TV Show review
Review basis: 2 seasons · through October 9, 2025
January 13, 2022 · TV-MA · Ended
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Peacemaker follows the loud, violent antihero Chris Smith, who joins a secret government team to stop alien parasites that possess human bodies while he processes trauma from his abusive childhood. The story mixes crude humor, graphic violence, and personal growth across two seasons that ended in 2025. Season 2 adds an alternate universe revealed as a neo-Nazi society that forces the main character to confront racism and fascism directly, creating the most visible ideological elements.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Peacemaker.
Woke representation / casting
The cast mixes ethnicities and genders in roles that fit a U.S. black-ops team setting, with no story-breaking swaps or marketing that pushes representation as the main draw.
Woke political dialogue
Season 2 includes direct talk and plot beats that call out racism and fascism through the alternate Nazi world, which some viewers found preachy or cringe; season 1 stays lighter and more personal.
Identity-driven story themes
The main arc shows the hero rejecting his father's white supremacist views and realizing he felt at home in an all-white fascist society, making racial awareness a clear thread especially in season 2.
Western institutional / cultural critique
The series strongly portrays a neo-Nazi America as a nightmare and critiques how easy it is to accept oppressive systems when they benefit you personally, plus it shows the abusive racist father as a toxic patriarchal figure the hero must overcome.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant. The show adds a detailed racist father backstory but makes no major ideological changes to established comic canon.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Online posts and videos specifically attacked season 2's Earth X storyline and dialogue as pushing woke ideas about racism and white comfort, with James Gunn responding to the resulting polarization.
Creator track record context
James Gunn's record shows occasional progressive themes wrapped in crude humor without a dominant activist agenda; most other directors and producers have minimal or zero public activist history.
Production
