Qualley is Honey O’Donahue, a glamorous private detective working in Bakersfield. Her latest client, Mia, turns up dead, hanging upside down in an upturned car that’s spilled from the road into a canyon. It’s pretty clear it was no accident; an enigmatic woman in leopard-skin hot pants makes her way down to the crash site to pull a ring off her finger, one that will link her to the Four-Way Temple church, run by the scurrilous, sexually-rapacious Reverend Drew (Chris Evans).
Soon enough, corpses start piling up, beginning with an odious gentleman who refuses to pay a drug dealer and then offers fellatio in exchange for narcotics. That Honey has been hired by the man’s boyfriend to spy on him further embroils her in the case, which gets increasingly fractious when the dealer winds up “PFD” (“Pretty f***ing dead”) after a fight that involves a knife, a steaming hot iron and a lot of broken teeth.
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Like the leads in Drive-Away Dolls, Honey is also attracted to the fairer sex. "I like girls," she repeatedly tells Marty (Charlie Day), the dozy cop she trades info with who is forever trying to ask her out on a date. It’s not long before she’s hitting on MJ Falcone (Aubrey Plaza), who works in the basement of the police department. The sex is casual and semi-explicit (though Coen and Cooke don’t hold back from showing Honey washing clean her collection of sex toys afterwards).
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