The Trouble with ‘Murder at the End of the World’

Emma Corrin as Darby Hart in A Murder at the End of the World. (Image courtesy of FX)
Darby Hart is brilliant, young, bisexual, and beautiful. But she’s no feminist hero, writes Kat Rosenfield.
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There’s a scene in the new Hulu show A Murder at the End of the World—before the big whodunit reveal—where the series’ protagonist Darby Hart reveals her one great asset as an investigator: “No one sees a 24-year-old girl coming,” she says, with a wry smile.
On the show, this line is accompanied by ominous, moody music. In my head, though, it’s punctuate…
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