‘Twisted Metal’: Sweet Tooth rules!

For those of you who may not know, Twisted Metal is a new TV show coming
to Peacock, based on a 1996 Playstation and PC game of demolition derby
style mayhem, with different cars and guns and other weapons, and
several zany characters to drive them, including everyone’s favorite
killer clown, Sweet Tooth!

Hosted by Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller, who promised the audience a chance
to win a brand new PlayStation 5 after the screening was over, the
exhausted but anticipatory fans were treated to a surprise visit from
Sweet Tooth himself, as we waited in the packed room with the obligatory
scene-setting mood smoke and teaser pics. (The scene wasn’t the only
thing set off by the mood smoke – the convention center fire alarms were
set off too!) And finally, after yet another reminder of NDAs and
embargoes we’ve all had to read and sign, we’re ready to dive into
the newly expanded world of Twisted Metal!

Meet Anthony Mackie’s character, aka the Milkman, aka John Doe. Awhile
ago something big and nasty wiped out computers, the internet,
electricity, life as we know it de-evolved into a shitshow as everyone
began fighting everyone else for whatever was left. The cities that were
left walled themselves off and left the bad element of society, killers
and thieves and anyone who didn’t “fit in” with the new societal norms
were ousted and left to fend for themselves, against other Mad Max-style
marauders, with their own gangs and modded cars and guns. The Milkman,
as his handle suggests, makes delivery runs between various areas of
needed supplies, while cheerfully using his own explosive
countermeasures against enemies, loudly blasting epic 90’s nostalgia
tunes, and bartering for whatever extras he can scrounge along the way.
Then one day he gets called in to meet the leader of New San Francisco,
Raven and she has a very important delivery job she wants John to do.

Saying anything else would involve huge spoilers and thus we will leave
it is there, but believe me when I say, the show is crazy and over-the-top
and just plain fun, reminiscent of Syfy’s Blood Drive and other such
demolition derbys writ large, with explosions and blood on the camera
and Mackie’s smirking grin, all overlaid by an absolutely bangin’ ’90s
style soundtrack!