{"id":1963311,"date":"2025-08-16T02:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1963311"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:04:36","slug":"peacemaker-season-2-keeps-killing-it-as-it-makes-us-laugh-cry-and-think-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/peacemaker-season-2-keeps-killing-it-as-it-makes-us-laugh-cry-and-think-review\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACEMAKER Season 2 Keeps Killing It as It Makes Us Laugh, Cry, and Think (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first season of Peacemaker<\/a><\/em> caught me off guard in the best way. Sure, I liked James Gunn\u2019s The Suicide Squad<\/em>, but not as much as most. I also wasn\u2019t sure John Cena\u2019s murderous, goober \u201chero\u201d would work as anything more than a secondary character. The result was I went into season with no expectations, good or bad. By the time the finale ended, Peacemaker<\/em> was easily one of my favorite shows on TV. So unlike its first year, I went into season two with massive expectations. It now had something to live up to, a much higher bar for any show to clear. And in its first five episodes, season two of Peacemaker <\/em>has easily done just that. Peacemaker<\/em> continues to kill it as a wildly entertaining, funny, emotional story with great, complex characters and themes.<\/p>\n

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Peacemaker<\/em>\u2018s second season makes use of DC\u2019s multiverse. Only, it\u2019s not really telling a multiverse story. The show is telling a sliding doors tale, as Cena\u2019s Christopher Smith realizes just how different his life could have been<\/a>. It\u2019s an especially painful realization because, despite saving the world in season one of Peacemaker<\/em>, in season two the world doesn\u2019t care. Peacemaker is still a joke to most<\/a>. The same is true of the other 11th Street Kids, who find themselves all lost or suffering for various reasons.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, as he has proven again and again in his career, Gunn understands what friendship is really all about. It doesn\u2019t end or restart or collapse because a new season starts, and it needs conflict. A lesser filmmaker would have gone that route in Peacemaker <\/em>season two and then had the friends work their way back to each other. But the 11th Street Kids feel authentic because they are still friends who rely on and care about one another. Their bond anchors the show in its second season, which is even more affecting and heartbreaking than its first.<\/p>\n

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