Peacemaker Season 2 episode 6 review — Ignorance Is Chris — Nazis, Lex Luthor and a multiverse gone wrong

Peacemaker hits its most explosive chapter yet with episode 6, Ignorance Is Chris. In just over thirty minutes, the series tears apart Chris Smith’s fantasy of a perfect life and exposes the supposedly greener grass of the other as actually something very darker: a supposed utopia hiding a Nazi dystopia, a universe ruled by racial supremacy where his happiness is built on exclusion.

Lex Luthor appears calm and calculating as Rick Flag approaches him in Belle Reve, seeking his knowledge about metahumans and dimensional travel to track Chris.

Peacemaker’s dream turned utopia to dystopia

For much of this season, Peacemaker dangled the promise of a better world. Here was a universe where Chris’s brother was alive, where his reputation was spotless, where Emilia Harcourt loved him, and where the pain of his past seemed erased.

It felt like redemption in bright colors. It felt like a comic book dream come true.

But utopias rarely hold up under scrutiny. The comfort cracks fast. When Leota Adebayo is seen walking alone and someone yells “One Black got out,” the façade rips apart.

This world is not peaceful; this is control disguised as healing. The grass that looked greener was never meant for everyone. Chris’s imagined safe place was a dystopia hiding behind nostalgia.

This turn matters because it shows what Peacemaker has hinted all along: wanting a clean slate can be dangerous when the cost is someone else’s erasure. Chris wanted to stop hurting. The world he chose stops hurting only by removing everyone who does not fit its purity code.

Lex Luthor changes the board

Lex Luthor’s entrance is not a wink to DC fans. It's a seismic shift.

Long framed as the ultimate human supremacist, Luthor thrives in a world obsessed with hierarchy. Here, he arrives like prophecy fulfilled. His presence makes it clear that the battle has moved beyond one broken vigilante, and it's now about ideology on a multiversal scale.

Chris has already killed his alternate self and now stands against a system built on hatred and purity. Lex Luthor, calm and calculating as Rick Flag seeks his help in Belle Reve, becomes a deliberate and pivotal force, using his intellect and knowledge of metahumans and dimensional travel to shape the next stage of the fight.

For Peacemaker, pulling Lex into the narrative does more than thrill DC watchers. It anchors the show firmly in its own universe of moral questions. Can a man who has killed, failed and hurt so many find a purpose beyond self-pity when the enemy is hate itself?

Comedy in the dark: Adrian meets his other self

Even in this bleak setting, Peacemaker stays bizarre and funny.

Adrian Chase, the Vigilante we know, bursts into the chaos with his manic timing and inappropriate jokes, whose wisecracks break the tension just when it threatens to suffocate.

Yet the laughter comes with a twist. In the Nazi dimension, Adrian is not Chris’s ally. He's an enemy aligned with the Sons of Liberty, a resistance group fighting the oppressive regime and opposing the Nazi Peacemaker.

Watching two Adrians collide is hilarious and unsettling at once. The scene is a perfect microcosm of the show’s identity: absurd and self-aware, but never willing to drop the danger.

Heart amidst the multiversal collapse

Inside the madness, Peacemaker still makes space for emotion.

There is a piercing moment when the real Emilia Harcourt reaches Chris. She shows no armor and no sarcasm, only quiet honesty. This scene matters because it cuts through ideology and danger. It reminds us that Chris’s journey has always been about longing for love and belonging.

In a story about false utopias and dangerous nostalgia, this flicker of truth hits harder than any explosion.

James Gunn’s unmistakable fingerprint

Episode 6 of the second season of Peacemaker radiates James Gunn’s signature touch from its opening beat to its final gut punch. The tonal whiplash, brutal politics one second and deranged humor the next, never feels like a mistake; it feels like deliberate orchestration.

Gunn thrives on turning misfits into emotional anchors, and here he threads Chris’s pain through multiversal chaos without losing the absurdity that makes Peacemaker unique.

The color-saturated visuals, the music cues that undercut despair with swagger, and the sudden bursts of tenderness inside outrageous violence all carry his DNA. It's clear that Gunn is not just guiding the narrative; he is shaping its soul, daring the show to stay weird and heartfelt even while staring into fascism.

Style, pacing and comic book gravitas

James Gunn directs with absolute confidence. The pacing is relentless but never careless. Each reveal lands. Each shift matters.

Visually, the show leans into its comic book DNA: bold color palettes, surreal details and action that feels ripped from a splash page. At the same time, the episode slips in sharp political critique. It is playful but never empty. It is violent but not shallow.

Few shows juggle this much tonal chaos and still land emotional punches the way Peacemaker does. By embracing its weirdness, Nazi multiverses, double Adrians and sudden humor in the middle of horror, the series avoids feeling like another dark superhero drama. It feels alive and unpredictable.

Preparing for the endgame

Ignorance Is Chris plays like a finale staged two episodes early.

It breaks the illusion of a better world, exposes fascism beneath nostalgia and pits Chris against an enemy who is both ideological and personal. Friendships shift. Comfort zones burn. The path forward is unclear but thrilling.

With only two episodes left, Peacemaker is louder, stranger and more politically sharp than ever. The fight ahead will not just decide who survives. It will decide what kind of world Chris Smith chooses to defend and whether he can finally let go of the easy lie of a utopia that was always a dystopia.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 multiversal WTFs crashing through Chris’s fragile peace.

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