The Sympathizer is a period spy thriller and dark comedy series created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar. Based on a 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Vietnamese author Viet Thanh Nguyen, the HBO series follows the story of the Captain, a North Vietnam spy planted in the army of South Vietnam but when he is forced to flee to the United States, he keeps gathering information on his community to send it back to the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer stars Hoa Xuande in the lead role with Robert Downey Jr., Toan Le, Fred Nguyen Khan, Duy Nguyễn, Vy Le, Ky Duyen, Kieu Chinh, Alan Trong, and Sandra Oh starring in supporting roles. If you loved the spy thriller and dark comedy aspects of The Sympathizer here are some similar shows you could watch next.
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- 5/21/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
BBC Studios will produce adaptations of All3Media scripted dramas “Shameless” and “Strangers” for the Indian market.
Comedy drama “Shameless,” created originally by Paul Abbot and Company Pictures for Channel 4, is set in a dilapidated housing estate and revolves around an unemployed and perpetually drunken father who is consistently expanding his lineage amidst the challenges of adolescence and the allure of first love.
Two Brothers Pictures’ crime drama “Strangers” Aka “White Dragon,” originally created for ITV in the U.K. and written by Mark Denton, Jonny Stockwood, Marston Bloom and Harry & Jack Williams, follows professor Jonah Mulray, whose wife dies in a car accident in Hong Kong, where she frequently visited for work. He decides to visit the city, where he stumbles upon a startling revelation about his wife, plunging him into a labyrinth of conspiracy.
BBC Studios India Production will adapt and develop these two titles for the Indian...
Comedy drama “Shameless,” created originally by Paul Abbot and Company Pictures for Channel 4, is set in a dilapidated housing estate and revolves around an unemployed and perpetually drunken father who is consistently expanding his lineage amidst the challenges of adolescence and the allure of first love.
Two Brothers Pictures’ crime drama “Strangers” Aka “White Dragon,” originally created for ITV in the U.K. and written by Mark Denton, Jonny Stockwood, Marston Bloom and Harry & Jack Williams, follows professor Jonah Mulray, whose wife dies in a car accident in Hong Kong, where she frequently visited for work. He decides to visit the city, where he stumbles upon a startling revelation about his wife, plunging him into a labyrinth of conspiracy.
BBC Studios India Production will adapt and develop these two titles for the Indian...
- 7/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The truth is, if Slow Horses aired on the BBC, it would be all anyone talked about. It’s that good. Frankly, it’s a higher calibre offering than many dramas on prime time TV, but, because it airs on Apple TV+, a streaming service currently with fewer than two million UK subscribers, it’s yet to get the popularity it deserves.
If you haven’t yet watched the first two series of this spy thriller, let us catch you up on why you absolutely should before Slow Horses Series 3 comes out, hopefully later this year.
Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novel series, the show centres on a team of haphazard MI5 agents who have variously disgraced themselves on the job. While their offences aren’t quite P45-worthy, it’s enough to get them exiled from MI5 HQ to a supposedly boring admin role at the depressingly dingy Slough House,...
If you haven’t yet watched the first two series of this spy thriller, let us catch you up on why you absolutely should before Slow Horses Series 3 comes out, hopefully later this year.
Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novel series, the show centres on a team of haphazard MI5 agents who have variously disgraced themselves on the job. While their offences aren’t quite P45-worthy, it’s enough to get them exiled from MI5 HQ to a supposedly boring admin role at the depressingly dingy Slough House,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Plot: Long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
Review: Espionage is such a great concept that has factored into countless films and series over the years. Spies and secret agents make for thrilling storytelling that never lacks intensity or a deep well of material to make for entertaining tales. Still, when we think of spies on screen, the first thought is of James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt. The first season of Slow Horses presented a very different take on spies with a more realistic approach but one that was full of dark humor. Led by Gary Oldman as the irascible Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses is back for a second...
Review: Espionage is such a great concept that has factored into countless films and series over the years. Spies and secret agents make for thrilling storytelling that never lacks intensity or a deep well of material to make for entertaining tales. Still, when we think of spies on screen, the first thought is of James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt. The first season of Slow Horses presented a very different take on spies with a more realistic approach but one that was full of dark humor. Led by Gary Oldman as the irascible Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses is back for a second...
