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The Crowded Room

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The Crowded Room	comment	The Crowded Room is an American psychological thriller television limited series created by Akiva Goldsman and loosely based on the 1981 non-fiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes. It aired on Apple TV+, running for 10 episodes.Tom Holland stars as Danny Sullivan (a fictionalized version of Billy Milligan), a man living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) who was arrested for his involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979. Danny is then interrogated by Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried) and slowly gives details about his troubled past that led him to the fateful incident.Jason Isaacs, Sasha Lane, Lior Raz, Levon Hawke, and Sam Vartholomeos also star as his alters, who Danny initially sees as his friends.
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The Crowded Room / int_10072b2	type	Helpful Hallucination
The Crowded Room / int_10072b2	comment	Helpful Hallucination: It turns out Danny has many alternate personalities, with them all trying to help him in some way, though he isn't aware of their true natures at first.
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The Crowded Room / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Crowded Room / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Just as Danny Sullivan is based on Billy Milligan... Jack Lamb is based on Arthur, down to stuffy British accent. Yitzhak Safdie is Ragen Vadascovinich almost down to the T. Ariana is a nicer version of Adalana, without all the raping and is first seen as Danny's best friend. Danny himself may be taking after one of Billy's alters with the same name, as he is often seen drawing and painting. Danny's brother Adam is revealed to be nothing more than his own child personality, mainly taking after David. Marlin Reid is Chalmer.
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The Crowded Room / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Crowded Room / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: The state's psychiatric expert witness claims Danny is faking his DID, as he says this isn't a real disorder, hoping to get off on the charges against him with the Insanity Defense.
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The Crowded Room / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
The Crowded Room / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Downplayed with Ariana, who is actually bisexual but is too afraid to get close to anyone in general. She is seen kissing Annabelle, has sex offscreen with her, and has sex with Jerome, an ex (kind of) boyfriend. Ariana wears her hair in dreadlocks, has a slightly punk style of dress and puts on a tough attitude, but at heart is very vulnerable.
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The Crowded Room / int_1c785368	type	Badass Israeli
The Crowded Room / int_1c785368	comment	Badass Israeli: Yitzahk is Israeli, and highly skilled in martial arts, easily taking multiple young men down to rescue Danny from them. It's later shown he's proficient using guns too, and probably has a military background (this is the 70s, when Israel just recently fought two wars). He turns out to be one of Danny's alternate personalities.
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The Crowded Room / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Crowded Room / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Just like the alter he was based on, Yitzhak doesn't take too kindly to those who would dare threaten the people under his protection in any way, whom he takes a fatherly attitude with.
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The Crowded Room / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Crowded Room / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Marlin at first seems like a normal man who at worst has a bad relationship with his stepson Danny, while he seems like a caring counselor for juvenile offenders. Soon we learn he's really a serial child molester who abused Danny for years, and it's easy to imagine he abuses juvenile offenders as well, given how much power his position with them must have.
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The Crowded Room / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Crowded Room / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Danny lives with his mom and stepdad at first, with no mention of his father. Later he goes off to find him with Yizhak's help. It turns out he wasn't around too much in Danny's childhood, then vanished. Danny goes to track him down in London, his last known address. It turns out that his mother had left as he was abusive. He never appears in the series.
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The Crowded Room / int_2f913008	type	Insanity Defense
The Crowded Room / int_2f913008	comment	Insanity Defense: Rya prepares one with Danny's lawyer after determining he has multiple personalities. It's an uphill battle though, as at the time the disorder wasn't widely recognized to be real. The state's expert rejects it flatly ahead of the trial, plus Danny's alters won't come out with people except Rya, which causes the judge to dismiss it as ludicrous. No one has ever won with the insanity defense citing how a split personality committed the crime, it's noted, but they try anyway. It works once the jury hears from Danny.
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The Crowded Room / int_3121e8df	type	Split-Personality Merge
The Crowded Room / int_3121e8df	comment	Split-Personality Merge: By the end of the series, Danny's undergone fusion therapy to merge his split personalities with him.
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The Crowded Room / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Crowded Room / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Inverted twice by men interested in Ariana seeing her with women. First, she's with Danny and then starts to kiss Annabelle, a girl he was somewhat into. Annabelle and Ariana later have sex offscreen. Danny appears subdued while it starts and claims he's fine with this later, but definitely not turned on. Later, she kisses a woman in front of Jerome, who's furious about it, hitting them. This was right after she went into the bathroom and had sex with him there. Ariana is really an alternate personality of Danny's though, so it's him (physically anyway) with them, and possibly acting on a fantasy of his.
