PEACEMAKER Breaks HBO Max Streaming Record With Season Finale As James Gunn Shares Exciting Personal News

PEACEMAKER Breaks HBO Max Streaming Record With Season Finale As James Gunn Shares Exciting Personal News

It was recently confirmed that Peacemaker will return to HBO Max for a second season, and it's no surprise based on these figures! Writer and director James Gunn, meanwhile, shares some exciting news...

By JoshWilding - Feb 21, 2022 08:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Peacemaker

Marvel Studios has done a great job of making its Disney+ TV shows feel like essential viewing, and as popular as The Suicide Squad was, a marketing campaign for Peacemaker that mostly relied on goofy humour didn't have quite the same effect. A series about such a despicable character was also always going to be a hard sell, but those stellar opening episodes created a lot of buzz among fans.

From there, word continued to spread as it became clear that writer and director James Gunn was balancing that style of humour from The Suicide Squad with a hard-hitting character study. Throw in a terrific supporting cast and lots of great action, and it's no wonder Peacemaker was a hit.

The show's success is reflected in the viewership numbers shared by star John Cena. As well as landing the biggest single-day performance for any HBO Max Original series, it also received 44% more viewers than the premiere - a good indication of how interest in Peacemaker increased on a week by week basis.
 


In other news, Gunn has taken to Twitter to reveal that he's now engaged to The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker star Jennifer Holland. They met in 2015 and not on the set of either DC Comics adaptation as some have, for whatever reason, suggested on social media. Our congratulations go out to them!
 

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regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 2/21/2022, 8:59 AM
Congrats 🎊

The1st
The1st - 2/21/2022, 9:16 AM
@regularmovieguy - That is some excellent work there.

Kingdork
Kingdork - 2/21/2022, 9:01 AM
Still can't get over the fact that Gunn wrote the best DC show in its entirety on his own cause he was bored during quarantine.
Pezza524
Pezza524 - 2/21/2022, 9:09 AM
I am from the UK and I want to watch this show without illegally streaming, I hate region based streaming services.
blitzkreg
blitzkreg - 2/21/2022, 9:16 AM
No !!!! Don't get married. live with her...but don't do it. Marriage is stupid ! It usually ends in divorce with the woman making off with most of your money. When will men learn ?!
The1st
The1st - 2/21/2022, 9:21 AM
@blitzkreg - Ah yes, another method of control haha. For more ha's see below.



inkniron
inkniron - 2/21/2022, 11:06 AM
@blitzkreg - That's what prenups are for.

Also, depending on the state, even if you don't get married and cohabitate for a certain amount of time, the state can recognize it as a common law marriage and she can still take half.
DavidMullich
DavidMullich - 2/21/2022, 4:35 PM
@blitzkreg - My wife and I have been married for 30 years, and we both work (as do every other married couple I know). She currently earns more than I do, so if she ever does decide to divorce me, it will be to my financial advantage.
BecauseICare
BecauseICare - 2/21/2022, 9:17 AM
So deserved. So WELL deserved. Glad Season 2 is coming. Congrats to everyone involved in making this show a success. And congrats to James and Jennifer. LOVE WINS!
Humperdink
Humperdink - 2/21/2022, 9:20 AM
Okay, true...but still he did a great job!
bobevanz
bobevanz - 2/21/2022, 9:22 AM
Where's all the haters at lol nOt My PeAcEmAkEr.. woo hoo!
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 2/21/2022, 9:38 AM
I liked it better by the end, still mostly only watch it for Vigilante though 🤷🏽‍♂️
theprophet
theprophet - 2/21/2022, 9:39 AM
How does Gunn keep bagging these fine ass woman, first Jenna fisher now her. Dudes like 20 years older than her
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/21/2022, 9:45 AM
@theprophet - He is funny
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/21/2022, 10:44 AM
@theprophet - he can write
WaffeX
WaffeX - 2/21/2022, 11:11 AM
@theprophet - he's famous and rich, but he wasn't when he married Jenna Fisher, Jennifer Holland is 21 years younger than him
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/21/2022, 9:46 AM


(btw, the boycott Snyder Bots promoted really was a success, lol)
lordSTALE
lordSTALE - 2/21/2022, 10:04 AM
I'm still perplexed by why they put all the worst jokes in the trailers for this show. I was convinced James Gunn didn't actually write or direct it

It's a lot better than what was advertised, and I'm glad I decided to watch it despite hating the trailers
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/21/2022, 10:45 AM
Remember all of the Feige Warriors who claimed this would be a train wreck. Get [frick]ed ✌🏼🕊
Whaley87
Whaley87 - 2/21/2022, 11:34 AM
@McMurdo - Remember when you were saying the same about No Way Home? Get fecked.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/21/2022, 12:48 PM
@Whaley87 - I’ve always maintained that the plot for No Way Home is pure stupidity as it relies on the regression of Doctor Strange as a character. It making money was always going to happen. This doesn’t change the stupid spell or the magic easy bake oven subplots. They still are IN the movie.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 2/21/2022, 11:20 AM
And it was cinema because some people definitely was [frick]ing
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 2/21/2022, 12:47 PM
The best part about this is watching all the people that when they heard Gunn was doing Suicide Squad the movie was doomed, and then before the movie even began marketing the rumors about Peacemaker would fail because of Gunn, and now those same people can't stop slobbering on Gunn's knob.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/21/2022, 12:49 PM
@Reeds2Much - meanwhile we were here UPVOTING
eGGtheGreat
eGGtheGreat - 2/21/2022, 1:23 PM
Best DC live action show. Easily
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/21/2022, 2:05 PM
@eGGtheGreat - It’s good, but Watchmen’s still better lol
eGGtheGreat
eGGtheGreat - 2/21/2022, 3:33 PM
@tmp3 - to be fair I haven't watched the watchmen show, but I wasn't a huge fan of the movie so I didn't bother.
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/21/2022, 3:46 PM
@eGGtheGreat - tbf it isn’t anything like the movie, but it is a sequel to the comic so if you didn’t like the original text then idk if you’ll fully vibe with the show
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