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Tom Holland, Take Note: This Peacemaker Season 2 Star Deserves an Emmy for Lying Through Her Teeth After a Fan Nailed the Theory

Tom Holland, Take Note: This Peacemaker Season 2 Star Deserves an Emmy for Lying Through Her Teeth After a Fan Nailed the Theory
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Jennifer Holland doesn’t blink. In a game where a twitch can cost millions, her ice-cold calm leaves opponents guessing and the room holding its breath.

Jennifer Holland is not spilling Peacemaker secrets. The latest episode finally drops the big season 2 twist, the one sharp-eyed fans have been predicting for weeks, and she still managed to play dumb in an interview days before it aired. Honestly? Impressive restraint.

Heads up: spoilers ahead

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The twist, finally confirmed

The alternate reality Chris keeps slipping into? It is Earth-X — the DC universe where the Nazis won World War 2. The show has not said the name out loud yet, but the episode leaves zero doubt.

  • The other world has been conspicuously devoid of people of color from the jump.
  • Adebayo gets chased by a racist mob in a genuinely nasty, skin-crawling sequence.
  • Chris looks at an American flag on a desk and, instead of stars, there is a swastika. Subtle, this is not.

If you know the character history, the inside-baseball piece clicks too: the idea that Auggie Smith is a nicer guy over there suddenly makes grim sense in a world built on white supremacy.

Holland saw the theory coming — and stonewalled it

Before the episode dropped, Brandon Davis brought the Earth-X theory to Holland during an interview. She did not blink.

That is really interesting. Is Earth-X something from the comics that I do not know about?

Davis laid out the concept, and Holland kept the bit going.

So that is why people think that Auggie Smith is such a nice guy in this universe. Wild, that is pretty cool. Episodes six through eight, a lot happens, a lot is revealed, it has a lot of consequences for the future of the DC universe. You only have to wait one more week and you are going to get a little bit more information. The next three episodes are pretty wild.

Translation: she knew exactly what was coming and did not give an inch. If Marvel has Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo as lovable spoiler fountains, this Holland is the lockdown version — nothing’s getting out on her watch.