DC Studios Peacemaker Season 2 Review - Exciting, Meaningful and Awesome

Peacemaker Season 2 exceeded my expectations entirely, and builds on season 1 organically with higher stakes, more tech and a bigger cast. It almost feels like the first few years of of the MCU when the storytelling was organic and meaningful without a cash grab feel and fan-service.

DC Studios Peacemaker Season 2 Plot

While Peacemaker Season 1 picks up from where James Gunn's Suicide Squad leaves the audience forming an ARGUS team to combat the alien threat of "Butterflies", Season 2 continues the building the team into a close knit group that look out for each other. The latest season sees Chris Smith grow as a person significantly and hence better prepared to face intergalactic threats.

The 11th Street Kids face new challenges as a team that they clear in spades by the end and new players and organizations are drawn into the storyline.

You get to delve into the origins of Chris Smith's family and why they are the way they are currently. Also there are answers to the alien tech that's used in the series including the QUC ( Quantum Unfolding Chamber ). I've created a brand logo and mission for the QUC tech using real life observations as inspirations - it was even liked on Instagram by everyone's favorite Terminator - T1000 or Robert Patrick who plays Peacemaker's dad in this series.

The ending of the series season 2 was a disappointment for me as well as several other James Gunn fans whom I refer to as Gunners. But with time, the disappointment faded with help from Gunn's interviews about the same on an interview mashup between ScreenRant and New Rockstars.

New Cast and Existing Cast Character Development

Having saved the known world in season 1 with his merry band of misfits or the 11th Street Kids as they call themselves, the team is back to facing a threat worse than an alien invasion - getting blacklisted and the resultant dearth of employment.

Emilia Harcourt has taken the brunt of blackballing sponsored by Amanda Waller, with Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) trying to get back on her feet with her own venture and John Economos ( Steve Agee ) is scraping by the skin of his teeth in the newly minted ARGUS headed by none other Rick Flag Sr. baying for the blood of the man who killed his son.

With the episodes progressing, you see Harcourt working out her issues in the most impractical way possible - barfights.

Adrian Chase ( Freddie stroma ) seems to be the only one who is doing the same as before as Chase had the shit job of a bus boy/dishwasher. You get to finally see Robert Patrick in a good light in this series even if it is in a parallel reality.

You get to see his sweet mother for the first time even though he is comically mean to her for no reason whatsoever. Even Adrian undergoes quite the emotional growth curve in this season and it comes as a surprise/shock depending on the person.

Sean Gunn as Max Lorde has an awesome cameo in the very first episode interviewing metahumans for open positions in the currently named "Justice Gang" alongside Nathan Fillion and Isabela Merced as Green Lantern and Hawkgirl respectively. This probably happens before James Gunn's Superman 2025.

Considering Fillion takes on mostly good guy roles and comes across as a nice person off-camera, his acting as a douchey personality is quite impressive.

Coming to the new cast there's comedy heavyweight Tim Meadows playing Langston Fleury who according to James Gunn on the Peacemaker podcast fills the a$$hole void left by Chris Smith quite nicely. Then there's Sol Rodríguez who plays Sasha Bordeaux the ARGUS deputy, looking in real life like she was genetically engineered to better the human species.

Langston Fleury suffers from a weird disorder called bird blindness where he cannot distinguish one bird from another when he sees one. James Gunn clearly explained the origin of this was his dog Uzo who barks at anything shaped like an animal as he was found with way too many dogs in a shelter.

Basically this is supposed to be Uzo's trauma response brought to life on screen. Its also pretty cool to see Meadows play a non-whacky-ish character with serious-ish demeanour.

Frank Grillo's performance as Rick Flag Sr. is flawless although I am curious about his hair choice and am hoping it was a decision by the makeup and hair department and not his own.

As with any James Gunn production Michael Rooker makes an appearance in this series as well - looking like Willie Nelson's brother but racist, intolerant and slightly evil. He's brought in as an expert to take down Eagly.

John Economos saved as EconoGOAT on Chris Smith's phone steps up with newly minted cojones against his better judgement every time, also with the help of his already messed up mind, and tech genius. "You're living in the worst level of Grand Theft Auto" by Steve Agee was one of the best dialogues in the whole season when referring to Leotta's living conditions.

There is a hilarious scene where he meets his new partner on the ARGUS team, Judomaster/RIP Jagger whom he ran over with a truck and smashed him on the head with a tire iron, and understandably screams in horror and disbelief. As two things are ensured - Jagger will surely try to kill or at least harm him and working alongside him will be a constant pain.

Chris Smith's Character Arc in Season 2

John Cena really steps up his acting game in this season 2 undergoing life events that would wreck the average person. But Chris Smith takes it on like a trooper starting with his dead father staring right in the face in an alternate reality that opens up another epic intro sequence by the master - James Gunn.

John Cena really opens up his emotional range on screen while expressing the truth of Chris Smith's feelings which are made more complex by alternate realities that make him relive traumatic life events with new horrific consequences.

You see Cena being torn between the shock of seeing his family some of which never was and experiencing terror at seeing them hurt or killed right in front of his eyes, in circumstances beyond his control.

For a brief period you see Peacemaker being enamoured by the new reality he enters through the QUC. In the new reality Harcourt is in love with him, the people there love him and he has cooler tech and a better father in it.

Using this sudden favorable change he takes down what seems like a terrorist outfit with extraordinary ease. But as the sheen falls away, the smog begins to clear and things are not as peachy as they seem.

As most Gunners will know already the ending of Season 2 sets up the scene for the Man of Tomorrow movie, that sees Luthor and Superman side by side, probably fighting together.

Should You Watch It? Yes!

I think the second season of Peacemaker is excellent, shows a lot of heart and is uber creative with great storytelling, a good cast and with impressive CGI. Watch it now!