And God knows I've had some rough fuckin' years.

Peacemaker S2 — 2.5/5

Apparently I have only had a better habit of writing consistent reviews for just the past couple of years, because it looks like I did not review season 1. Here goes: it was fun. 

Season 2 is also fun, but lesser. Both seasons are kind of the best and worst of James Gunn — a certain casual lack of effort (or is it effortlessness?) to the set-up, lazy crude jokes, weaponizing needle drops to effectively and immediately communicate 'we're having fun', and surprising emotional depths plumbed from stupid, stupid characters. (Writing that out, I think he's the closest filmmaker equivalent we have to Garth Ennis, the comics writer.) This season's successes ride on John Cena managing to carry emotion surprisingly well, contrasting the buffoon we've mostly known so far. But also this season seemed like it would rather focus on Harcourt, who's whole thing is being emotionally unavailable, so, y'know, not necessarily the best person to place our emotional goodwill. So it just becomes light fun with the occasional touching on something interesting, laddering up to a final episode that does not at all put all the pieces together. I'm halfway through a rewatch of GotG v3 and I think it's obvious that Gunn has a soft spot for the side characters, but then gets sidetracked by the side characters to the side characters.