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    Review: In 'A Murder at the End of the World,' Emma Corrin is an electric presence

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Nov 15, 2023 4 minutes
    Emma Corrin stars as Darby Hart in FX’ s“ A Murder at the End of the World.”.

    Beneath its contemporary trimmings and 21st-century themes, the most excellent "A Murder at the End of the World" (FX, premiered 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,

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