When Twisted Metal first premiered back in 2023, it bore only a passing resemblance to the game. The series followed John Doe (Anthony Mackie), a post-apocalyptic delivery driver on a quest for a better life while bonding with a mysterious stranger named Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) — a premise far different than the no-holds-barred demolition derby tournament format of the Twisted Metal games from the ‘90s and ‘00s.
But nobody was really expecting the show to follow the format of the game, as there wasn’t really any plot to begin with. Instead, Season 1 was a touching story of found family, survival, and lots of explosions. In Season 2, you can expect more of the same, but with one big addition: the actual Twisted Metal tournament from the games. If Season 1 was a bizarro version of The Last of Us, Season 2 is a bizarro version of Squid Game — but it still finds time for the pathos established in the first chapter.
