Murder at the End of the World

7 episode mini-series. VERY good TV.

Weird and unique.

89% Rotten Tomatoes. That’s about right. I’d change a few things, if I could.

Intense. But skillfully done.

Unlike typical Agatha Christie, the dialogue is believable.

Emma Corrin is excellent as Darby Hart, a 24-year-old “Gen Z Sherlock Holmes” hacker who has written a true-crime book about her past as an amateur sleuth.

She’s Rami Malek‘s paramour right now IRL.

Harris Dickinson as Bill Farrah is quite good, as well. They make a charmingly socially awkward duo.

Darby and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life. …

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I did enjoy the technology.

The show is set in a billionaire prepper’s escape hatch, the Fljot Valley Hotel in Iceland.

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a compound in Hawaii with an underground bunker.

OpenAI’s ousted-and-reinstated CEO Sam Altman has a stash of things like guns, gold, antibiotics, and gas masks.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman bought motorcycles, guns, and ammo to be prepared to “hole up in my house for some amount of time” if necessary and even got laser eye surgery because he thinks it’d help his odds of survival in a disaster.

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman once told the New Yorker he estimates more than half of Silicon Valley billionaires have invested in some type of “apocalypse insurance,” like an underground bunker.

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I did predict the killer. 

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