The Crowded Room

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Season 1
Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 7 out of 26

Critic Reviews

  1. Movie Nation
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    Jun 12, 2023
    38
    A couple of the performances here are pitched at a level that’s almost engaging. But wandering through vivid recreations of New York’s (gay) club scene on the cusp of New Wave, London stock footage exteriors and generic interiors becomes almost sleep inducing. There are NO STAKES IN “The Crowded Room.”
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Nandini Balial
    Jun 8, 2023
    37
    At best, these 10 hours of Apple TV’s latest drama will provide some background noise while you fold laundry, but at worst, this is the shallowest dramatic exploration of mental illness in some time.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Alison Herman
    Jun 9, 2023
    30
    By being so oblique about Danny’s true nature, “The Crowded Room” is left with a vacuum where a hook should be, one it declines to fill with a compelling pitch. .... “The Crowded Room” squanders ample resources in its unsuccessful efforts.
  5. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jun 9, 2023
    30
    The story (loosely inspired by the book “The Minds of Billy Milligan”) can’t help but feel gimmicky in dragging out the narrative before beginning to fill in its many gaps in mostly predictable ways.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Strauss
    Jun 6, 2023
    25
    Rya, a character with interesting conflicts and compromised motives, gets backed into a savior corner. And Danny’s true nature is depicted with so much hocus pocus — or just plain hokum — that Holland’s often crowded out of his own role.
  7. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Jun 2, 2023
    10
    A 10-part fiasco. .... It leaves its actors with nothing to work with but mushy, maudlin nonsense.
  8. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Robert Levin
    Jun 9, 2023
    0
    It's hard to imagine a worse show.

Awards & Rankings

30
#30 Most Discussed TV Season of 2023

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User Score
5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 6 out of 17
  1. coastda
    Jun 11, 2023
    6
    The series is "inspired" by the book "The Minds of Billy Milligan.," but it takes radical departures from the REAL character, about whom thereThe series is "inspired" by the book "The Minds of Billy Milligan.," but it takes radical departures from the REAL character, about whom there is considerable debate about whether he suffered from "Multiple Personality Disorder" now known as "Dissociative Identity Disorder" or was just a stone cold sociopath who likely murdered someone after fleeing the mental hospital in Oho.

    Anyone who remembers "The Three Faces of Eve" movie or the "Sybil" miniseries - both remarkable stories of another case, will appreciate how seductive these stories can be.    … Full Review »
  2. SitoMinhanco
    Jun 9, 2023
    8
    Really good so far. Awesome cinematography and performances, Tom Holland's acting is stellar in this series.
  3. tai808
    Jun 9, 2023
    8
    Slowburn with incredible cinematography and sound. Beautiful performances from Tom Holland, Sasha Lane and Levon Hawke.
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