When considering the everlasting quest for peace, the real question remains, how much hair metal does one have to endure?

Howdy? I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.

Folks, you know, the answer is unfortunate. It's kind of a lot of hair metal music you have to to endure on the quest for peace, at least in the case of Peacemaker on HBO Max.

And for today's episode, I am quite pleased to have with me the creator, the director of the pilot in some of the other episodes.

And of course, the writer as well, James Gunn.

And I love this show you know obviously if for some

reason you don't know this peacemaker is a TV spinoff from the movie the suicide squad

which James Gunn wrote and directed and it came out in summer of 21 and it's quite great and

it's on HBO Max and so is the show it's on HBO Max and I so is the show. It's on HBO Max. And I love this show,

and we were able to catch up with James to talk about the season and also the finale, of course.

And don't worry, there's a spoiler warning right when you need it if you're not caught up.

But as usual, James was very forthcoming about his creative process and what it took to get this

TV show in the can. So I know you'll dig this episode. And speaking of things to dig, I hope you

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let's jump right into our interview with writer-director James Gunn about peacemaker season

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