James Gunn's writing sucks

Yeah, he got lucky with the first Guardians of the Galaxy, but since then his writing has proven quite poor.

Yeah, he got lucky with the first Guardians of the Galaxy, but since then his writing has proven quite poor.

I enjoyed The Suicide Squad (2021), but this show is a huge step down from the movie in all regards, writing certainly included. To be fair, I've only watched the first episode of Peacemaker, but it was so bad I doubt I'll bother going any further with it. Even with the previous HBO Max original I attempted to watch (Santa, Inc.), which was similarly terrible, I was at least able to make it through 4 episodes before finally calling it quits.

Interestingly, there is a bit of trivia from IMDb which may help explain the poor writing of Peacemaker:

James Gunn wrote the entire first season in 8 weeks during COVID quarantine out of pure boredom, not actually believing the series would ever get picked up.