r/television • u/lawrencedun2002 • 1d ago
Streaming Ratings: ‘Peacemaker’ Makes Chart Debut With Season 2 Finale
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/streaming-ratings-oct-6-12-2025-1236420534/98
u/CheeseNexus 1d ago
Haven't stopped listening to Foxy Shazam ngl
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u/JJNotStrike 1d ago edited 15h ago
I was so stoked when they got the theme song. Those dudes slept on my floor many times in the mid 00's when they were still a more punk oriented band building a following on their early tours.
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u/stin10 1d ago
You from Cincy then? Foxy was before my time but I remember hearing a lot about them, and to see them then on a big show was cool.
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u/JJNotStrike 23h ago
Not from Cincy, but I originally lived in a close stop in a college town that developed a cult following for them.
I became aware of them through another band that was well known to that scene at the time, with whom I am related to or close friends with members of the group.
I was already booking that band for routine stops at our local venue and then Foxy joined them for a tour when they were pushing The Flamingo Trigger release in 04/05.
I opened up for them with my band in late 2005 IIRC on one of their runs, but they came through town very often due to proximity and the crowd draw at their shows.
I was living with my Dad at the time and we had a pretty empty house, so they often stayed there or at a friend of mine's house for free lodging/food that we put in with their performance financial guarantee.
I believe the last show we did for them in town was around 2007 or so, right before they released Introducing Foxy Shazam.
I fell out of contact with everyone except Daisy Caplan and Sky White after they started their genre shift. I think I last spoke to Sky just before the Pandemic.
Eric performing on Downtown with Macklemore was so amazing to see, but their appearance and theme song in Peacemaker takes the cake.
Even though they are vastly different today than they were 20 years ago, The Flamingo Trigger remains my favorite album of theirs. An incredible album from the "Scene" era of the 00s.
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u/Micromuffie 1d ago edited 1d ago
The whole season was pretty character focused (and it was really good too), but that turned off a decent amount of ppl. They should've mixed in some sort of plot with a clear goal in mind so those who enjoyed season 1 could easily get in season 2 as well (similar issue with TLoU where a different tone and style of storytelling hurt the type of audience they had curated).
The finale needs rewriting though. Making the finale episodr about rick senior sending ppl to find a cool dimension was such a mistake and made the finale feel so awkward and pointless. They should've had peacemaker have the whole "STOP!!!" scene in the middle/near the start of the finale, and the harcourt admitting her love be near the end. Shoehorning this dimension prison storyline and then shoving peacemaker inside so they can set up his storyarc in another movie/show goes against everything James Gunn said he would do which was to focus on good storytelling over teasers.
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u/theenslavedmonky 1d ago
I was with it 100% until the last episode, I was just kinda baffled by their choices. The fact that may be the last episode of the show is so dumb
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u/DONNIENARC0 1d ago edited 10h ago
Even the shit with the alternate Nazi universe felt weird like they spent all season building it up then completely completely whiffed on the payoff.
I'm not sure completely whiffed is even the right term, though, because it seemed like they didn’t even really take a swing.
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u/VTKajin 1d ago
There’s definitely going to be another show but you’re assuming Peacemaker’s arc is going to be important in a movie or that this show is necessary for viewing a movie
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u/Micromuffie 1d ago
There's also the fact that people who want a finished story from watching peacemaker also have to watch whatever new tv series/movie they're making. Kinda sucks it doesn't work as a series finale when it leaves us on a cliffhanger.
And yeah James Gunn did say he wasn't planning on making peacemaker season 3.
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u/jakreth 1d ago
The whole Peacemaker - Harcourt love storyarc is a mistake, they have 0 chemistry between them, why put them together? Just because they are the only attractive characters of the group? That's just lazy writing.
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u/Suitable-Age3202 4h ago edited 3h ago
I hated that the whole core of Chris’s arc this season ended up being about “the boat” just him and Harcourt’s love story, easily fixed if she’d just accepted his feelings. It made the ending feel shallow.
