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Pod Country for Old Cast is a miniseries on the films of the Coen Brothers that began in July 2025. The Coen Brothers are being covered following their victory in March Madness 2025.

Summary[]

The Coens appeared twice in March Madness: 2020 and 2025. In 2020, they were on the Oscar side of the Oscars vs. Razzies bracket and beat Martin Scorsese and Mike Nichols before losing to eventual winner Robert Zemeckis. In 2025 the Coens entered the Decade of Dreams - Dream Team tournament as the number 1 seed and cruised to victory defeating Fritz Lang, Richard Linklater, David Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Peter Weir along the way.

The titular inspiration of the miniseries is the film No Country for Old Men. The miniseries art by the great Pat Reynolds features Griffin as Norville Barnes from The Hudsucker Proxy and Larry Gopnik from A Serious Man; David as Marge Gunderson from Fargo and Rooster Cogburn from True Grit; and Ben as Hi McDunnough from Raising Arizona and The Dude from The Big Lebowski.

The series was preceded by Pod Times at Ridgemont Cast on the films of Amy Heckerling.

Milestones and Ephemera[]

Episodes[]

The timeline is based on the schedule in the announcement post, but is, of course, subject to change!

# Title Audio Guest(s) Length Date
537 Blood Simple 🔊 Ray Tintori
Jordan Fish
2:45 7/13/2025
538 Raising Arizona 🔊 John Hodgman 2:42 7/20/2025
539 Miller's Crossing 🔊 Ari Aster 2:10 7/27/2025
540 Barton Fink 🔊 Chris Weitz 3:27 8/3/2025
541 The Hudsucker Proxy 🔊 Mike Mitchell
Nick Wiger
3:41 8/10/2025
542 Fargo 🔊 Zach Cregger 2:52 8/17/2025
543 The Big Lebowski 🔊 Seth Rogen 2:49 8/24/2025
544 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 🔊 Emily St. James 2:16 8/31/2025
545 The Man Who Wasn't There 🔊 Jordan Hoffman 2:35 9/7/2025
546 Intolerable Cruelty 🔊 Katey Rich 2:15 9/14/2025
547 The Ladykillers 🔊 Connor Ratliff 2:47 9/21/2025
548 No Country for Old Men 🔊 Leslye Headland 2:56 9/28/2025
549 Burn After Reading 🔊 Fran Hoepfner 2:11 10/5/2025
550 A Serious Man 🔊 Marc Maron 1:51 10/12/2025
551 True Grit 🔊 Stavros Halkias 2:58 10/19/2025
553 Inside Llewyn Davis 🔊 Rachel Zegler 2:41 11/2/2025
554 Hail, Caesar! 🔊 Shirley Li 2:36 11/9/2025
555 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 🔊 Paul Scheer
Jason Mantzoukas
3:29 11/16/2025
556 The Tragedy of Macbeth 🔊 Dana Schwartz 2:44 11/23/2025
557 Drive-Away Dolls 🔊 mxmtoon 2:30 11/30/2025
558 Honey Don't 🔊 Mattie Lubchansky 2:35 12/7/2025


Ranking Their Filmography[]

At the conclusion of the miniseries, the Blankies' rankings will be compiled from a voting thread found on the r/Blankies sub-reddit.

Rank Griffin David Blankies
1 Inside Llewyn Davis Barton Fink
2 Fargo Fargo
3 A Serious Man True Grit
4 No Country for Old Men A Serious Man
5 The Hudsucker Proxy The Big Lebowski
6 Hail, Caesar! Inside Llewyn Davis
7 Barton Fink No Country for Old Men
8 The Big Lebowski Miller's Crossing
9 Burn After Reading Raising Arizona
10 The Man Who Wasn't There The Hudsucker Proxy
11 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Blood Simple
12 Miller's Crossing O Brother, Where Art Thou?
13 Raising Arizona Hail, Caesar!
14 True Grit Intolerable Cruelty
15 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
16 Blood Simple The Man Who Wasn't There
17 Intolerable Cruelty Burn After Reading
18 The Ladykillers The Ladykillers


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