We did it, y’all. We’ve finally made it to the end of the road: the Peacemaker season two finale. And boy howdy have we seen a lot. Weirdo alternate dimensions that honestly aren’t too different from our own. A man suffering from face blindness with birds. Mick Jagger being in the Beatles and a world without the Kardashians. Eagly.
Oh, and Christopher Smith being traumatized by his found family killing his politically moderate reverse father and nearly killing his reverse brother before making a daring escape back to our dimension, only for him to surrender his portal door and his freedom to ARGUS.
And yet, somehow, we still got one more episode to tie this already huge present of the new DC Universe together while also setting the tone for works to follow. No pressure. Let’s see how James Gunn stuck the landing, for old times’ sake.
Episode eight, “Full Nelson,” kicks off in a way we’ve all gotten fairly used to by now: with a flashback. One month ago, to be specific. And whaddaya know, we’re finally going to know what happened between Christopher Smith (John Cena) and Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) on that boat that made their situationship so messy.
While being cute over drawings on a restaurant table, the two have a deep conversation about Harcourt being sensitive about being viewed as somebody special. They then do six shots apiece, stumble out of the restaurant, shut down a freckled catcaller, have a buzzed walk on the pier, and get on a boat rock cruise.
Back in the present (dammit!), Chris is inside a prison cell after surrendering to ARGUS, refusing visitation from his friends. Elsewhere, Fleury (Tim Meadows), Harcourt, Judomaster (Nhut Le), and the rest of ARGUS’ goons are touring Chris’s pocket dimension room of doors with hazmat suits on, taking photos as they go. They’re looking for something on orders of Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo)—my money’s on him selfishly looking for his reverse son.
The only problem is that they’ve opened a door to an Alice in Wonderland-looking world where a bunch of little critters are attacking them and carrying them away to some worse horror, and now they’re stuck. Also, the critters want to eat their faces. Thankfully, they get out. All of them except for “Titties,” the mercenary who hated Fleury’s HR-visitation-worthy jokes. He will be missed.
We cut to John Economos (Steve Agee) airing out how dumb their mission is and how ARGUS is working for Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) to Harcourt. Evidently, their mission is to find a habitable universe like ours. The pair has reservations about how virtuous the mission truly is. But enough of that, because Eagly is depressively sitting in the closet over Chris being in jail.
Meanwhile, Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) makes a house call to Adrian Chase (Freddie Stroma) to try and hatch a plan to get Chris a lawyer for his court trial using Adrian’s blood money. After having his bail paid, Chris returns home and tells Economos he’s grabbing Eagly and skipping town. Adebayo, Adrian, and Harcourt, justifiably, give Economos shit for just letting Chris go.
After a montage of portal door mishaps with zombie universes and dystopian hellscapes with giant skull spiders, the ARGUS gang has apparently acquired good data for what Flag Sr. and the rest of Lex’s cronies are after: Planet Salvation. What is Planet Salvation, you ask? A dimensional prison for metahumans—removing them from our world. A sorta Phantom Zone, if you will. Flag Sr. is completely Lex-pilled. Whatever happened between Creature Commandos and now changed that guy. Sad.
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