Park and McKellar co-created the seven-episode series, which starred Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey, Jr. and was based on the ...

The ripple effects of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike continue. On Friday, August 8, the WGA announced that Park ...

Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar have been expelled from the Writers Guild of America for writing on “The Sympathizer” during ...

The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many ...

The Writers Guild Of America announced late on Friday night that it was expelling two of its high-profile members, Park ...

Stars attend the premiere of the HBO Limited Series 'The Sympathizer' at The Paramount LA on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif. (L-R) Vietnamese actor Duy Nguyen, U.S.-Vietnamese ...

Such tension-added-to-tension animates “The Sympathizer,” a serious black comedy premiering Sunday at 9 p.m Pacific on HBO. (It’s no less tense for being a comedy.) ...

HBO’s “The Sympathizer” is an enthralling sift through identity, memory and Vietnam after the war This adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize novel persuades us to embrace ...

This article appears in the July 2024 issue. HBO ’s The Sympathizer is a confession. We meet the confessor, narrator, and protagonist (played by Hoa Xuande) in a makeshift prison camp in Vietnam.

HBO There’s a brief moment at just about the midpoint of HBO’s adaptation of “The Sympathizer” when the show’s recurring flaw really settles in.

That occurred to me while watching HBO’s “ The Sympathizer,” Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar’s stylish and wry seven-episode adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel of the same name.

A new HBO series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel takes a surreal look at the Vietnam war, the costs of colonialism and the disillusionments of revolution and immigration.