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  1. Episode 7 Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?
    The Sympathizer Finale Recap: A Past Revised A rushed finale struggles to wrap up Captain’s story and all the lingering questions.
  2. Episode 6 The Oriental Mode of Destruction
    The Sympathizer Recap: War Games Well, at least the Captain is finally leaving the U.S.
  3. Episode 5 All For One
    The Sympathizer Recap: Twice of Everything The Captain grows more conflicted the longer he stays in the U.S.
  4. Episode 4 Give Us Some Good Lines
    The Sympathizer Recap: Lost in Translation The series lowers the stakes with a perplexing trip to Hollywood.
  5. Episode 3 Love it or Leave It
    The Sympathizer Recap: In Cold Blood The last of the Park Chan-wook–directed episodes ends in murder like all good Park Chan-wook works.
  6. Episode 2 Good Little Asian
    The Sympathizer Recap: American Nightmare In case we forgot, America was (even more) racist in the 1970s.
  7. Episode 1 Death Wish
    The Sympathizer Series-Premiere Recap: Runaway Get ready to pause, rewind, and replay in Park Chan-wook’s series about Vietnam War–era spy games.

The Latest on HBO

  1. tv review
    Grad School Was Never This FunPark Chan-wook’s HBO adaptation of The Sympathizer is a captivating senior seminar on postcolonial theory.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  2. trailer mix
    The Sympathizer’s Playing Both SidesWho can you trust? Who do you know? Who even are these people?
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. casting couch
    Robert Downey Jr. to Pivot From Hero to Villain in HBO The Sympathizer SeriesHis first major role since Avengers: Endgame is also his first full TV series.
    By Justin Curto
  4. adaptations
    Park Chan-wook to Direct TV Adaptation of The SympathizerFrom the novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
    By Charu Sinha
  5. one grand books
    Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 10 Favorite Children’s BooksMadeline, Superman Smashes the Klan, The Adventures of Polo, and more.
    By Viet Thanh Nguyen
  6. books
    The Sympathizer Heralds the Literary ConvergenceIt’s the first novel that’s won both a major literary award and a major genre award in the same year.
    By Adam Sternbergh

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