The Coen Brothers might be legendary filmmakers, but they are not known for their intersectional feminism. Their stories are entirely male-centric, and are filled with overwhelmingly white casts. Even those films that include notable women characters – such as Fargo, Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, or Burn After Reading – feature those characters as essentially Token Women, within a story that revolves around male dominance. This is important to note, because The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs is one of the best Coen Brothers films ever made, while also seeming to be something of an answer to that very argument. 

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs is an interesting event in film. It is the first time The Coen Brothers have shot a film digitally, and it is the fir...

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