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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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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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Though part of me wishes the show had found a better way to balance their arcs with more vehicular action, season 2 is a fun expansion of the game adaptation.
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Season 2 gives us a satisfying deepening of the characters and lore, though some of build up to the climactic Twisted Metal match gets repetitive as it moves from one random death race to another.
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Twisted Metal has improved because it remembered that character development is as important as anything else, and it makes the show a lot less mentally tiring to watch.
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The metal is certainly twisted, but this solid sophomore season still shows that it’s not quite as twisted as it should be.