Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

After the release of last year’s Drive-Away Dolls, lesbian audiences set their sights on the next Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen collaboration, Honey, Don’t! The film follows the eponymous Honey, a lesbian private detective, as she goes about her life in a small town in California. Margaret Qualley’s Honey is bold, confident, and sexual, making for a compelling and entirely different (I would go so far as to say better) character to the one she played in Drive-Away Dolls.

Qualley’s performance, however, is hamstrung by a messy plot that lacks coherence even in its final moments. It’s difficult to even provide a straightforward synopsis without spoilers because of how frequently the central mystery not just twists but changes entirely. Rather than attempt to directly review the movie (something Incluvie writer Nilufer Ozmekik has already done better), I wanted to take the time to break down the lesbianism in the film, because that’s what I do best.