{"id":273425,"date":"2024-02-19T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=326513"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:04","slug":"everything-we-know-about-the-sympathizer-the-most-anticipated-series-on-hbo-max-with-robert-downey-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/everything-we-know-about-the-sympathizer-the-most-anticipated-series-on-hbo-max-with-robert-downey-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything we know about The Sympathizer, the most anticipated series on HBO Max with Robert Downey Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Currently, we find ourselves with a multitude of platforms that offer us series of spectacular quality. However, HBO Max – or HBO and\/or Max, in any case – manages to bring the most anticipated and highest quality fictions. It’s not just that everything related to the Game of Thrones universe has a spectacular style<\/strong>, but it also has many other fictions that are on par with it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The most anticipated of all his upcoming films is The Sympathizer, a fiction that features two unbreakable stars. On one hand, there’s Robert Downey Jr. as the protagonist<\/strong>, and on the other hand, there’s one of the greatest Korean directors in history behind the camera: Park Chan-wook<\/strong>, filmmaker behind Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is The Sympathizer about?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Sympathizer is the TV series adaptation of the book with the same name that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016<\/strong>. Written by Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/strong>, the novel takes us to Saigon (Vietnam) in 1975 to tell the story of an Army General who seeks to escape the country to start a new life in the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, everything gets complicated because of one of his companions, who is a snitch for the Viet Cong and is informing about the military’s plan. The story revolves around this man, who lives in a constant dilemma between betrayal and loyalty to his country. The official synopsis of HBO Max<\/a> is clearer about what we will be able to see in the series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos<\/strong>. In his villa, a general from the South Vietnamese army is making a list of those who will receive passage aboard the last flights leaving the country. The general and his compatriots intend to start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one of them, the captain, is informing the group to a superior in the Viet Cong<\/strong>. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man raised by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to college in the United States but returned to Vietnam to fight for the communist cause.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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