Twisted Metal
"The tournament is here. Game on."
Overview
A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.
Twisted Metal turns the post-apocalyptic genre into a hyper-violent slapstick comedy. It embraces the absurdity of its source material, pitting a delivery driver against scavengers and a deranged clown in a heavy-metal demolition derby. The action is frantic and gore-soaked, prioritizing high-speed vehicular carnage over the grim tone usually found in stories about the end of the world.
Anthony Mackie anchors the chaos as a sarcastic outsider trying to survive a wasteland defined by tournaments and road rage. While the premise hinges on a simple mail run across a ruined landscape, the show focuses heavily on the strange personality dynamics between people stuck in armored cars. It leans into the humor of a bizarre, broken future where the most dangerous threat often comes from behind the wheel of an ice cream truck.
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- First Aired
- July 27, 2023
- Status
- Returning Series
- Origin
- US
- TMDB Votes
- 515