Published May 9, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Refn leans fully into mood, myth, and stillness in a supernatural saga that resists conventional storytelling. Netflix and Nicolas Winding Refn’s trippy crime-thriller series is a perfect weekend binge Image: Netflix For anyone who’s been following Nicolas Winding Refn for the past three decades, he can be an … acquired taste. The Danish auteur possesses an abundance of style, but over the years, his work has veered from more straightforward crime thrillers (the Pusher trilogy, Drive ) to genre-bending projects that move at a snail’s pace. (His 13-hour Prime Video miniseries, Too Old to Die Young , is incredible if you have the patience for it.) But if you want something that lands in a satisfying middle between Refn at his most conventional and Refn at his most experimental, it’s worth diving into his 2023 Netflix series, Copenhagen Cowboy .…