Try Not to Cringe Over Twisted Metal's Television Show

It's not going to be good.

Who was this made for???

Bold choice for a twisted metal clip to show no vehicles!

Who thought Will Arnett would be a good sweet tooth?

Too late—I cringed so hard I broke my face

The part that confuses me the most is that the teaser clip for a show based on a vehicular combat game... doesn't feature any vehicles.

Sisqo the thong song 😁.wtf.yeah this is weird.word up son

Maybe the car combat sections will make up for it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I hate to bang the ‘this was always going to be so bad it doesn’t even loop round to be good again’ drum but this really does look like the worst TV seen in a long time.

I couldn't even make it through the whole clip, honestly. Just wretched.

This was doomed the moment it was announced and this trailer solidified it.

I'm just hoping a new a Twisted Metal game comes out. I've heard rumors, but I want something concrete and I want the game to be good!

Razzies are lining up already 🤣

To put it simply: Awful.

@Cordyceps Samoa Joe is Sweet Tooth

For any creative people out there struggling to get a break in your chosen field, it’s things like this that give you reason to keep at it.

What a load of nonsense.

If this is the daily challenge, I don't think anybody's going to win. Impossible not to cringe

I had to mute this when watching SGF live. Terrible.

@Yaycandy Yes, but Will Arnett provides the voice of Sweet Tooth. Samoa Joe is just under the mask.

I think in context this will be a much better part of the show. I get the tone, and the quality that they are going for. Sweet Tooth's costume looks great! Think this will be a pretty average show, but that's probably the aim

Sweet Tooth looks pretty good! with the positives out of the way man that was awful, I was completely overwhelmed by the cringe

Haven’t watched the clip yet but I always thought this was going to be the spiritual successor to “Tank Girl” (they need a Lori Petty cameo) while everyone else seemed to be expecting “The Road Warrior” for some odd reason.🤷🏻‍♂️

Only 10 more years until this is our reality. Felt like it this week in NYC.

Haha

I will have this on only for background noise 😂

No offense to anyone that thought a Twisted Metal show was even a remotely decent idea, but I told you so.

I think @get2sammyb genuinely likes it and wrote this article to cater the general negative internet reaction

I honestly think people are just too grumpy and opinionated to laugh at silly sh** these days. And this is definitely some silly sh** 😂

From the video preview picture I wouldn’t say the clown is going to beat him, but to… 😘🤭😅

This show is going to be so stupid, I love it

The attempt to defend this is more cringe than the cringe itself haha

This is not the Twisted Metal I knew growing up that David Jaffe made, that is for sure. Not exactly sure who this is for but that’s how I felt about the Uncharted movie and Last of Us show.

Oof. Can't say I ever was interested but if they wanted to sell people on it...probably should have chosen a scene with some actual car combat.

Just a thought. I will say Sweet Tooth actually looks pretty authentic at least. Kudos to the costume designers.

Easy to see why this didn't get a spot in the previous PS showcase after all... Yikes. If Sony is going to successfully walk the TV&Film/Video Game tightrope it needs The Last of Us TV series to not just be a one-off in terms of quality.

I actually enjoy what I saw. It's nice to have a little fun from time to time.

Plus we are talking about a game where you drove an ice cream truck with machine guns: that's not exactly "gritty" - there was a North Pole stage for crying out loud! Not to mention that the plot is basically "win tournament, get a wish".

There is a live service twisted metal game coming out right? So this was made, not because anyone wanted it or Sony thought they had an interesting idea, but because they want to build a "universe" to support a service game. It's all a bit corporate and boring to be honest, much like Playstation in general this generation.

I genuinely knew that this was how it was going to be. I was wanting the dark version of Twisted Metal but it just was not going to happen with this new Sony.

I mean it was hardly a heavy hitting emotional show or game. I think it’s a more not take yourself seriously kind of show.

I don’t get what people were expecting from this? Golden globe winning show?

@GamingFan4Lyf Depends on how you define gritty. It was more of a overly satirical American Psycho type of black comedy. All the characters took what was going on seriously, very much so.
I've mostly played Twisted Metal 2, but my understanding is that black isn't too far off.
It was a deal with the devil type of deal that almost always ended badly for everyone (including those who died in the competition), and sometimes the worst for the person who won and got to ask, Calypso, essentially the devil, for something.
Calypso viewed the whole thing as comedic, but only him and in an extremely cruel manner.

The show doesn't seem to even be using the competition format and instead a post apoclpyic that as far as we, know isn't from the tournament destroying the world, but just mad max style or something. This is not following the spirit of Twisted Metal very well. You could very much make a show out of the basic plot. Depending on how you handled the car being destroyed vs killing whoever is inside. You could do multiple seasons, with different winners, maybe it ending with someone killing calypso instead of asking for a wish.

Cringe? Yes
Enough information to form an opinion? No
Let's wait and see how it goes

I love it when a dude is beating me up and then find we have a surprising level of interpersonal chemistry.

