Review: 'The Sympathizer' is a tense black comedy that's also a moving story about friendship
What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the mole, the traitor embedded among those he's working against? It's a dramatic theme we return to again and again — Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys got six seasons of "" out of it a few years back. But as a viewer (and perhaps this is just me), whenever characters go undercover, I want them to get along with, even be liked by, the people they're spying upon, and I'm always disappointed, even upset, when their cover is blown — not for the spies, but for the people whose trust they betrayed. It's hard on me, I can tell you.
