Peacemaker

RIGINAL ACTION COMEDY John Cena’s antihero from 2021’s DC Comics–based hit flexes his way into his own series from the movie’s director and writer James Gunn. Cena “had a lot of acting and comedy gifts that we weren’t able to fully utilize in the movie,” says Gunn, who has amped up the laughs for the spinoff. The series finds convicted murderer turned mercenary Christopher Smith (Cena, left, with Smith’s pet eagle) kept from prison to fight evildoers who threaten Americans’ safety. Thankfully, the violent vigilante known as Peacemaker has a new, more rational team, like Danielle Brooks’ Leota Adebayo, to help reign him in. “A lot of the show is about his friendship with [them],” says Gunn. Here’s to butt-kicking kinship!