It Was Always Going to Be Tricky to Adapt This Pulitzer-Winning Novel. HBO Mostly Pulls It Off.

The Vietnamese ensemble makes Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

, a new HBO series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2015 novel of the same title. “They just hold their breath.” Unlike the best-known American novels about the Vietnam War—Tim O’Brien’sbegins as the war concludes, with the fall of Saigon in 1975. But it’s not over for Nguyen’s main character, a man known only as the Captain.

” The film director throws baroque tantrums and keeps a live alligator in a glass case. The politician is pretty much what you’d expect. And the CIA agent wears white shoes and a spray tan and is breathtakingly, terrifyingly cynical.A little bit of these caricatures goes a long way, and the series’ biggest flaw is the way it bogs down in the middle as it lingers over Downey’s scenery chewing.

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