The Crowded Room review: Tom Holland works hard in clichéd, generic muddle

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Crowded Room, a new Apple TV+ 10-parter, is but the latest instalment of this trend, with baby-faced Tom Holland playing a man accused of a series of heinous crimes. The Crowded Room, which opens with a sequence in which Holland’s Danny and the mysterious Ariana shoot up the Rockefeller Centre, is about something. As his interrogative foil, Seyfried offers little that ChatGPT wouldn’t, especially as The Crowded Room’s cards remain resolutely close to its chest. Much has been made, in the press, of the casting of Emmy Rossum as Danny’s mother, but it is not even the most perplexing of The Crowded Room’s decisions.