Emma Corrin shines in Hulu’s engrossing ‘A Murder at the End of the World’: review
nypost.com“The OA” – which involved weird science, multiple timelines, dark fairy tale style whimsey, and a strong focus on character relationships – shouldn’t be surprised that their newest series isn’t straightforward mystery, despite its title. “A Murder at the End of the World” follows Darby Hart (Emma Corrin, “The Crown”) a young twentysomething amateur sleuth, hacker, and author.
After growing up with a coroner single father, Darby became fascinated with all the unidentified dead women in the world – especially those who didn’t die of natural causes.
As she explains, many murdered women’s killers will never be found. As the story opens, Darby is in a bookstore, doing a reading from a true crime memoir that she penned about her preoccupation with a series of dead women that she thought were linked to a serial killer, and her hunt for that killer with her old boyfriend, Bill (Harris Dickinson), shown in flashbacks.However, that happened several years ago.
In the present, it’s not clear what became of that search, or what happened between Darby and Bill. Her book draws the attention of Andy Ronson (Clive Owen), a reclusive tech billionaire who is famous and controversial enough that he’s had more attempts on his life than any head of state.
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