Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 Review

Full spoilers travel for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 - “Back to the Suture.”

We unfastened this week’s occurrence with different Rick Flag Jr. flashback, albeit 1 wherever he’s dormant and Jennifer Holland’s Harcourt is attending his wake. It’s a beauteous bittersweet matter by the looks of it, and not conscionable due to the fact that Rick Jr. (Joel Kinnaman) has passed; the spot is afloat of bare chairs and, arsenic Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) says to Harcourt, the radical who are successful attendance are “assholes who Ricky couldn’t fucking stand.” There but for the grace of God…

Frank Grillo arsenic Rick Flag Sr.

But the country is truly astir Rick Sr. and Harcourt, and the transportation that formed betwixt them successful the aftermath of a communal loved one’s death. There’s a existent William Adama/Starbuck happening going connected with these two, but portion a beardown enslaved and consciousness of loyalty were the effect of the calamity those 2 suffered, successful the lawsuit of Harcourt and Rick Sr., things are a small little clear-cut. It definite seems arsenic though, by the extremity of the flashback, Harcourt trusts Rick Sr., and vice versa. Her committedness to marque the idiosyncratic who killed Rick Jr. wage is legit.

Which surely makes things analyzable successful the present and present arsenic Harcourt is present moving with A.R.G.U.S. to snatch John Cena’s Chris/Peacemaker, who, of course, is Rick Jr.’s killer. Last week, I thought Harcourt mightiness beryllium spending much of this play connected the other broadside of the 11th Street Kids, since her vocation is connected the enactment and Rick Sr. benignant of gave her nary choice, but close distant we larn successful “Back to the Suture” that Harcourt tipped disconnected Chris astir their meeting. So she’s inactive trying to assistance Chris arsenic champion she can, which includes her taking him retired successful a beauteous bad-ass mode successful bid to forestall Bordeaux (Sol Rodríguez) from shooting him.

She besides takes out, oregon alternatively rips out, Chris’ bosom and psyche erstwhile helium asks astir her feelings for him. “I was drunk. I told you. I privation it ne'er fucking happened,” is her response. That’s rough, man, and each the confirmation Chris needs to caput implicit to his Best Dimension Ever for… well, forever.

Of course, that can’t hap until aft Rick Sr. beats the ever-living crap retired of Chris backmost astatine A.R.G.U.S. headquarters. Economos (Steve Agee) pulls a maneuver that gets Peacemaker retired of their custody (leading Tim Meadows’ Fleury to archer him “It’s bully you did that” – wait, is Fleury really gonna upwind up being a bully guy?), which gives Chris the opening helium needs to yet fly to the amended beingness that helium thinks is awaiting him connected the different broadside of the Quantum Unfolding Chamber. And yes, Eagly goes with him!

Could Michael Rooker’s Red St. Wild person survived Eagly and friends' attack?

Speaking of which, I was genuinely disquieted for Eagly erstwhile Michael Rooker’s Red St. Wild killed that different eagle. It coiled up being a caput fake for sure, arsenic Eagly turned retired to be, it would seem, “the Prime Eagle” that St. Wild has been obsessed with. Not lone did Eagly survive, but helium called upon each his pals to teardrop St. Wild apart. (Though don’t beryllium amazed if Gunn rolls retired Rooker again earlier the play ends, adjacent if he’s missing a digit oregon two.)

Thoughts From the Quantum Unfolding Chamber:

• “The nonstop him overseas successful the backmost of a VW Bug with a 1000 fucking costumed clowns to combat a elephantine starfish.”
• Bordeaux is simply a cyborg. Figures!
• Freddie Stroma’s Adrian Chase/Vigilante has been benignant of under-served truthful acold this season, but seeing him crying aft Peacemaker leaves for the different magnitude was beauteous sad. Chris is his champion bud!
• The fledgling backstage researcher concern that Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) is trying to get started continues to connection up a chuckle present oregon there. Good happening Adrian’s astir to schoolhouse her connected definite terminology.
• What’s going connected with Rick Sr. and Bordeaux? While Rick has been played arsenic a dense astir of this season, Gunn’s greater DCU has positioned him arsenic a bully guy. And you know, helium has a genuine gripe with Peacemaker sidesplitting his son! It definite seems similar Bordeaux is being acceptable up to beryllium a baddie and Rick Sr. is gonna upwind up having to crook against her.
• Yes, that appears to beryllium the aforesaid kaiju Superman defeated successful his debut movie this summertime (which hey, is retired connected HBO Max arsenic of today!). Only successful the Best Dimension Ever, it’s the Top Trio that takes the mediocre happening down.
• This would besides look to corroborate that Lex Luthor exists successful the Best Dimension Ever, since helium created the kaiju.