No messing about: That’s what I like to see. The first five minutes of The Sympathizer bombard you with information, characters, flashbacks, unreliable narration, and Robert Downey, Jr. wearing some of the most unsettling color contacts in TV history. It’s an absolute whirlwind, and we have next to no idea what’s happening. In other words, it starts as it means to go on. Based on the novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer shoves us straight into the boots of someone we know only as the... Read this story
