The Reel Rejects - PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 Episode 2 Breakdown & Review!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. www.ca.com. Ontario, the wait is over.

Starting point is 00:00:32 The gold standard of online casinos has arrived. Golden Nugget online casino is live, bringing Vegas-style excitement and a world-class gaming experience right to your fingertips. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting, signing up is fast and simple. And in just a few clicks,

Starting point is 00:00:48 you can have access to our exclusive library of the best slots and top-tier table games. Make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots that can turn any mundane moment into a golden opportunity at Golden Nugget Online Casino. Take a spin on the slots, challenge yourself at the tables, or join a live dealer game to feel the thrill of real-time action, all from the comfort of your own devices. Why settle for less when you can go for the gold at Golden Nugget Online Casino? Gambling problem call Connects Ontario 1866531-260. 19 and over, physically present in Ontario. Eligibility restrictions apply.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Golden Nuggetcassino.com for details. Please play responsibly. This episode is brought to you by Defender. With a towing capacity of 3,500 kilograms and a weighting depth of 900 millimeters, the Defender 110 pushes what's possible. Learn more at landrover.ca. This video is sponsored by MintMobil. More on them very soon.

Starting point is 00:01:51 Greg Break, indeed, because the new Peacemaker shirt has arrived. Look how good it looks. Oh, my goodness. I think this came out amazingly. I'm so happy with it. Thank you, Alyssa Ferrari, for being an amazing artist, bringing Zavision to life. And from the day one, when we launched it, before I even had it on my body, so many guys already bought one. Thank you, righteous rejects for rocket.

Starting point is 00:02:21 our apparel once you get it please tag us on social media so that way we can share the love of it all and of course if you can't buy one that is a okay peace still be with you if you are able to buy one it is an amazing way to support the channel here help us you know get back some of the copyright stuff that we contend with happen with peacemaker episode one of season two actually so really really appreciate y'all there's a link of the description box link and pin common you can scan this barcode right here on screen amazing way to support us here let's get back to the video peeps now that we've done it perfectly are we ready for peacemaker season two episode two yes robert one two two uh guys if you right now are watching listening apple

Starting point is 00:03:08 podcast spotify five star thumbs up on youtube all that good stuff appreciate it thank you to prepper for helping edit us down you guys absolutely rock uh okay so we just did peacemaker season two episode two. John, I'm coming over to you first. I know that you felt like episode one felt like an episode two. Now after watching episode two, how are you feeling? Pretty good. I'm, I think, ready for, like, the doors to come off.

Starting point is 00:03:36 I do like, you know, the reformation of the team as it stands, you know, at least for that brief moment we get a little bit of the levity and the just relief of like, oh, the gang's all back together again. But I am excited now that it seems like, as of the very end of this episode, we're going to really jump into the true game of the season, hopefully. But yeah, this was a fun episode, a really good way to introduce Tim Meadows. It was kind of the biggest thing I got out of this, and then, you know, fun, eagley fight scenes.

Starting point is 00:04:08 So, you know, solid episode. Not like the heights of peacemaker for me, but pretty good. Orgy stuff was your favorite again, this one. Uh-huh, definitely, yeah. Figure and figure. I hope it comes back in episode three. Greg, how are you vibing now that we're two episodes in? I mean, look, I'm just always happy to be in the peacemaker world,

Starting point is 00:04:28 even if I do agree with John. I'm like I'm ready for like some kind of clear-cut direction, I suppose. I like the idea that it feels more, is ruminatoria word? Ruminating. It's very reflective. It's like these characters are reflective, and it's a little, more exploratory and taking its time more like if you do if you were to compare it to like season one it starts season one starts off with a clear cut direction peacemakers recruited for some secret type of

