You like WT?  Well then, you stop that fight!

That man kill WT!

The Sympathizer

Vietnam. 1970s.

From Hollywood, so of course we're supposed to relate to a double agent who's anti-American and working for the communists. That's our lead character. He's infiltrated the South Vietnamese leadership and brings his double-crossing ways to the US where he continues to spy for the Viet Cong. That's our hero.

Sandra Oh, whose face has gone puffy but seemingly has a pretty decent body, becomes the commie's love interest.

So far as I can see, this is mostly a vehicle for Robert Downey Junior to sport some pretty amazing makeup and play multiple roles. Characters like a shady CIA agent who looks a lot like James Caan, a flamboyantly, fruitily gay professor of Oriental Studies at some obscure California college, a stereotyped 70s film director, and a Bob Dole-ish Vietnam War veteran turned politician (crippled hand and all). In the third episode, all four of these oddball characters end up at the same table. It's weird.

I'm having trouble generating any sympathy for an America-hating communist spy.  Also kind of disgusted that this is the protagonist Hollywood gives us. The VC tortured and mutilated our soldiers. Their treatment was inhumane and barbaric. This guy should be the enemy, being hunted down.

I have a problem with the premise of this series, Downey's pretty amazing makeup (and performances) aside.

Referencing The Andy Griffith Show story lines doesn't make you look any tougher.

Sometimes, I borrow material. But not often. Most of my stuff is original. Unlike…well, you know.

I hate it.  Personal beefs should be settled with a fist fight as a last resort.  Not with cowardice like this.

Hope he pulls through.

While I agree, many people just can’t seem to take an ass whipping, today.

Snags is a prime example. I’d fold that motherfucker up like a 4th grade love letter and he knows it. You think he’d show up for an ass whipping appointment? I’ve certainly tried.

I have attempted to engage with Token on numerous occasions but there is zero interest from him in handling it like a man. Anytime he hears that I’m around, he refuses to take his uniform off. One time I was up there on business for a week and he even slept in his uniform. He wore it all weekend. He played golf in it and went out on a date, with some guy.

Such a different time.  Back in my day....you young whipper snappers....you could look around your high school parking lot and see numerous trucks with gun racks and 2-3 guns in them.  Nobody pulled them out to settle a beef, or go in and shoot up the school. 

I was a senior when me and Phil Owens threw hands in the 7-Eleven parking lot.  I'm sure it was over something vital to national security, like maybe he said something about my girlfriend.

I’m sorry he whooped your ass in front of your former girlfriend. It happens.