Will the Coen brothers ever reunite? It’s a question that many fans have been wondering for nearly a decade now after Joel and Ethan Coen went their separate ways following the 2018 release of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. For 30 years, the pair of incredibly talented siblings worked alongside one another, bringing audiences some of the greatest, unique, and well-crafted pieces of modern cinema, but these days they both seem content doing their own thing. What started with the 1984 neo-noir flick Blood Simple quickly blossomed into an empire, with the duo continuing to deliver hit after hit through titles including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit, and Hail, Caesar! — just to name a few.
But, following their work on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, each brother went his own way and set off to explore his own set of one-of-a-kind skills. For Joel Coen, that meant channeling one of the most defining pieces to come from The Bard with his adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the 2021 Denzel Washington-led drama The Tragedy of Macbeth. After finding multitudes of critical acclaim for his take on the tragic play, Coen stepped into the shadows, but will soon resurface with the Josh O’Connor, Lesley Manville, Frances McDormand and Damian Lewis-starrer Jack of Spades.
Meanwhile, Ethan Coen branched out alongside his partner Tricia Cooke for Drive-Away Dolls and Honey, Don’t!, two films that will eventually become part of what the director has dubbed as a lesbian B-movie trilogy. Unlike The Tragedy of Macbeth, these two titles didn’t quite appeal to the critics, with audiences also largely panning the Margaret Qualley-starring features. The good news is, if you’re looking to go back to the glory days when the Coen brothers worked together instead of separately, the project that many would consider to be the pair’s best is heading for a free streamer, with No Country for Old Men slated for an arrival on Tubi on May 1.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
What Is ‘No Country for Old Men’ About?
Like many of the Coen brothers’ other classics, No Country for Old Men follows the building blocks of a neo-Western. It’s a game of cat-and-mouse between multiple characters after a blue-collar Vietnam veteran named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across a life-changing amount of money in the middle of the desert. Pursuing the lucky man and his stash of cash is ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), while Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) trails behind both men. Like so many of the Coen brothers’ other movies, No Country for Old Men touches on fate, the human condition, and the consequences of our decisions.
Head over to Tubi on May 1 to stream No Country for Old Men.
