Peacemaker episode 2 review—A Man Is Only as Good as His Bird—Eagly saves the day, a brutal doppelganger cleanup, and ARGUS closing in

Peacemaker has always thrived on absurdity, but episode 2, A Man Is Only as Good as His Bird, makes one thing clear: the most reliable hero in this universe isn’t Chris Smith or the team ARGUS keeps watching. It's Eagly, a bald eagle with no patience for subtlety and no hesitation in drawing blood.

This is the chapter where a feathered companion steps out of the mascot role and claims the spotlight, proving that loyalty can be violent, hilarious, and strangely majestic. Yeah, that's Peacemaker in all its best!

The fallout of killing a happier self

Chris begins the second episode of Peacemaker Season 2 weighed down by the murder of his interdimensional doppelganger.

The act is brutal enough, but what lingers is the knowledge that he killed a version of himself who had managed to find joy. Instead of peace, Chris tries to hide the body in the folded dimension, but then he ends up cutting it with saws and burning it in an incinerator, a grotesque cover-up that says more about his fear of being found out than any real attempt to confront his guilt.

Adrian Chase, of course, treats the whole thing like a field trip. He joins in with unfiltered glee, helping to carve and burn the body as if violence were another form of bonding. The sequence is absurd, cruel, and oddly funny, an opening that sets the episode’s tone as both farce and tragedy.

Harcourt between rejection and resonance

Emilia Harcourt reappears scarred and out of work, her cool detachment cutting deeper than any weapon. Chris tries to reach out, but she pushes him away before he can stumble into apology.

Desperation leads him to dial the number of her parallel counterpart, using his doppelganger’s phone, but ends up texting her instead, to which, against all odds, she responds. The connection is flimsy, but it offers Chris a fragile lifeline, proof that some version of her is still willing to talk to him. Even if she sent him an emoji of a broken heart.

It's pathetic and human, and it leaves Chris stranded between two worlds. One where Harcourt rejects him outright, and another where a ghost of hope survives. Economos hovers uneasily in the background, caught between empathy for Chris and loyalty to ARGUS, aware that the walls are closing in on all of them.

Eagly as the unlikely warrior

Then the episode shifts, and Eagly takes command.

When Langston Fleury storms Peacemaker’s house with a squad of ARGUS agents, everything points to disaster. Chris is distracted, the team is fractured, and the government wants results. Instead, the entire raid collapses in a storm of wings and claws.

Eagly does not hesitate. He swoops, slams, and tears through the intruders in a sequence that is equal parts grotesque carnage and slapstick choreography. The CGI leans into excess, but that is the point. This is not a bird defending a nest, it is a soldier cutting down an invasion with talons sharper than the humans’ resolve.

The show has always used Eagly as a punchline, but here he becomes the punchline and the punch itself. The violence is ridiculous, yet it carries a strange gravitas. Loyalty embodied in feathers and instinct might be the purest form of devotion in this world. While Chris, Economos, Harcourt, Adebayo and Vigilante drown themselves in beer and blasting rock, it's Eagly who proves he is willing to fight with clarity of purpose.

For a moment, Peacemaker belongs not to Chris, but to his bird.

Peacemaker between escape and collapse

The aftermath does not ease the tension. Rick Flag Sr. makes it clear that ARGUS does not trust Chris, and the interdimensional readings from the folded door only deepen the suspicion. Fleury’s failed raid has made the stakes higher, not lower.

Chris, meanwhile, cannot stop running. The episode ends with him staggering drunk into the portal, chasing another reality that may or may not offer the redemption he craves. It's less an act of heroism than of desperation.

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And in that final beat, the irony is complete. Chris is lost between worlds, ARGUS is circling like vultures, and the only one who knows exactly who he is, is Eagly.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 wingbeats sharp enough to slice through a government raid.

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