Peacemaker Episode 4 Review: A Terrible Atmosphere Is Building Peace at Any Cost
Director: James Gunn
Cast: John Cena, Freddie Stroma, Chukwudi Iwuji
Streaming Platform: HBO Max (click to watch)
Filmyhype Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Peacemaker Episode 4 Review: After a trilogy of episodes of Peacemaker, which premiered last week on HBO Max, the fourth has arrived to prove that the formula would work. If you watch, you’ll see that the idea remains ridiculous, but with a heart so huge that it makes things even more trivial in an event worth watching. Following this, we see the characters confronting, internally and among themselves, the events that took place. Being the most intimate of the episodes so far, you get to see what hides behind all the brash and madness that each one represents on screen. Adebayo deals with having shot someone for the first time, our protagonist has to deal with the fact that his father has been arrested in his place and rethinks his relationship with his own family, Harcourt and Economos see their actions resulting in more problems for the team and even the Vigilante gains a certain prominence here.
Peacemaker Episode 4: The Story
The episode begins with the protagonist’s team returning to the base after managing to finish off their target, his family of butterflies, in addition to taking the Judoka Master (Nhut Le) prisoner, but it doesn’t take long until everyone starts pointing fingers in the face. each other to find someone to blame for what went wrong. And the mistakes were many: Chris/Peacemaker (John Cena) let the Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) be tortured, Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) didn’t pull the trigger when he should have and Economos (Steve Agee) simply sent the “hero’s” father to jail without even bothering to warn him about it, which leaves the team’s morale pretty shaken. Chris’ father is one of the highlights of the episode, and as that famous narrator would say, a terrible atmosphere is created around the character.
Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), white supremacist who used to act as the supervillain White Dragon in the past, shows once again why he is the true villain of the series by making it very clear that he hates him to the last hair and that he is ashamed of him, making sure you deliver it and your entire team as soon as you get the chance just because. This is exactly what Clemson Mourne (Chuk Iwuji) didn’t want and feeling the pressure coming from all sides to show what he’s capable of, Adebayo shows his darkest side, stirring up the Vigilante to kill him and make his ” best friend” no longer suffer from having the worst father in the world. Are you feeling the snowball forming?
Adrian Chase/Vigilante is also a big highlight in this episode, delivering the funniest dialogue and making the kind of “lovable psychopath” that’s hard to hate. He’s willing to do anything to make his “friend” feel good, including letting himself be arrested for a chance to kill his own racist, misogynist, murderous father. And we hate the White Dragon so much that we even hope he succeeds, even though we know it would destroy the Peacemaker’s (fragile) heart.
Peacemaker Episode 4 Review and Analysis
Between a joke and a joke there, this is a necessary dip to care more about these characters. Not that the first three episodes didn’t do this job, but it’s something that sets the plot up to go even further. Leaving the Suicide Squad a little more, the show seems to be entering its own environment and opening up options for unimaginable things. Of course, unless you think like James Gunn, who wrote all this insanely brilliant.
However, don’t think that Peacemaker episode 4 is full of strong emotions and deep enough reflections to take away from the humorous characterization it carries. The dialogues continue to be full of grace, as well as the reactions and ideas. One of the scenes with the Vigilante, for example, made me gasp with laughter at how crazy it looked. I’m beginning to think that they haven’t even scratched the surface of what they intend to deliver, leaving me with great expectations for its end.
It’s been a long time since I watched something with a rhythm as harmonious as this production, which even in the midst of the atrocities we had, didn’t let the shuttlecock fall and demonstrated that this is no longer a story of a degenerate who will redeem himself and become a big hero. Not the Guardians of the Galaxy, for example. Chris is a guy who has reached adulthood thinking in a certain way and it won’t be the events here that will change that. Still, they added layers that are being worked on and are able to distinguish it from what they showed in the movie version.
And speaking of atrocities, I don’t know which is worse, James Gunn having thought and written a lot of them or DC Comics having approved of it having ended up on screen. In the last week came the information that the executives of Warner did not want a certain dialogue about Batman, which I now understand the reason, because it puts in check even the most ardent fan of the hero when defending him. With a movie of his coming up, thinking how Chris can become a big joke instead of something more mature like the trailers showed to the audience.
I truly believe that they will not stop there. The DC Universe is gigantic and the fact that the “butterflies” are not terrestrial opens up ample room for them to joke about the cosmic core as well. Let’s face it, the publisher has a very large repertoire of aliens on planet Earth, such as Superman himself, Martian Manhunter and several others. Even the Green Lantern, despite being human, has the origin of his powers in space. Do you think the Peacemaker will spare all this? I do not.
Peacemaker Episode 4 Review: The Last Words
Perhaps this is the episode that works best within the series, showing that so far there has been no “filer” chapter, all have their importance within the season. With an ending that leaves a huge expectation and curiosity for what lies ahead, Peacemaker has exceeded expectations, at least mine, which I expected very little from the series. With a slightly slower pace, this new episode manages to calm the mood to develop its protagonist, and still manages to take the plot forward, not wasting time, working in an organic way.
