"In Honey Don't!, Coen and co-writer Tricia Cooke paint in the ketchup-red and sepia tones of mid-century Americana, as filtered through sleazy crime novels and hot rod fantasies like American Graffiti. If not for a stray reference to COVID, you might think it took place in the early 60s. The movie's world is gleefully anachronistic, and the characters even comment on that fact from time to time."
"Qualley plays Honey O'Donahue, a private investigator in Bakersfield who we meet as she strides in high heels down a gravel embankment to the site of a car crash. She has reason to believe that the crash wasn't accidental, but she withholds this information from the cops, led by a homicide detective (Charlie Day) who assumes the affectations of a 50s straight arrow even as we detect traces of Day's feral It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character snuffling underneath."
Honey Don't! follows private investigator Honey O'Donahue in Bakersfield as she investigates a suspicious car crash while withholding key information from local police. The film embraces mid-century Americana aesthetics, using ketchup-red and sepia tones and deliberate anachronisms that evoke sleazy crime novels and hot rod fantasies. Ethan Coen directs solo, continuing a run of compact, lesbian B-movie pastiches after Drive-Away Dolls. Performances include Margaret Qualley as Honey and Charlie Day as a homicide detective who adopts 1950s affectations while revealing more feral instincts beneath. The plot functions mainly as a vehicle to parade scoundrels, eccentrics, and Coen-style comedic oddities.
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