Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 6 Review - Everything, Finally, Happens

Full spoilers travel for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 6 - “Ignorance Is Chris.”

Nazi planet.

The net called it a fewer weeks back, and now, arsenic we participate the last agelong of the season, we yet person confirmation that John Cena’s Peacemaker’s blessed place, his Best Dimension Ever, is really a satellite of Nazis. Or astatine the precise slightest a state of Nazis. They adjacent person a Nazi American flag!

But that’s not each that happens successful “Ignorance Is Chris,” which, aft a reasonably slow-moving season, yet shifts into precocious cogwheel successful its past 10 minutes, with each of its main characters facing a melodramatic and unsafe turn. Let’s commencement with the buzziest.

Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult)

Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. had made a woody with the devil present that A.R.G.U.S. is, arsenic helium puts it, “partners with Lex Luthor.” Yes, Nicholas Hoult pops implicit from this past summer’s Superman agelong capable to hook Rick Sr. up with a mode to hint Peacemaker’s dimensional portal. We figured thing large was happening this week since HBO didn’t marque beforehand screeners of this occurrence disposable for critics, not to notation that James Gunn (who wrote and directed this segment) is doing interviews for “Ignorance Is Chris” arsenic good (more connected that this play aft we speech to him).

Is it conscionable maine oregon does Hoult play Lex present a small colder, a small much serious, a small scarier than helium did successful Superman? Maybe it’s conscionable the much big attack Peacemaker arsenic a amusement affords its characters (amid their silliness), oregon possibly it’s a effect of Lex’s bitterness after, from his perspective, his trying to prevention the satellite from “the metahuman blight” and was alternatively thrown into Belle Reve for beingness (or 265 years, whichever comes first) to unrecorded among the super-people whom helium hates.

The happening is, contempt each of Rick Sr.’s speech astir not wanting to woody with different dimensional rift similar what went down successful Superman, it’s go progressively wide that helium has a bigger docket beyond that, and present helium confirms to Lex that helium has “another idea” for what to bash erstwhile helium finds Chris’ tech. What is that idea? Start placing your bets now, but immoderate it turns retired to be, the country betwixt Hoult and Grillo is nicely played, adjacent arsenic it further drives location that Rick Sr. isn’t truly the villain of this play arsenic overmuch arsenic he’s operating successful that morally grey country that tin pb to bully radical making atrocious decisions.

So past who is the existent villain of this season? Well, I conjecture it’s the Nazi planet. While Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), upon landing successful this dimension, instantly noticed what Chris did not – the deficiency of radical of colour – Danielle Brooks’ Ads is of people the 1 who is targeted arsenic soon arsenic she steps extracurricular of the Nazi Smith house. Things commencement slowly, with a pistillate driving by and staring, but soon capable the vicinity devolves into an Invasion of the Body Snatchers concern arsenic they’re chasing her down the street. That includes Keith (David Denman), Chris’ member who, similar Robert Patrick’s alternate magnitude Auggie, has seemed similar a beauteous lovable feline up until this point. But past he’s yelling “One got out! A black!” Weird however a beauteous lovable feline tin crook retired to beryllium a monster.

Keith Smith (David Denman) and the Best Dimension Ever's existent quality revealed.

This large uncover – though Gunn must’ve known we’d each fig it retired earlier present – is cross-cut with the remainder of the 11th Street Kids uncovering themselves successful assorted degrees of trouble. Steve Agee’s Economos, arsenic a effect of the beauteous dumb program to conscionable bent astir the Smith location and anticipation Chris comes home, of people runs into Auggie, not Chris. The Blue Dragon whitethorn beryllium aged now, but he’s inactive fast, and helium easy takes Economos down earlier putting a leaf done his hand, causing Economos to spill his guts connected each small item astir Chris Prime… who of people killed Auggie’s Chris.

Adrian (Freddie Stroma), yet backmost successful his Vigilante suit, has his imagination travel existent and meets the alt-Adrian. And they are so an nonstop match, which of people leads to tons of Gunn weirdness and yuck-yucks… until alt-Adrian lets escaped that helium hates Peacemaker. And that’s wherefore helium joined the Sons of Liberty even!

The Sons of Liberty, of course, was the violent enactment that tried to stroke up a gathering backmost successful Episode 3 earlier Chris enactment a lethal (and rather exciting) halt to them. Fans were speculating astatine the time, and I’d stake you dollars to donuts that they were close connected this 1 arsenic well, that the Sons are really state fighters successful the Nazi dimension. Which, among different things, means that Chris didn’t conscionable termination his alt-self, but besides a clump of do-gooders successful this satellite too. Worst Dimension Ever.

The 11th Street Kids are astir to get into immoderate existent trouble.

And past there’s Chris and Harcourt. Not lone does Chris find that Nazi emblem successful the extremity – surely a deflating infinitesimal for immoderate leader and patriot, fto unsocial 1 who thought helium had recovered the cleanable beingness successful this satellite – but the concern with him and Harcourt and the different Harcourt are each coming to a boil. And betwixt Chris and our Harcourt, things are mode complicated. Like this complicated:

It’s different truly bully country successful an occurrence with a bunch, and rather a feat erstwhile 1 considers not conscionable however Cena’s Peacemaker started retired backmost successful The Suicide Squad, but besides the affectional gymnastics that the histrion and Holland are doing here.

And that’s before alt-Harcourt has Harcourt Prime arrested…

Thoughts From the Quantum Unfolding Chamber:

• Funny that Lex hasn’t adjacent heard of Peacemaker.
• Was Lex permanently injured by Krypto’s onslaught successful Superman, hence the cane? Or is helium inactive healing? Will this pb to the powerfulness suit that’s already been teased by Gunn for Man of Tomorrow?
• Where’s Judomaster? He jumped implicit to the magnitude past occurrence arsenic good (unless he’s inactive wandering astir the Quantum Unfolding Chamber). Then again, the Nazi satellite astir apt isn’t excessively welcoming to him either…
• So successful the preview for adjacent week’s episode, who’s the captive who Lex referred Rick Sr. to?
• And what is Rick Sr.’s existent plan? Could it beryllium that he’s conscionable trying to spot his lad erstwhile again, adjacent if it's an alternate magnitude mentation of him? That would surely necktie into the themes of the play nicely.