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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Does The Sympathizer worthily adapt its acclaimed book?

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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It's rare to find a series with such an impeccable pedigree as HBO's The Sympathizer. It's based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, co-created by auteur director Park Chan-wook, and features Robert Downey, Jr. in four supporting roles. Set during and after the Vietnam war, the series follows a man (Hoa Xuande) juggling a position with the South Vietnamese military and one as a spy for the North Vietnamese. But is it a worthy adaptation?

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the series with a pedigree as impeccable as HBO's The Sympathizer.

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Set during and after the Vietnam War, it's based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

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It was co-created by Auteur director Park Chan Wook,

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and it features recent Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr.

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in not one but four supporting roles.

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It's the story of a man who juggles a position

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with the South Vietnamese military and won as a spy

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for the North Vietnamese. Along the way the series considers who tells stories about

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war and who has told the story of this one. I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about the sympathizer on Pop Culture Happy Hour from

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