Starting point is 00:04:59 mission we have no idea what and we're going to slowly unpack that mystery while getting into our characters along the way whereas here you know you got like harcourt's lost in life um chris is lost in life argus is going after chris for personal reasons and what's going to happen when they open up this interdimensional door and then what's Chris going to so like there's a lot of like this still felt like they were setting up stuff you know we're two episodes in and it still feels like we're setting stuff up that's not exactly bad um it's just kind of weird for a season two to be like two episodes in and still be like we're still setting shit up um but the what we got i really enjoyed like my sometimes i feel like the banter can be a little bit like uh what do we do to

Starting point is 00:05:43 make it seem like these characters have personality let's do that James Gun banter and a lot of time I love that and sometimes it feels a little off but you liked it when they were giving the names to the characters outside you liked that moment but sometimes when we were inside and they were giving the banter in the van you were like yeah it doesn't it just it just feels like you know the it feels like generic James gun banter honestly it doesn't feel like I'm these characters have any distinct personality at least like when the our main characters are bantering it still feels than the characters, even with Tim Meadows, his character, his dialogue feels more specific,

Starting point is 00:06:20 whereas, like, everything else just kind of feels a little bit more like, yep, this is the banter. But that's really minute compared to everything else that I really liked about this episode. Because, like, it starts off with the setup of Rick Flagg and this, like, motivation we're going to go after him. I thought we were going to book him that, but we didn't. That's what I mean, like the presence of that kind of gets lost. Like, it's a good setup, but then it kind of gets lost, even though it's, you're reminded of it a little bit. but it doesn't feel like it permeates throughout the episode, even when they are reminding you.

Starting point is 00:06:51 But, you know, like the heart moments with heart court. And, yeah, it feels, that's what I meant by, like, it ruminates more. It feels more intimate still on the character moments. And, yeah, I still thought there were some hilarious moments. And I love the, I love Eakley. I love Miss Amigla. I love the Eagli. I got to kick some serious ass.

Starting point is 00:07:12 And that was a really fun fight. and Tim Meadows is is so freaking funny anytime a guy shows up anywhere so he just kills it and I think he's an excellent contribution to this cast and such a different counterpart

Starting point is 00:07:28 to um was the actor's name in uh he was in he was high evolutionary he was the oh chakudia would you yep hour time remember that name uh I mean he's a very different type of person to be yeah very different type of person

Starting point is 00:07:42 to be leading and uh yeah How are you feeling, though? Are you enjoying it? This show just works for me on so many fronts because, number one, as I always say, I'm a lover of love, shiperships, and I find that oftentimes in shows like these, the love stories take a back seat. They don't really care about it, but I do feel like it is at the center of this, and it probably will be for the most of the season.

Starting point is 00:08:04 I also really care about family dynamics, the sibling relationship, the parental relationship, and that's stuff that we're not just seeing with Peacemaker, but we're also seeing the dynamic between different couples, different father-son, the loss of a son, that, you know, there's just a lot of different character building. Plus, this show is action-packed. I like that we had that entire Eagley action sequence. I think that it breaks up for a 40-minute show.

Starting point is 00:08:34 It makes it fly by because we've got all the character building, but then we've also got these sick action sequences that look awesome. So I'm really excited to see where the rest of this season goes. I hear what you guys are saying, though, about setup. And I wonder if it's because they are so committed to this being a DC show now. And so it has to do a little more heavy lifting about what that means for this show's place in this world, in this universe, as opposed to the previous season of Peacemaker, which really kind of just minded its own business until we had that Ezra Miller and Mamoa scene. but like, and a little bit Waller stuff, but just saying that here I feel like Gunn now has this big vision, Gunn and Safran have this big vision, this big world.

Starting point is 00:09:21 And so I wonder if a lot of the setup is about kind of how the logistics of these universes work and this pocket dimensions and the science behind that and who's relevant where. Like obviously we're really pulling Rick Flagg in. we're forgetting about Amanda Waller, at least temporarily. So a lot of it might be about bigger future plans. Here's what I think I think you said something that just kind of hit the nail on the head as you were talking about being like character-driven. I feel like the plot, like the actual plot, I don't feel like is as engaging as it maybe could be.

