Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5 – For the show. ★★★★★ for the encode.)
It’s the perfect encode for an imperfect spy. Highly recommended. The Sympathizer S01 1080p x265-AMBER
Hoa Xuande is a revelation as the Captain, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army post-Fall of Saigon. Robert Downey Jr. chews four different scenes in four different prosthetic noses as a quartet of American antagonists. It’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold meets Adaptation. —intellectual, violent, and unexpectedly hilarious. Rating: ★★★★½ (4
Let’s get this out of the way: The Sympathizer is not an easy watch. It’s a blistering, blackly comic, and brutal adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer winner. It’s also a visual feast—a messy, gorgeous, paranoid fever dream from Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden ). So when I saw the release in 1080p x265 , I had two questions: 1) Can this encode survive the show’s tonal whiplash? 2) Can my hard drive survive a series this dense? Hoa Xuande is a revelation as the Captain,