After learning Ariana continues to fear her childhood rapist will track her down, Danny obtains a gun for her to feel safe.

Ariana ( Sasha Lane), an emotionally distant young woman who seems to party hard and cry even harder, lives there too. So, one day, after being rescued from a beating at the hands of bullies by new neighbor Yitzak Safdie ( Lior Raz), Danny moves in with the relative stranger across the street from his own. A talented artist but unpopular in school, Danny is too anxious to socialize beyond two close friends, happy-go-lucky magician Johnny (Levon Hawke) and skilled athlete Mike (Sam Vartholomeos). Danny lives in upstate New York with his meek mother, Candy ( Emmy Rossum), and abusive stepfather Marlin ( Will Chase), and mourns the loss of his twin brother Adam, who appears in childhood flashbacks. The plot, loosely adapted from Daniel Keyes’ nonfiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan, follows Danny Sullivan ( Tom Holland, once again playing a traumatized teenager a la “ The Devil All the Time”) starting in the summer of 1979.

It is beyond the scope of this reviewer’s imagination to wonder what exactly creator and head writer Akiva Goldsman, best known for writing the John Nash biopic that won four Academy Awards (and, less illustriously, “ The Da Vinci Code” and “ Angels and Demons”), was thinking. Èt voila! You have the utterly pointless and eminently skippable limited series that is “The Crowded Room.” At best, these 10 hours of Apple TV’s latest drama will provide some background noise while you fold laundry, but at worst, this is the shallowest dramatic exploration of mental illness in some time. Take one part “ A Beautiful Mind.” Add a few dashes of “ Euphoria.” Sprinkle in some Oscar bait-style writing, cinematography, and a ceaseless strings-heavy score.

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