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When producer, writer, and actor Brit Marling was creating the new series <I>A Murder at the End of the World</I>, she was partially inspired by Rihanna. Surely, who isn't? But the former star and co-creator of The OA was especially moved while writing this multifaceted murder mystery, which includes elements of sci-fi, big tech, hacking, extreme wealth, and a coming-of-age love story. <br><br>

She's referring to protagonist Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) and Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson), two amateur sleuths who meet in the dark corners of the internet and fall in love while tracking the cold case of a serial killer. They're gritty Gen Z punks with wolf cuts and tattoos, road tripping across the American West and breaking into homes to find the remains of victims (usually women) who the authorities gave up on searching. As the years pass, Darby and Bill fall out of touch, but they reunite by surprise as successful young adults—by now, she's a hacker and author; he's an artist—on a billionaire's invite-only retreat in Iceland. But alas, one of the guests winds up dead, and Darby must use her detective skills to prove it was a murder before someone else is killed." title="When producer, writer, and actor Brit Marling was creating the new series A Murder at the End of the World, she was partially inspired by Rihanna. Surely, who isn't? But the former star and co-creator of The OA was especially moved while writing this multifaceted murder mystery, which includes elements of sci-fi, big tech, hacking, extreme wealth, and a coming-of-age love story.

"I think a lot of that Rihanna song, 'We fell in love in a hopeless place,'" Marling tells ELLE.com. "We never played that song in the show, but I remember playing that song a lot when I was just drawing storyboards or writing."

She's referring to protagonist Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) and Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson), two amateur sleuths who meet in the dark corners of the internet and fall in love while tracking the cold case of a serial killer. They're gritty Gen Z punks with wolf cuts and tattoos, road tripping across the American West and breaking into homes to find the remains of victims (usually women) who the authorities gave up on searching. As the years pass, Darby and Bill fall out of touch, but they reunite by surprise as successful young adults—by now, she's a hacker and author; he's an artist—on a billionaire's invite-only retreat in Iceland. But alas, one of the guests winds up dead, and Darby must use her detective skills to prove it was a murder before someone else is killed.">

Brit Marling Made a Whodunit That Challenges the Status Quo

When producer, writer, and actor Brit Marling was creating the new series A Murder at the End of the World, she was partially inspired by Rihanna. Surely, who isn't? But the former star and co-creator of The OA was especially moved while writing this multifaceted murder mystery, which includes elements of sci-fi, big tech, hacking, extreme wealth, and a coming-of-age love story.

"I think a lot of that Rihanna song, 'We fell in love in a hopeless place,'" Marling tells ELLE.com. "We never played that song in the show, but I remember playing that song a lot when I was just drawing storyboards or writing."

She's referring to protagonist Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) and Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson), two amateur sleuths who meet in the dark corners of the internet and fall in love while tracking the cold case of a serial killer. They're gritty Gen Z punks with wolf cuts and tattoos, road tripping across the American West and breaking into homes to find the remains of victims (usually women) who the authorities gave up on searching. As the years pass, Darby and Bill fall out of touch, but they reunite by surprise as successful young adults—by now, she's a hacker and author; he's an artist—on a billionaire's invite-only retreat in Iceland. But alas, one of the guests winds up dead, and Darby must use her detective skills to prove it was a murder before someone else is killed.

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