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Spycraft is a little more than Groucho glasses, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some grouchy glasses in the trailer

The Sympathizer, the new HBO limited series from Park Chan-Wook and Robert Downey Jr., premieres next month, and it couldn’t come at a more perfect time. Aside from Park being behind the camera for the first time since 2022’s Decision To Leave, Downey is riding high off his recent Oscar win and is apparently making a meal of being able to act again.

The funky-as-all-hell trailer for this show about a bi-racial, bi-lingual synthesis of incompatibilities has a lot of things: Shots of spies tied to a gurney with bolts sticking out of their heads as a masked scientist looms over them, a quick tease of our man putting on Groucho glasses, or a fleeting glimpse of a microfilm camera. All that’s well and good, but at least The Sympathizer goes the extra mile and ends the trailer by listing the cast as “And Academy Award Winner Robert Downey Jr.

 

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