Was packaged to the Cannes Film Festival under the title "North of Hollywood, West of Hell."
The 10 volumes are each named after a trump or Major Arcana card in a traditional Tarot deck. The 22 trump cards in a tarot deck are numbered 0 to 21. The numbers corresponding to the volumes are: the Devil (15), the Lovers (6), the Hermit (9), the Tower (16), the Fool (0), the High Priestess (2), the Magician (1), the Hanged Man (12), the Empress (3), the World (21). Arguably, the meaning of each card loosely relates to the narrative of that volume, not just a character. It is possible that watching the series in the order of the Tarot card numbers (5, 7, 6, 9, 2, 3, 8, 1, 4, 10) will engage those who are exasperated by the pace of the existing sequence of the series.
Each episode ranges between 75 and 90 minutes long, with Nicolas Winding Refn referring it as a 13-hour movie.
When the show premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, Nicolas Winding Refn made the odd choice to screen episodes four and five, instead of starting with episode one. His reason for this choice was that he wanted to serve up the episodes to Cannes audiences in a way that teenagers consume digital content; not always in a page 1-to-100 type of sequence as they tend to skip around.
At one point during filming, co-creator Nicolas Winding Refn told cinematographer Darius Khondji that he wanted to shoot the series on an iPhone, since they were watching playback on their phones. This idea, however, was scrapped due to resolutions problems.