Netflix's strangest six-part crime-thriller is the perfect weekend binge

Nicolas Winding Refn leans fully into mood, myth, and stillness in a supernatural saga that resists conventional storytelling. 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. Returning to his native Denmark for the first time since the Pusher trilogy, Copenhagen Cowboy is about an enigmatic loner named Miu (Angela Bundalovic) who is treated as a “lucky coin” and passed between different organizations in Copenhagen’s criminal underbelly. Basically, she has some vaguely defined psychic powers that bring good fortune to those around her, but if you get on her bad side, your luck will just as quickly run out.