{"id":32220,"date":"2025-09-19T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:19:09","slug":"peacemaker-season-2-episode-5-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32220\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for Peacemaker<\/a> Season 2, Episode 5 – \u201cBack to the Suture.\u201d<\/p>\n

We open this week\u2019s episode with another Rick Flag Jr. flashback, albeit one where he\u2019s dead and Jennifer Holland\u2019s Harcourt is attending his wake. It\u2019s a pretty sad affair by the looks of it, and not just because Rick Jr. (Joel Kinnaman) has passed; the place is full of empty chairs and, as Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) says to Harcourt, the people who are in attendance are \u201cassholes who Ricky couldn\u2019t fucking stand.\u201d There but for the grace of God\u2026<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr.<\/p>\n

But the scene is really about Rick Sr. and Harcourt, and the connection that formed between them in the wake of a mutual loved one\u2019s death. There\u2019s a real William Adama\/Starbuck thing going on with these two, but while a strong bond and sense of loyalty were the result of the tragedy those two suffered, in the case of Harcourt and Rick Sr., things are a little less clear-cut. It sure seems as though, by the end of the flashback, Harcourt trusts Rick Sr., and vice versa. Her promise to make the person who killed Rick Jr. pay is legit.<\/p>\n

Which certainly makes things complicated in the here and now as Harcourt is now working with A.R.G.U.S. to snatch John Cena\u2019s Chris\/Peacemaker, who, of course, is Rick Jr.\u2019s killer. Last week, I thought Harcourt might be spending more of this season on the opposite side of the 11th Street Kids, since her career is on the line and Rick Sr. kind of gave her no choice, but right away we learn in \u201cBack to the Suture\u201d that Harcourt tipped off Chris about their meeting. So she\u2019s still trying to help Chris as best she can, which includes her taking him out in a pretty bad-ass manner in order to prevent Bordeaux (Sol Rodr\u00edguez) from shooting him.<\/p>\n

Harcourt also takes out, or rather rips out, Chris\u2019 heart and soul when he asks about her feelings for him.<\/p>\n

She also takes out, or rather rips out, Chris\u2019 heart and soul when he asks about her feelings for him. \u201cI was drunk. I told you. I wish it never fucking happened,\u201d is her response. That\u2019s rough, man, and all the confirmation Chris needs to head over to his Best Dimension Ever<\/a> for\u2026 well, forever.<\/p>\n

Of course, that can\u2019t happen until after Rick Sr. beats the ever-living crap out of Chris back at A.R.G.U.S. headquarters. Economos (Steve Agee) pulls a maneuver that gets Peacemaker out of their custody (leading Tim Meadows\u2019 Fleury to tell him \u201cIt\u2019s good you did that\u201d \u2013 wait, is Fleury actually gonna wind up being a good guy?), which gives Chris the opening he needs to finally flee to the better life that he thinks is awaiting him on the other side of the Quantum Unfolding Chamber. And yes, Eagly goes with him!<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Could Michael Rooker\u2019s Red St. Wild have survived Eagly and friends’ attack?<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I was genuinely worried for Eagly when Michael Rooker\u2019s Red St. Wild killed that other eagle. It wound up being a head fake for sure, as Eagly turned out to be, it would seem, \u201cthe Prime Eagle\u201d that St. Wild has been obsessed with. Not only did Eagly survive, but he called upon all his pals to tear St. Wild apart. (Though don\u2019t be surprised if Gunn rolls out Rooker again before the season ends, even if he\u2019s missing a finger or two.)<\/p>\n

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

\u201cThe send him overseas in the back of a VW Bug with a thousand fucking costumed clowns to fight a giant starfish.\u201dBordeaux is a cyborg. Figures!Freddie Stroma\u2019s Adrian Chase\/Vigilante has been kind of under-served so far this season, but seeing him crying after Peacemaker leaves for the other dimension was pretty sad. Chris is his best bud!The fledgling private investigator business that Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) is trying to get started continues to offer up a chuckle here or there. Good thing Adrian\u2019s around to school her on certain terminology.What\u2019s going on with Rick Sr. and Bordeaux? While Rick has been played as a heavy most of this season, Gunn\u2019s greater DCU has positioned him as a good guy. And you know, he has a genuine gripe with Peacemaker killing his son! It sure seems like Bordeaux is being set up to be a baddie and Rick Sr. is gonna wind up having to turn against her.Yes, that appears to be the same kaiju Superman defeated<\/a> in his debut movie this summer (which hey, is out on HBO Max as of today!). Only in the Best Dimension Ever, it\u2019s the Top Trio that takes the poor thing down.This would also seem to confirm that Lex Luthor exists in the Best Dimension Ever, since he created the kaiju.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 – \u201cBack to the Suture.\u201d We open this week\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-32220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}