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in SeriesThe Sympathizer Comes to a “Hard” End
The following review contains spoilers for the entirety of The Sympathizer on HBO As I reflect on the close of The Sympathizer (with the meta-episode title “Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?”), it is difficult not to agree with most of the critics that this seven-episode series falls just short of “greatness” (whatever that means in […] More
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The Sympathizer Episode 1 Review: The War Fought in Memory
The following review contains spoilers for The Sympathizer Episode 1, “Death Wish” (written by Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar and directed by Park Chan-wook) “All wars are fought twice. The first time on the battlefield. The second time in memory.” The Sympathizer is a seven-part miniseries that follows the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Vietnamese-American […] More
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This [Sounds Like] a True Story: Scoring the Heightened Reality of Noah Hawley’s Fargo
Noah Hawley’s Fargo (2014– ) was not the first film or television work inspired by Joel and Ethan Coens’ classic film of the same name (Fargo, 1996). There exist as well an aborted attempt at a standard television crime series, with Edie Falco recast as the intrepid Marge Gunderson from the film, as well as […] More
