The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The best programs on TV this week

Top of the Lake

Director Jane Campion (The Piano) leaps into prestige TV with this chilling six-hour miniseries. Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss proves magnetic as a headstrong detective who’s visiting her picturesque New Zealand hometown when she’s enlisted in a search for the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of a local drug lord (Peter Mullan). Meanwhile, a commune for abused women has sprung up on the town’s lakeshore, giving Holly Hunter the chance to play a mesmerizing guru. Monday, March 18, at 9 p.m., Sundance

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