- 11/28/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Sony Pictures Television-owned “Sex Education” producer Eleven has promoted Carissa Hope Lynch to the position of creative director.
She will report to Eleven founders Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell.
Hope Lynch has been at Eleven since 2019, working on projects including “White Stork” for Netflix and the upcoming young adult horror series “Red Rose” for the BBC and Netflix. She has also developed a number of projects that have found homes at Channel 4, Netflix, the BBC and Sky, working with creatives including Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, Mika Watkins, Harry and Jack Williams, Chandni Lakhani, and Paul Andrew Williams and Caroline Bartleet in the process.
She is also passionate about discovering new voices and in 2021 conceived, designed, and co-facilitated Eleven’s script editor training scheme, Duly Noted, in collaboration with Tolula Dada.
In 2022, the training scheme’s second year, BBC and Sony Pictures Television also came on board.
Hope...
She will report to Eleven founders Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell.
Hope Lynch has been at Eleven since 2019, working on projects including “White Stork” for Netflix and the upcoming young adult horror series “Red Rose” for the BBC and Netflix. She has also developed a number of projects that have found homes at Channel 4, Netflix, the BBC and Sky, working with creatives including Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, Mika Watkins, Harry and Jack Williams, Chandni Lakhani, and Paul Andrew Williams and Caroline Bartleet in the process.
She is also passionate about discovering new voices and in 2021 conceived, designed, and co-facilitated Eleven’s script editor training scheme, Duly Noted, in collaboration with Tolula Dada.
In 2022, the training scheme’s second year, BBC and Sony Pictures Television also came on board.
Hope...
- 3/30/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Roster includes crime series Merchant Of Doubt, feature America Reloaded.
Topic Studios on Wednesday (August 22) announced it has put into development a slate of film and TV projects based on articles from its First Look Studios stablemate The Intercept.
The roster includes the feature America Reloaded, based on Ryan Devereaux and Trevor Aaronson’s article that tells the story of a fake documentary devised by the FBI about the family of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, as part of a larger effort to build criminal cases against the Bundys and their supporters, who engaged in a stand-off with law enforcement at...
Topic Studios on Wednesday (August 22) announced it has put into development a slate of film and TV projects based on articles from its First Look Studios stablemate The Intercept.
The roster includes the feature America Reloaded, based on Ryan Devereaux and Trevor Aaronson’s article that tells the story of a fake documentary devised by the FBI about the family of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, as part of a larger effort to build criminal cases against the Bundys and their supporters, who engaged in a stand-off with law enforcement at...
- 8/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong legend Anthony Wong to star in New ITV Drama Stranger. Watch the Preview at the London BFI
Actor Anthony Wong will star in a new upcoming drama set to release next in autumn 2018 on ITV, alongside British actors John Simm and Emilia Fox (“Silent Witness”).
Set in Hong Kong and penned by screenwriting newcomers Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, this conspiracy thriller revolves around Professor Jonah Mulray (Simm) whose wife is killed in a car crash in Hong Kong. Not long after arriving in Hong Kong to identify the body, Mulray makes a shocking discovery about his wife and in 8 hours he will try to uncover the truth about her death with the help of Sally Porter (Fox) of the British Consulate and insider Anthony Wong.
On the 24th of July the London BFI is hosting a preview of the first two episodes + Q&A with actors John Simm, Emilia Fox and Katie Leung, and creators Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, chaired by ITN’s Nina Hossain.
Set in Hong Kong and penned by screenwriting newcomers Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, this conspiracy thriller revolves around Professor Jonah Mulray (Simm) whose wife is killed in a car crash in Hong Kong. Not long after arriving in Hong Kong to identify the body, Mulray makes a shocking discovery about his wife and in 8 hours he will try to uncover the truth about her death with the help of Sally Porter (Fox) of the British Consulate and insider Anthony Wong.
On the 24th of July the London BFI is hosting a preview of the first two episodes + Q&A with actors John Simm, Emilia Fox and Katie Leung, and creators Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood, chaired by ITN’s Nina Hossain.
- 7/1/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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