The actor experienced highs and lows on his journey with John Economos, including losing his mother in between 'The Suicide Squad' and landing on 'Peacemaker.'

Though different in tone, Peacemaker season 2 is closer in content to Starz's highly underrated J.K. Simmons-starring Counterpart, a spy thriller that dealt with two universes that diverged in 1987. There, too, the focus was on characters first, while also coming up with interesting riffs on the mythology second.