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Positive:
17
Mixed:
6
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJul 31, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Everyone simply seems to be having more fun this year, and that can be infectious. If the first season felt like an obligation to ride a wave of video game adaptations, the second feels like an honest effort to satisfy both fans of the games and those who never played them. The result is a season that finds its tone in ways that the first never did.
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The TelegraphMar 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Twisted Metal the TV show is brought to the screen by the producers of the Deadpool movies starring Ryan Reynolds, and holds true to its pixelated predecessor’s manic qualities. .... Mackie and Beatriz have a matey chemistry and their characters’ cautious friendship gives the series its emotional core.
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Jul 30, 2025
Season 2 Review:
It’s the hilarious love child of Death Race, Blood Drive, and … well, the long-running Twisted Metal videogame series. Is this show for everyone? Assuredly not. But in Season 2, it’s not trying to be. It’s just trying to be Twisted Metal, and it finally has that figured out.
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Jul 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
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 of John’s past that’s brought to the fore through flashbacks. .... Sometimes characters from these episodic adventures recur as “Twisted Metal” engages in satisfying world-building.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This is a screen-popping, wickedly funny, seriously twisted and action-jammed adventure that leaves us wanting more. Think “Mad Max” meets “A Clockwork Orange,” with a little bit of the aforementioned “The Last of Us” as well as “The Walking Dead” sprinkled in like so many scoops of lemon pepper.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The show’s plot, especially, is total nonsense, sending Mackie racing across a decent chunk of the country with a ticking clock that never seems to meaningfully tick. There are ideas, images, and jokes worth seeing here, to be sure. But it’s a long trek to get to them.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
If “The Last of Us” excels at creeping terror and existential dread, “Twisted Metal” realizes that sometimes the appeal of the post-apocalypse genre lies in the simple pleasure of living vicariously through a likable hero dispensing one-liners while racing across the American wasteland.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Quite decent. Both as colorful and as deep as a shimmering oil slick on a sweltering stretch of abandoned blacktop, Twisted Metal lacks the budget and ingenuity to consistently live up to the game’s sense of unrelenting mayhem. But its limitations make room for a solid character-based story to develop around stars Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz.
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RogerEbert.comJul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It crashes and burns as an action-comedy, but out of those ashes is an edgy rom-com, and believe it or not, it works. Even the episodic obstacles they face around the backend improve as comedic performers Chloe Fineman and Jason Mantzoukas pop in. They provide unhinged performances that leave you wanting more.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Although its late-stage tie-ins to its source material and cliffhanger ending didn’t do much for me, and I have a general allergy towards its brand of blood-splattered gags, the characterization of these endearing misfits left me eager to see what stretch of road they’d visit next.
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ColliderJul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The shift to comedy also mostly works, thanks to a great writing staff that includes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick of Zombieland and Deadpool fame, and a team of characters that embrace the weird world they’ve been thrown into. Twisted Metal might be a scrappy little mess at times, but it mostly works when it hits the gas.
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SlashfilmJul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Action is well-choreographed, the kills are gnarly, and watching various cars fly around and flip over in dramatic fashion never stops thrilling. In these moments, the show delivers on the high-octane thrills a name like "Twisted Metal" promises — and the finale offers all the chaotic, explosive violence that feels like a video game come to life. It's a shame, then, that the show all-too-regularly bogs itself down in overly familiar plotlines, instead of letting the craziness take over.
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The GuardianMar 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It all feels very brash and attention-seeking, like the TV equivalent of a lime-green hatchback doing late-night doughnuts in a supermarket car park. But, if you can tune in to Twisted Metal’s motormouth wavelength of childish exuberance, it is certainly a fun ride.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Fans of the games will be thrilled by Sweet Tooth’s scene-stealing brio, if not the structure of the show’s premise; we have another Mortal Kombat (2021) situation on our hands, an adaptation that serves primarily as a set-up for more to come. But if low-budget and low-brow bloodletting is your thing, there are far worse roads to travel.
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The PlaylistJul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There might have even been a better version of this show that wasn’t scared to really center Stu as the lead, a normal guy in a sea of abnormal weirdos. In that version, the writers wouldn’t have been so tied to a protagonist like John who thinks he’s charming but is really just bland. And it could have allowed other supporting players from the series to pop in and out. Instead, we’re stuck in a car with John and Quiet, wondering when this road trip is going to end.
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Jul 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Its general mode of operating is to put in whatever seems cool and fun and silly and sick and leave out anything that does not meet those parameters. Yes to: guns, cars, sardonic needle drops, wisecracks, blood, sex, flash, grime, the sound of tires on pavement, shit that looks dope. No to: quietness, finicky world-building, thinking too hard about the limitations of the human body, complex motivations, depth, taking stuff too seriously, man.
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Jul 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“Twisted Metal” is not flawed because it’s a game adaptation. Its flaws still speak to why “The Last of Us” was an exception to an otherwise ironclad rule, and how copying that show’s playbook is not a surefire formula for success. The story of “Twisted Metal” is thin and packed with tropes.
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