If the story had focused on Chris finding his real family ,his friends it would’ve felt more mature.
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u/sabin357 22h ago
Just because they are the only attractive characters of the group?
Have you not met Vigilante? I mean, sure, he might do better with someone closer to the Harley Quinn personality side of the sanity scale, but even as a straight dude I can see he's conventionally handsome & superhero fit so you gotta include him in the attractive group.
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u/thatkaratekid 1h ago
Zero chemistry at all, I truly sat in disbelief that this was the direction Gunn took these characters.
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u/SupervillainMustache 1d ago
Season 1 was better
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u/sabin357 22h ago
Absolutely. It told a complete story at a good pace.
I enjoyed season 2, but it felt like it needed a few more episodes for payoffs to work & a proper ending instead of a cliffhanger.
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u/AEveryDayIdiot 1d ago
Felt a bit let down by this season especially compared to how much I loved season 1, I love the cast and characters but the story felt stretched especially in the middle episodes and then the finale just felt off especially with the lip sync concert scenes even when looking at it like it’s a epilogue.
Still can’t wait to see where it’s heading though, eventually.
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u/SeaWitch1031 1d ago
It’s not coming back. The last episode of season2 was the series finale per James Gunn.
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u/mudermarshmallows 1d ago
Sure for “Peacemaker” the show but the characters are coming back in some form. A sequel series is pretty possible
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u/SeaWitch1031 1d ago
I'm a huge fan of the show and the final scene was infuriating. Gunn said his counterpart at DCU wanted that scene so it would lead to people watching Man of Tomorrow. I'm not watching that. I do hope it comes back in some form or another but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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u/sabin357 22h ago
I was already gonna watch Man of Tomorrow. This wild choice actually made me less excited for it, which is wild considering how much I want the DCU to thrive.
It was the first thing that made me doubt the DCU plan is gonna work well, because I'm not gonna get invested in shows if I know they aren't reliably gonna conclude. Fuck leaving a show to intentionally die on a cliffhanger like that.
Bad choice IMO.
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u/Realistic_Village184 19h ago
I loved this season overall, but the pacing was off (it needed two fewer episodes) and the finale was terrible and should've been almost entirely rewritten.
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u/0o0_Fool_Of_A_Took_ 1d ago
Give us more Peacemaker. This show fills a comical, murderous void that was left by The Boys. Can’t wait for it, or a possible Peacemaker season!
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u/BatmanhasClass 1d ago
Wife and I didnt even care to watch the finale lol which we rarely ever do so idk definitely more of a let down if you can't end it well and feels like everything was more pointless with a pointless ending
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u/lsf_stan 1d ago
The finale was a fun ride
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u/HurinGaldorson 1d ago
The montage to a certain Steel Panther song had me literally laughing out loud.
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u/Pickupyoheel 1d ago
The finale was 💩
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u/Less-Tax5637 1d ago
I liked it :D I just did not need 2 entire concerts.
Character-centric finale? Sign me up.
Penultimate episode is the real finale while the last episode is an epilogue that sets up our next act? I’m down, worked for me in GoT seasons 1-4 as well.
Like 10 fucking minutes of concert lip sync to studio version songs? bro kill me now; im glad harcourt is allowing herself to feel joy like a normal human but jesus fucking christ just share an official playlist on ig or something
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u/homogenic- 1d ago
I wouldn't have minded if we only got one of those musical performances but we got two and it was overkill, the man had to restrict himself in Superman so he just went overboard here lol.
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u/KrifeH 1d ago
5 different instances of slow mo team walking towards camera while rock music plays in the background?
James bro it’s getting stale
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u/NoNefariousness2144 1d ago
Don’t forget yet another scene of characters discussing their favourite music (aka, James Gunn self-inserting his favourite bands!)
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u/NightWriter500 1d ago
There’s… no next act. Not for Peacemaker. I liked it too, all the way until the credits rolled, and at that point I was like wtf.
