5.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Crowded Room (2023)
The Crowded Room (2023)
Overview
In 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Gender Swap: Yes
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
5.8
Overview
In 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's dominant themes align with progressive values by critiquing systemic failures in mental health care and social safety nets, advocating for trauma-informed approaches over punitive justice.
The movie demonstrates significant DEI through its central narrative focus on mental health awareness, trauma representation, and advocacy for individuals with complex psychological conditions within the US criminal justice system. It also critiques gendered aspects of abuse and power dynamics. While the principal cast includes some diversity, it does not feature explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles.
Secondary
The Crowded Room offers a unique and introspective exploration of LGBTQ+ themes through a character with dissociative identity disorder. It highlights the fluidity of identity and acceptance, particularly in a relationship where an alter is fully embraced. Despite a controversial scene, the show's overall portrayal facilitates nuanced conversations about queerness, affirming the worth of diverse identities.
The character Arianna, an alter of the canonically male Danny Sullivan, is portrayed as female. This on-screen gender differs from the original canonical gender of the character, fulfilling the definition of a gender swap.
The show thematically engages with Christian concepts of justice and grace, applying them to mental health and crime in a nuanced manner that aligns with the faith's virtues.
The Crowded Room explores themes of identity, gender fluidity, and queer sexuality primarily through the lens of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and its alters. However, the show does not feature transsexual characters or directly address the transsexual community, explicitly distinguishing its portrayal of internal gender exploration from transsexual identity or experience.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The factual report indicates that no character in "The Crowded Room" had a canonically, historically, or widely established race that was then portrayed as a different race. The main character's inspiration, while American, is portrayed by a British actor, which is a nationality/ethnicity shift, not a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
7.6
Critic Ratings
3.3
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