The seven-episode series The Sympathizer recently dropped on HBO GO. Created by Park Chan-wook, the South Korean filmmaker of Oldboy and The Handmaiden fame, and produced by Robert Downey Jr, The Sympathizer is an espionage thriller and war drama filled with Hollywood satire. The bilingual miniseries will be released weekly until the end of May.
Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer follows the struggles of half-French, half-Vietnamese “Captain” (Hoa Xuande), a double agent during the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
The Captain sneaks into the South Vietnamese military while working for the Viet Cong and ends up in a US refugee camp. However, while enjoying his new life in Los Angeles, he soon learns that his spying days aren’t over. The Sympathizer also stars Emmy-winner Sandra Oh, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Alan…
