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The Case Against RDJ
The race for Supporting Actor in a Limited Series is closer than it appears.
Though the HBO adaptation has plenty of its own bonafides — it’s based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and was brought to the screen by no lesser luminaries than Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar — Downey essentially orbits the main character, the Captain (Hoa Xuande), a North Vietnamese spy sent to the United States after the fall of Saigon. While there’s precedent for a show’s lone Emmy nomination for an acting performance to end up winning — Tatiana Maslany ( Orphan Black), Regina King ( Seven Seconds), and Mark Ruffalo ( I Know This Much Is True) are but three examples, all fairly recently — it’s certainly not a great sign of enthusiasm for The Sympathizer overall. Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers Tom Goodman-Hill, Baby Reindeer John Hawkes, True Detective: Night Country Lamorne Morris, Fargo Lewis Pullman, Lessons in Chemistry Treat Williams: Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
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