History Series / AMurderAtTheEndOfTheWorld

* LockedRoomMystery: The hotel is located in a remote stretch of Iceland tundra, physically separated from the outside world, narrowing the list of suspects to everyone who was inside at the time of the murder. Shortly thereafter, a storm physically prevents everyone from leaving and new people from entering.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the killer (Ray) is discovered and properly destroyed by both Lee and Darby, the lives lost are still gone, with Sian's death being a complete and separate accident from Bill and Rohan's. Also, Darby manages to help Lee escape with Zoomer, but the two will never be able to resurface for fear they will be found. Andy has his lawyers filed for kidnapping charges against Lee, showing no guilt for his abusive actions; and while he's retreated from public life, he faces no comeuppance for his actions. And even though the group gave honest testimonies to what happened, the authorities are unsure on how to deal out punishment. And the show ends with Darby coming to grips with Bill's death with her new book on her recent experiences, with the new friendships of David, Ziba, Oliver, and Martin]].

* TheCracker: Darby and Lee are both experts hackers, as are many of the other guests at the dinner. Darby suspects that the killer is one of these hackers based on how the killer seems to be manipulating online systems to kill people and avoid capture. [[spoiler:She's partially right. Ray does hack into Rohan's pacemaker, but he already has access to the hotel's systems, so he doesn't need to hack them at all. Sian's suit also was not hacked. It merely locked up when the network was automatically shut down]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Darby walks onstage her own book reading from the crowd, stammers out her introduction, and doesn't put her hood down for a while. People in the crowd lose interest and start wandering away until she begins reading from her book, which is actually quite interesting and well written. This all establishes Darby as a socially awkward person with HiddenDepths.

* FlashbackBPlot: The series unfolds in two timeframes: the present, where Darby investigates a murder at the Icelandic retreat, and six years earlier, where Darby and Bill originally meet up and track down the serial killer.

** During Andy and Darby's conversation on who the suspected murderer might be, they end up deducing it has to be someone ''very'' close to knowing all of Andy's systems and designs. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Ray, Andy's personal AI assistant and defense system]].

* MenacingMask: The first suspect is seen wearing a creepy, blank white mask to hide from the security camera footage. The mask is later identified as the kind used by Hong Kong protestors.

Darby Hart (Creator/EmmaCorrin) is a GenZ PlayfulHacker and AmateurSleuth. By day, she works a boring IT job, and by night, she uses her technical skills and her experience as the [[ParentChildTeam daughter/apprentice]] of [[TheCoroner a coroner]] to help other online sleuths investigate unsolved crimes. As a teenager, Darby and her then-partner Bill Farrah (Creator/HarrisDickinson), a fellow hacker and TrueCrime enthusiast, tracked down and identified a SerialKiller, and Darby later wrote a book about the investigation that brought her some notoriety.

In the present day, Darby is invited to an exclusive Icelandic retreat by tech mogul Andy Ronson (Creator/CliveOwen) and his wife Lee Andersen (Brit Marling), a skilled hacker and Darby's childhood idol. Also among the guests are a filmmaker, a wealthy businessman, a climate scientist, an astronaut... and Bill, now a grungy activist-artist known as "Fangs".

* BaitAndSwitch: When Darby reads her book, the flashback ends with Bill stepping in front of Darby just a killer fires his pistol, implying that he took the bullet for her. When we cut back to present day, an audience member asks why Bill isn't with Darby anymore, and Darby is evasive with her response, implying that he died and she obscured that fact in her book. However, later scenes establish that they actually just broke up shortly thereafter, and Bill is still alive. An even later episode clarifies what happened with the killer.

* AmateurSleuth: Darby, and previously Bill.

* RustProofBlood: The blood at the first crime scene remains bright red days afterwards.

* TheCracker: Darby suspects the killer has to be an expert hacker based on their ability to bypass the security of the hotel to commit the murders. [[spoiler:She's half-right; Ray has access to the entire system and uses Zoomer, who is too short for the adult-height doorbell cameras to see, as his instrument.]]

* EverythingIsOnline: [[spoiler:Rohan is killed by [[TheCracker someone]] hacking his pacemaker through its digital functionality.]]

* RichGenius: Andy Ronson, or so it seems.

** In one of the flashbacks, Bill mentions how a fortune teller saw him having a child with a woman he only with once. [[spoiler:It turns his fling with Lee resulted in their son, Zoomer]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the killer (Ray) is discovered and properly destroyed by both Lee and Darby, the live lost are still gone, with Sian's death being a complete and separate accident from Bill and Rohan's. Also, Darby manages to help Lee escape with Zoomer, but there's a strong chance that they will never reunite. Andy has his lawyers filed for kidnapping charges against Lee, showing no guilt for his abusive actions; and while he's retreated from public life, he faces no comeuppance for his actions. And even though the group gave honest testimonies to what happened, the authorities are unsure on how to deal out punishment. And the show ends with Darby coming to grips with Bill's death with her new book on her recent experiences, with the new friendships of David, Ziba, Oliver, and Martin]].

