AFTER EVERY MAJOR PROJECT, JOHAN Renck, the director behind some of the best episodes of , and , found himself wandering the streets of Brooklyn, telling himself “I’m never going to do this again.” In fact, after helming every episode in the Emmy-winning series , he planned on either opening a restaurant or becoming a gardener. But then he read the script for an adaptation of , a 2017 novel by Czech-born author Jaroslav Kalfař, and decided to park his alternate career plans.
