The ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Finale Actually Was One

We did it, y’all. We’ve lastly made it to the top of the highway: the Peacemaker season two finale. And boy howdy have we seen rather a lot. Weirdo alternate dimensions that actually aren’t too completely different from our personal. A person affected by face blindness with birds. Mick Jagger being within the Beatles and a world with out the Kardashians. Eagly.

Oh, and Christopher Smith being traumatized by his discovered household killing his politically moderate reverse father and practically killing his reverse brother earlier than making a daring escape again to our dimension, just for him to give up his portal door and his freedom to ARGUS.

And but, in some way, we nonetheless received another episode to tie this already big current of the brand new DC Universe collectively whereas additionally setting the tone for works to observe. No strain. Let’s see how James Gunn caught the touchdown, for outdated occasions’ sake.

Episode eight, “Full Nelson,” kicks off in a approach we’ve all gotten pretty used to by now: with a flashback. One month in the past, to be particular. And whaddaya know, we’re lastly going to know what occurred between Christopher Smith (John Cena) and Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) on that boat that made their situationship so messy.

Whereas being cute over drawings on a restaurant desk, the 2 have a deep dialog about Harcourt being delicate about being considered as any person particular. They then do six pictures apiece, stumble out of the restaurant, shut down a freckled catcaller, have a buzzed stroll on the pier, and get on a ship rock cruise.

Again within the current (dammit!), Chris is inside a jail cell after surrendering to ARGUS, refusing visitation from his pals. Elsewhere, Fleury (Tim Meadows), Harcourt, Judomaster (Nhut Le), and the remainder of ARGUS’ goons are touring Chris’s pocket dimension room of doorways with hazmat fits on, taking photographs as they go. They’re in search of one thing on orders of Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo)—my cash’s on him selfishly in search of his reverse son.

The one downside is that they’ve opened a door to an Alice in Wonderland-looking world the place a bunch of little critters are attacking them and carrying them away to some worse horror, and now they’re caught. Additionally, the critters wish to eat their faces. Fortunately, they get out. All of them aside from “Titties,” the mercenary who hated Fleury’s HR-visitation-worthy jokes. He might be missed.

We minimize to John Economos (Steve Agee) airing out how dumb their mission is and the way ARGUS is working for Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) to Harcourt. Evidently, their mission is to discover a liveable universe like ours. The pair has reservations about how virtuous the mission actually is. However sufficient of that, as a result of Eagly is depressively sitting within the closet over Chris being in jail.

In the meantime, Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) makes a home name to Adrian Chase (Freddie Stroma) to try to hatch a plan to get Chris a lawyer for his court docket trial utilizing Adrian’s blood cash. After having his bail paid, Chris returns house and tells Economos he’s grabbing Eagly and skipping city. Adebayo, Adrian, and Harcourt, justifiably, give Economos shit for simply letting Chris go.

After a montage of portal door mishaps with zombie universes and dystopian hellscapes with large cranium spiders, the ARGUS gang has apparently acquired good information for what Flag Sr. and the remainder of Lex’s cronies are after: Planet Salvation. What’s Planet Salvation, you ask? A dimensional jail for metahumans—eradicating them from our world. A sorta Phantom Zone, if you’ll. Flag Sr. is totally Lex-pilled. No matter occurred between Creature Commandos and now modified that man. Unhappy.

Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodriguez) meets up with Harcourt to inform her Flag Sr.’s plans for a jail planet on the similar restaurant from the beginning of the episode. They then meet up with Adebayo and hatch a plan to save lots of Chris and cease the entire jail planet factor. After a mini montage of plotting, Harcourt finds a ticket from their boat cruise within the mirror of her rest room and has a flashback. After grooving to music (within the flashback), Chris and Harcourt share a protracted, passionate kiss on the boat. Harcourt pulls away, shocked by all of the kissing with the man who killed her previous situationship, leaving Chris heartbroken.

And now we all know what occurred on the boat. That’s two massive mysteries settled—the primary being what’s up with Earth X—and we’ve nonetheless received a little bit over 20 minutes left to go.

Again at ARGUS, Economos, Harcourt, and Bordeaux enact their plan to distract Lex’s henchmen and foil his jail dimension plans. It doesn’t go effectively. Economos is horrible at improvisation. Fortunately, his ranting was sufficient for them to find Chris on the resort the place he’s been staying. All of them bombard Chris earlier than he tries to flee, main Adrian to deal with and taser him. Acquired him. After he involves, they ask Chris why he’s appearing out of character. He says he’s “fucking cursed.”

Killing his brother, Rick Flag Jr. (Joel Kinnaman), and his father, then going to an alternate dimension the place he killed himself and watched his reverse father die broke the person. Adebayo cuts the shit and tells Chris that each time any person dies round him, it’s as a result of he didn’t hearken to himself and acknowledge that mindlessly following orders from his father, Amanda Waller, and his personal dumb curiosity in regards to the different world is what received him on this mess.

She concludes her dressing down of Chris by telling him he’s meant rather a lot to the group, altering them for the higher, and permitting them to witness miracles (like an eagle hugging a human). Everybody echoes this sentiment, particularly Harcourt.

They resolve to lastly cease listening to others and do what they need, beginning with foiling ARGUS and Luthor’s plans. Chris, as soon as once more, asks Harcourt about whether or not the boat meant one thing. She lastly acquiesces, saying, “After all it did, you fucking asshole. It meant all the pieces.” We’ve reached peak emotional catharsis, people.

Chris celebrates in his resort room because the opening theme music performs. We flash ahead and backward per week, throughout which Cunning Shazam sings the opening theme music from the boat, and the crew does a montage of their plan to cease ARGUS. Their plan begins with the group (now together with Bordeaux, Fleury, and Judomaster) establishing “Checkmate,” their newly minted base of operations, utilizing Adrian’s blood cash.

We shut on Chris being black bagged and brought again to ARGUS. There, Flag Sr. sequesters Chris on Planet Salvation to watch the consequences of the dimension on people, for Ricky. The season ends with Chris listening to unusual roaring from a close-by treeline because the digicam pulls away and cuts to black.

Peaceable Peacemaker Pontifications

• Adrian is outwardly a Princess Peach: Showtime gamer in addition to a Pokémon man. Respect.
• John Cena smoking weed can now be checked off of no person’s Bingo card.
• Adebayo lastly settling affairs along with her estranged ex to go off and be James Bond as a substitute of constructing a life in Gotham collectively? Actually, bullet dodged.
•  Fleury and Adrian interacting—and matching one another’s weirdness.
• Eagly hugging Economos.
• Two after-credits sequences for our viewing pleasure after that cliffhanger of an ending.

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