By Bob Grimm

Five episodes into its eight-episode second season, Peacemaker continues be a wild, wacky, hilariously nasty ride—and the tone is even darker this season.

It took more than three years to get Season 2, because James Gunn was busy running the entire DC Universe and putting together his Superman. Some of the events (and characters) from Superman play into the episodes, as do events from Gunn’s version of The Suicide Squad.

Christopher Smith, aka Peacemaker (John Cena), had a rough first season, and things get even rougher in the new episodes, as Christopher visits an alternate timeline in which his deceased father (Robert Patrick) and brother (David Denman) are not only alive, but living a happy life as popular superheroes with an alternate version of Christopher.

Of course, this is James Gunn Land, so we are going to see the more fucked-up aspects of an alternative timeline. There are a lot of worst-case scenarios in play that are funny, but super-morbid.

As with Season One, you won’t be skipping the show intro. We get another splendid dance intro, this time to the flamboyant Foxy Shazam song “Oh Lord.” Yes, Eagly features prominently.

It’s good to see Tim Meadows getting some great screentime as Langston Fleury, an agent suffering from bird blindness—he can’t tell the difference between an eagle and a duck. Meadows is so good here that it makes one wonder how he hasn’t been in more high-profile stuff.

Season 3 hasn’t been greenlit yet, but Gunn has hinted that Peacemaker should be around past Season 2, TV series or not—so I expect we’ll see Cena and his funny hat for years to come.