‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ Is So Weird, It’s Shocking Netflix Took a Risk on It

Jan 6 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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Copenhagen Cowboy finds Nicolas Winding Refn working in his native Denmark for the first time since the 2005 conclusion to his Pusher trilogy, and yet it isn’t a case of the auteur returning to his roots. Rather, the writer/director’s six-episode Netflix series is less a gritty, frenzied crime saga than a heavily stylized genre hybrid on (relative) par with his 2019 Amazon series Too Old to Die Young.

Akin to a noir-horror-Western that operates in a...

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