EXCLUSIVE: Audiences seem to be racing through Peacock’s latest series Twisted Metal. In the two weeks since the video game adaptation launched, it has become the streamer’s “most…

I loved this show hopefully we get another season. Shockingly good adaptation.

Weird that with this and Poker Face, Peacock (!) has two of my favorite shows this year.

  • lori@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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!

      • lori@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nzEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • cassetti@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.