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.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    11 months 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·
      11 months 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.