

Peacemaker Season 2 marks the return of writer-director James Gunn's raucous, foul-mouthed DC series, with John Cena back as Christopher Smith, the deluded but oddly lovable vigilante who believes in peace no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. Arriving on HBO Max in August 2025, the season is the first major television chapter of the newly launched DC Universe that Gunn now oversees.
The new episodes send Chris through a portal into an alternate dimension where the family and life he always wanted seem to exist, a world in which his abusive father and dead brother are alive and celebrated. As Chris is tempted to abandon his own reality, his ragtag 11th Street Kids, including Danielle Brooks' Leota Adebayo, Freddie Stroma's Vigilante, Jennifer Holland's Harcourt and Steve Agee's Economos, grapple with the fallout, joined by Frank Grillo's Rick Flag Sr. The result blends absurd comedy, needle-drop soundtracks and surprisingly tender emotional stakes.
Widely considered a step up from the acclaimed first season, Peacemaker Season 2 earned rave reviews, including a 94 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising Gunn's character work and Cena's performance even as the finale sparked debate. Streaming on HBO Max.
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