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The Crowded Room / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Crowded Room / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Danny has Disassociative Identity Disorder (DID), then (1979) labeled Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), with at least seven other personalities (alters).
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The Crowded Room / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Crowded Room / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Candy gave birth to Danny at seventeen, we eventually learn.
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The Crowded Room / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Crowded Room / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Danny is not shown slitting his wrists, and there's minimal blood seen afterward too.
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The Crowded Room / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
The Crowded Room / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Ariana has sex with Jerome in a restroom stall of the club where they meet. Later it's revealed this was actually Danny, as Ariana's an alternate personality of his, we find out.
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The Crowded Room / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Crowded Room / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Ariana was raped by a friend of her dad's. It's all we learn of her past, and key to her issues in the present. It turns out she's an alternate personality of Danny's, and part of how he deals with his emotions over his twin brother Adam being molested. Then it's revealed Adam was just another of his alters, and Danny is the one who'd suffered this.
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The Crowded Room / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Crowded Room / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Several are shown while Danny's relating to Rya prior events in his life (or sometimes also other people's-as she points out, they aren't as certain since he was only told about them).
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The Crowded Room / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
The Crowded Room / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: Ariana is shown wearing heavy eye makeup which runs when she cries multiple times.
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The Crowded Room / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Crowded Room / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Much of the events in the series it turns out really didn't happen as we're first shown, as several characters are Danny's alternate personalities, with this only shown to be the case after going over them again.
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The Crowded Room / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
The Crowded Room / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Danny wasn't too pleased when his mom had started dating Marlin years after his dad left. After they married, he and Marlin got only quite poorly. It turns out to be because Marlin was molesting Adam, his twin brother (or rather, Danny himself).
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The Crowded Room / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
The Crowded Room / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Many characters on the show, since it is set c. 1979. Danny has a shaggy mop, black characters sport dreadlocks, afros and other distinctive hairstyles common then etc.
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The Crowded Room / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
The Crowded Room / int_648c3646	comment	Enlightened Self-Interest: Rya admits her aid to Danny also helps herself, as she could prove DID is a real disorder, getting grant money for research doing so, even using the term.
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The Crowded Room / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Crowded Room / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Ariana, Yitzhak, Jack, Adam and others are Danny's alternate personalities. Of course, this won't be surprised to anyone familiar with the real story that it's based on.
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The Crowded Room / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Crowded Room / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Danny is quite out of place in London, being an American who's gone abroad for his very first time. He's played by Tom Holland, who's a native Englishman from London.
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The Crowded Room / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Crowded Room / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Danny relates to Rya how he witnessed one as a boy when white racists attacked some black patrons in a bar where his mother worked. He thinks that it marked him afterward, possibly leading to his own violence later.
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The Crowded Room / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Crowded Room / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Danny attempts suicide in jail by slitting his wrists after it seems his case has imploded, but survives.
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The Crowded Room / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Crowded Room / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The segments shown from Rya's point of view reveal so many things Danny told her before weren't what actually happened. For instance, multiple people he spoke of were really just alternate personalities of his.
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The Crowded Room / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Crowded Room / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The series opens with Danny and Ariana shooting at a man in broad daylight, injuring him along with two bystanders. Afterward, a psychiatrist talks with him in jail, hearing along with viewers what led them there.
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The Crowded Room / int_82785455	type	Plea Bargain
The Crowded Room / int_82785455	comment	Plea Bargain: Stan, Danny's lawyer, tries to make a plea bargain with the prosecutor where he would plead guilty to a misdemeanor then get treatment in a hospital, but she rejects the idea immediately.
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The Crowded Room / int_963c6133	type	Promiscuity After Rape
The Crowded Room / int_963c6133	comment	Promiscuity After Rape: Ariana has intimacy issues as a result of being raped. Whenever she's into anyone enough to have sex with them, this makes her withdraw. She has gone from one person to the next quite frequently because of this. It's revealed she's one of Danny's alternate personalities, representing how he deals with emotions (in this case, having his twin brother sacrifice himself, being molested instead of him by their stepfather).
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The Crowded Room / int_9d5dad72	type	Blaming the Victim
The Crowded Room / int_9d5dad72	comment	Blaming the Victim: Candy is afraid she'll be blamed if Marlin molested Danny. Rya assures her she was also a victim, and that predators find vulnerable people through no fault of their own, with this being a tragic occurrence she would never blame her for. This spurs Candy to testify for Danny about Marlin at his trial. Marlin tries to stop her testifying by saying that people will blame her if she says it though. This gets her to deny the abuse on the stand.
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The Crowded Room / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Crowded Room / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Ariana starts kissing Annabelle before the scene cuts, then it's confirmed on the next day that they had sex. We later learn she's an alternate personality of Danny's, and thus he (physically anyway) is the one who'd been with Annabelle.
