Well, here’s a bit of a pickle and no mistake. The makers of The Crowded Room have urged reviewers of this new drama not to give away “pivotal aspects of the storyline”, including A, B, or that C is a D. I certainly cannot tell you whether Es are or are not Fs.
There are two major problems here. One is that not only does that amount to quite a lot of plot, but in The Crowded Room they are not the isolated moments that the phrase “pivotal points” suggests. Rather, they are matters that suffuse the whole telling of the tale of Danny Sullivan (Tom Holland), whose part in a shooting at the Rockefeller Center in the 1970s is gradually uncovered during a series of interviews with a gently persistent interrogator, Prof Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried).
