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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: Four Robert Downeys? I'm hooked!
UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews The Sympathizer, a new Sky show based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is equally unmissable.
The thriller-cum-black-comedy-satire – not a description I use very often – is based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, and was co-created and directed by the South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (winner of 2022’s Best Director prize at Cannes for his compelling romantic mystery Decision To Leave). Creator of a Sesame Street-style kids’ TV puppet show called Good Day Sunshine, Vincent is married to Cassie (Gaby Hoffman), father to nine-year-old Edgar (Ivan Morris Howe)… and an alcoholic bully. And the debut appearance of the titular Eric – a giant furry puppet recalling Monsters, Inc’s Sulley – ensures that anybody who, perhaps, grew up the only child of warring parents (and retreated into their imagination in order to cope) will find this wonderful cliché-busting series powerfully moving, too.
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