The new series 'A Murder at the End of the World' is a conventional Agatha Christie-style mystery set in a single location. The story follows Darby Hart, a 24-year-old hacker and author, as she solves the crime while dealing with her own complicated emotions.
Beneath its contemporary trimmings and 21st century themes, the most excellent 'A Murder at the End of the World' (FX, premiering Tuesday), from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij ('The OA'), is as conventional as can be — the nth-hundredth variation on an Agatha Christie -style country-house/isolated island mystery, in which the killer, the victim(s) and all the sundry suspects are cooped up in a single location from which no one is able or allowed to leave.
Tropes of the genre abound, including a creepy butler, though he exists only as an avatar of artificial intelligence. The story's Nancy Drew (the other timeless literary touchstone), with a touch of Thom Yorke, is Darby Hart (Emma Corrin), a 24-year-old hacker and author, whose bleached bob recalls that of genius coder Mackenzie Davis in AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.' With her careless style and complicated emotions — she's kind of shy (except where crime-solving is concerned, when she charges ahead), something of an outsider, a lonely loner — Darby is the model of a manic-depressive pixie dream gir
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