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!
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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