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The Sympathizer (2024)
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Synopsis
The Captain has created a fresh start, but he is bound by commitments from his old life
A North Vietnamese Captain is planted within the South Vietnam army. But when he is forced to escape to America in order to keep his cover, the operation gets even more complicated. At the end of the Vietnam War, the Captain finds himself living with a group of South Vietnamese refugees in the United States. He continues to report back to the Viet Cong, but his loyalty is wavering.
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The JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts are calculated by user activity within the last 24 hours. This includes clicking on a streaming offer, adding a title to a watchlist, and marking a title as 'seen'. This includes data from ~1.3 million movie & TV show fans per day.
The Sympathizer is 992 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The TV show has moved up the charts by 116 places since yesterday. In Australia, it is currently more popular than Scream Queens but less popular than Regular Show.
| Rank | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|
988. |  Das Boot | -184 | |
989. |  Dateline NBC | +641 | |
990. |  The Ministry of Time | +252 | |
991. |  Regular Show | +74 | |
992. |  The Sympathizer | +116 | |
993. |  Scream Queens | +275 | |
994. |  Dickinson | +103 | |
995. |  Wizards Beyond Waverly Place | -68 | |
996. |  The Man Who Fell to Earth | -112 |
What to know
Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh star in black comedy spy series The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer is a political thriller black comedy drama series created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar. Park is a critically acclaimed South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer, who also serves as a director of The Sympathizer series with Marc Munden and Fernando Meirelles. The Sympathizer is executive produced by Park, McKellar, Robert Downey Jr, Susan Downey, Amanda Burrell, Niv Fichman, Kim Ly, Ron Schmidt, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jisun Beck. The show is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name and was filmed in the United States and Thailand.
Hoa Xuande leads the cast of The Sympathizer as the Captain. The Australian actor is of Vietnamese descent, and has previously appeared in Hungry Ghosts, Ronny Chieng: International Student and Cowboy Bebop. The cast also includes Fred Nguyen Khan as Bon, Toan Le as the General, Duy Nguyen as Man, Vy Le as Lana and Alan Trong as Sonny. Robert Downey Jr plays several antagonist roles throughout the series.
The Sympathizer also includes a large recurring cast, with Ky Duyen as the General’s wife, Madame, Sandra Oh as Ms. Sofia Mori, Kieu Chinh as the Major’s Mother, Kayli Tran as the Communist Spy, VyVy Nguyen as the Major’s wife, Scott Ly as Gunner Dao and Marine Delterme.
Production News
- 7 April 2021
- Park Chan-Wook is announced to direct a television adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel ‘The Sympathizer’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (Source: Slash Film)
- 15 July 2021
- Robert Downey Jr. set to produce and co-star in The Sympathizer. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
- 9 November 2022
- The main cast of The Sympathizer is announced, with Australian Vietnamese actor Hoa Xuande confirmed to star as the Captain. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
- 10 November 2022
- Sandra Oh is confirmed as part of the recurring cast of The Sympathizer, along with Kieu Chinh and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen. (Source: Deadline)
- 20 January 2023
- Marc Munden and Fernando Meirelles are tapped to direct episodes of The Sympathizer. (Source: Deadline)
- 11 May 2023
- Scott Ly joins the cast as Gunner Dao. (Source: Variety)
- 19 May 2023
- Marine Delterme joins the cast of The Sympathizer. (Source: Variety)
- 16 February 2024
- A trailer for The Sympathizer is released, as the Captain arrives in the United States after the Vietnam War. (Source: Max)
- 28 March 2024
- A new trailer for The Sympathizer reveals the pressure The Captain is under whilst he tries to live a double life in America. (Source: The Playlist)
- 15 April 2024
- The Sympathizer premieres in Australia on BINGE.
