THE CROWDED ROOM-Intentionally Confusing, Continuously Intriguing Psychological Thriller

THE CROWDED ROOM now screening on Apple TV is jam packed with a good looking cast.  The ensemble of actors are all convincing in their roles which is crucial in making this disturbing physiological, courtroom drama so thrilling.  The series is immensely rewarding for those able to muster past the first three of ten episodes.  The confusion ingrained may have been deliberately construed for being misleading until troubling truths reveal themselves in a manner to assuage any ire at being misdirected.  In fact, skepticism get's carried over into the courtroom and the trial itself takes precedence.  Danny (an excellent Tom Holland) is a high school student with few friends, a cruel step-father (Will Chase) and an over-worked, penitent mother, (Emmy Rossum).   Danny is on trial for shooting a firearm into a crowd at Rockefeller Center injuring several bystanders.  We see Danny as an accomplice to the shooter who remains at large.  Prior to being arrested, we observe Danny as a troubled teen, besotted by a high school hottie and escaping to London to track down his birthfather.  As Churchill is oft quoted, the plot is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."  Some of the incessant questions haunting us is why is the beautiful, benevolent psychology student, Rya Goodwin (an incandescent Amanda Seyfreid) is being allotted so much time and leeway by his defense attorney.  Is Danny being forthcoming and honest with his counsel and Rya?  Within the puzzling events are various characters that add electrifying ingredients within the miasma of mystifying sequences.  Most of the characters of flawed but the acting so flawless one can easily get caught up in a thrilling web of terror.  There's plenty of grace and empathy bestowed to Danny, to his relentless attorney suffering PTS and to his embattled mother.   V arious pathways will trigger the viewer to want to decipher fact from fallacy, victim from captor.  THE CROWDED ROOM is a hoarder's delight filled with more than ample intrigue to make this a sure crowd pleaser.  I recommend staying tuned in to determine what's really real.