Is Nicolas Winding Refn's Amazon show an indulgence too far?

The Drive director’s 13-hour LA-set noir Too Old to Die Young has divided critics but the extended format has allowed him to create something undeniably strikingTelevision is a writer’s medium, while cinema is a director’s one. So goes the old maxim, and for years it was more or less true: episodic TV directors were regarded largely as journeymen, keeping things running smoothly and crisply with minimal formal fuss, while writers absorbed more of the acclaim when a series struc