text: Elisabeth Moss on 'heartbreaking' Top Of The Lake: China Girl | Metro News
  Sarah DeenThursday 27 Jul 2017 3:27 pm
  Elisabeth Moss stars in Top Of The Lake: China Girl (Picture: Lisa Tomasetti/BBC)
  Elisabeth Moss returns to her role as Robin Griffin for the second season of Top Of The Lake.
  When the body of a young girl washes up on Bondi Beach there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers that 'China Girl' didn't die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception.
  Robin is assigned police partner Miranda (Gwendoline Christie) and while their relationship starts off stand-offish, they pair eventually connect and find out they have more in common than they think.
  Robin with new assistant Miranda (Picture: BBC)
  Moss has spoken about the theme of the new series, which focuses on motherhood rather than childhood like the first run.
  Elisabeth said: 'The themes of season one very much are about children. Robin coming back to her childhood home – revisiting her childhood, her childhood with her mother, her childhood with her father. This horrific experience that happens when she's 16. She's obviously still a child. Tui representing a child, and then the barista ring, the children there. So it was about children in season one.
  'I feel like season two is about parenthood, and specifically motherhood. The different kinds of motherhood, the different ways that people become a mother, how motherhood doesn't always have to do with being a biological mother. Robin having had a child and giving birth to a child but then not raising it. Nicole's character having not given birth to the child, but raised her. And then these surrogates, these women who are objectified and put into a position that is not only illegal but incredibly heartbreaking.
  'This season is about being a mother and a parent, and it's interesting, going from that very strong theme of season one to an even stronger theme in season two, with all of these plot lines being connected around this central idea. But done in a brilliantly subtle way, which is believable.
  'All of these storylines converging and becoming important for an emotional reason and not for a plot-line reason. But also being super interesting and mysterious and awesome and page turning.'
  Top Of The Lake: China Girl starts tonight at 9pm on BBC Two. All episodes will be available to watch on iPlayer after the episode.