Currently, we find ourselves with a multitude of platforms that offer us series of spectacular quality. However, HBO Max – or HBO and/or Max, in any case – manages to bring the most anticipated and highest quality fictions. It’s not just that everything related to the Game of Thrones universe has a spectacular style, but it also has many other fictions that are on par with it.
The most anticipated of all his upcoming films is The Sympathizer, a fiction that features two unbreakable stars. On one hand, there’s Robert Downey Jr. as the protagonist, and on the other hand, there’s one of the greatest Korean directors in history behind the camera: Park Chan-wook, filmmaker behind Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave.
What is The Sympathizer about?
The Sympathizer is the TV series adaptation of the book with the same name that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. Written by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the novel takes us to Saigon (Vietnam) in 1975 to tell the story of an Army General who seeks to escape the country to start a new life in the United States of America.
However, everything gets complicated because of one of his companions, who is a snitch for the Viet Cong and is informing about the military’s plan. The story revolves around this man, who lives in a constant dilemma between betrayal and loyalty to his country. The official synopsis of HBO Max is clearer about what we will be able to see in the series:
“It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. In his villa, a general from the South Vietnamese army is making a list of those who will receive passage aboard the last flights leaving the country. The general and his compatriots intend to start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one of them, the captain, is informing the group to a superior in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man raised by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to college in the United States but returned to Vietnam to fight for the communist cause.”
Who appears in The Sympathizer?
The cast couldn’t be more striking. The protagonist is Hoa Xuande, whom we have seen in the Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop. But alongside him, many other stars stand out: the aforementioned Robert Downey Jr. plays various supporting characters that apparently will have a great weight in the plot and will even interact with each other; Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le, Alan Trong, Vy Le, and Ky Duyen will also be present.
When does The Sympathizer come out?
The Sympathizer will premiere on April 14th. It will consist of seven episodes and it is expected to be released independently, as Warner Bros. Discovery usually does.
