{"id":165592,"date":"2025-08-22T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165592\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:09","slug":"full-frontal-orgy-launches-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165592\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-Frontal Orgy Launches Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: <\/strong>This story discusses major plot developments in Season 2, Episode 1 of \u201cPeacemaker<\/a>,\u201d currently streaming on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen James Gunn<\/a>\u2018s \u201cPeacemaker\u201d premiered in 2022, the spin-off series for his 2021 feature film \u201cThe Suicide Squad\u201d stood apart with its blue-collar, human-scaled, TV-MA-rated lens on a superhero story. The first season followed the titular lead, aka Christopher Smith (John Cena<\/a>), as he transformed from an emotionally stunted, morally flexible killing machine into a complex hero filled with remorse for his past bad deeds. Along the way, the show deployed prolific profanity and extravagant blood and gore, but more to the point, it approached its characters not as high-achieving heroes but as struggling fuck-ups barely scraping by in the armpit of society.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Season 2, \u201cPeacemaker\u201d turns the volume up even further on the adult content, with easily the most full-frontal nudity ever assembled in a live-action DC comics adaptation.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo get to this point, however, Peacemaker spends most of the Season 2 premiere stuck in a depression \u2014\u00a0over accidentally killing his brother when they were kids, over deliberately killing his (virulently racist white supremacist) father, Auggie (Robert Patrick), in the Season 1 finale \u2014 and over the ridicule he endures from the Justice Gang in the Season 2 premiere during his interview to join their ranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want to be a joke anymore, Ads,\u201d Chris tells his friend Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), as she drops him off for the interview. \u201cThis is all I\u2019ve ever wanted, you know \u2014 to be a real hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGiven that Chris, Adebayo and their friends saved the world from an alien invasion at the end of Season 1, Adebayo thinks Chris has the job in the bag. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be doing backflips to get you to join,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead, Justice Gang founder Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn) and members Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) and Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion) \u2014 who first appeared in Gunn\u2019s July blockbuster \u201cSuperman\u201d \u2014 immediately begin mocking Chris during the interview and ignoring most of what he has to say. Green Lantern cracks that one of Chris\u2019 talents is \u201cblowing dudes\u201d; Lord says outright that Chris \u201csucks.\u201d They think, because they\u2019re behind soundproof glass, that Chris can\u2019t hear them, but their microphones pick up everything they\u2019re saying. Chris storms out of the interview before it\u2019s even over.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cApparently one of my skills is sucking dick,\u201d he says to Adebayo back in the car in a rage. \u201cThat\u2019s not a put down, that\u2019s a fucking compliment!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChris is finally sent over the edge after he visits Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) after her interview with the NSA, which they both know was a lost cause since she\u2019s been blacklisted from every intelligence agency in the U.S. by ex-A.R.G.U.S. head Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) in retaliation for Adebayo (who is Waller\u2019s daughter) spilling Waller\u2019s secrets to the world. A few nights earlier, Chris and Harcourt hooked up on a party boat, and Chris is keen to explore the relationship further. Harcourt is not.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was fine,\u201d she says with a scowl. \u201cIt happened. Whatever. But it was also a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeeply hurt and rudderless, Chris fires up a bong when he gets home, then does a line of cocaine. In a single cut, Chris\u2019 drug binge transforms into a sex party; his home is filled with naked women and men dancing, kissing, and shagging in all combinations. Boobs and dicks undulate with wild abandon on bodies of every shape and color, underlining \u201cPeacemaker\u201d as a comic book adaptation far more interested in messy reality than physical perfection.<\/p>\n

