Twisted MetalPeacock When I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but I cannot believe how wrong I was about this one. When I first heard that 7th best streaming service, Peacock, was making an Anthony Mackie-starring series based on PlayStation’s car combat franchise, Twisted Metal, I figured it had a roughly zero percent chance of being good. That we’d head back to the dark ages of horrible video game adaptations before the era of The Last of Us and Arcane. The first trailer, a fight between Sweet Tooth and Mackie’s John Doe set to Sisqo’s “The Thong Song” did little to dissuade that. What I was not expecting was that Twisted Metal is one of the best video game adaptations I’ve ever seen. I have no idea how this happened. Truly. But the end result is that Twisted Metal is an amazingly cast, brilliantly funny, surprisingly poignant adventure comedy series that was a genuine joy to watch. The series spans ten episodes, following Mackie’s John tasked with heading to Chicago and transporting an item back to San Fran… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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