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4 on Peacemaker 2x06 Review - The Secret's OutEpisode 6 of Peacemaker season 2 has some big moments. To talk about the episode in its fullness, we'll need to spoil those. We'll keep the big spoilers in the second half of the review and put in a warning just in case you want to nope out before the bit stuff. This review will definitely…
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No one is ever going to look at Peacemaker and think these characters are mentally healthy. But this week a few different characters are trying to do murders as a way of entertaining or satisfying themselves. But not Vigilante. He doesn't murder prostitutes because "their lives are hard enough already." This review may contain some spoilers…
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The manga Doraemon, which ran from 1969 to 1996, is about an earless robotic cat from the 22nd century who has a device called the "Anywhere Door" that can open a portal to wherever the user imagines. Anyway, that's what Peacemaker has. This review may contain some spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 4. This…
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Navigating a parallel dimension is a true minefield. Most of the stuff is the same, but some stuff changed. And a lot of it is so subtle that there's no way to know about it. What if Looney Tunes was Looney Toons, or the Kardashians never got famous? People will constantly think you're crazy, but…
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Many of the crimes and legal situations that come up in comic books have a real-world equivalent. But Peacemaker might've found an exception at the end of last week's episode. How do you prosecute someone who killed themselves in self-defense? Chris isn't in trouble for killing his other-world counterpart, but that fight is something he's…
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When we last checked in with Peacemaker, a.k.a. Chris Smith, and the 11th Street Kids, they'd just saved the world from a quiet alien invasion, after which point Adebayo outed her mother, Amanda Waller, and Task Force X. Six months later, we're reminded that saving the world is not a high-paying position, and that even…
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Terence Stamp, best known for his roles in The Limey and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, as well as villains like General Zod in the Superman films, has passed away at the age of 87. Stamp was born in London on July 22, 1938, and spent the first years of his life enduring Nazi Germany's bombing campaign of the United…
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In the cultural consciousness, Superman is a perfect being. A perfectly muscled god who is above making mistakes and has the right answer for every situation. That makes for a great freeze-frame, but it makes for a pretty dull character. James Gunn's take on Superman reaches back to the simpler days of Richard Donner and…
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Gene Hackman, best known for his roles in films like The French Connection and Unforgiven, and of course as the first Lex Luthor to hit the silver screen in 1977's Superman, has passed away at age 95. No cause of death has been announced as of yet, but he was found in his Santa Fe,…
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Harley Quinn Season 4 struggled to catch my interest in part because the show kept looking for ways to separate Harley, Ivy, and all of the other main characters. They'd developed such strong relationships between all of these characters and then asked the difficult question "what if we did nothing with that?" While there was…
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The Arrowverse is officially over. It technically ended with The Flash last year, but Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch as Superman & Lois were a leftover from all of that, even if the network said that their characters weren't connected to the Arrowverse. So now, with the end of Superman & Lois, it's over. It mostly sucked, but…
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Arrowverse, we'll miss you. Born on October 10, 2012, the CW series of connected shows finally left us on December 2, 2024, just over 12 years later. Technically, it's the unofficial end. Things really ended with The Flash in May 2023. But despite the CW's insistence that Superman & Lois is not part of the…
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We're on the cusp of a new DC Universe. It doesn't start with Superman, Wonder Woman, or even Batman, though, and it isn't starting with a feature film--though all of that will surely come. Instead, it begins with an animated series following the misadventures of another one of Amanda Waller's ill-fated Task Forces. Mercifully, this…
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Something often missing from comics are consequences. The stories often have world, universe, or multiverse-wide consequences, so the writers have to end with the heroes winning most of the time. Comic companies don't randomly kill off bankable characters, either. As a result, it can feel like nothing changes. Superman & Lois, especially this final season,…
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Superman & Lois is really, really good. It's a step above almost everything in the Arrowverse, and really belongs somewhere where it can have a higher profile. If it wasn't enough that we love the show, here's a testimony from a guy who knows a thing or two about writing Superman: Superman and Lois has…
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Superman is a notoriously difficult character to write because it's so easy to come up with problems he solves with punches and speed, and so challenging to find interesting problems that resist those methods. And often, even those ideas are handled with the grace of a monthly 1990s comic book. Somehow, Superman & Lois is…
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This episode is a real rager, by which I mean there are two full sequences dedicated to adult men throwing fits. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 06, "When the Lights Come On." "When the Lights Come On" Superman looks at the people of Earth and says, I want to be one of you, so…
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We're gonna spoil this episode like crazy so if you want to go in cold, read this afterward. Spoilers follow for The Penguin Season 1, Episode 8, "A Great or Little Thing." "A Great or Little Thing" The Penguin is a truly charismatic character. This version of him moreso than perhaps any other. Tim Burton took…
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Can you make a character truly irredeemable? Penguin takes us way, way back, and asks us to answer that question. Spoilers follow for The Penguin Season 1, Episode 7, "Top Hat." "Top Hat" Oz Cobb is charming. He's so charming that it makes some people suspicious, and even then, those people are charmed by him all…
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Lois makes some big plays to try to shake Lex Luthor out of his single-minded focus on destroying her life. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 05, "Break the Cycle." "Break the Cycle" If last week's episode felt overly full and weirdly timed, this episode feels sparse by comparison, and almost intimate. Summing it…
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