\n\tChris, the only person still fully clothed, tries to enjoy himself, briefly enjoying attention from a male and female partier. But he\u2019s just too sad and too numb. He winds up staggering back to his bedroom, where he opens the portal to his late father\u2019s quantum unfolding storage area hidden inside a dimensional nodule.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s at this point that the plot that will fuel the rest of the season kicks into gear. When Chris opens the dimensional portal, it pings an alarm at A.R.G.U.S., which has been on high alert since the events of \u201cSuperman,\u201d the climax of which involves Lex Luthor creating a dimensional rift that literally splits Metropolis in half.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore importantly for Chris, with Waller on the outs, A.R.G.U.S. is now run by Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo), a character who first appeared in animated form in DC Studios\u2019 \u201cCreature Commandos\u201d in late 2024, and again in small supporting role in \u201cSuperman.\u201d He\u2019s also the father of Rick Flag Jr. (Joel Kinnaman), the character Chris murdered at the end of Gunn\u2019s 2021 feature film \u201cThe Suicide Squad,\u201d and it seems Rick Sr. has developed a particular interest in Peacemaker\u2019s activities. <\/p>\n

\n\t(Technically, the new DC Universe doesn\u2019t include \u201cThe Suicide Squad,\u201d which was made under a different regime at DC Films, well before Gunn and Peter Safran took over and rebooted the DCU. Gunn has even said explicitly that the DCU starts with \u201cCreature Commandos\u201d; but since \u201cPeacemaker\u201d is a spin-off of \u201cThe Suicide Squad,\u201d and \u201cPeacemaker\u201d is now part of the DCU, it seems Gunn is fine with selectively bringing parts of \u201cThe Suicide Squad\u201d into the DCU. The wildest example of this meta-narrative convolution comes during the Season 1 recap that plays at the start of the episode. In the Season 1 finale, the Justice League from the 2017 movie shows up after Peacemaker and his friends have already saved the day. Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa even briefly reprise their respective roles as the Flash and Aquaman \u2014 alongside silhouettes of Henry Cavill\u2019s Superman and Gal Gadot\u2019s Wonder Woman. For the Season 1 recap, however, Gunn reshot this sequence, replacing the Justice League with the Justice Gang from \u201cSuperman,\u201d with Merced and Fillion stepping in for Miller and Momoa \u2014 alongside silhouettes of David Corenswet\u2019s Superman, Edi Gathegi\u2019s Mister Terrific, and Milly Alcock\u2019s Supergirl. This kind of cavalier retconning may cause hardcore canon-heads to have an aneurysm, but, c\u2019mon: that\u2019s funny!)<\/p>\n

\n\tAnyway! Chris is fixated on his father\u2019s dimensional portal for a good reason: Six months earlier, he stumbled upon a doorway in there to an alternate universe where his father was still alive and Peacemaker was considered a hero. Now, at rock bottom, Chris staggers back through that doorway and makes an even bigger discovery: His older brother, Kevin (David Denman), is also alive in this dimension. Kevin and Auggie, mistaking Chris for their dimension\u2019s Chris, sit down with him for a drink and begin to reminisce. Chris learns they all fight crime together, and the world loves them for it. Auggie isn\u2019t a cruel, withholding bigot, but a stable and loving parent.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they go to bed, Chris finds his way into his counterpart\u2019s bedroom, where he finds a framed photo of Other Chris with that universe\u2019s Harcourt \u2014 and they look very much in love. At that moment, Other Chris, dressed as Peacemaker, finds Chris, and immediately attempts to kill him. Chris tries to escape into the quantum storage area, but Other Chris follows, and beats Chris within an inch of his life. At the last moment, when it looks like Chris is ready to give up and die, he instead activates Other Chris\u2019 jet pack, and Other Chris thrown into a spike in the ceiling and impaled, killing him.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis fateful moment will most certainly inform the rest of the season, as the show tackles incisive questions about identity and fate and the road not traveled. Hopefully, there will also be time to explain what happened to all of Chris\u2019 naked partiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 2, Episode 1 of \u201cPeacemaker,\u201d currently streaming on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,956,5234,58723,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-165592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-james-gunn","10":"tag-john-cena","11":"tag-peacemaker","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070589043825380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}