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The Sympathizer (Vietnamese: Cảm tình viên) is a historical black comedy drama miniseries based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. The series was created by co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, with Park directing the first three
The upcoming limited series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel will premiere on Sunday, April 14 at 9 pm ET. ... In The Sympathizer, Robert Downey Jr. is everywhere ...
The series is based on the story of the Captain, a North Vietnam plant in the South Vietnam army. He is forced to flee to the United States with his general near the end of the Vietnam War . While living within a community of South Vietnamese refugees, he continues to secretly spy on the community and report back to the Viet Cong , struggling ...
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [ 6 ] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [ 7 ]
The limited series follows a North Vietnamese communist spy … Robert Downey Jr. may have played five different characters in “The Sympathizer,” but he’s not the only actor in the cast who ...
In our Emmy-season premiere, we sit down with Maya Erskine, star of 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' and Viet Thanh Nguyen and Don McKellar from HBO's 'The Sympathizer.' 'The Sympathizer' author reveals the ...
Though “The Sympathizer” is billed as a limited series, the cast seems open to returning for more. The material is certainly there, as Nguyen published a sequel titled “The Committed” in 2021.
The New York Times included The Sympathizer among the Book Review's "Editors' Choice" selection of new books when the book debuted, [62] and in its list of "Notable Books of 2015". [63] The novel also made it onto numerous other "Books of the Year" lists, including those of The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.