2024 · 1 season · Drama, Spy, Black Comedy
The Sympathizer is an HBO limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, following a communist spy and sleeper agent who is also a South Vietnamese captain during and after the fall of Saigon. Directed by Park Chan-wook, with Robert Downey Jr. playing multiple roles.
The Sympathizer streams exclusively on Max. All 7 episodes of the limited series are available with any Max plan.
Yes — it's adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen's debut novel, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Park Chan-wook, the acclaimed Korean director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave, directed all episodes of The Sympathizer.
Robert Downey Jr. plays four distinct characters representing different facets of American power and colonialism, a creative choice by director Park Chan-wook.
The show is primarily in English with sections in Vietnamese and French. Subtitles are provided for non-English dialogue.