Ok, I'm starting my 2023 TV viewings with a nice aperitif before I get to The Last of Us and Poker Face. Yeah, I watch more contemporary TV than films, I believe that's where the best storyteller's at right now which isn't a diss on film, just says if you ignore a writer for so long they leave and show their true value. But that's not what I'm writing about today, I'm writing about Nicolas Winding Refn who once made a hat that said "Make TV Great Again" and claimed his limited series Too Old to Die Young was a long movie. So...

Copenhagen Cowboy represents everything great with Refn but also his defaults post drive. It's funny to talk about the necessity of a writer when Refn did get a writer's room for both this and Too Old to Die Young, yet once the camera rolls he's taken over the reigns as to what gets shot. In other words, every filmmaker out there believes they're gonna re-invent TV and next thing you know they just end up making something that adds nothing to the cultural conversation of TV as a unique medium (Minus David Lynch who re-invented it twice with both iterations of Twin Peaks, The Return being a heavy influence on both of Refn's shows). -Anyways, if you're a Refn die hard like me, this is for you! I loved the lore and the new techniques he used here to tell a tale through stills. It's excellent. But if you're seeking a TV series that really conveys what the medium is all about, you're going to watch another filmmaker make a "long movie." The Sopranos is better than most of the films that premiered during its run. I have spoken.