Review of Chapter 5: Crypt

This episode, the fifth of seven in the miniseries, is both written and directed by the wonderful Brit Marling, also its co-star & co-creator. Many unexpected things occur as the Darby character (Emma Corrin) begins to (haltingly) recover from the head trauma of her vehicular accident out on the sheer ice. As her own thoughts get darker and darker, they are only exacerbated by the statement by Clive Owen character, Andy, "Why is it that wherever you go, death follows?" This is a statement with which she finds it impossible to argue when her close friend Sian succumbs to an infection brought on by her emergency field tracheotomy, and then she (Darby) herself is attacked by the disguised mystery murderer. As this installment comes to a shocking conclusion, it's looking increasingly dour for "Gen Z Sherlock Holmes." I rounded this rating up to 9 from 8.5!