Review: 'The Crowded Room' is a crime thriller starring Tom Holland (no spoilers)

Let's talk about spoilers. Apart from the occasional plea to an audience, "Please do not reveal the shocking conclusion," as in punchline movies like "Sleuth" or "The Sixth Sense," spoilers were until relatively recently not a thing. These days, some viewers think nothing should ever be revealed about a show or film they haven't gotten around to watching yet — which is to say, ever — though it is easy enough not to read reviews. (Harder to avoid is social media, where viewers spoil more plot points than any professional critic has the time to.)

Networks and streamers and their marketing departments have now come preemptively to ask critics not to reveal certain details of a series in order to "preserve the audience viewing experience," though just which details are usually left to the