I'm in the weird middle ground of person who kind of knows some of the Twisted Metal game stories but doesn't really care a lot about it, and I was shocked at how competent this show is. I definitely got the feeling they didn't have the budget to do more car stuff but were fishing for a second season and more money for that. They did a great job with the car scenes they did have. But I think they made as good of a show as anyone is going to with Twisted Metal and it was a really fun watch. I was expecting way, way, way less from it.
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I was expecting way, way, way less from it.
And this is probably the fault of those poor adaptations, seems that videogame adaptations are picking up!
Kind of, basically we live in the era of every IP possible getting some kind of adaptation just out of name recognition (and there's not a modern Twisted Metal game to justify it so it could easily have been a nostalgia ploy and nothing else) and frankly I don't think Twisted Metal has the most compelling writing as a video game either so it was a low bar to begin with. Twisted Metal Black has some fun monkey paw ideas but it would be hard to adapt a TV series to just that given that you'd need every contestant to win to see how their wishes go.
So I didn't have much reason to think it'd do well as a TV show but I think they took the best bits of it and let themselves get creative enough outside of it to make it work for the most part.
That and the original teaser trailer made it look pretty bad.
Whoa, people behind Deadpool did the Twisted Metal show? I'm gonna have to check this out. I wonder if they added Calypso or Minion.
I'm honestly tempted to cancel my HBOMax subscription and give peacock a shot - they have TheOffice, Star Trek, and now twisted metal - lots of reasons to make the switch since I'm not using HBOMax as much as I thought I would.
If your want to know:
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Calypso is in a cameo role but set up for much more in S2. No Minion.
Cool, thanks! That makes sense, I guess. Beating the game as Minion was so satisfying
This is so cool! They should do Road Rash or Jet Moto or Wipeout next.
WipEout would make an awesome animated show
Just finished watching this! It was surprisingly really good! I really liked how they built up the world.