Review: The Sympathizer, "Good Little Asian" | Season 1, Episode 2
Remember to fall in love at your own peril
“Sometimes, it’s good to remind people how much they owe you.”
I noted in last week’s review of the premiere of The Sympathizer that sometimes, a handful of names are enough to increase my interest in a project even if I know little about its source material. The two most notable names from the outside in may well be Robert Downey, Jr. and co-creator and director Park Chan-wook, but Sandra Oh comes in as a very close third. Oh’s career has spanned everything from hundreds of episodes of the ABC hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy to voicing one of the lead characters in the excellent Pixar comedy Turning Red, to her supporting role in the 1997 comedy Bean, which I am sure you all remember very well1. Oh’s range is immense, to the point where she co-hosted an awards show with Andy Samberg simply because the two of them had a daffy chemistry in a previous awards-show appearance. When you hear someone call Sandra Oh the coolest woman in the world, you simply nod and think, “That’s righ…