The Sympathizer Tells a Different Kind of Vietnam War Story
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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On this week's episode, Chris, Hillary, and Richard discuss the first three episodes of the new HBO mini-series The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Later in the episode, series star Hoa Xuande stops by to talk about what makes the show so special and how it feels to be in his first lead role.
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| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to still watching a television podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Chris Murphy. And I'm Hillary Bussis. We are here to discuss |
| 1:25.3 | HBO's The Sympathizer. Well, the first three episodes, I should say. Yes, only the first three. |
| 1:30.8 | No, a death wish. |
| 1:33.2 | A death wish. |
| 1:34.5 | Does that mean anything to you? |
| 1:35.6 | And later, the star of the show, Hua Shanday, who plays the captain, |
| 1:40.0 | will be here in the studio to tell us about landing the role and the many faces of Robert Downey Jr. |
| 1:45.0 | So we're three episodes into the show and I'm just going to do a quick recap of what's happened so far. |
| 1:50.0 | We meet the captain, a spy for the Viet Cong infiltrating the South Vietnamese military |
| 1:55.3 | and the Americans. |
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