Peacemaker on HBOMax: Cena and Hair Bands and Eagly OH MY

also i like how Emilia is head to toe in black like a tiny Emma Peel

"... tender, nice touching...

lmao Vigilante is so weird i love him

these shows always need at least one real comic relief full-on psychopath

".... Taylor Swift sexy butt?"

Haha that was one of the only Vigilante jokes that felt too US sitcom basic and clunky for me

ridiculously-costumed John Cena weeping bitterly as he prays to God to spare his beloved pet eagle was honestly just such a hell of a fuckin vibe

I wondered whether the earlier episode discussion about what kind of organisms the butterflies can use as hosts might be foreshadowing that Eagly is like a possessed entity being used to cynically pep Peacemaker up for a given end but its honestly way better and funnier if it's just an eagle that loves John Cena and hugs him spontaneously

s2 is a go

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

new item added to my bucketlist:
get John Cena to carry ME around like i’m a giant baby

what a great finale

what a majestic stupid funny gross perfect fucking tv show omg

and this song fooled me completely, took it for last-gasp 1990 hairband its from fkn 2009
hats of to whoever they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIMwhFhyIg

ahhhh its a Nikki Sixx cowrite that explains it. i wasnt completely off my game

Wrap up interview

https://www.vulture.com/article/james-gunn-peacemaker-finale-interview.html

wrapped up pretty well if not spectacularly imo, surely leaves the door open for more fun times.
i really wanted to believe he didn't dye his beard

that speech was so good

Do you really taste it?
-#peacemaker #kadusdraws @JohnCena pic.twitter.com/H0JSTsKG5i

— kadusaurus 🦕 (@kadusaurus) February 9, 2022

Bailed after episode 2, my wife wasn't feeling it, it might be too dumb and not funny enough. The house style is fine in small doses, but the pacing gets old pretty quickly (ie, stop the action for a banal conversation that goes on longer than would be conventional, and would ideally be funnier). I get why people like it though, it's fun and all.

tbh it improves a lot more once Vigilante is fully integrated into the show

Disagree, I think if the first two eps aren't your bag the show's not your bag

Yeah, the pilot was incredible and the tone doesn't really change after that, it just adds layers of emotion while still delivering absurdity and hyperviolence (and rawk).

Vigilante def helped though I liked it from the getgo.

i would get why people DON'T like it, my partner loathes it. Except for the opening. And the fact that I watch it with obvious glee. But it is very much a cilantro show

I need to watch this. I remember the character from the old Charlton days.

lol, there was a nice easter egg in the last episode when a news conference was being broadcast on Charlton News

That's a nice nod. It's remarkable what fertile ground those comics have been. The characters in Watchmen were all based on Charlton characters. They provided a platform for Steve Ditko, and I still remember first encountering a very young John Byrne in their series Doomsday +1 and Space:1999.

... "cilantro show"?

meaning some people will love it and others will think it tastes like soap, metaphorically

If I could somehow summon the powers of a real life #Peacemaker I think this would be a great time to do so.

— John Cena (@JohnCena) February 24, 2022

o_O

uh

NGL though I wouldn't mind if the last words V Putin ever heard on earth were "activate human torpedo"

Uh indeed

God bless him and all but Cena is a deeply weird guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maL6gq6qME

I haven't been following the thread because I've been taking my time and am only on episode 7 and in fact (correctly) figured that even though it might not be her thing my wife would enjoy it so started the series from the beginning, but ... man, it's so key that Gunn writes every episode himself, keeps the through-line of the vision intact.

this is pretty great

No kidding, we shot the actual opening in a school auditorium not so different from that. #Peacemaker https://t.co/S9IsLv8ReU

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 26, 2022

Apparently Season 2 has begun filming!!

:D

I need this