‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: Emma Corrin Leads the First Great Sci-Fi Show for the ChatGPT Era

The FX limited series from filmmaking duo Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij is an ambitious work that mixes multiple genres to create a propulsive thriller

Emma Corrin as Darby Hart in "A Murder at the End of the World." (Chris Saunders/FX)

Toward the end of “A Murder at the End of the World,” Ziba (Pegah Ferydoni), one of the guests staying at a billionaire’s Icelandic bunker, sums up the horror of the A.I. technology that the tech giant whose retreat they’re attending has created. Ray, the name given to the humanized smart computer overseeing every guest’s whim, is “an us, without feeling.” The line is not simply meant to highlight the danger of the soullessness of artificial intelligence— how, as many critics of theChat GPT era would say, advanced technology can never replicate our ineffable humanity, no matter how impressively it spits things out of its data churner.

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    Jane Doe

    Whoever wrote this article deserves to be fired for revealing the end twist of the series before it even started airing. Smh

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