THE SYMPATHIZER makes TIME Magazine and The Washington Post’s Top 10 shows of the year. From WaPo: “Like its protagonist, “The Sympathizer” signals from the start a compulsion to rebel against the genre it’s supposed to deliver. Bonuses include Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr.” From TIME: “what’s really remarkable about Park Chan-wook’s wild, epic, visually stunning, manically referential, simultaneously hilarious and gutting adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen is its insight into the Vietnam War, a cataclysm that has shaped identities both Vietnamese and American. Grounded in the chronically ambivalent perspective of the Captain (a note-perfect Hoa Xuande), The Sympathizer spans continents as it reckons with what it means to commit to a cause and how a society survives colonialism, war, and internal schism…it’s electrifying—and there’s no better time to engage with it than during our nation’s anxious holiday interregnum.”
The best TV shows of 2024 from ‘Shogun’ to ‘Ripley’ – The Washington Post
