{"id":138054,"date":"2025-09-12T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:24:04","slug":"peacemaker-season-2-episode-4-review-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138054\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 4 Review – ‘It’s Complicated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for Peacemaker<\/a> Season 2, Episode 4 – \u201cNeed I Say Door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peacemaker\u2019s fourth episode takes a break from Chris\u2019 newfound favorite dimension so that he can deal with some brewing trouble on the homefront, specifically regarding A.R.G.U.S. being all on his tip. It\u2019s another week for John Cena to drill down on what makes his DC character tick, even while the pieces are being put in place for a clash between him and one of his closest allies.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>John Cena’s Peacemaker is having a rough day.<\/p>\n

But things start off with a flashback to 35 years ago, where we find Auggie (Robert Patrick) and his young sons Chris and Keith hunting in the woods. Auggie takes a shot, and for a moment it sounds like maybe he hit a bird\u2026 that\u2019s the sound of a bird cawing, right? But no, we soon see that it\u2019s actually some kind of alien or other-dimensional being, and it\u2019s suffering. But Auggie, monster that he is, shoots the creature dead despite its shrieking pleas for mercy \u2013 and Keith begging him not to shoot. It\u2019s actually a horrific scene, and a reminder of the kind of environment that Peacemaker<\/a> was raised in.<\/p>\n

Now, considering the popular theory going around right now that Chris\u2019 \u201cbest dimension ever\u201d is going to turn out to be a white-supremacist realm<\/a>, you have to wonder if this flashback is from the world of Prime Chris or alt-Chris… or both, maybe?<\/p>\n

You have to wonder if this flashback is from the world of Prime Chris or alt-Chris… or both, maybe?<\/p>\n

In any case, it also serves to show us how Auggie first discovered the Quantum Unfolding Chamber (QUC), and maybe the helmet and armor tech behind White Dragon and Peacemaker\u2019s costumed identities as well. In any case, after witnessing that murder, it\u2019s all blood tech.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just the prologue, though, and the bulk of the episode is about Chris and Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) working to outsmart Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodr\u00edguez) and her A.R.G.U.S. goons (with some help\/non-help from A.R.G.U.S. goon himself Steve Agee\u2019s Economos). It\u2019s funny when Chris lays down in his bed, only to notice the bullet holes in his ceiling\u2026 and that his whole place has been trashed from the fight Eagly had with those A.R.G.U.S. agents (Mexicali, Ponyboy, Titties, and Encino Man, for those who are keeping track) a couple of episodes back.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Danielle Brooks and John Cena<\/p>\n

So while A.R.G.U.S. is trying to break the code to the closet door that hides the QUC, Chris and Adebayo head to the family cabin in the woods with the weird spacey briefcase thing that the alien in that prologue left behind after its untimely passing. It\u2019s the key to the interdimensional portal, of course, which leads to a fun fight scene between Chris and \u201cRip Jagger\u201d\/Judomaster (Nhut Le) and, shortly thereafter, a dramatic boom in those aforementioned woods. But more importantly, the whole episode gives Chris the chance to come clean to Adebayo about what\u2019s been going on in the alt-dimension. She\u2019s trying to give him some good advice \u2013 \u201cnone of it\u2019s real\u201d \u2013 but he\u2019s not hearing it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) is more desperate than ever after Frank Grillo\u2019s Rick Flag Sr. confirms to her that her career is kaput thanks to Amanda Waller. The scenes between these two are sort of tense and certainly well played, as they of course have a past relationship and a lost loved one in common (Joel Kinnaman\u2019s Rick Jr.), but also there\u2019s more going on beneath the surface, which is proven out by episode\u2019s end when Harcourt has no choice but to join Rick Sr.\u2019s mission to bring in Peacemaker. The question is, is Harcourt playing Rick Sr. the way Rick Sr. just played her?<\/p>\n

Thoughts From the Quantum Unfolding Chamber:<\/p>\n

Mmmmm, eagle droppings\u2026So while one part of Peacemaker and White Dragon\u2019s origin has been revealed here, the question of the helmets appears to be another matter. It\u2019s \u201ccomplicated\u201d according to Chris.Man, they really nailed the mullets in the flashbacks on this show, didn\u2019t they?”What the fuck is a tagent?”Bordeaux is getting paid to deal with Economos\u2019 shit!Rick Flag Sr.\u2019s broken back? That\u2019s a Creature Commandos reference<\/a>!\"\"<\/a>A.R.G.U.S.’s best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 4 – \u201cNeed I Say Door.\u201d Peacemaker\u2019s fourth episode takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-138054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}