Twisted Metal feels like it was created not to become a TV show, but to be put in a TV show as the archetypal violent game some maladjusted kid plays: It's about lunatics who drive around in armored vehicles blowing each other up to win a competition, and that's basically it. Character backstories are developed in 2001's Twisted Metal Black—which I played a ton of in high school—but we're talking "whoa, this clown's twisted," not Joel and Ellie. It's still primarily about slamming into civilian cars and cackling at the scream sound effect that plays.
I don't know how Peacock is going to make a show worth watching out of that, but I also don't have any serious complaints about the first teaser for the series, embedded above. There's a car, there are guns, and there's a twisted clown in an ice cream truck. Maybe in an ideal world we'd be bombarded with practical effects—cars really slamming into each other, loads of pyrotechnics, grindhouse stuff—but that doesn't feel likely, so sure, I'll take today's network TV standard.
