An assault on the senses and the intellect, Twisted Metal is one for the scrapyard.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2024

It could have been a car crash. Instead, it’s an enjoyably breakneck whoosh through the A-Z of dystopian sci-fi cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2024

Its not so much an adaptation as it is an introduction for those who never played the game. The first season is a reworking of the story for a bigger picture. If the series continues, there’s a lot of promise that die-hard fans will be rewarded.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2023

It does feel like it comes from a place of and a labor of love.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2023

This show is not technically a good one, but it is fun and entertaining and utterly ridiculous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2023

There might have even been a better version of this show that wasn’t scared to really center Stu as the lead.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 8, 2023

By no means a flawless freshman season, but even with its faults, it still manages to be a pretty fun, memorable ten episode ride...

Full Review | Aug 4, 2023

Some of the parts, such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz as a car thief, are welcome, but generally this is closer to Sad Max than Mad Max.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2023

It was violent and bloody and cheesy and funny and honestly kind of lovely.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2023

Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz nicely invert stereotypical characterizations ... Beatriz turns her trademark clipped, dismissive delivery into a weapon, almost equal to her ferocity as a killing machine with vengeance on her mind and in her heart.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2023

Twisted Metal does slowly find a rhythm and pick a lane, at which point it’s a lot easier to enjoy these heavy-handed caricatures and their explosive antics with modest expectations. Twisted Metal is dumb fun that’s big, broad, and unabashedly bloody.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 3, 2023

Twisted Metal embraces the pitch-black chaos of its source material while bringing timely themes to the fore. What results is a series with real heart, if not a relentless cruel streak.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2023

Twisted Metal is a buoyant two-hander romp through post-apocalypse that recognizes the freedom the source material provides and offers some truly fun world-building touches.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2023

I was not expecting was that Twisted Metal would be one of the best video game adaptations I’ve ever seen.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2023

Mackie is the beating heart and voice of Twisted Metal as he anchors the action with his wisecracks and charisma.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2023

Twisted Metal turns an insanely funny video game into an insanely funny show, with a story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2023

Twisted Metal takes too many pit stops.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2023

It can take some time to get on the Peacock adaptation’s juvenile wavelength, but if you embrace your inner 12-year-old, the humor is infectious.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2023

Mackie, borrowing some comedic delivery stylings from Eddie Murphy, proves again he’s a welcome lead actor, effortlessly playing the humor while also evincing the anguish.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2023

[No] more fun or substantive than smashing a Hot Wheels with a hammer.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2023