Eagly on Blu-Ray Disc!
I'd love to see a 4K UHD release of this show, but yeah, at this point where we're now at, I'll take a "regular" BD and be happy about it.
Viola Davis in talks to headline a Peacemaker-spinoff for HBO Max, focusing on Amanda Waller:
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/viola-davis-amanda-waller-series-hbo-max-peacemaker-suicide-squad-1235257198/
The barn attack was some rad John Wick-shit. Didn't know Gunn had that in his repertoire.
Also, totally called it (or, credit where it's due, Discord called it), re: the Butterflies' vow to fix the humans' stupid mistakes on planet Earth by any means necessary, similar to Peacemaker’s own vow...
I think this show might be the best thing Gunn has ever done. Part of me wants him to stick to TV going forward -- a perfect format for him; he gets all these extra hours to do character-stuff, and he does not waste a second of it.
I read an interview with Gunn early in the show's run where he...
"I can't pee when clothes are touching my butt!!"
I thought it was hilarious that, despite the advanced suit, his dad still had to follow around some idiot with an iPad.
Loved the doctor and nurses at the vet clinic and the dude that gave Judomaster the thumbs-up after he beat the shit outta...
So, absolute confirmation Murn is a good bug-person. So what the fuck was Judomaster talking about? Kind of curious to see what that's going to be about. Because any version of Actually, the Butterflies Are Good! seems very likely to be both nonsensical and unsatisfying.
There was a theory on...
Perfect Carpenter-style abrupt ending. The Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home" piano-cover. Robert Patrick as Nazi Boomer Eraserhead™. Peacemaker's thinly-veiled shitting on Ezra Miller's Flash.
It's a testament to Gunn's work with even the B-characters that when Sophie was taken over by the...
"Gender-Swapped Alfred E. Neuman."
Loved it when the raid on Peacemaker's trailer basically turned into Assassin's Creed, complete with branch-leaping and a badass attack-bird. And that bug-attack/White Dragon-montage. Especially the creepy/funny shot of all the police practicing their smiles.
As great as Cena is on this show, Freddie Stroma as Vigilante might just end up being the series MVP in the end, here:
"Hey, look, I'll go first. I'm grateful that Black people gave us rock-and-roll music. Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, .38 Special, all those guys owe everything to Black American folk...
Highlights from the first three episodes: "Joe Blaggadoshioscio," Robert Patrick's upside-down flag, Peacemaker buying into far-right conspiracy theories about Aquaman, the entire Louis C.K.-conversation, the Berenstain Bears, the exploding shotgun-headshot, Vigilante being Gunn lampooning...
I think they use Vigilante perfectly here (I like him even better than the Arrowverse-version). He’s genuinely stupid and polite, which makes the fact that he’s an unrepentant killer much more fucked-up. I also got a good laugh from the hair-metal cover of "Pumped Up Kicks" at the end of episode...
This show may be the Gunniest Gunn to ever Gunn. If these opening credits don't do it for you, then damn, Jed, I don't even wanna know you:
I'm liking it a lot so far. Cena's really good here, as he was in The Suicide Squad. And I might have stuck with the show just for the blonde on the team...