This text comprises spoilers for “Peacemaker” season 2, episode 7 — “Like a Keith within the Night time”
Chris Smith’s (John Cena) father, Auggie (Robert Patrick, who gave /Movie an unique interview on enjoying a horrible human being), is a stupendously unhealthy man. In “Peacemaker” season 1, he is a horrible father or mother and an unrepentant white supremacist who leads a neo-Nazi hate group as a supervillain often known as the White Dragon. In season 2, he is reintroduced in an alternate universe as a considerably extra mellow and loving man. Nevertheless, the massive “Peacemaker” season 2, episode 6 reveal that his actuality is the Nazi-controlled Earth-X seemingly throws all that out of the window. For the reason that major universe Auggie was terrible, absolutely the one who’s really a notable superhero in a Nazi world is doubly so?
Because it seems, this is not fairly the case. Maybe the largest shock of “Like a Keith within the Night time” is that the “Blue Dragon” model of Auggie seems to be an incredibly smart and chill dude who merely tries to benefit from the world he is caught residing in. He appears to carry no contempt towards individuals of various ethnicities and chastises his different son Keith (David Denman) for doing so. He loathes being referred to as a Nazi. He is brazenly hostile towards and uncooperative with this world’s corrupt police drive, and is totally prepared to let the eleventh Avenue Youngsters return of their world even after studying that Peacemaker has killed Peacemaker-2.
The Auggie reveal is a real bombshell, particularly as a result of the eternally sluggish on the uptake Peacemaker barely has time to grasp that this model of his father is just not a Nazi earlier than it is too late: The second Auggie relays this info with an enormous speech, Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) turns up and stabs him a number of occasions within the neck.
Peacemaker dropping his household as soon as once more teases large ramifications for the season finale
Vigilante is unaware of Auggie’s true nature and genuinely thinks that the eleventh Avenue Youngsters are in bother, so it is exhausting to carry the state of affairs towards him. Nevertheless, it forces Peacemaker to relive the trauma of dropping his father — in truth, doubly so as a result of he now is aware of for positive that this model of his dad was a significantly higher individual than the one he grew up with.
What’s extra, Peacemaker additionally has to endure seeing his pals brutally assault and injure Keith, who in his personal universe by chance died by his hand once they had been nonetheless younger. The expertise clearly does a quantity on the already unstable Chris, who heartbreakingly begs everybody to cease hurting his brother, and insists that he is the true drawback as a result of his presence retains hurting Keith.
Not many individuals have seen their household die (or practically die, since Keith survives the assault) twice, and Chris is visibly shaken by the expertise. He does appear to grasp that the state of affairs is difficult and that his pals had been that means effectively, since he explicitly protects them on the finish of the episode and shoulders the blame for his interdimensional actions. Nonetheless, the psychological injury the episode’s occasions pile on him is little question immense, and he hasn’t even discovered but that Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) was totally prepared to shoot Keith as a way to shield Chris. It is unlikely that the “Peacemaker” season 2 finale can keep away from addressing all this, and it is scary to suppose what it might do to the budding relationship between Chris and Emilia — two broken individuals who can not seem to assist however maintain much more damage no matter what they do.
“Peacemaker” season 2 is streaming on HBO Max.