Starting point is 00:10:01 Like it's engaging, but I'm not as swept up in the actual plot. but the character-driven narrative scenes are just so strong to me that when that's on screen like anything with hardcore or anything hardcore and Chris I like seeing how like you know they're tiptoeing towards each other

Starting point is 00:10:21 but then she pushes him away and him with his you know vice addictions and stuff and even looking at how the multi like the characters are so feel like they're even more well-known like to do that it's impressive to me that they can do a time jump and then you could still see where each one of them is that right down out of bio

Starting point is 00:10:39 with going to see her ex-girlfriend and the realism of just feeling like she can walk in there and then the difference in that how they're viewing their breakup all those scenes i think are so great and they're there ultimately if you're watching a television show the investment in the character should outweigh everything so like the character-driven narrative is is so strong and it's such a spotlight that I'm still in love with the world. I'm still in love with the show because of that. And I guess I'm kind of waiting just for the plot itself to come a little bit more, you know,

Starting point is 00:11:18 put his foot on the gas a tiny bit. On that plot front. A Reject Nation. You know it doesn't belong in your epic summer moving into fall plans? Getting burned by your old wireless bill. While you're planning barbecues, beach days, and, you know, long weekends, your phone bill, should be the last thing holding you back.

Starting point is 00:11:37 That's why the Alba Residence has done it. They've made the switch. You've heard of them before. Mint Mobile, today's sponsor. It actually happened. With Mint, we still get the coverage and speed we're used to. Same phone, same number, same contacts, but for way less money. And as someone who often gets like decision weight fatigue,

Starting point is 00:11:53 I am surprised by how simple the switch actually was. All of MinMobil's plans come with high speed data, unlimited talk and text, delivered on the nation's largest 5G network. And for a limited time, new customers can get three months of unlimited premium wireless service for just $15 a month. Your friends are sweating over overcharges and surprising fees. Losers. They're not losers.

Starting point is 00:12:16 They just haven't been informed yet about the great MimMobil. Anyway, you'll be chilling literally and financially. We now use Mim Mobile, and you should too. It's helped us ditch overpriced wireless and save real money without sacrifice and quality. My God, those are my love. language this year skip breaking a sweat and breaking the bank get this new customer offer in your three months unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash rejects that's mintmobile.com slash rejects believe it's not finally able to say it I've been wanting

Starting point is 00:12:47 to work with them for so long so I definitely know I have to say this up from payment of forty five required equivalent to $15 a month limited time new customer offer for first three months only speeds may slow above 35 gigabytes on unlimited plan taxes the fees extra c mint mobile for details thank you mint mobile for preserving quality but saving us money how do you guys feel about the fact that we don't ultimately get a lot of payoff from the setup this episode of we are breaking into Peacemaker's House in order to find something, but instead what happens is we find nothing and we don't really move forward. We don't even see Peacemaker ultimately realize that anybody has broken into his place. So did that work for you, John, or do you feel like,

Starting point is 00:13:24 because obviously the next episode we could have all these realizations. How did you feel about the plot this episode? The plot was interesting. I mean, I would agree that Yeah, like I was less enthralled by the things that are like, ooh, about world building or about like, you know, I kind of forgot about Rick Flagg after the one time we see him. And even them breaking in, I thought made for a cool opportunity to get an eagerly action scene. I almost feel like I'll, I'm kind of jury out until we see some more of them because it almost felt like, okay, we'll have an action scene here.

