some good scenes but too slow and boring Simular with other works by Nicolas winding refn such as the neon demon and drive. Too old to die young takes a long time to build-up. Both of those films have very little to nothing happen until around the final act which isn't always a bad thing as other directors such as ari aster director of midsommor and hereditary have done the same job. However, the difference is that there is too little happening to keep the viewer engaged, and it is too slow-moving, making this possibly one of the slowest tv show I have ever seen. They stretch out around 20 minutes of plot into a 90 minute run time and though I do have to give credit where credit is due the scenes aren't entirely pointless when it comes to the plot of the episode but not all of them. The scene between the killer and his father was unnecessary. What that I hear you cry, how do they get 20 minutes of plot in a 90-minute episode well I tell you how. They make every single character speak extremely slowly with very long pauses in between each sentence. oh you think I'm joking. Watch it for yourself, and you tell me that it isn't too slow. They try to do what some horror movies do and have overly long shots to build up the tension and suspense which can work if done correctly. This entire 90-minute episode is nothing but building up suspense with no payoff, and though it works with a couple of the scenes when episode as the whole is trying to build up suspense, it just gets annoying and incredibly dull. A Tv show has a lot longer run time than a film does and this is no exception, but within a 90 minutes episode, you would expect to get at least some connection to the characters. Nope, out of all the characters, only one of them I know anything about, and even then it's very little. I hope it gets much better than this because after the first scene nothing happens until near the end of the episode, and I hope that it doesn't turn into one of Nichols films when literally nothing happened until the very end. As his movies are like 2 hours long, this is 13 hours long. I've heard that nothing happened until the fourth episode meaning I have around 4 and a half hours of filler and pointlessly long take just to get to anything good and this will I don't know what Nicolas was thinking starting the story at episode 4 but most people will begin with episode one and will switch off before episode 4 because of how slow and boring it is. This is my second attempt at watching this since I stopped halfway through episode 2 because of this very same issue. Nothing ever happened. Overall some scenes were pretty good, but most of the time nothing happened, and the slowness of the show just makes it unbearable to watch. But hey at least it looks pretty because according to Nicholas and a friend of mine. As long as it's pretty its the best thing ever. The music is pretty good for the most part, but when it tries to go down the more electronic route, then it doesn't sound right and just sounds ugly.
I give episode 1 a 5/10