The Inexplicable Decision to Feature Nelson in the 'Peacemaker' Finale Is What Makes James Gunn So Great

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I’m a huge fan of James Gunn — not just his superhero work, but his earlier projects like Slither , PG Porn , and Super . But I’m even more impressed with his musical taste, particularly his obsession with glam metal. That’s most evident in Peacemaker , where he built the show’s entire musical identity around hair metal and glam rock.

I’m a child of the late ’80s and early ’90s, so I grew up steeped in glam metal, although like most of the world, I moved on to grunge when Nirvana and Pearl Jam essentially obliterated the existing music scene. I’m familiar with all the pre-1991 metal songs Gunn uses in his work even a lot of the more ob

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