Starting point is 00:13:56 And it makes sense for them to want to break into his interdimensional portal. but they're not successful so it doesn't really amount to much in the immediate moment and I mean it's cool that they're not dead I'm excited to see some more of them but the like the plotting itself doesn't feel

Starting point is 00:14:13 like it's found like a specific momentum or like a specific direction other than toward that door somehow but I like that it eventually it's like you know Chris finds his way in there at the end and decides to go take the plunge into the alternate you know better world so to speak kind of independent of all that stuff so i guess i'm curious to see if it amounts too much more as we go along that seems mainly motivated by his love for hardcore

Starting point is 00:14:44 yeah totally which is cool because do you think as opposed to like his desire to be accepted and loved back in general you think it's specific about her i think all that is there but i think what he's really searching for is he wants love and connection and i think at the end of the day, hopefully by the end of the season, I think he will find that in his actual world with Hart. He could find that in his actual world with Amelia Harcourt. And so that's why I think the final thrust to him going over there was like on his own volition outside of just curiosity was due to, I mean, he's been pulled over there a couple of times. Yeah. But I'm not I'm not sure. I mean, you brought that up a couple of times. Is it like something that's kind of

Starting point is 00:15:29 Are you dissuade by that? What, what do you mean? Like the setup of like Rick Flagg at the beginning, the eight months ago, and then not really getting much of a payoff to that here? No, I honestly, I can't tell fully where you guys are at, but I think that this is working like even the best for me of all. I loved this episode. I loved it.

Starting point is 00:15:49 Oh, you did too. Most part I loved it. So, no, I'm not dissuaded by it. Disuade? Diswade. I don't know. I was kind of like spinning that out, but I wasn't even sure if it's a real word. No.

Starting point is 00:15:59 I've heard it. Is it, John? Disuaded? I mean, dissuade is a word. It's the opposite of persuade. Good. I haven't been dissuaded. You haven't been deterred by the episode.

Starting point is 00:16:09 I've not been deterred. John persuaded us to believing this is a word. I do think it's interesting to be like six months later, eight months earlier. Like, that is interesting. And I think they're laying a lot of groundwork again for an entire universe and has to make sense in a timeline of the DCU. Because we've seen Rick Flagg and other projects now. We've seen them in two other projects now. So, yeah, I think, no, I definitely don't feel like that.

Starting point is 00:16:34 But I'm most interested. I don't usually care that much about things like that. What I care about is, oh, my God, she texted him back. She wrote, hey, and then she did a heartbreak emoji. And I wondered to myself, what happened, and how could he possibly fake figuring that out? Like, he's almost going to have to say he had amnesia or something. Like, he's been gone and something happened. I mean.

Starting point is 00:16:54 Well, they're broken up in that world. Right. yeah well i i imagine that when he goes to this world it looks perfect and it feels perfect but then he's gonna discover like nothing's actually perfect we got a reference of a girl named karen and then we know that she for the first episode i believe that they said her his brother said that she's with jarhead some jarhead you know what i think is okay that's probably what's missing for plot is like i don't know if it's missing but um because i was trying to think like what was it about like season I'm not here like comparing it when I'm actually when I'm actively watching it I was just comparison is the thief of joy Greg god damn right it is um it is that there's no I don't feel like there's a mystery to the plot not that this show needs to be mysterious but I think that was part of the hook with with like what is going on and the mid and there's not really like that like we know what the butterflies or do you mean with like Amanda Waller being her the mom of the Tobio or yeah yeah I mean it was like the butterfly.

Starting point is 00:17:54 as we encounters in the first episode when it ends with how he sleeps with that woman ends up being a butterfly and there's a lot of unpacking of like what's really going on here what's actually happening and there's no real mystery hook

Starting point is 00:18:05 and that is if anything it feels a little bit more akin to the tone and flavor of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 if we're comparing James Gunn's other work where it doesn't really like oh I guess there's like a mystery here on the back burner that we're not fully aware of

Starting point is 00:18:19 but it's going to be more like an intimate portrayal of our main character who finally feels like he's finding a home of love, like similar to Star Lord, finding his dad and shit. And it seems like there's kind of a pattern there with our characters, you know. Before we get out of here, because we usually do take questions for the patrons, but because we are pre-tapping these, we are unable to take questions for them.

