After Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij finished writing “A Murder at the End of the World,” Marling remembers thinking how difficult it was going to be to cast the lead, an amateur detective named Darby Hart. “How do we find somebody who can be in literally every scene and who’s young and can be believably Gen Z and an amateur …
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Longtime creative partners Zal Batmanglij, and Brit Marling are back with the twisty limited series “A Murder at the End of the World” on FX. The mystery begins thus: “A young woman in basketball shorts and a hoodie — she’s the same age as Google — walks down the street towards a bookstore.” That’s how creators Zal Batmanglij and Brit …
Beneath its contemporary trimmings and 21st century themes, the most excellent “A Murder at the End of the World”, from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, 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 and all the sundry suspects are cooped up in a single location …