One of the biggest disappointments of this TV season was that Apple TV+ moved the serial version of the grandiosely monstrous New York novel City On Fire from the late 1970s to the noughties. But the wonderful mini-series “The Crowded Room”, which revels in the seventies era, makes up for it a bit. In 1979, Danny Sulivan was arrested after a shooting at Rockefeller Center. To find out if he was the one who fired the gun, the police work with psychologist Rya Goodwin, who discovers something extraordinary while talking to the suspect.
“The Crowded Room” disturbs with similar confusion games like “Fight Club” or “Mr. Robot”, blurs the boundaries between crime thriller, chamber play and psychogram with virtuosity, likes to narrate scenes from new perspectives again and again, and Tom Holland in the leading role agrees with everyone who always believed that he as Peter Parker in the “Spider -Man” movies was underwhelmed. (AppleTV+)
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