Starting point is 00:18:42 I'm going to ask my own question to you guys, because I just don't know since I didn't do season one with you, do you have a number one favorite character? to you as well, Greg Golly I know it does change It's such a strong ensemble, yeah I didn't know if you guys were last season

Starting point is 00:19:01 definitive with somebody or if it's kind of rotating I'm a boring guy I tend to be like lead character I often gravitate towards the lead character and I want to come up with like a clever answer and sometimes it is someone like we're watching severance um and it's um you started yeah yeah and he and he's like oh my favorite character i love watching is what is his name the

Starting point is 00:19:30 fucking the black guy who is oh milchick milchick i'm like oh man he's fucking awesome yeah so that's like a case where like adam scott i love but i'm more drawn to him but yeah when i watch piecemaker i'm like yeah it's definitely peacemaker uh is my favorite i think that's totally fair answer and hardcore was uh my second favorite i think she's my favorite yeah she's pretty great There's a lot. Awesome. I love Adrian Chase, too. Scene Steeler for sure.

Starting point is 00:19:55 I mean, honestly, like, I really enjoyed having Atabio as the eyeline in season one, and she's a great character. And, like, you know, that if I had, you know, because, yeah, like, Chris, they managed to take him and make him very interesting in the first season. But, yeah, I think she was my favorite character the first time around, especially of, like, the new ensemble, because I really liked both her vibe, her spirit, but also the stuff they gave her to work with as a character. And, you know, I'm glad she's still here.

Starting point is 00:20:25 I'm looking forward, hopefully, to her being more of a focal character again, because it's, again, I was really happy to see the group back together. It seems like the kind of season of where that might not happen, and I'm not going to be mad if it doesn't. Does the actors be busy? Maybe. Is that the case? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:20:42 Is Danielle Brooks on other stuff? Probably they stay booking. Right now it's feeling like the Chris and hardcore show. Yeah. Yeah, I know, and that is not the vibe of last season. No. I didn't think it was like the Christian Edibio show last time. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:54 And then the other characters were the ensemble you got to know over time. But like, I guess we don't know who Edibio is in the other universe, though. Maybe that's Karen. She's not gay. He's hooking up with her. No, because I didn't get this. Oh, we don't know that they were hooking up. He was like, did you call the girl?

Starting point is 00:21:10 I don't know. Yeah, that's true. Who knows? I know nothing, John Snow. Any other thoughts before we get out of here, guys? Not for me, do you? No. Well, we'll be with you guys all season.

Starting point is 00:21:21 Thanks so much for watching. Oh, hit me. Bird blindness. Very funny. That's funny. And him not being able to tell the size of what Eagley is. That's not real, right? I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:21:34 That is one of those things, too, that only Tim Meddles could pull off. It's so crazy. Because the joke, the banter of it was, like, amusing. But then when it gets paid off with the Eakley fight, like, I can't tell how big this. Damn, this bird blindness is so funny. There's going to be more of that this season, as long as he sticks around. We've got to see that again. Well, thank you to you guys for not having reject blindness and checking this out with us.

Starting point is 00:22:01 And we'll see for episode three. Later, rejects. Want to know what life on the tennis tour is really like? We're here to give you all of the dates. From our most chaotic travel days to our late night laughs, We're pulling back the curtain on the stories you've never heard. This is the Players Box, hosted by me, Madison Keys, Jessica Pagula, Jenny Brady, and Desiree Crabcheck. We're taking our conversation out of the group chat and into the podcast so you can have an all-access pass.

Starting point is 00:22:33 We'll talk Breaking Tennis News, behind the scenes, our hot takes, and everything you don't see. We'll even let you sit in our Players' Box with us by answering your real-time questions right on the podcast. So listen now to the Players Box on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube.

The Reel Rejects - PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 Episode 2 Breakdown & Review!!

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.