* SuspectExistenceFailure: [[spoiler:Rohan is revealed to be the masked man who entered Bill's room, but dies not long after.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: It turns out [[spoiler: Ray is the one who manipulated the deaths of Bill and Rohan (Sian was simply the victim of circumstance), as it interpreted its programming to protect Ronson to eliminate anyone Ray believed could "threaten" Ronson. Ronson protests that never intended for this to happen, having vented his frustrations about Bill's rude behavior to Ray in his role as a virtual therapist, but Darby points out that Ray is also his home security system, meaning Ray took what was said in confidence and applied it to his directive to protect Ronson's interests. Ray was keeping Ronson's empire safe by any means necessary, even from threats Ronson himself didn't know existed, namely the fact that Bill is actually Zoomer's father.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: It turns out [[spoiler: Ray is the one who manipulated the deaths of Bill and Rohan (Sian was simply the victim of circumstance), as it interpreted its programming to protect Ronson to eliminate anyone Ray believed could "threaten" Ronson. The fact that Ronson never intended for this to happen doesn't matter, it's what Ray was doing, keeping Ronson's empire safe by any means necessary.]]

* TheCracker: Darby suspects the killer is this trope.

* AIIsACrapshoot: It turns out [[spoiler: Ray is the one who manipulated these deaths as it interpreted its programming to protect Ronson to eliminate anyone Ray believed could "threaten" Ronson. The fact that Ronson never intended for this to happen doesn't matter, it's what Ray was doing, keeping Ronson's empire safe by any means necessary.]]

* AloneWithThePsycho: In a flashback during the premiere, Darby and Bill break into the former home of their suspected serial killer and dig up the remains of his first victim... only to have the killer appear with a gun. Their confrontation isn't shown, though Darby and Bill obviously survive.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: A group of (relative) strangers are gathered in an isolated location, and one of them turns up dead. However, it's only Darby who suspects this trope is at play, because [[spoiler:the victim's death was staged to look like a drug overdose. It's not until a second body drops that everyone becomes suspicious.]]

Darcy Hart (Creator/EmmaCorrin) is a GenZ PlayfulHacker and AmateurSleuth. By day, she works a boring IT job, and by night, she uses her technical skills and her experience as the [[ParentChildTeam daughter/apprentice]] of [[TheCoroner a coroner]] to help other online sleuths investigate unsolved crimes. As a teenager, Darcy and her then-partner Bill Farrah (Creator/HarrisDickinson), a fellow hacker and TrueCrime enthusiast, tracked down and identified a SerialKiller, and Darcy later wrote a book about the investigation that brought her some notoriety.

In the present day, Darcy is invited to an exclusive Icelandic retreat by tech mogul Andy Ronson (Creator/CliveOwen) and his wife Lee Andersen (Brit Marling), a skilled hacker and Darcy's childhood idol. Also among the guests are a filmmaker, a wealthy businessman, a climate scientist, an astronaut... and Bill, now a grungy activist-artist known as "Fangs".

* AloneWithThePsycho: In a flashback during the premiere, Darcy and Bill break into the former home of their suspected serial killer and dig up the remains of his first victim... only to have the killer appear with a gun. Their confrontation isn't shown, though Darcy and Bill obviously survive.
* AmateurSleuth: Darcy, and previously Bill.
* TheCoroner: Darcy's father, for long enough that Darcy grew up to be his assistant.
* TheCracker: Darcy suspects the killer is this trope.

* ExtendedDisarming: A non-weapon variety. The guests are asked to surrender their electronics, and while the others all have a single tablet or phone to turn over, Darcy hands over two laptops, a phone, a tablet, and a bag of assorted electronics.

* FlashbackBPlot: The series unfolds in two timeframes: the present, where Darcy investigates a murder at the Icelandic retreat, and six years earlier, where Darcy and Bill originally meet up and track down the serial killer.
* TheHerosIdol: Lee Andersen, who was Darcy's inspiration for studying IT and hacking.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: A group of (relative) strangers are gathered in an isolated location, and one of them turns up dead. However, it's only Darcy who suspects this trope is at play, because [[spoiler:the victim's death was staged to look like a drug overdose. It's not until a second body drops that everyone becomes suspicious.]]

'''''A Murder at the End of the World''''' is a murder mystery series that aired on FX from November 2023. It was created by frequent collaborators Creator/BritMarling and Creator/ZalBatmanglij, who previously developed Series/TheOA for Netflix.

* ExtendedDisarmingSequence: A non-weapon variety. The guests are asked to surrender their electronics, and while the others all have a single tablet or phone to turn over, Darcy hands over two laptops, a phone, a tablet, and a bag of assorted electronics.

[[FlashbackBPlot The plot unfolds in two timeframes]]: the present, in Iceland, and six years earlier, when Darcy and Bill first team up.

* FlashbackBPlot