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The Sympathizer Finale Recap: A Past Revised
A rushed finale struggles to wrap up Captain’s story and all the lingering questions.
Accompanied by his ghosts, a hallucinatory dream sequence reveals clues as to what the Captain failed to confess all along: He was complicit in the torture and rape of the female North Vietnamese spy, who was captured and interrogated in the first episode. This is the series’ greatest flaw — its stark imbalance in tone, rapidly shifting from satire to thriller to melodrama, leaving little space for tension or even pathos to build. Bon cradles a crying baby as the passengers share a tender moment in song, a harmonious, wistful departure compared to the first episode’s narrow escape.
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