Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | October 3, 2025
Once again, Peacemaker continues to deliver on the hype that James Gunn and the cast have built for the final three episodes. “Like a Keith in the Night” hits the ground running and only briefly stops the intensity to drop some pitch-perfect character moments that have made this show a fan-favorite, even as opinions have been divided over the front half of Season 2.
Picking up at ARGUS just as Peacemaker (John Cena) unfurls the American flag with a swastika on it, Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) once again dunks on him for being oblivious to what was happening in the “best dimension ever,” which we now know is the Nazi-run Planet X. While Peacemaker offers the plausible explanation that he was too wrapped up in his reality-hopping shenanigans to notice, Harcourt instantly pops that balloon by asking how the dumb idiot missed the giant Hitler mural on the wall. Whoops. However, time for reflection is short as a very angry and confused Tradwife Harcourt demands our heroes’ arrest. The two of them wreck ass before making a madcap escape with Peacemaker’s jetpack.
Meanwhile, Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) is running for her life from Keith (David Denman) and an entire Nazi neighborhood. Keith is called back home by Auggie (Robert Patrick) just as Adebayo hops a fence and tries to swim to safety. In a moment I was hoping would happen, but never would’ve guessed how, Adebayo is saved by Judomaster (Nhut Le), who electrocutes the whole racist lot in a swimming pool, besting a previous record. That’s right, he’s done this before. The two of them escape to an abandoned house where they forge a friendship over “Scrobble” and “Cheet-ohs.”
As Peacemaker and Harcourt flee from the cops on the Peace-cycle, Auggie updates Keith on what he learned from Economos (Steve Agee). Namely, that their Chris is probably dead, and the Peacemaker that’s been acting weird lately is an impostor. Keith says that’s impossible until Auggie drops another bombshell. He once saw his own doppelgänger (the abusive version we know), and he could tell there was something wrong with him, like he came from a much darker world. Considering this is coming from a guy who lives in Nazi-land, the line seems to be played for laughs, but hold on to that thought. More pressingly, Auggie tells Keith they need to get to Peacemaker and Harcourt first because they can’t have anyone finding out about the dimensional portal.
Despite everything going to sh*t around him, Peacemaker is on cloud nine as Harcourt nestles into his back. Their romantic moment is cut short though as police cars box them in. However, that problem is quickly solved by Keith and Auggie blasting every single cop to kingdom come. Auggie tells Peacemaker and Harcourt to come with them if they want to live, but it’s not much of a choice.
With Peacemaker and Harcourt back at Auggie’s house, it’s time to face the music. Peacemaker comes clean about everything, including killing this universe’s Chris in self-defense. He bares his soul and… this Auggie genuinely believes him? He can’t quite put a finger on it, but he has no delusions about his own Chris. He was a violent asshole hooked on drugs.
Keith is apoplectic and can’t believe what he’s hearing. He is fuming with rage, and the situation takes an even bigger swerve. Harcourt calls Auggie a Nazi, and he sets the record straight. He abhors the current government and even chastises Keith for attempting to round up Adebayo. Turns out, he’s a genuinely wholesome dude stuck under a horrible regime, so he does the best he can by fighting monsters, murderers, and mad men so the world is at least a little bit better.
Peacemaker can’t believe what he’s hearing. Maybe this truly is the father he’s always wanted, but that feeling barely gets a moment to last before one of the Vigilantes (Freddie Stroma) comes flying through the window and stabs Auggie to death. A full-on firefight breaks out as Adebayo and Judomaster join the fray, prompting a police response. Just as the gang is about to escape through the portal, Keith slams through the wall and brutally attacks Peacemaker. He’s eventually ripped away by the gang, who go to work on Keith with the stabbing as Peacemaker watches in horror. It’s too much.
Our boy completely breaks inside, and kudos to John Cena for selling the sh*t out of this gut-punch of a scene. He is absolutely melting down at how everything he touches dies. He’s now killed his father and brother in two worlds, and a version of himself. Peacemaker is fully broken and just wants everyone to get the hell out of here. As Ads helps him up, Harcourt hangs back to finish the job with Keith. He’s still hanging in there, and she can’t have him coming after Peacemaker. But before she can fire her gun, the cops burst in as one Vigilante pulls her into the QUC door and another kicks it shut from the other side.
Back on Earth Prime, Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) and ARGUS are locked and loaded outside Vigilante’s house thanks to Lex Luthor’s mustached henchman, Sydney Happersen (Stephen Blackehart), tracking the dimensional rift. But there won’t be much of a fight. Peacemaker tosses Flag the portal device and surrenders. In fact, he tells Flag that the gang entered the portal to bring in him, and Judomaster backs that story. Our bombed-out boy is cuffed and carted away to a cell. Fade to black.
Mike Drops
— So, yeah, I am extremely terrified to see how the Auggie not being a Nazi reveal goes over on our side of the aisle. (The Right has the comprehension skills of a walnut, so their reaction will always be pre-bottled dumb.) I genuinely feel bad for James Gunn, who wrote and shot this season well before the 2024 election. I like to think that character choice would be less rife for potential outrage if it hit during a Kamala Harris administration, but the internet is always going to internet. That said, I do love the Silver Age sci-fi swing. A moral man trapped under a Nazi-ruled America is pure comic book pulp. Not to mention, it adds a staggering amount of nuance and complexity to a show about a guy with a silver toilet bowl on his head.
— Inevitably, the theories will start flying that the Auggies switched places or maybe even the Chrises at a younger age. That could be the case, but I don’t think it will happen because it would rob the potency of the Auggie bomb drop above.
— Is Judomaster rapidly becoming this show’s new MVP? Maybe, just maybe.
See you next week for the finale.