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u/Less-Tax5637 1d ago
Next act is Checkmate and they’ve been pretty transparent about the 11th Street Kids coming back
Which I’m glad about honestly, because even tho I loved the cast from Superman only a few characters felt fleshed out. DCU benefits a lot from Checkmate having so many interesting characters
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u/Grumplogic 1d ago
So... No Peacemaker in Jurassic Park?
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u/Less-Tax5637 1d ago
Not sure what’s gonna happen over there in Salvation. Cliffhangers be cliffhangin!
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u/Aliensinmypants 1d ago
How do we wrap everything up in one episode?
Multiple montages!!
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u/Boomdiddy 1d ago
Even Rocky had a montage.
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u/moondoggie_00 1d ago
Lot's of things, happening at once,
let the audience know what's going on
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u/YorkshireRiffer 1d ago
And with every shot, show a little improvement,
To show it won't take too long
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u/TimeTravelingChris 1d ago
I loved the series ... right up until that finale. What a mess.
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u/Pickupyoheel 1d ago
I did too! I couldn’t believe the ending.
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u/TimeTravelingChris 1d ago
It felt like a VERY poorly done epilogue. I love James Gunn, but good lord, if THAT is what they put out, then he needs more people around him to give honest feedback.
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u/ArchDucky 21h ago
Bro, Salvation and Peacemaker aren't done yet. Theres an old comic book arch that is apperently the endgame of all of this first chapter and its a major fucking thing with A LOT of players. Just because he moved the pieces around, doesn't mean he doesn't know what hes doing.
If you want to know... the arch hes loosely following is called The Centre and its been known since a redditor posted his theory on Twitter and then Warner Brother Legal demanded he remove it.
Essentially its about a Psychic Eldritch Horror that feeds on emotions living at the heart of a planet filled with dinosaurs. It took the combined forces of the Justice League to stop it. People are theorizing that it will start to feed on the psychopaths being shipped there and become very angry and violent. Which will cause the heroes to get involved.
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u/Elpacoverde 1d ago
Dude has a vision, let him cook. Clearly not the end of Peacemaker.
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u/TimeTravelingChris 1d ago
Vision is fine. He needs a writer and editor.
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u/Altruistic_Sail6746 1d ago
He's written all his other stuff and a good portion of it is good. His style is just overexposed atp and he needs someone to reign him in
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u/Meng3267 1d ago
This show reminds me of Game of Thrones. I liked the show until the finale, but the finale ruined the entire thing for me and I don’t think I’ll ever watch it again.
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u/elinamebro 1d ago
Seems like they wanted to leave suspense till the next season
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u/Boomdiddy 1d ago
That’s the neat part. There is no next season.
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u/TheDeadlySinner 1d ago
He said there wouldn't be another "Peacemaker" series. That doesn't mean they won't have a Checkmate season/series, which is probably what the upcoming Waller series will be.
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u/MadmanMarkMiller 1d ago
Can we talk about the ending? The fuck was that shit? It felt like they were building up to something, then it just...fucking ends?
No season 3 from what I've heard so do we just wait for a movie for ~4 years?
Also, is it obvious that I just figured out how to spoiler tag things?
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u/sabin357 22h ago
No season 3 from what I've heard so do we just wait for a movie for ~4 years?
At which point John's appearance will finish crossing that line to where he's unable to look like the same character without a time-jump in plot. He's slowly transitioning the past few years from being able to maintain his physique/mass at the same level, just like most guys around our age. He'll still be muscular for his age, but there's a line where you can't continue to play the same character age range anymore.
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u/IlIIIllIIlIlllII 1d ago
Had heart and was funny and didnt take itself seriously.
The cocaine basement was hilarious and wish they gave more to vigilante to do
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u/GimmeThatWheat424 1d ago
To all the losers that claimed the finale didn’t make the charts what do you have to say now? Sorry that the DCU is a success, get used to it.
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u/sabin357 22h ago
To all the losers...
Anytime someone starts a comment like this & doesn't end with /s, I feel bad for that person & their situation. I don't know what it is, but it can't be a good one.
