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Series Details & Credits
| HBO | Release Date: April 14, 2024 |
Summary:
North Vietnam spy The Captain (Hoa Xuande) ends up living in a South Vietnamese refugee community in Los Angeles and finds his loyalty tested in the limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel of the same name.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
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Recent Episodes
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S1:E7. Endings Are Hard, Aren't They?
Air Date: May 26, 2024
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S1:E6. The Oriental Mode of Destruction
Air Date: May 19, 2024
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S1:E5. All for One
Air Date: May 12, 2024
Positive:
32
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
The Observer (UK)
Sep 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Working alongside co-showrunner Don McKellar (of the underrated Canadian series Sensitive Skin), Park has crafted a vibrant, faithful yet often audacious Sympathizer, premiering April 14, that matches executive producer Nguyen’s brilliant novel in both ambition and execution.
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Apr 15, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
He’s [Hoa Xuande] great. Even with that performance, those visuals, and that sense of humor, there are occasions — particularly in the finale, which largely takes place at the reeducation camp — where The Sympathizer, like its hero, gets too lost in its own head. More often than not, though, it works very well, despite the high degree of difficulty that would come with any adaptation of the book.
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Apr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Those fiddly shades of gray — the series’ best — necessarily recede as the plot progresses. The last episodes are inferior to the first three (which Park Chan-wook directed). That’s not a condemnation. It was probably inevitable that this show’s extraordinary visual and narrative confidence would falter as it tried to square the ideological schema in which its characters operate with the wonderfully messy story about them it produced.
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Apr 10, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Overly complicated, overly stylized and often boring, Park and co-creator Don McKellar can't coalesce the series' shifting timelines, disparate characters, cartoonish costuming and moral ambiguity into a story that pulls you in. It's a whole lot of stuff shoved in your face with very little resonance to show.
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: March 14, 2024
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S1:E7. Endings Are Hard, Aren't They?
Air Date: May 26, 2024
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S1:E6. The Oriental Mode of Destruction
Air Date: May 19, 2024
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S1:E5. All for One
Air Date: May 12, 2024
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S1:E4. Give Us Some Good Lines
Air Date: May 5, 2024
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S1:E3. Love It or Leave It
Air Date: April 28, 2024
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S1:E2. Good Little Asian
Air Date: April 21, 2024
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S1:E1. Death Wish
Air Date: April 14, 2024
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Season 1 Overview