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The Crowded Room / int_a659f3a4	type	Sibling Murder
The Crowded Room / int_a659f3a4	comment	Sibling Murder: Rya begins to suspect Danny murdered his brother Adam, among other people. It turns out Adam is one of his alters.
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The Crowded Room / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Crowded Room / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Emmy Rossum played Candy Sullivan, Danny's mother, when he's both a little boy and young adult. Tom Holland plays Danny, who's nine years younger than her. It's somewhat justified as it turns out she had Danny while just seventeen.
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The Crowded Room / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
The Crowded Room / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: Danny gets a gun from a drug dealer, Angelo, although he's nearly coerced into a blowjob at gunpoint as payment by the guy (he won't accept just money), before Jonny stops it.
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The Crowded Room / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Crowded Room / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Danny's stepfather, Marlin Reid, is the one responsible for the poor kid's DID, due to molesting him. Danny's birth father was also abusive, his mother later reveals.
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The Crowded Room / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
The Crowded Room / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Ariana decides to scare her rapist off with a gun, so he'd never come for her. Danny helps, then it turns into her trying to shoot him dead. It turns out she's an alternate personality of Danny's, and he was targeting Marlin, his stepfather, for molesting Adam, his twin brother.
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The Crowded Room / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Crowded Room / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Ariana is a bisexual black woman. It turns out she's an alternate personality of Danny's however, though he could be considered also as having bisexual and genderfluid aspects due to this, along with being mentally ill. Jerome is a gay black man whom Danny (as Ariana) was involved with, and he discusses how navigating his identifies has been very difficult at times.
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The Crowded Room / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Crowded Room / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Danny is clearly attracted to both Annabelle and Ariana. The two have sex together first, with Danny unaware Ariana was inviting him to join until later. It turns out to be something partly imaginary, as Ariana's an alternate personality of Danny's.
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The Crowded Room / int_ba1953b2	type	Queer Establishing Moment
The Crowded Room / int_ba1953b2	comment	Queer Establishing Moment: Ariana shows she's bisexual through making out with Annabelle in front of Danny before the two have sex offscreen. Then she also flirts in a club with another woman, goes off to screw Jerome in a restroom stall and kisses her in front of him afterward. Annabelle's difficult to read, since she possibly was just going along with Ariana when she's high, or is bisexual as well, since she's into men otherwise. Ariana turns out to be one of Danny's alternate personalities, though it still counts perhaps, as this would indicate he's got bisexual and genderfluid personal aspects. It appears Jerome thought Ariana was a trans woman, and he'd entered a relationship with her that way. Also, it's revealed another alter, Jonny, was a man also attracted to men, having sex with Angelo frequently.
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The Crowded Room / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
The Crowded Room / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Ariana visits a night club that's queer friendly, with women there openly seen flirting or dancing together. She and another woman there flirt before kissing. It turns out she's an alternate personality of Danny's, who was having sex with Jerome in there.
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The Crowded Room / int_c6c80991	type	Dreadlock Rasta
The Crowded Room / int_c6c80991	comment	Dreadlock Rasta: Deconstructed with Ariana. Though her dreadlocks help to signify that she's a bold, carefree, independent party girl, it's soon shown that she's troubled and quite unstable too. She is an alternate personality of Danny's, embodying the aspect which dealt (or tried to) with his fear, pain and loneliness.
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The Crowded Room / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Crowded Room / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Rya realizes while watching a show with a character who has multiple personalities on TV that Danny might have the same condition.
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The Crowded Room / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Crowded Room / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded. It turns out that Ariana's rapist was Danny's stepdad Marlin. Rya points out that a pretty big coincidence to accept, and he agrees. Rya then suggests this was a setup, and Yitzahk manipulated him with Ariana's help. This is because Ariana's an alternative personality of Danny's, and Marlin had molested him.
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The Crowded Room / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Crowded Room / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Ariana is often called Ari by her friends.
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The Crowded Room / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Crowded Room / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The show is inspired by Billy Milligan, a convicted rapist and thief whom psychiatrists diagnosed with disassociative identity disorder after he was charged with further rapes. He was acquitted by using this in an Insanity Defense, the first acquittal of the kind. It's also suspected that he had murdered two people at least in his life. Danny's crimes are pretty different, but shares Milligan's DID (though his alternates are distinct). The location's also changed, moving from Ohio to New York.
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The Crowded Room / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
The Crowded Room / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Danny it turns out has split personalities, and had attempted to kill his stepfather Marlin, with the help of Ariana (who's revealed to be his alter), using the Insanity Defense at his trial as a result. It's successful.
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