Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Nicolas Winding Refn's incredible crime series Too Old to Die Young, which is one of the best things Amazon has ever released, and yet, so few have actually seen it. Thankfully, shows don't come with an expiration date, so even though what little cultural conversation there was around TOTDY has long since moved on, the show is still available to watch on the streaming service. Just use that 'search' function, because lord knows you won't find it on any homepage. There are a lot of good shows to watch right …
It was a bit of a bloodbath for Amazon Prime original series over the weekend, as the streaming service announced the cancellations of five series in total. The supernatural half-hour drama Forever was among those the got the axe, as the Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen-fronted series won’t be continuing past its first season. The show—which was run by Master of None co-creator Alan Yang—kept its entire plot under wraps until it premiered, at which point audiences learned that the series revolves around a widow (Rudolph) who dies a year after her husband (Armisen), …
Nicolas Winding Refn’s series Too Old to Die Young is one of the strangest things currently available on streaming services. Not only does the director consider it to be a 13-hour movie, but its artistic and auteur-driven execution of an otherwise straightforward tale of revenge in an unforgiving criminal underworld leaves many of its plotlines unresolved.
Nicolas Winding Refn, the filmmaker best known for his breakthrough hit Driver, gives Amazon Prime one of this decade’s most ambitious series to ever stream online. From the director of The Neon Demon comes Too Old To Die Young, a 10-episode series that he describes as a 13-hour movie.
CANNES – The advent of streaming platforms has allowed for experimentation in episodic content in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Recently, Netflix released a number of series constituted of just 15-minute episodes as well as a choose your own adventure movie in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Auteur filmmakers such as David Fincher, Spike Lee and Jane Champion, who had barely dabbled in narrative television previously have brought their talents to what has been dubbed the era of Peak TV. Now, after two years of production and editing, Nicolas Winding Refn premiered two episodes of his new Prime Video …
Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) has been hard at work on the Los Angeles-based crime thriller series, Too Old to Die Young. For his latest collaboration with Amazon Prime Video, Refn directed, produced, and co-wrote the series with Ed Brubaker (Captain America: The Winter Soldier comics); Brubaker is also on board as a producer. Today, fans everywhere can get a look at the project thanks to the blood-soaked, neon-lit, and highly dramatic first trailer. Too Old to Die Young explores the criminal underbelly of LA through various characters’ existential journeys, described as going from "…