Trying to define what kind of show Peacemaker is makes for an nigh impossible task. Peacemaker is at one time a show that is funny, sad, stupid, tragic.
Or to put it in the language of the show, "You can't put Peacemaker in a motherfuckin' box!"
The iconic opening credit sequence with the absurd dance number suggests a broad satire.
Then over the course of the series, characters in that dance number die.
Going into the 8th and final episode of the season, I wondered how many of them would still be alive when all this was over.
Show creator and writer James Gunn is not known for playing by the rules and so no one should expect to be safe just because they're in the opening credits dance number.
The final battle of Peacemaker and his team against the alien butterflies and their cow is epic, bloody, profane, obscene and so on and so on and so on.
Much to my surprise, the season ends on a rather hopeful note with more people alive that I anticipated.
I just knew Harcourt, Economos and Chase were going to die but although they got hurt real bad, they do survive even as Harcourt has to undergo grueling physical therapy to walk again.
Leota Adebayo make amends with Peacemaker and then puts the screws to her mom Amanda Waller by exposing Project Butterfly, Task Force X, and Waller's role in both to the press, clearing Peacemaker's name. Leota started off the series so uncertain of herself but she now knows what she is capable of and is a force not to be fucked with.
Peacemaker killed his racist and abusive father Auggie last episode but is hanging around a ghost haunting Peacemaker's psyche.
Peacemaker has been renewed for a 2nd season with James Gunn at the helm.
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This past Sunday, I watched the series finale of Justified.
Here is some of what I wrote on this blog on November 10, 2020 after I watched my first episode of Justified.
"Timothy Olyphant portrays Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal with a laconic, tough demeanor. Givens is a throwback to an earlier era, a dispenser of 19th-century-style, Old West justice. It is a style that makes him a pain in the ass to his superiors in U.S. Marshals Service... Reassigned to the Eastern District of Kentucky Marshal's Office based in Lexington and Givens is not all that happy about the move as it sends him back to Harlan County where Raylan grew up and hoped to hell he would never have to go back.
Givens immediately has work to do, running to ground one Boyd Crowder, a former acquaintance of Raylan's youth and now a local criminal."
From day one of Given's reluctant return to Harlan County, Kentucky, it was a matter of destiny that the interaction between the US Marshall and his would be criminal mastermind adversary would end in tragedy and blood shed.
Surprisingly, there is less death than anticipated. Despite putting herself in the crosshairs of Boyd Crowder, crime boss Avery Markham and the entire US Marshal Service AND the FBI, Ava Crowder survives the end of the series.
I just knew Boyd was going to end his criminal career bleeding out on the cold hard ground after being shot by Raylan Givens. Nope, Raylan has a chance to put a bullet in him but arrests him instead. Well, they did dig coal together when they were younger men and that's gotta count for something.
I knew Raylan would be OK since Timothy Olyphant is bringing back the character for a sequel series but I was a little worried when Markham's hired gun Boon actually gets the drop on Raylan. Thankfully, it's just a head wound that was hindered by Raylan's hat.
Boon and Markham do die so there's that.
So I'm done with Justified after a year and half and I'm not sure what I'm going to do without my Timothy Olyphant fix.
I should point out that my interest in watching Justified began with The Good Place and Judge Hydrogen's obsession with watching this show and Olyphant's guest appearance as a hybrid version of himself and of his Raylan Givens character.
When some things end, other things begin. Next week, the Touchbase looks at the debut of the new season of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the debut of the return of the original Law & Order.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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