A Murder at the End of the World left us thinking from start to finish, a creative merit that makes us highlight the message and some narrative flaws of the entire journey. Isolated in a retreat that is marked by mysterious deaths, the most brilliant minds in the world are unable to decipher who the killer is and even less, why he started killing. And you know what else? We all got it partly right, the surprise is precisely the reason.

So, like Darby (Emma Corrin), many now point fingers at abusive billionaire Andy (Clive Owen) as the main culprit behind all the deaths. The problem is that he insists on his innocence. In a classic moment where all the suspects are in the same room, speaking and discussing, justifying and accusing themselves, we discover that many theories were right. Zoomer (Kellan Tetlow) was the physical killer of Bill (Harris Dickinson) and Rohan (Zaved Khan) because he was induced by the electronic game controlled by Artificial Intelligence, Ray (Edoardo Ballerini). Sian (Alice Braga) was just a security breach accident.

The reason for everything, as we discovered, is that Ray considered Bill and Rohan security threats to Andy, and his program is designed to protect him under any circumstances. By having access to the most intimate thoughts of its creator – who wished for Zoomer’s biological father to die, but would never literally kill him – the AI was ‘brilliant’ in eliminating risks. For Andy, the risk posed by Bill wasn’t even fighting legally for the child, but the fact that he was helping Lee (Brit Marling) kidnap the child. So everyone is kind of stunned, but could they technically accuse Andy of a crime he never officially commissioned? The AI that came first is based on data, not feelings. Who is really to blame? Zoomer?Andy? Ray?

Well, there’s still a problem. They are isolated and under the control of the AI, which brings together the two hackers Darby and Lee to “eliminate” Ray, which would help Lee escape, but also eliminate evidence of the crimes. In any case, Ray is erased, Lee escapes with Zoomer, and we say goodbye with the reading of Darby’s new book, Retreat, which recounts more of this crime that she elucidated. And in a beautiful posthumous declaration of love, reinforcing what Bill said devastated a few episodes ago, she only really loved him after he died.

In general, I liked A Murder at the End of the World, even with craters in the narrative and even cheesy moments, to deliberately try to confuse us. Although it may seem childish, some of the typical cinema messages that always place technology as the villain for not dealing with feelings, are still a curious option that in a “whodunit” (who killed) matters less than whydunit/why killed. After all, physically our killer is not guilty because Ray, used by Andy as a personal therapist in a moment of loneliness, was “accidentally corrupted” by a burst of dark thoughts from his creator, which led the AI to consider Bill a threat to security. Thus, the question remains about the “exaggerated” use of technology and how machines are dangerous because they gather thoughts without the context of feelings. Therefore, everyone is to blame in a system fed by different data that interferes with the destiny of our lives.

The series leaves it open that Darby Hart can have more adventures, after all, at this point she has two bestsellers and a loyal audience. Emma Corrin has already announced that she is willing to continue. I just hope that Darby effectively shows us her skills as a detective and less as a narrator, but who knows, who knows, will she evolve? I’m just sad because we won’t have Bill Farrah anymore and he was the most interesting character in the entire story.

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