![]() ![]() Netflix arbitrarily buries its own programming all the time, but it’s a curious choice for Amazon given the effort put into this thing. Perhaps because Too Old to Die Young is such an acquired taste, it hasn’t been promoted by Amazon and, as of this writing, can only be found via manual search. And yet, now we’ve got a whole TV show to ourselves? ![]() ![]() I am admittedly one of those people, but even I would admit that our group is rather small. Too Old to Die Young is something that will only appeal to Refn die-hards the people who believe Only God Forgives is an unheralded triumph instead of a self-indulgent dumpster fire. And yet Refn-along with renowned comics scribe Ed Brubaker, the show’s cocreator-somehow convinced Amazon to give him the reins for a 13-hour, 10-episode TV series. Refn is an enigmatic director capable of stunning, neon-lit compositions and visceral ultraviolence unsurprisingly, his provocative filmography has never made him anything close to resembling a box office draw, sans 2011’s Drive. That can be a bummer on the other hand, though, there’s now so much TV that seemingly every niche is being catered to-from bizarro sketch comedy to explainer journalism to everything in between.īut even in this “anything goes” landscape, Too Old to Die Young-the Amazon Prime miniseries from Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn, which dropped on Friday-is so absurd in its specificity that it borders on parody. The sheer amount of scripted TV in the streaming era means that very few shows become weekly appointment viewing, or even the stuff of casual watercooler talk, as the social currency of discussing television has turned to focus on not what you’ve watched, but how much you’ve watched. ![]()
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