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

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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.…