With that said, Art the Clown is more my sort of guy. Tall, funny, expressive, but also not excessively talkative.

I'm just disappointed we haven't seen any cars. Vehicular combat has always been the heart of the franchise. I'm fine with TLoU tv show not using too many infecteds, but for TM? It's just not the same without vehicular.

I know I’m in the minority here but it’s so camp I kind of dig it

@swagbag7
>"I feel like those who are reacting that negatively don’t watch much tv."
Or maybe they don't watch bad TV? With the internet there's no need to sit through 7 hours of Cash in the Attic, Dickinson's Real Deal and Coronation Street just to get to the one half an hour of the day that isn't awful. You could watch TV shows all day and never watch a bad thing if you have just one streaming service (or be a naughty boy and visit certain free streaming sites). Thankfully this isn't the era of 4 channels and you have to watch what they put on, when they put it on.

Well, let's hope the game is at least any good.

@SplooshDmg Exactly.

The game is 💩 so what did people expect?

That was such a weird trailer yesterday

"Enjoy watching the thong song, exclusively on the 'c**k. "

@swagbag7 Just because all TV is now bad doesn't make bad TV good, it just reminds me why not to consider watching TV again.

@Matroska Though they had much better stuff on back when there were only 4 channels. At least for 2-3 hours a day anyway.

@rjejr "haven't watched yet"
There's still time for you. Save yourself. Just go. Be free.

@bindiana That's a Bold Strategy, Cotton Let's See If It Pays off for Him

oh, too late not to cringe... that looked like a practice session and not the final product. sadly, it will be the final product.

Honestly, what did anybody expect when they heard "Twisted Metal TV Series?"

If I give you those four words and have you go make something, can you honestly say you'd come up with anything better than this? It's not aiming very high in the first place, and I'd say it does fine job limping over the low bar I set for it.

Having never played any of the games, I have zero context or expectation of what this show actually is or about — did it bear any reference or resemblance to the lore of the game universe?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner
You should really read into the story of Twisted Metal Black. There are videos on youtube. Its deep and can mess you up. From the game to the instruction manual to the back of the game box secretly giving you ciphers. They would of been better off creating a movie or show about Twisted Metal Black. Its all in his head…

https://youtu.be/VvQlj_Yh1gI

@Andee The games are basically arcade car-shoot-em-ups where your drive around in a little arcade car armed to the teeth in third person and shoot other cars, or ram them, and it's wrapped by some loose narrative about a competition and in the case or Black, a darker thing that masks an excuse to have a brown-apocalyptic-car-shooter.

If this trailer made you think of shooting cars with armed cars....well....... The character design is good. And they referenced car combat. But they're trying to make a TV series out of the very very weak narrative trappings around "shooty cars." (Black tries to go "deep" but...it's still an arcade game with subtle story elements, not exactly a narrative game.)

Making a TV show out of such a thing was always going to end up....like this.

I greatly await the Donkey Kong movie where some live action guerilla suit guy actually kidnaps women in construction yards.

We need a new Twisted Metal game, not whatever the hell this is.

Looks as dumb as the game concept. I don’t see the problem.

I am more concerned about the health of the clown guy.

@RobN
I'd probably focus on scenes featuring over the top vehicular combat.

@AhmadSumadi I loved Twisted Metal 2 World Tour remaster that and I'm in day one. I had a blast with my best best friend back in the day in the PS1.

Hard to fathom who thought this would work on screen, it barely worked in game no one played twisted metal for a story.

It's a cringe scene but the Thong Song is still a banger!

@Keyblade-Dan I have the answer. Fans of Joss Whedon/James Gunn-esque Marvel quip movies/TV shows.

they'll keep making these until people stop going to see them

@NEStalgia It's not about saving myself. it's about spoilers. Has to be a lot of plot twists and turns in a tv show called "Twisted Metal" no? Or do you think they left all the twists out along w/ the metal?😂

You're surprised a TV show based on an awful game looks awful? TM was "good" in a time when gamers didn't know what good was. Go back and play them today and they're objectively awful, not because time hasn't been good to them, they were awful games upon release! OoT will always be a good game, Mario 64 will always be a good game, MGS will always be a good game... TM? Never was. Get off the nostalgia train.

@rjejr oh there's no spoilers there. There's no plot so all. There's not even cars in a show about a game about cars. . It's the 90s Mario movie but with great character design.

Honestly I loved every second of it. But me and my friends used to actively listen to this album while playing Twisted Metal on PS1 so I think it just hit all the exact notes for me. Pun intended.

@NEStalgia "It's the 90s Mario movie but with great character design."

I'll take it. People on here just aren't making enough use of the new mj laws if you ask me. 🌿

@KidRyan I think everyone else wants to watch thought provoking 1 hour long TV shows.

HBO exists for that. Give us dumb fun over here please