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Positive:
23
Mixed:
10
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Critic Reviews
Nov 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A massive puzzle of a series, the beauty and innovation of “A Murder at the End of the World” is its ability to merge two starkly different environments and, with it, two contrasting versions of Darby. There’s the 18-year-old who was slowly coming into herself and the 24-year-old woman determined to expose the truth no matter how sinister it may be. While the mystery is a central component of the story, Marling and Batmanglij’s latest spellbinding series is all about power.
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The Daily BeastDec 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A Murder at the End of the World is genuinely suspenseful and delightfully gripping, eliciting gasps and squirms in equal measure. It’s a show that understands the importance of coherence, retaining its slow drip of secrets to become one of the best mystery series in recent memory.
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Nov 14, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A Murder at the End of the World is here for your wintertime whodunit watching, with a terrific lead performance from Emma Corrin, a strong cast throughout – while they’re still living, anyway! – and layers of forward-looking tech and classic mystery elements to pick at and peel.
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The GuardianNov 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Corrin and Dickinson are outstanding and carry the story on their shoulders. It takes on a lot, thematically, but I admire the big swings. This is a tech-centred story and its big appetite for interconnected ideas feels very online. It may not be flawless, but I found myself completely seduced by it.
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Nov 9, 2023
Season 1 Review:
While the mystery plot is solid, and the red herrings work for the most part, and the action sequences are compelling, they’re all wound tightly into broader questions about the way we live our lives online, the corruption of power, and the insidiousness of misogyny.
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Nov 9, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Like The OA, Murder could use a dash of humor to vary the somber tone. But these are small complaints when Marling and Batmanglij have so thoughtfully built an inquiry into the consequences of AI and surveillance capitalism within the framework of a whodunit, yielding a mystery both current and timeless.
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Nov 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Parts of the present-day story are thin. There are too many characters to adequately define and develop, and so many competing themes that the series starts to reproduce some of the same shallow, wheel-spinning discourse Ronson’s “luminaries” regale him with at dinner. As a whodunit, however, “A Murder at the End of the World” holds its own — all while enacting some heart-rending correctives to the genre’s bloodthirsty tendencies.
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Nov 9, 2023
Nov 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Nov 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
When the story remains in Iceland, exploring the whodunnit of the murders that occur at the retreat, “Murder” entertains. But inevitably the show segues to the overlong Darby-and-Bill flashbacks that, while they do serve to inform elements of the Iceland story, ramble on and on.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Beware: it’s grindingly slow, uneven (most of the retreat group members are barely pencilled in), and the overall atmosphere is so oppressive that you find yourself hoping for another brutal murder to lift the mood. For all that, I felt compelled to watch to the end: it’s beautifully acted (Owen is downright unnerving), and the story, while conducted at a maddening pace, is atmospheric and deeply intriguing.
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TV Guide MagazineDec 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Few of the suspects and/or victims are fully developed, and Murder exhibits streaming bloat, with several episodes going past the hour mark. Yet there is considerable tension waiting for the next snowshoe to drop and the denouement is ingenious. [27 Nov - 17 Dec 2023, p.7]
The PlaylistNov 6, 2023
Nov 14, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Dressing up an old Agatha Christie-style mystery with modern trappings certainly worked for “Knives Out” but does considerably less in “A Murder at the End of the World.” Created by the team behind “The OA,” the Hulu limited series sequesters its characters in the snowy wilds of Iceland, while stumbling through its whodunit with bloated episodes and prolonged flashbacks.
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