the episode missing. Fellow American, and Campion veteran Holly Hunter, appears as GJ, a spiritual guru for troubled women who sets up camp in some shipping containers on a site known as Paradise. Tui's wayward father Matt (Peter Mullan, whom we could watch forever and a day) has staked a claim on the same land, and is so narked with the land agent that he takes cruel revenge.
Gripping so far, with the only odd note the stupidly neurotic women who form Holly Hunter's tribe. It's been described as similar in tone to 'Twin Peaks' but happily there are no dream sequences, dwarves etc. so far.
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