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The Sympathizer

A tormented spy lives a double life in post–Vietnam War America

Sundays, 9/8c, HBO

COME FOR THE stunt, to marvel at the versatility of Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. inhabiting multiple extravagant roles, recalling Peter Sellers’ tour de force in Dr. Strangelove. Stay to get immersed in the suspenseful saga of an unnamed half-Vietnamese, half-French antihero who sees himself as “a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces…cursed to see every issue from both sides.”

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