After The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Ethan Coen said he could not make another film and walked away. Joel went off to do Macbeth.
Honey Don't! is what happened when Ethan came back. He made it with his wife Tricia Cooke, who edited The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou. They've been working on this lesbian B movie trilogy together for twenty years. This is the second one.
Margaret Qualley plays a small town private eye chasing suspicious deaths that lead to a charismatic cult leader played by Chris Evans. Ethan told her to play Humphrey Bogart. He said they basically stole the whole thing from Altman's The Long Goodbye.
People on Backlot are watching it right now. On Peacock.
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