Your Favorite Show Is Too Long

Top of the Lake, which was co-written and partly directed by Jane Campion and begins tonight on the Sundance Channel, may be the best thing to air on television this year. A dark story of rape and birth and death and trauma, it stars Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss as a detective who returns to her New Zealand hometown to care for her mother and investigate the case of a missing 12-year-old. It builds...