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- 2023
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- 2023
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Summary Amateur detective Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) seeks to find the killer after one of the guests at an isolated retreat is murdered in this limited series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.
Created By: Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
- 2023
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2023
- TV-MA
- HULU
A Murder at the End of the World
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 14, 2023
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6.1
Summary Amateur detective Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) seeks to find the killer after one of the guests at an isolated retreat is murdered in this limited series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.
Created By: Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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72% Positive
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28% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
73
72% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
28% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Most excellent. .... More than anything else there is Corrin, who played Princess Diana in the fourth season of “The Crown” and has an electric presence even in repose. .... Darby remains very much at the center of the story. Go find her there.
Aan absorbing, eerie brain twister that delivers a shocking denouement. (I’m sworn to secrecy). For mystery lovers, it doesn’t get much better than this.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
6.1
60% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
12% Mixed
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28% Negative
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Brit Marling can't do no wrong. Got me interested since the first minutes. It looks like everything is not what it seems. Characters are interesting, and the world-building is awesome. It's like Glass Onion but without the comedy.
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A Murder at the End of the World is a gripping, pacy thriller. It navigates its way through a century of detective influences, from Conan Doyle to Gillian Flynn, with an agility that leaves it never less than wholly watchable.
“A Murder at the End of the World,” for the most part, makes sure we remember who matters — while still keeping us guessing to the very end.
It’s a tricky needle to thread, trying to construct a whodunit that deprioritizes the who in favor of the people behind the it; mileage will vary on how successfully you think it’s pulled off. At its worst, the series moves the way Andy’s titans talk, circling its gloomy central concerns without seeming to get much of anywhere for long periods of time. But at its best, it channels Darby’s anguish over existing in a world that can feel unbearably beautiful in one moment and intolerably painful in the next.
This thriller is Marling/Batmanglij at their most accessible, if at the expense of surprise. It’s another showcase for Corrin, an actor who only gets more interesting.
Beyond its first two episodes, “A Murder at the End of the World” just isn’t thrilling. Twists and turns fizzle into bland exposition dumps.
This review is based on 3 episodes. Sorry to say.
Very poor attempt at murder mystery.
Since the creators are writing and directing (acting) it is fair to say that scrambling a timeline is NOT how to write a mistery. It is just a very boring puzzle set being assembled for us where we, the audience just dont care as everything seems just random.
Characters staring into the void and looking serious and concerned is NOT how to make us care about them.
The "detective" fails to focus on obvious questions and instead just walks around pointlesly "looking concerned".
At best, there are some undelying themes by writers that can be inferred and might make much more interesting drama, if used.
I want to beleive bit somehow recent TV and movie drama is failing to provide anything that can be accepted as just well done entertainment ... expecting engaging drama with revealing questions and insights is just like waiting a miracle to happen.
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The show centers on Darby, a young hacker with extensive knowledge of forensics who solves murders. It seeks to channel Agatha Christie but it's full of implausibilities, and it takes itself too seriously for them to be forgotten.
The show doesn't let you forget that Darby is Gen Z, but it seems no one under the age of 40 was consulted in the writing process. She has an ipod classic, fine, maybe she has a flair for retro electronics. She posts sensitive information on reddit, because as we all know that's where the tech savvy kids hang out these days right? She's great at finding clues for cold cases by googling terms like "Jane doe silver earring". Her MGK-lite boyfriend can hack into street lights, apparently, and make them communicate in morse code. Streetlights function on timers, by the way, they're not connected to a network you can hack (traffic lights can be hacked sometimes, so maybe the writers just got their Google searches mixed up). Her tech genius role model, instead of saying "access the cameras, they're on a wireless network" says that video footage is "inside" of the characters? As if wireless networks just continuously project the content of security cameras into our bodies when we're in range?
I would like to say the writers' ignorance is limited to tech, but it seems they also don't know how criminal investigations work.
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Truly dreadful. I am a longtime fan of Brit Marling’s work, but this show leaves something to be desired. It features a protagonist whose only personality trait is having pink hair, in a setting we’ve seen a hundred times in film and television. I am really disappointed that FX destroyed Marling’s 12-year winning streak in film and TV.
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Production Company:
- FX Productions
Initial Release Date: Nov 14, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
