Copenhagen Cowboy: The Reasons To Watch The Brutal Danish Netflix Series
If you liked what you saw in The Neon Demon or Drive, Copenhagen Cowboy is the series you have to watch. This 6-part series is one of Netflix’s newest Danish productions (the list includes shows like The Chestnut Man, Equinox and Elves), but on top of that, it’s also the brainchild of one of today’s most interesting directors, who is known for creating neon-colored worlds, twisted stories, and haunting elements.
For now, Netflix has already canceled shows like 1899, Archive 81, and First Kill, so the platform is in dire need of good stories and quality content, and Copenhagen Cowboy certainly delivers on those features, unexpectedly. Too Old to Die Young, a miniseries about detectives, murderers and secret worlds, was the first series from the creator of Copenhagen Cowboy, but this project is different and is one of those series that you have to watch.
Copenhagen Cowboy And Why Watch the Most Brutal Danish Series on Netflix
The Creator of The Series
This series was created by Nicolas Winding Refn, who is best known for being the director and writer of films like Drive (for which he garnered a BAFTA nomination), The Neon Demon, and Only God Forgives. The director is color blind and that is why he has said that he likes to create films and series full of colors and details, which in this case help to create a futuristic and very mysterious environment where a complex story about justice and revenge unfolds.
Winding Refn always creates surreal stories that take a lot of elements from the real world and Copenhagen Cowboy is no exception, even featuring a heroine carrying her demons while on a dangerous mission.
An Intense and Mysterious Story
Copenhagen Cowboy follows a mysterious woman named Miu, who gets tired of spending her whole life serving others (she is sold to be some kind of good luck charm for other people, as part of a secret organization to which she has dedicated her life) and decides to go out and find her way and her own life, and this leads her to delve into the strange, dangerous and criminal underground world of Copenhagen.
Miu is looking for justice and revenge, and on the way, she runs into the woman who becomes her main enemy, named Rakel. Her journey leads her to discover supernatural things that are part of that criminal world that she is discovering, where she also realizes that she is not the only one who is looking for something and that her thirst for revenge is shared by many other women who also have their own complicated or tragic stories. Miu’s peculiarity is that she also has supernatural abilities that help her fulfill her mission of destroying the people who have harmed her throughout her life.
A Cast With Familiar Faces
This series has an interesting cast of Danish actors, some of them little known on this side of the world, but this helps us to see their characters and not the people behind them. At the head of the story is Angela Bundalovic, who appeared in the Netflix series The Rain, we can also see Zlatko Burić, who recently became one of the protagonists of Triangle of Sadness (nominated for Golden Globes 2023), Maria Erwolter, who played Tove’s mother in 1899, and Lola Winding Refn, who is the director’s daughter and plays the mysterious nemesis of the protagonist in this story.
The Photography is Spectacular
In addition to telling good stories, Nicolas Winding Refn is a master in the visual field, his films and series always have a photograph that makes an impact and here he makes it explode. Each image is full of colors, details and elements that are a little unsettling, with vibrant colors and elements like flowers, richly detailed wall hangings and perfect costumes. The idea is not just to create a world where this story and characters can exist, but to grab the audience’s attention by offering something vibrant and inviting to keep seeing more. Several elements go into creating a good series and Winding Refn has them all.
