Peacemaker (2022)

mland60 May 17, 2025

Peak fiction

Martin Oaks June 17, 2025

★ 8/10

**The Bully is a Hero** Not long ago, I didn't even know who the DC character "Peacemaker" was. When Alan Moore wrote the famous graphic novel "Watchmen", his original intention was to use the Charlton Comics heroes that DC had just acquired, with a pitch titled exactly "Who Killed the Peacemaker?". Since DC didn't let him use those characters to avoid making them unusable for future stories, Moore was forced to create equivalents: that's how "Peacemaker" became the direct inspiration and blueprint for bringing "The Comedian" to life. After introducing John Cena and his costume in "The Suicide Squad" (2021), the great James Gunn decided to keep Christopher Smith's story going in an 8-episode series written during the pandemic. Christopher Smith is forced to join a new black-ops team known as "Project Butterfly". Their mission is to identify and stop parasitic alien creatures that t…

Sejian June 27, 2025

★ 7/10

I don't understand how this show has such a high rating and such high praise. Four episodes in and I gave up and just read the wiki pages for the last four episodes. I feel like both Peacemaker and Harcourt as I watch this; I don't understand why the !@#$ we're here doing any of this because I'm not being told anything, and I don't understand why I'm surrounded by !@#$ing morons. The only part of this story that has any weight to it is Peacemaker's relationship with his father. There's certainly entertainment here, else I wouldn't have sat through four episodes, but it's wrapped up in so much brain-dead garbage that it's like watching Whedon's Josstice League and Snyder's Excessive Justice Cut back-to-back. Holy !@#$. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for it. Why is Adebayo so... clownish? We started the series with Waller trying to guilt trip her into staying on the payroll …

misubisu October 12, 2025

★ 10/10

## **Peacemaker is a Flawless Masterpiece** Let’s be unequivocal: the first two seasons of James Gunn’s *Peacemaker* are not just great television; they are a rare, explosive, and emotionally resonant masterpiece that achieves a perfect 10/10. In a landscape crowded with superhero media, this series is a glorious, blood-soaked, and unexpectedly heartfelt unicorn. It takes a D-list DC villain—a man whose entire personality is built on a ridiculous helmet and a questionable moral compass—and crafts one of the most compelling character arcs in modern fiction. ### The Gunn-verse Unchained If *The Suicide Squad* (2021) let James Gunn off his leash, *Peacemaker* gives him the keys to the entire kingdom. The show is a pure, unfiltered distillation of his sensibilities: a perfect alchemy of crass humour, hyper-violent action, a killer hair-metal soundtrack, and a shocking, genui…