Peacemaker
Chapter 05: Monkey Dory
TV Flash files “Chapter 05: Monkey Dory” as a desk essential hour — Peacemaker (2022–) on Max, season 1, episode 5, aired 2022-01-27, 43 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E05: listed hour 5 of 16 in the Peacemaker guide, hour 5 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2022-01-27 (43 min). The listed hour before it is “Chapter 04: The Choad Less Traveled” (S01E04). Next is “Chapter 06: Murn After Reading” (S01E06).
Essential hour: “Chapter 05: Monkey Dory”. Monkey Dory as mid-season-one creature feature: Gunn's toybox, still Cena's idealism, still Max chaos that knows when to drop a needle.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The team scouts the apparent hub for the aliens' food supply, only to come face-to-face with a full-fledged invasion.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Chapter 05: Monkey Dory sit in the Peacemaker guide?
S01E05 is listed hour 5 of 16 — hour 5 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 5.
When did Peacemaker S01E05 air?
Chapter 05: Monkey Dory aired 2022-01-27 and is listed at 43 minutes.
Do I need The Suicide Squad movie first?
It is a spinoff that outshined the movie for many viewers. Helpful for how Peacemaker arrives; the series still plays as Cena, an eagle, a father problem, and a dance credit.
In the series
Why this series still plays
John Cena's dumb-violent idealism with a needle-drop dance credit that became a personality. James Gunn's spinoff outshined the movie by giving a helmeted goon a heart, an eagle, and a father problem. Watch for chaos that still knows where the joke lives, and for comic-book television that likes people more than lore slides.
Once upon a network night, a guest star in a ridiculous helmet would have been the punchline and the exit. James Gunn's Peacemaker, 2022 onward on Max, has the bad manners to keep him. John Cena as Christopher Smith — violent "peace at any cost" antihero, dumb-violent idealism, daddy issues, an eagle, a heart — joins a black-ops team and turns a DCEU spinoff into appointment chaos. Danielle Brooks's Leota Adebayo and Freddie Stroma's Vigilante ride shotgun. The needle-drop dance credit became a personality. On…
Filed against
- John Cena as Christopher Smith / Peacemaker
John Cena’s Christopher Smith / Peacemaker turned a helmeted goon into a heart, an eagle, and a father problem — James Gunn’s spinoff with a needle-drop dance credit that became a personality. Dumb-violent idealism that still knows where…
- Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo
Danielle Brooks’s Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson made Orange Is the New Black a yard with a brain — 2010s catalog Litchfield ensemble, then Peacemaker stretching the voltage into James Gunn chaos. TV Flash files her as the inmate who became…
- Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase / Vigilante
Freddie Stroma played Adrian Chase / Vigilante on Peacemaker — James Gunn's spinoff that outshined the movie, John Cena's dumb-violent idealism, a needle-drop dance credit, an eagle, a father problem. Chaos that still knows where the joke…