How the lavish hotel in ‘Murder at the End of the World’ evolves into a futuristic fortress
“A Murder at the End of the World” is a complexly constructed series, hopping between two timelines and uncovering several mysteries. Its sets, by production designer Alex DiGerlando, were equally complicated.
The FX on Hulu series follows author, hacker and amateur investigator Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) to a remote hotel in Iceland, where tech billionaire Andy Ronson (Clive Owen) has gathered a group of elite thinkers to discuss the impacts of the climate crisis. The retreat turns deadly when Darby’s old flame and fellow sleuth Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson) is murdered. She sets out to find the killer as dangerous weather closes in, traversing the frozen landscape and discovering hidden secrets of the hotel in the process.
Creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij conceived the hotel, constructed by Andy and his wife, Lee (Marling), to survive the end of the world, early on when writing the series. Marling explains there were “a lot of
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