‘The Sympathizer’: Park Chan-wook, Robert Downey Jr. & A24 Team Up For HBO’s Next Sunday Night Appointment TV - Trailer
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From Ryan Cordaro
HBO’s Sunday night shows usually have a huge reputation for some of the biggest and best shows out there right now. The one-two punch of Succession and Barry is the biggest and most recent example of this, even if it was followed up by the disaster that was The Idol. Now, we have a new series to take that Sunday night slot, and I think it’s pretty exciting
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer is set near the end of the Vietnam War, where a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong. Park Chan-wook, the director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave, serves as an executive producer alongside Downey and his wife, Susan. Park also writes and directs the first three episodes of the series.
The new miniseries stars Hoa Xunade (Last King of the Cross, Cowboy Bebop), Fred Nguyen Khan (Fatherhood, mother!), Toan Le (Visioneers, Bigfoot), Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club, City of Angels), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, Invincible), and Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer, the Marvel Cinematic Universe), who plays multiple roles in the series.
The Sympathizer starts its run on HBO (along with simultaneously streaming on Max) on April 14th, then new episodes will drop every Sunday after that.
