Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
In Copenhagen Cowboy, a strange, near-silent young woman drifts through the city's underworld carrying something between a curse and a gift, and everyone around her wants a piece of it.
What is Copenhagen Cowboy about?
Passed between criminal households for most of her life as a supposed bringer of luck, the woman at the center of this mini-series finally starts pushing back against the people who have spent years trading her like an object. As she moves through brothels, gangster clans, and half-abandoned buildings on the edges of Copenhagen, unexplained abilities begin surfacing around her, and old debts start coming due for the people who wronged her. The show unfolds less like a conventional crime story and more like a slow, dreamlike descent, built from long static shots, saturated neon light, and stretches where almost nothing is said out loud. Revenge is the engine underneath it all, but the series takes its time getting there, favoring mood and atmosphere over exposition at nearly every turn.
Cast & crew
Angela Bundalovic carries the largely wordless lead role, communicating most of the character's inner life through stillness and expression rather than dialogue. Andreas Lykke Jørgensen and Lili Zhang fill out key roles among the criminal figures orbiting her, each tied to a different corner of the underworld she moves through across the season.
Context & significance
Director Nicolas Winding Refn, known for a highly stylized, neon-soaked visual signature, treats the series as an extension of his feature work rather than a standard television drama, favoring composition and rhythm over conventional plotting. The result sits closer to a moving art piece than a typical crime mini-series, with folklore-tinged supernatural elements woven into an otherwise grounded criminal setting.
Where & how to watch
Copenhagen Cowboy streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles, alongside a fully Farsi interface for browsing and reading about the series. A free K-Time account is enough to start watching, and the show's page, including episode details, can be viewed by anyone without needing to log in first.