HBO’sThe Sympathizercame to a horrifying end on May 26 when it aired its seventh and final episode, but it seems that may not be its ultimate conclusion, as it has the potential to continue with more seasons. In a recent interview withTheWrap, the series’executive producersAmanda BurrellandSusan Downeyhinted at a possible Season 2 despite it being a limited series; however, just like the first season, which is based onViet Thanh Nguyen’s award-winning book of the same name, it will be based on the author’s other books.
“We’re so in love with these charactersand I think with Hoa as our Captain it would be amazing,” Burrell shared. “There’s three books; there’s going to be more;Viet is obsessed with these characters.” However, Downey divulged that the team wants to ensurethe complete success of the first installmentbefore proceeding to sequels to avoid “messing something up.” In Downey’s words:
“But we are right now focused on just gettingThe Sympathizerout to the world and seeing hopefully that everybody appreciates it. There’s more story to be told for the Captain’s journey in this world, but right now it’s like anything. I’ve been part of other things that have had sequels. You just have to get the first one right, you can’t look too far past that or you’re going to mess something up.”
‘The Sympathizer’ Finale Has A Few Revelations
Created byPark Chan-wookandDon McKellar,The Sympathizerpremiered on HBOon April 14. It is a miniseries thatcenters on the Captain (Hoa Xuande), a North Vietnamese spy in the South Vietnamese army, who is forced to escape to the U.S. with his general toward the end of the Vietnam War. While living within a community of South Vietnamese refugees,Captain keeps spying on the peopleand reports back to the Viet Cong, triggering him to struggle with where his original allegiance lays.
The show’s seventh and (for now) final episode reveals where Man (Duy Nguyen) has been all this time, and has several exciting twists, according to McKellar. The showrunner said,
“When you’re writing, you want to surprise people, but you also want to give them enough hints and want to make it make sense. The problem with seven, the final episode, is that there are quite a few revelations that you don’t just want to stack up on top of each other. When we revealed him, we wanted it to be ‘Oh yeah, of course. That’s who it is. I knew that on some level.'”
All episodes ofThe Sympathizerare available to stream on Max. Stay tuned at Collider for further updates on Season 2.
The Sympathizer
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.
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