“Best. Universe. Ever.”

That’s how the Peacemaker Chris Smith describes the alternate reality he visits throughout the second season of the show that bears his name. While it was a cheering crowd—complete with a child moved to tears and a woman moved to bare her chest—that inspired Chris’s observation, it’s not just these base elements make the heretofore unnamed world better than the original. It’s the fact that, here, Chris’s dad Auggie is loving and supportive, not the hateful white supremacist who abused his boys and who directly caused, through Chris’s action, the death of his older son Keith. Moreover, Keith lives in this alternate reality, and he’s even cooler and more supportive than Chris could have imagined.

By giving Chris access to a different universe where everything he w

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