Peacemaker Episode 8 Review: Its Cow or Never

Still, well-executed action sequences are all fine and dandy, but this finale doesn’t truly land without a believable emotional core at its center. Thankfully, Peacemaker is able to pull that off as well. Many times this season the show has lost sight of what makes Peacemaker, Peacemaker – an intractable force with “proto-fascist libertarian ideas of freedom” as Adebayo later puts it. His characterization started to become more coherent last week thanks to the flashback of his brother, Keith’s death. This week, however, brings it all into crystal focus.

While initially they just felt like another James Gunn monster creation, the butterflies have been the ideal Peacemaker villain this whole time, albeit in secret. There’s something perversely paternalistic about wanting peace at all costs, no matter how many people have to die to achieve it. Ideologically, Peacemaker’s goals are fascistic in that they require a strong individual to kill all the world’s assholes to keep the peace. Well, lo’ and behold, it turns out the butterflies want pretty much exactly the same thing.

Having observed how humanity seems destined for climatological, cultural, and political ruin just like in their home world, the butterflies decided to step up and be the human race’s Bug Mommies and Bug Daddies. The pre-Rick Flag Peacemaker of The Suicide Squad probably would have been easily convinced to go along with this. This iteration of Peacemaker does not. Because he has friends who would get caught in the crossfire.

A little corny? Sure. But sometimes corny is correct. All the best laid ideological plans of mice and men often go awry when they meet one other person those plans will negatively affect. And thanks to John Cena’s inherent charm, the show is able to pull it off.

That’s not to say that Peacemaker ends this season as a more cuddly superhero. A pair of unbelievable DC cameos sees to that. Having Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra Miller’s Flash stop by (along with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman’s noticeably obscured silhouettes) to confirm that Arthur Curry really does fuck fish is a masterstroke of fan service and the perfect cherry to put on this profane sundae.  

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