Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3 Review - Best Dimension Ever?

Full spoilers travel for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3 - “Another Rick Up My Sleeve.”

In this week’s Peacemaker, James Gunn pulls the rug retired from nether some of us astatine slightest by resurrecting a long-thought-dead character: Rick Flag Jr., Joel Kinnaman’s Special Forces badass who was killed each the mode backmost successful Gunn’s The Suicide Squad movie successful 2021. Killed, of course, by John Cena’s Chris/Peacemaker himself… But you know, alternate dimensions bash person a mode of resurrecting folks! Or ne'er sidesplitting folks successful the archetypal place, or… whatever.

Rick Flag Jr., and Joel Kinnaman, are back. And funny!

We besides larn successful the episode’s opening flashback that Rick Jr. and Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) had a past relationship, and that they were really successful furniture unneurotic the greeting Rick was leaving for his ill-fated ngo successful Corto Maltese. (Gunn, who scripted this full season, adjacent drops a notation to Cara Delevingne’s June, AKA the Enchantress, from the archetypal Suicide Squad movie.)

Of course, it really makes cleanable consciousness to bring Kinnaman back, since a large portion of this play is centered connected his dad, Rick Sr. (Frank Grillo), and his ngo to marque Chris wage for his son’s death. But this crook of events besides means that not lone bash we abruptly person two Rick Flag Jr.s backmost successful the picture, but we besides get a Joel Kinnaman doing carnal drama arsenic alt-Rick, driven into a Mr. Bean-like acceptable of bumbling by Chris visiting alt-Harcourt for luncheon astatine A.R.G.U.S.. I had nary thought the Killing/RoboCop/For All Mankind prima could beryllium truthful comic crashing into trash cans.

As for Chris himself, adjacent arsenic he’s digging deeper and deeper into a spread with a bid of lies arsenic helium embeds himself successful the alternate universe, assuming dead-alt-Chris’ beingness and relationships, helium besides gets to unrecorded the leader beingness of his dearly departed self. From adoring fans to the perks of the occupation (the Peace-Cycle!), things truly travel unneurotic for him with the one-two punch of reuniting with alt-Emilia and past foiling a would-be violent onslaught by the Sons of Liberty. Chris goes portion John McClane/part John Wick/part Terminator connected the terrorists, systematically and mercilessly taking them retired – and redeeming the day. “That guy’s Peacemaker, right?” a section bull says. “But helium ain’t wearing his suit.” Nope, he’s not. And helium doesn’t request it.

After the comparatively uneventful occurrence past week (not including Eagly’s cheer-worthy onslaught connected Tim Meadows’ A.R.G.U.S. goons), “Another Rick Up My Sleeve” truly livens the play up. Peacemaker’s all-out-assault connected the Sons of Liberty is exciting, bloody, and comic – other points spell to the dude who gets an axe successful his caput and lives (ish). And Chris’ amazement astatine really redeeming the time is conscionable terrific. This is so the champion magnitude ever…

We’ll spot however agelong that lasts.

Success!

Thoughts From the Quantum Unfolding Chamber:

• It seems lone Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) – and we, the assemblage – tin spot what mainline beingness Harcourt can’t: She and Chris are a thing.
• Economos (Steve Agee) is successful a spot of trouble, having to spell on with Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodríguez) and her A.R.G.U.S. agents to termination Eagly and seizure Chris. Screw those guys!
• But oh, that besides means that Gunn fave Michael Rooker has entered the representation arsenic the “world’s foremost eagle hunter” Red St. Wild. We’ll spot what helium gets up to adjacent week.
• And hey, astatine slightest Vigilante/Adrian (Freddie Stroma) laundered Economos’ pants for him!
• The kid who loves Peacemaker truthful overmuch that he’s an uncontrollable mess? Yikes.
• Line of the week: “Wait. Wha.. What happened?”