"Peacemaker" season 2 debuted on HBO Max last night (Aug. 21) with a one-episode premiere. It's been about three years since we last saw John Cena's titular antihero on the small screen in season 1, though if you saw "Superman," you also saw a brief Peacemaker cameo. That moment technically marked the character's first involvement in James Gunn's new DC Universe, but his story truly began in earnest last night with the "Peacemaker" season 2 premiere.
Now, while this episode was technically the first "Peacemaker" episode to be canon in Gunn's DCU, it felt like the old "Peacemaker" to me. Yes, we may have a new theme song from Foxy Shazam, replacing Wig Wam's now-iconic "Do Ya Wanna Taste It," and there's a new choreographed dance number to go with it, which show star Steve Agee told me took two days to film. But John Cena was still an irreverent anti-hero who just wants to do good, and the show is still fun as heck to watch.
