Peacemaker finale recap: 'Full Nelson'
In which James Gunn turns the end of the season — and show? — into a set-up for other DCU stories
My review of the Peacemaker finale, "Full Nelson" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I buy spider milk at Whole Foods...
Alan Sepinwall
When James Gunn took over DC's film and television operation, he talked about lessons he had learned from recent stumbles by both his predecessors at DC and his former colleagues at Marvel Studios, and suggested that audiences didn't want things to feel so connected that they either had to watch everything to keep up, or not watch anything at all. Yet the longer he's been in the job, the more he's talked up using that exact kind of continuity between one project and the next. And for a while, he's been teasing the idea that Peacemaker Season Two would prove to be very important to future DCU projects, and to his Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow in particular.
Yet even with that, I couldn't quite believe just how much of the end of this season — and, apparently, this series — wound up being devoted to the larger DCU project than to Peacemaker itself.
