How To Watch ‘The Sympathizer’ — Premiere Date, Episode Schedule, and More

HBO’s latest venture, The Sympathizer, marks a bold adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, bringing to life a tale of espionage, identity, and political turmoil. The seven-episode miniseries follows the enigmatic Captain (Hoa Xuande), a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist spy entangled in a web of conflicting loyalties. As the Vietnamese War draws to a close and Saigon falls, the Captain’s journey takes him to Southern California, where his espionage duties persist amidst the growing refugee community Facing threats from both past and present, the Captain balances on a fine line where survival could mean betrayal, as well as the opposite.