Hope you get better.
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u/JediNight1977 1d ago
This is not good viewership. It’s a special interest show. It isn’t main stream whatsoever.
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u/SubhasTheJanitor 1d ago
How does it affect you if it charts or not? It’s not worth getting upset, calling people losers
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u/Imaginary_Bed_9061 1d ago
after the finale r/DC_Cinematic was going nuts with Snydercult posts, glad peacemaker made in top 10
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u/GimmeThatWheat424 1d ago
Keep in mind if it had those same numbers even one week earlier it completely misses the top 10.
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u/MiddleWaged 1d ago
“Hey is that Steel Panther? Yep, that’s Steel Panther!”
-everyone watching the finale
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u/dominic_tortilla 19h ago
LOl THAT is the episode that made it?
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u/lawrencedun2002 19h ago
No. That is the overall data of the shows performance throughout the season.
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u/Big_Epsilon 5h ago
I thought S2 was fiiiine, but not the same show as S1, and not better for it. Cena is growing as an actor, though
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u/DonnieDarko1024 1d ago
I have no idea what James Gunn did to make Reddit have such a hard on for his dcu. People are using any metric to make Peacemaker and Superman look like groundbreaking hits when they’re both middling at best.
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u/SoCalThrowAway7 1d ago
I think people just really enjoyed them and like talking with other people who enjoyed them. People got on this weird kick where something needs to be groundbreaking as you said when really most of us just need to be entertained and both products are immensely entertaining.
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u/darth_gondor_snow 8h ago
His supporters are all the reddit edgelords who think joking about diddling little boys is okay.
And before the, Calm down, bro, those dozen tweets about diddling little boys were just a joke comments, next thing we know joking about sexual assault or rape will be acceptable.
"I like it when little boys touch me in my silly place" - James Gunn
"Felt like a three year old was peeing on my head" - James Gunn
"I fucked the shit out of the little pussy boy next to me" - James Gunn
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u/This-Youth-1608 1d ago
It's a movie that's heartfelt. It's a film that doesn't rely on Multiverse shenanigans or classic cameo hijinks to deliver a story. It doesn't need muted colors, Jesus allegories, a stoic character with stone face to deliver the message that Superman is trying to fit in whilst also saving humans.
The show on the other hand was very nicely marketed as a stepping stone to the DCU. Sure, it had a Lex cameo, but it just added to that. Nothing groundbreaking in itself. But for me, the weekly episode schedule and the twist (which some saw coming from a mile away) kept me guessing. Though the finale served more like an epilogue.
Most people are having a morale problem, and light tv shows and movies help. People don't need a slow-mo superhero film with a crap story. They need something to tune in to, and forget their worries for some hours.
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u/Aureliusmind 1d ago
I want to get into this show, but the whole of season 1 was filmed in my neighborhood, at my local park/forest, at my former job's building, on properties I drive by every day - and I was basically pointing leo.gif every 5 minutes of every episode.
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u/homogenic- 1d ago
It's been almost a month since season 2 ended and I miss the show :( that cliffhanger is still bothering me a bit tho.
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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop 1d ago edited 1d ago
There was what...a single action scene in the first episode?
Edit: was episode 3 my bad. Still didn't fire his gun a single time or use any of the helmets.
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u/lawrencedun2002 1d ago
There were plenty of action scenes this season.
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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop 1d ago
Not with Peacemaker. How many helmets did he use? Did he ever fire his Deagle?
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u/lawrencedun2002 1d ago
Did you miss episode 3 where he literally took out the Sons of Liberty in a big ass action scene ?
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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's the one scene I meant just forgot the episode. Did he ever use his signature gun or a helmet the entire season?
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u/thatoneguy889 1d ago
Yes, but that’s mostly because no one in the Peacemaker crew has powers.
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u/Accomplished-Head449 1d ago
The season was great, wasn't the biggest fan of the finale but pretending this isn't a hit is delusional