A Thread to discuss Too Old to Die Young, an Amazon series from Nicolas Winding Refn

This is so good 4 episodes in. Digging it much more than TOTDY. I think the Euro vibe and the return of a lot of familiar players from the Pusher days help it along. Still slow, still ott but almost a more...refined Refn this time around?

I’m loving it too, the lighting and colors

Subtitles super distracting in Copenhagen Cowboy. They keep saying “(English)” for bits that are clearly not in English.

I watched with Spanish subs. Was great though

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I wish they'd wrapped things up.

I binged this yesterday instead of doing anything else I needed to do. It’s very visually compelling (I read he’s color blind and can’t see mid colors so that’s why he likes high contrast?) although the flashing lights effect got kind of old.

I watched the the BTS thing afterwards and was really surprised by how many of the actors were “street cast”, based on their look, and not actually actors at all. They were all amazing, especially Mr Chiang and Nicklas. Also NWR saying “I’m very superstitious. I know some extraterrestrials and I talked to them before I started working on this project” WTF?!?!

I also watched this with English voice dubbing and thought it was one of the best dubs I’ve heard (the accents were a weird choice - lots of British).

The ending suuuuuucked. My understanding is there’s no second season, so it was very frustrating to have no resolution, let alone explanation for who/what tf Miu was.

Ugh I meant to say I binged COPENHAGEN COWBOY not TOTDY

My understanding is there’s no second season, so it was very frustrating to have no resolution

That's disappointing. I am not the kind of person who demands a neat ending, but it would be nice to have and ending, even if oblique.

Definitely glad I watched CC, loved that he made the slow pacing work, loved the visuals. However the setup for the second season wasn't super inspiring, I'm not sure he knew where he wanted to go with it. I'm fine with one season.