Peacemaker-Season 1(?)
So it took me a long ass time but I finally worked my through the 8 episode season. The length of time to finish it wasn't because I disliked it. On the contrary, I enjoyed it a lot but I also couldn't watch it while my kid was at home and/or awake and anyone who has seen the show can figure out why it's not appropriate for a 5 year old.
Anyway, Damn good show, a lot better then I thought it was going to be going into it. Basically a TV spinoff of The Suicide Squad, where a number of characters who survived the film are roped into a low budget(literally so, they drive around in an old van and operate out of an abandoned storefront) Black Op to stop alien body snatching "Butterflies". And while that's the main thrust, there's a lot of drama around the fact that Peacemaker is having a long emotional breakdown/existential crisis over being "The guy who kills for peace" and the fact his entire childhood was just horrible as shit because of his abusive, neo-nazi dad(Robert Patrick, clearly enjoying playing a complete shitbrick). There's also the fact the entire team is a group of misfits who don't really trust each other, which yeah, is a standard team trope, but having them doing this while in the middle a Black Op tends to raise the stakes a bit and leads to them arguing over which fictional characters/real people/celebrities to frame for Peacemakers crimes.
It's an interesting mix of black humor, big world threatening menace, Peacemaker being a heavily armed manchild(He's occasionally called a racist but he seems very equal opportunity in who he guns down....so yay for equality, I guess?) who is also aware that he's not the superhero he wants to be, the cast of weird characters playing off each other, bits of intense yet cartoonish violence at times, and also a weird 80's vibe to it. I don't know what it is about it but it pretty much all works. There's also the constant reminder that despite looking like our universe, it's in the DC universe and people bring up Superman and Wonder Woman as real people and not comic book characters(Also, Bat Mite apparently exists in their universe and yes I had to look up what the hell that was).
By the end of the show, I was convinced this was turning into Suicide Squad: The show due to how many people were apparently dead, but it looks like there's enough of a cast to keep it going. I am looking forward to season 2 if they do one. Also, watch the outtakes the end of the credits. They're worth it.
So it took me a long ass time but I finally worked my through the 8 episode season. The length of time to finish it wasn't because I disliked it. On the contrary, I enjoyed it a lot but I also couldn't watch it while my kid was at home and/or awake and anyone who has seen the show can figure out why it's not appropriate for a 5 year old.
Anyway, Damn good show, a lot better then I thought it was going to be going into it. Basically a TV spinoff of The Suicide Squad, where a number of characters who survived the film are roped into a low budget(literally so, they drive around in an old van and operate out of an abandoned storefront) Black Op to stop alien body snatching "Butterflies". And while that's the main thrust, there's a lot of drama around the fact that Peacemaker is having a long emotional breakdown/existential crisis over being "The guy who kills for peace" and the fact his entire childhood was just horrible as shit because of his abusive, neo-nazi dad(Robert Patrick, clearly enjoying playing a complete shitbrick). There's also the fact the entire team is a group of misfits who don't really trust each other, which yeah, is a standard team trope, but having them doing this while in the middle a Black Op tends to raise the stakes a bit and leads to them arguing over which fictional characters/real people/celebrities to frame for Peacemakers crimes.
It's an interesting mix of black humor, big world threatening menace, Peacemaker being a heavily armed manchild(He's occasionally called a racist but he seems very equal opportunity in who he guns down....so yay for equality, I guess?) who is also aware that he's not the superhero he wants to be, the cast of weird characters playing off each other, bits of intense yet cartoonish violence at times, and also a weird 80's vibe to it. I don't know what it is about it but it pretty much all works. There's also the constant reminder that despite looking like our universe, it's in the DC universe and people bring up Superman and Wonder Woman as real people and not comic book characters(Also, Bat Mite apparently exists in their universe and yes I had to look up what the hell that was).
By the end of the show, I was convinced this was turning into Suicide Squad: The show due to how many people were apparently dead, but it looks like there's enough of a cast to keep it going. I am looking forward to season 2 if they do one. Also, watch the outtakes the end of the credits. They're worth it.
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