‘The Sympathizer’ review: Park Chan-wook’s Vietnam War spy thriller is TV magic
HBO’s The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, greets us with an epigraph. It reads, “All wars are fought twice. The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” It’s fitting, then, that memory becomes its own kind of battlefield throughout the limited series. Our narrator, … Read more