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- Netflix
- Jan 5, 2023
- Netflix
- Jan 5, 2023
Summary Miu (Angela Bundalovic), a young woman with supernatural gifts, travels to Copenhagen to find out about her past and seek justice in this six-part series from Nicolas Winding Refn. [Premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 9 Sep 2022; set to air in the US on Netflix sometime in 2022]
Created By: Nicolas Winding Refn
- Netflix
- Jan 5, 2023
- Netflix
- Jan 5, 2023
Summary Miu (Angela Bundalovic), a young woman with supernatural gifts, travels to Copenhagen to find out about her past and seek justice in this six-part series from Nicolas Winding Refn. [Premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 9 Sep 2022; set to air in the US on Netflix sometime in 2022]
Created By: Nicolas Winding Refn
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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4 Reviews
64% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Like an illusive dream that takes part in a deadly dance with more cosmic nightmares that keep creeping in, Refn’s Copenhagen Cowboy is a gem into which one can only stare and catch refractions of the world in all their sickening yet silly splendor.
It’s difficult to imagine casual Netflix subscribers taking to Refn’s unbridled-Id thriller, but fans of the unpredictable, the bizarre, and the deviant will be delighted to see the streamer investing so heavily in the auteur’s flights of phantasmagoric fancy.
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There's so much beauty in every frame, and so much pleasure in watching it unfold, you don't want it to ever end. I don't think it's worse or better than Too Old to Die Young, it's just more of the same magic, however different the story might be.
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While I appreciated many elements — particularly the look and surreal vibe — “Cowboy” moseys a little too slow for my tastes. That said, Winding Refn is a true original.
Miu’s supernatural origin story really only solidifies in the final episode, by which time some viewers will have lost patience with the narrative’s glacial tread and aura of self-love. If you stick with it, consenting to be mesmerised if also baffled, be warned that Copenhagen Cowboy is like many other supernatural odysseys which get lost in their own maze.
Refn spreads out his sensory overload, giving all the brooding and brashness ample space to breathe. It can be repetitive, yes, but never monotonous. ... But, at the end of the day, this is NWR for NWR-heads.
Not only does Refn’s new Netflix series check all the auteur’s signature boxes — searing neon light, near-silent protagonist, synth-heavy Cliff Martinez score — while revisiting plots, scenes, and even shots from his feature films (“Only God Forgives” and “The Neon Demon” feel particularly consequential), but it’s so slow to develop, so obtuse, and so open-ended, the first season doesn’t feel like a season at all; it feels like a pilot.
Refn has reportedly revealed that the title has nothing to do with this weird, hollow show and that he just liked the sound of the two words he chose before he even started writing. That process seems to capture the depth of this entire project, one that plays with a lot of interesting elements but has so little fun doing so.