Murder mysteries are a conceit that, ironically, will never die. The crime novel remains eternally compelling because it not only sends us on a journey to try to decipher the identity and motive of the killer; invites us to try to piece together the clues ourselves, to see if we can solve them before the revelation happens. Combine that with the fact that TV viewers have been eagerly awaiting the next big project from creative partners Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and you have a series that has already been inviting anticipation.
Good news: A murder at the end of the world is worth the wait. While this show may be a simpler story of the duo compared to previous works, it takes all the familiar components of a murder mystery and gives them surprising twists, dropping its characters in a remote setting before the dangerous setting forces them To do it. a tighter confinement. As the body count rises and suspicions mount, tensions rise between the remaining guests until they all look at each other differently, but the person ultimately responsible for these murders may be the last one anyone (including us) ) be suspicious.
Creators: Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
Stars: Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, Harris Dickinson
Amateur detective Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) has always been fascinated with murder: tackling those cases where law enforcement has reached a dead end or given up completely. As the daughter of the local medical examiner, she spent her formative years helping her father at various crime scenes instead of marking important social milestones.
However, through the resource that is the Internet, she connects with other “citizen detectives” (imagine her and Misty Quigley teaming up!) and pieces together clues that might have otherwise been overlooked. Eventually, she meets Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson), a hacker and coder who becomes her partner in more ways than one, even when their different philosophical approaches to solving cold cases threaten to tear them apart.
Darby's long investigation into a serial murder case culminated in the publication of her first book, which she dedicated to one of her personal heroes: Lee (Marling), a fringe hacker with a reputation both renowned and infamous. . While Lee's online activities were anything but legal, she was someone Darby considered aspirational, at least before she was harassed, tricked, and ultimately went into hiding to protect herself from her. Since then, there has been almost no news about Lee's whereabouts, except for her marriage to reclusive tech billionaire Andy Ronson (Clive Owen), and when Darby mentions Lee at a reading for her latest book, she soon receives an invitation to a retreat. private organized by Ronson. the same.
Along with eight other guests who have been selected to attend, Darby travels to a remote and stunning location that just so happens to include every technologically advanced convenience one can imagine. But when a member of the group is discovered dead, Darby must prove that it was, in fact, a murder (and that the killer is among them), regardless of the forces that may try to stop her investigation.
Gathering your cast of characters under one roof is an almost surefire way to kick-start your whodunnit, but Murder at the End of the World has one advantage over many of the murder mysteries in recent memory: its setting. . The location of Ronson's retreat for his chosen guests (which is quickly revealed to be Iceland) immediately makes the story feel much more claustrophobic and confined, even before a more ominous snowstorm traps the guests in each other. There's something perfectly chilling (no pun intended) about being at the mercy of nature, especially when being trapped outside without proper insulation could mean the difference between a mild sting and hypothermia.
A remote setting for an intimate gathering seems like a fun idea at first, but when you realize that you may very well be sharing space with a murderer and that any potential escape route is being closed, what at first seemed like an idyllic getaway It quickly starts to seem more complicated. like a sinister trap.
A Murder at the End of the World doesn't rely solely on the device of forcing its characters into close proximity to make its story more disturbing: the show's very aesthetic, especially in the current timeline, is stark and biting. Marling and Batmanglij, who share directing duties on the series, give the retreat scenes a distinctly different look than the warm, well-lit moments where we jump back in time to follow Da's previous investigation.
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