Peacemaker Season 1 (2022) Trailer Review

I really enjoyed The Suicide Squad and I also really liked John Cena's performance as Peacemaker. Now early next year he is set to get his own series and a pretty lengthy trailer was released last night and I watched it and here are the things that I have taken from it. 

Will be mostly set after The Suicide Squad 

There were rumours that this show would take place before the events of the film to show how Peacemaker ended up working for Amanda Waller and we still might get some of that. But this trailer confirms through some dialogue that it takes place after The Suicide Squad and how he moves on from the events in that film. 

Peacemaker has daddy issues

A heavy theme of the trailer is the relationship between Peacemaker and his father played by Robert Patrick. They are both bad people but you can see Peacemaker wanting to get his approval and how it affects him as a person, this might go down a generic route but I hope they pull out something a bit more interesting. 

Peacemaker is questioning his code

In The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker is the most ruthless of the characters willing to kill anybody for his mission. But here you see that he is wavering in his methods, he is struggling with his morality and whether innocents really should be sacrificed for peace. Mixed with some clear PTSD and it is hopefully going to lead this character to be fleshed out with way more screen time. 

Going to continue the tone from The Suicide Squad

James Gunn is heavily involved with this series so if you liked the over the top and brutal action mixed with crude jokes then you will like this show. Hopefully it can keep it up for the 9 episodes and manage to make this side character stand out on his own. 

Will we see any other members of The Suicide Squad?

The big question is whether we will see any other members of The Suicide Squad. Obviously, without spoiling things too much there aren't too many members of the group left after the film and they aren't exactly best friends with Peacemaker. I think Amanda Waller is the best bet but even that will be a smaller role. 

Overall

Overall, I am happy to see the continuation of the Peacemaker character and this trailer was pretty good so I am hopeful that this show will hit the mark.