A Murder at the End of the World

The show is very interesting and different from the classic whodunnit series. It touches on modern subjects of climate change, hacking, AI, the tech industry clashing with art. It also contains a moving love story.

Most of the show keeps you in suspense, there are some great tension packed scenes.

The acting is also wonderful, both from the main actress and Clive Owen.

Unfortunately, as typical for the whodunnit genre - the ending leaves much to be desired. There are missed opportunities there which I won't go into to avoid spoilers.

Suffice to say that the last episode lacks tension and the characters make some, hm, peculiar choices.

I'd recommend for a watch in winter, under a blanket and with hot chocolate. But don't expect a masterpiece. It's interesting and mostly engaging, with some meaningful messages, but it's not perfect by any means.

This show has the premise of something brilliant. A murder(s) in an isolated area, with multiple suspects with unknown motives. A perfect replica of any Agatha Christie show which should have sated the most ardent mystery lover but didn't really in the end.

A lack of character development failed to offer the mystery required for such a show. They are never truly revealed even at the end. A motive for suspects is always a compelling factor, but again, never developed or even really tempted to be known, not even at the end.

The murders are not deeply investigated, nor properly made to be indifferent. There are clues thrown in, namely obvious because of their obscure appearance, which mean something, but never expanded on, and end up as just a forgotten mention.

In the end, the killer and motive are revealed. But..... will it be enough to convince? A very mild, laid back finale ends the series almost quietly. Possibly disappointing to some, but expected these days as shows become less original in surprises.

Definitely worth watching, just for the thrills of guessing. Nothing too new but produced well enough to warrant watching 7 episodes.

I binged this in a weekend and overall I enjoyed it. There were many twists and turns, but there were also unlikely head scratching moments. I believe I enjoyed Darby more when she was younger and with Bill. I would not have minded more Joe Doe content, for sure. The setting in Iceland was interesting. I'd recommend it if you are looking for something new and you can suspend belief half of the time.

As an aside, I was bothered to distraction half the time over Darby's hair. Whoever was in charge of choosing her styles and continuity from one scene to the next missed the mark. When she was younger her, and Bill's hair for that matter, had terribly awful short bangs. Bill even had those same bangs later - what the what. Then Darby has plastered flat blonde hair that did not move and inch, ever. Finally she dyes it pink for a decent hairstyle for dinner, only to have that stylist inexplicably changed after she leaves the table. Later, it's wet, dry, parted then not, then shorter, then fluffed. I just could not stand it.

Such a great cast. An a wonderful setting, in Iceland. But good God, Darby is an irritating character, and they spend much too much time dwelling on her mournful eyes as she works her way up to her next dumb move, and not enough time on the plot.

The entire series is devoted to plumbing the depths of Darby's character as she tries to stay ahead of the killer. Only problem is, she has no depths. Just those mournful eyes and a frail body.

It's a shame to see such a great cast so underused.

This series is a draft, and needed a lot more editing. The acting can't overcome the bad writing.

Watch it for the scenery, the lush production values. It's enough to make me want to go to Iceland. But don't watch it for the plot or the characters.

First off, I adore Brit Marling and all her work, I have been a big fan since Another Earth and her way of writing and directing along with acting is top par, (along with Zal Batmanglij and Mike Cahill) but maybe because I am familiar with her work I expected a little bit more from this show. At the end of the first episode is was obvious who the killer was and by mid-episode three is was obvious how it was done. After that it was just a wait to get to the end and the "reveal".

Apart from that the blueprint is classic Agatha Cristie, with a bunch of strangers isolated from the world and an amateur sleuth trying to solve the "whodunit" when one of them untimely dies. The setting is interesting and the location beautiful and quite original, the show is well worth a watch if you are into classic detective stories, I just wasn't so blown way by it as I expected going in.