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67% Avg. Tomatometer 49 Reviews 94% Avg. Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings TWISTED METAL, a half-hour live-action TV series based on the classic PlayStation game series, is a high-octane action...
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Jul 26, 2023 · Entertainment. Peacock’s Twisted Metal is trying really, really hard. / The PlayStation adaptation is caught between being a dark vision of a postapocalyptic future and a never-ending barrage...
67% Tomatometer 49 Reviews 94% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings TWISTED METAL, a half-hour live-action TV series based on the classic PlayStation game series, is a high-octane action comedy...
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Jul 26, 2023 · ‘Twisted Metal’ Review: Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz in Peacock’s Fast, Fun Video Game Adaptation. The pair lead the cast of the post-apocalyptic series co-starring Thomas Haden...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jul 26, 2023 2:26 pm
Posted: Jul 26, 2023 8:00 am
Twisted Metal premieres Thursday, July 27 on Peacock.
The long-running rude and crude Twisted Metal game franchise has shifted gears and become a live-action streaming series for Peacock, dialing up its gory gallows humor to 11 for an enjoyably batshit trek through a Mad Max-style dystopian America. It's crazy, crass, and downright impolite with its surprising amount of heart. It's a buddy comedy, social commentary, and hilarious blitz all in one.
Though lacking undead hordes, this is the Zombieland TV series we never got back in 2013 (when Amazon had viewers vote on which of the streamer's 14 pilots would move forward). And it's not just because the tones match up, it's because Zombieland and Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick created the series and executive produced this warped Twisted Metal world – which isn't all that dissimilar from the U.S. wasteland in Zombieland. Cobra Kai's Michael Jonathan Smith served as showrunner, helping merge the comedy, violence, and warmth into a story that, against many odds, works pretty damn well. Much like Cobra Kai, which, on paper, has no natural right being as great as it is.
Twisted Metal is absurd and hilarious in exactly the ways you want a dystopian Cannonball Run to be. Yes, it matches the games' crude humor but, mostly, it springboards from there and creates its own dark and warped wasteland sensibilities. During the back stretch of the season, there's a little bit of joke fatigue, but the demented tapestry presented here, grown from the seeds of the games and expanded into something workable as an ongoing series, is delightful. Mackie and Beatriz play characters you root for but also love to see get into impossible situations. Meanwhile, Church and Joe/Arnett provide the "order" and "chaos" out on the open road, making for a believable powder keg of violence at all times. This show is so so dumb, as only clever people could achieve.
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Though overloaded with jokes at times, Twisted Metal is a miraculously enjoyable blend of comedy, violence, and thoughtfulness.
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Jul 27, 2023 · It’s bad enough that Twisted Metal is basically Mad Max meets The Last of Us meets every other post-apocalyptic quest narrative pop culture has coughed up over the past five decades—a violent...
Jul 26, 2023 · The first season of "Twisted Metal" is a bizarre puzzle. Its first half is the most terrible series I've seen this year, which means most viewers will probably exit this TV highway. But in the second half, thanks to the solid efforts of its charming leads and comedic supporting characters, "Twisted Metal" turns into an adorable and raunchy rom-com.
