Post by merh on Apr 22, 2024 16:38:02 GMT
I am watching some new thing on HBO. Sympathizer or some such.
Lead says he doesn't like squid because his mom was making it & realized she didn't have fish sauce so she dashed off to the market, leaving the teen boy alone with the partially prepared food.
So of course he uses a piece to pleasure himself
Good grief.
Is sex always the go to for guys?
Talk about damned by the lusts of the flesh.
what was for dessert?
Warm apple pie?
So some Vietnamese dessert presumably.
The Sympathizer (miniseries)
The Sympathizer is a historical black comedy drama miniseries based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The series was created by co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, with Park directing for the series as well. The series premiered on HBO on April 14, 2024, and is produced by A24 and Rhombus Media.
Premise
The series is based on the story of the Captain, a North Vietnam plant in the South Vietnam army. He is forced to flee to the United States with his general near the end of the Vietnam War. While living within a community of South Vietnamese refugees, he continues to secretly spy on the community and report back to the Viet Cong, struggling between his original loyalties and his new life
The Sympathizer is a historical black comedy drama miniseries based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The series was created by co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, with Park directing for the series as well. The series premiered on HBO on April 14, 2024, and is produced by A24 and Rhombus Media.
Premise
The series is based on the story of the Captain, a North Vietnam plant in the South Vietnam army. He is forced to flee to the United States with his general near the end of the Vietnam War. While living within a community of South Vietnamese refugees, he continues to secretly spy on the community and report back to the Viet Cong, struggling between his original loyalties and his new life
Cast
Main
•Hoa Xuande as the Captain, a police captain in Saigon who is secretly a communist spy for the North
•Robert Downey Jr. in several antagonist roles including:
Claude, a CIA agent who mentors the Captain
Niko, an auteur filmmaker making a film on the Vietnam War, based on Francis Ford Coppola
Professor Hammer, the Captain's Orientalist grad school professor
Ned Godwin, a Congressman in Southern California trying to appeal to the local Vietnamese American population
•Toan Le as the General, a high-ranking Southern Vietnamese general that the Captain serves under
•Fred Nguyen Khan as Bốn, the Captain's childhood best friend
•Duy Nguyễn as Mẫn, the Captain's other childhood friend and his handler
•Vy Le as Lana, the General's daughter and the Captain's love interest
•Ky Duyen as Madame, the General's wife
•Phanxinê as the Major
•Kieu Chinh as the Major's Mother
Supporting
•VyVy Nguyen as the Major's wife
•Kayli Tran as the Communist Spy
•Scott Ly as Gunner Dao
•Alan Trong as Sonny, a Vietnamese American reporter and the Captain's former college rival
•Sandra Oh as Ms. Sofia Mori, a middle-aged Japanese American secretary who develops a sexual relationship with the Captain
•David Duchovny
•John Cho
•Marine Delterme
Main
•Hoa Xuande as the Captain, a police captain in Saigon who is secretly a communist spy for the North
•Robert Downey Jr. in several antagonist roles including:
Claude, a CIA agent who mentors the Captain
Niko, an auteur filmmaker making a film on the Vietnam War, based on Francis Ford Coppola
Professor Hammer, the Captain's Orientalist grad school professor
Ned Godwin, a Congressman in Southern California trying to appeal to the local Vietnamese American population
•Toan Le as the General, a high-ranking Southern Vietnamese general that the Captain serves under
•Fred Nguyen Khan as Bốn, the Captain's childhood best friend
•Duy Nguyễn as Mẫn, the Captain's other childhood friend and his handler
•Vy Le as Lana, the General's daughter and the Captain's love interest
•Ky Duyen as Madame, the General's wife
•Phanxinê as the Major
•Kieu Chinh as the Major's Mother
Supporting
•VyVy Nguyen as the Major's wife
•Kayli Tran as the Communist Spy
•Scott Ly as Gunner Dao
•Alan Trong as Sonny, a Vietnamese American reporter and the Captain's former college rival
•Sandra Oh as Ms. Sofia Mori, a middle-aged Japanese American secretary who develops a sexual relationship with the Captain
•David Duchovny
•John Cho
•Marine Delterme
I'm not particularly interested, but it is history I remember. We got a lot of Vietnamese here in San Diego. I got calls all the time from people insisting their Vietnamese neighbors were eating the neighborhood cats.
He was offered some squid by Sofia but says he doesnt care for cephlapod. When pushed he offers this story (Sofia spits her squid bite out as he is telling it). He says he marked his "partner" piece so he wouldn't eat it, but didn't think about someone else in the family would be eating it