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This Week In Streaming: A Murder At The End of the World Season Finale - Retreat

Decoding TV

David Chen

Tv & Film, Unknown, Netflix, Tv, Television, Streaming, Recap, Hulu, Fx, Hbo, Max

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This Week In Streaming is a show on the Decoding TV podcast feed that covers the most interesting shows available on streaming each week. On this episode, David Chen is joined by writer, filmmaker, and YouTuber Jessie Earl to discuss the season finale of A Murder at the End of the World, “Retreat.”

As with most mysteries, this one came down to a visit to the accusing parlor will the detective slowly solved the crime. What did we think of how the big mystery finally resolved? What exactly was this show trying to say about the nature of AI and technology? How well did it use its memorable characters? What did we make of all the flashbacks with Darby and Bill? And Listen to hear us discuss all this and more!

Stay tuned for our continuing coverage of The Curse, plus details about a new weekly Decoding TV show that will launch in the coming weeks. When possible, we will broadcast the episode live on YouTube, so be sure to follow us there. Thanks for being a paid subscriber!

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0:00.0

Ray also reminded me that human beings find it very difficult to maintain their psychological equilibrium in artificial light, having involved in the sun for hundreds of thousands of years.

0:12.0

So Ray helped me design a system which

0:14.2

I patented which allows the sunlight to leak in through a series of tunnels and

0:20.6

mirrors genius. And I wanted to share that genius with the world. Why

0:28.3

shouldn't everybody have a personal assistant teacher, therapist with an eye on the future.

0:34.7

Hello everyone and welcome to this week in streaming, a Decoding TV podcast,

0:39.8

where we talk about stuff that's streaming on the air, and it's good we will tell you what happens at the end of it and whether we liked it or not.

0:47.0

I am David Chen, actually, I'm not David Chen, this is actually David Chen's voice simulated by AI to tell you whether this show is worth watching.

0:55.9

Joining me today is Jesse Earl.

0:59.1

Yes, and I'll explain later, but right now I need to start a fire.

1:03.0

So...

1:04.0

Welcome to the podcast folks.

1:06.6

Now I want to start by saying first of all this podcast is coming a little bit later than would have liked, but the holidays were very hectic for both Jesse and I.

1:18.0

We are aware that the finale for the show aired weeks ago, but for those who wanted to know whether it's worth watching, we are here to tell you.

1:26.5

We're also here to talk about the ending. But before I get to that, I just want to remind everyone.

1:31.2

You can find more episodes of this podcast at podcast dot decoding TV.com email. Find us across all platforms at

1:38.3

decoding TV. On the curse podcast tomorrow that is going to or this weekend that's going to run on the podcast feed

1:47.4

We're gonna talk about Patrick and I talk about a weekly decoding TV show that we're planning to launch in the next few weeks.

1:53.8

So I do want to urge you to check that podcast out and we'll have more details about that

1:58.4

in the weeks to come.

2:01.1

Before we spoil the ending of a murder at the end of the world though Jesse Earl,

2:05.0

let's just in a non-spolary way share with people whether we think this show is worth watching.

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