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Peacemaker Season 1 set the tone for something completely different in the superhero space, and with Season 2 officially landing on HBO Max on August 21, 2025, fans now know this won’t just be more of the same. Peacemaker Season 1 ended with Chris Smith emotionally wrecked, his team recovering, and the Butterflies gone, but not forgotten.
James Gunn confirmed that Season 2 will follow directly from the fallout of Adebayo’s public exposure of Amanda Waller and Task Force X. The new season is also set to be the first official TV entry in Gunn’s new DC Universe, connecting Peacemaker to whatever else is coming next.
The story is expected to focus more on the emotional aftermath of Chris killing his father, his ongoing hallucinations of Auggie, and what happens now that he’s known to the public. Harcourt is still healing, Vigilante remains unhinged, and Adebayo's relationship with her mother is broken.
The Cow is gone, but the damage is permanent. Gunn has already said this season will be darker and more personal, which makes rewatching Peacemaker Season 1 not just helpful, it’s essential. With new DCU connections and a deeper dive into Chris’s mental state, Season 2 is being built as a continuation, not a reset.
Peacemaker Season 1 Recap
Episode 1 – A Whole New Whirled
After surviving the events of The Suicide Squad, Chris Smith is discharged from the hospital and tries to walk away unnoticed, only to be dragged into a new assignment by Clemson Murn and his team under Project Butterfly. The offer is clear—prison or compliance.
Chris accepts, returns to his trailer, and retrieves his pet eagle Eagly and new gear from his father, Auggie. He later hooks up with a woman named Annie, but she turns violent, revealing superhuman strength. Chris kills her using his helmet’s sonic boom feature. Adebayo, secretly Waller’s daughter, is told to plant a fake diary to frame Chris.
Episode 2 – Best Friends, For Never
Chris scrambles to escape the scene and ends up taking a couple hostage, only to be rescued by Harcourt and Adebayo. Economos swaps Chris’s identity with Auggie’s in the police database, leading to Auggie’s arrest. In jail, Auggie is recognized as the White Dragon by fellow white supremacist inmates.
Chris struggles with guilt over killing Rick Flag and realizes he may not be okay. Vigilante, who idolizes him, shows up and tries to cheer him up with weapons testing and a wild threesome. They also discover that the alien device left behind by Annie transforms into a tiny spaceship.
Episode 3 – Better Goff Dead
The team sets up surveillance on Senator Goff and his family, all suspected Butterflies. Chris hesitates to kill kids, so Vigilante takes the shot, killing the wife and children. Judomaster intervenes and captures both Chris and Vigilante. While Goff tortures Vigilante, Chris refuses to talk.
Harcourt and Adebayo infiltrate the house as Economos takes down Judomaster. Chris kills Goff, and they all witness a butterfly-like creature emerge from his body. Chris secretly traps the alien in a jar. Later, the team sees a shocking map, there are thousands of Butterflies hidden around the world, not just a few scattered threats.
Episode 4 – The Choad Less Traveled
Chris informs the team that he captured the Butterfly alive. Chase drives him to his father’s to get new helmets, but they find out Auggie’s been framed and jailed. Chris confronts Auggie, who swears to get revenge. Adebayo manipulates Vigilante into trying to kill Auggie, but it fails when Auggie refuses to fight back in prison.
Meanwhile, Judomaster escapes and attacks Chris but is shot by Adebayo before he can reveal critical information about the Butterflies. Chris returns home and reflects on his childhood, Rick Flag, and the mysterious butterfly now living in a jar in his trailer.
Episode 5 – Monkey Dory
Murn briefs the team about Butterfly biology, how they possess people and feed on an amber liquid. The team raids Glan Tai Bottling Company and kills several Butterfly hosts using Chris’s X-ray helmet. A gorilla named Charlie, also a Butterfly host, attacks, but Economos kills it with a chainsaw, earning unexpected praise from Chris.
Meanwhile, Auggie contacts the police to protest his false arrest. Captain Locke replaces the local police chief and shuts the investigation down. That night, Adebayo visits Chris and plants the fake diary. Before leaving, she tries on his helmet for fun and sees that Murn is also a Butterfly.
Episode 6 – Murn After Reading
Adebayo confronts Harcourt and Economos, who already knew about Murn. Murn explains he’s a rebel Butterfly trying to stop the others from taking over Earth. Detective Song reopens Chris’s case and releases Auggie from jail. Murn warns Chris that the cops are coming.
Chris and Vigilante escape, but Goff’s Butterfly escapes and enters Detective Song. She quickly infects the whole police department, turning them into Butterfly hosts. Using the planted diary, Butterfly-controlled Locke frames Chris for all the Butterfly murders. Auggie dons his White Dragon armor and rallies his Aryan followers, now determined to hunt down and kill his own son.
Episode 7 – Stop Dragon My Heart Around
Chris remembers killing his brother in a backyard fight forced by Auggie. He heads out to destroy the Butterflies' food source but is intercepted by Auggie and his goons. Eagly gets injured, but Chase disables the White Dragon armor, and Economos kills the others.
Chris finally shoots Auggie in the head after being taunted. Meanwhile, Butterfly-Song kills Murn and his host. Judomaster escapes again but is taken down by Adebayo and Harcourt. At a veterinary clinic, Eagly recovers. Harcourt becomes team leader. They plan to kill the Butterflies’ Cow, their only food source, to stop the invasion before it's too late.
Episode 8 – It’s Cow or Never
The team arrives at Coverdale Ranch to destroy the Cow before it can be teleported away. Economos plants the helmet, but things go wrong fast. Harcourt, Vigilante, and Economos are all injured in the fight. Adebayo uses the human torpedo helmet to destroy the Cow from the inside.
Chris chooses not to side with the Butterflies, rejecting Goff’s pitch about saving Earth by controlling it. The Justice League shows up too late to help. Back home, Chris and Adebayo reconcile. She outs her mother, Amanda Waller, and exposes Task Force X. Chris sits on his porch with Eagly and Goff’s Butterfly, still haunted by visions of his father.
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