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The Sympathizer Recap: Twice of Everything
The Captain grows more conflicted the longer he stays in the U.S.
The planned detonation on the set of The Hamlet, which recalls the premiere’s harrowing airfield bombardment, seriously injures the Captain, who’s rushed to the hospital with a severe head injury and second-degree burns. Legal protections for entertainment workers were apparently weak in the 1970s, though, in one of the episode’s more humorous scenes, the bed-ridden Captain manages to negotiate $15,000 in cash for injury compensation and a personal apology from Hamlet director Niko Damianos — “that asshole [who] really fucked [him] up,” according to Bon. After the satirical detour of “Give Us Some Good Lines” — which, as I maintain, was a humorless stumble between parody and melodrama, ineffective in imparting to contemporary viewers something novel or insightful about Hollywood’s culturally exploitative practices — the Captain returns home to some shocking changes: The General has delusional plans to reclaim the homeland; Ms. Mori has moved on and is dating Sonny; and Lana has become a Paris by Night-style cabaret performer, singing under the pseudonym, Que Linh.
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