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Critic Reviews
Aug 15, 2025
Season 2 Review:
While this season might not throw your hair back the way Season 1 did, these characters are still a blast to be around, even if it is more of the same. And unless something bizarre happens with the final chapters of Season 2, Peacemaker is shaping up to be another very successful entry in Gunn’s new DCU.
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The TelegraphMar 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Christopher/Peacemaker’s un-PC humour and macho prowess often give way to a surprising soulfulness that’s beautifully played by the former wrestler, and while the swerves from mayhem into pathos are often breakneck, they’re always expertly steered. The same could be said for the show at large, which owes much of its addictiveness to Gunn and his cast’s commitment to keeping their audience off-guard.
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Jan 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There is a lot going on here. Yet the series functions as a sincere character study of its flawed hero — and the unfortunate souls who have to work alongside him — just enough for the joke to never quite wear thin. Even in a wildly oversaturated market for tales of hypermuscular men and women punching their way to justice, Peacemaker stands out.
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The Mercury NewsAug 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Some of the bits don’t fly, such as a character being afflicted with “bird blindness,” a joke that makes a big thud. But getting to hang out with these bad boys and girls as well as one of our favorite sidekicks, the American eagle, Eagly — who faces his own threat — makes you forget about the dents here and there.
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Aug 19, 2025
Season 2 Review:
As good as it is, Peacemaker is still going through growing pains. It's messy and scattershot and occasionally overindulgent at turns, but as we saw with Superman, that's all part and parcel with the new (improved?) Gunn. We can't expect a perfect product when he's left to his own devices — but also, do we really need one?
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Aug 15, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Yet it all works well enough to prove that Gunn is capable of operating within somewhat different tones, even within the same universe. And no matter what the angle, he’s prioritizing comic book fun. Which, after years of dreary muted tones and moody heroes, is a true relief.
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Jan 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Peacemaker” is a good time and there’s so much to appreciate about Cena’s performance because there’s not a lot of movie star vanity getting in the way of things. He’s willing to look like a fool and happily so. You’ll develop a soft spot for Peacemaker because of course you will, that’s the power of good writing meeting a canny performance.
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Jan 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There are times when the jokes seem stuck on repeat mode, but Cena and the terrific ensemble cast are real gamers who sink their teeth into the often absurd material, and we’re happy to ride along with them in their ridiculous undercover van that looks exactly like an undercover van.
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Aug 15, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The cast still has good chemistry. But there’s definitely a tone shift. And it remains to be seen in the concluding episodes whether Peacemaker is fully built to get more serious, or if Gunn would have been better off leaving the series primarily as an outlet for the kind of humor he can’t really put into movies about Superman or Batman.
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Jan 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
For as sharp as Cena’s comic timing generally is, his best moment in these three episodes nevertheless comes when Peacemaker collapses on his shitty bed after an exhausting, embarrassing night and lets his face collapse in self-loathing mewls of pain. And yet: the main reason I might keep up with “Peacemaker” isn’t Peacemaker himself, but an unexpected new member of his team [Danielle Brooks’ Leota Adebayo] who, despite her skeptical coworkers’ insistence otherwise, immediately proves her worth.
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Jan 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Peacemaker will prove an acquired taste for many, if it’s acquired at all. Others will, of course, instantly take to the show’s brand of shock and rawness. ... But the more I pressed on, the more Peacemaker’s shaggy squalor started to endear. Because the performances are fluidly committed to the bit—and because Gunn pushes past the show’s initial burst of puerile provocation to interrogate the forces behind such impulses and inclinations.
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The GuardianJan 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
He’s locked on to a serviceable shtick, even if its pull-my-finger gags worked better alongside an ensemble of equally colorful wackos in film form. At his best, he wears down our grownup defenses and taps into the Mountain-Dew-chugging, loogie-hocking teenage dirtbag laying dormant within all of us.
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Jan 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Peacemaker makes the character more likable, at the cost of making him less interesting. ... For all the show’s feints toward edginess, it colors well within the lines laid out by its predecessors. That’s not entirely to its detriment — it makes Peacemaker a comfort rather than a challenge. Too much familiarity over the course of a season, however, leads to a series that’s easy not to mind watching instead of one that’s hard to quit watching.
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The PlaylistJan 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
So far, many of the superhero shows invading TV (Marvel and DC) have been a be careful what you wish for propositions: want more character and less mindless action? Well, that only works when the characters are multi-dimensional and the writing is top-notch. Argue all you want, about what’s been seen on Disney+ so far (and the less said about the embarrassing DC/The CW, the better), but “Peacemaker” does not make a case for its main character’s existence beyond the big screen, let alone as the front and center lead.
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