Twisted Metal is screeching onto your television screen with another batch of burnt rubber and blood splatter in Season 2, hitting Peacock with a triple-episode premiere July 31, 2025. In the first season we met John Doe (Anthony Mackie), Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), Sweet Tooth (Joe Seanoa and Will Arnett), Agent Stone (Thomas Haden Church), Raven (Neve Campbell), and the rest of the Twisted Metal gang.
Each of them is trying to find their path in a chaotic post-apocalyptic wasteland. Raven rules New San Francisco (and has more personal motivations), Stone wants to impose his violent form of law enforcement on the world, and Sweet Tooth is taking his bloody show on the road. Meanwhile, John is tasked with picking up a package in New Chicago and bringing it back to New San Fran.
That’s how he meets Quiet and the two of them become enemies, then friends, then lovers. Things get complicated when the duo get back to New San Francisco and John gets a cushy life, safe and sound inside the city walls, while Quiet is sent packing. Of course, that’s all a pretense for more nefarious machinations going on in the background. Raven doesn’t care about the package; she cares about finding the best driver possible to compete in an upcoming tournament for the ultimate prize.
In Season 1, things got a little wacky at times, arguably a little over the top every now and again, but you could always keep your wheels pretty firmly on the ground. In Season 2, all bets are off.
Twisted Metal is more twisted, more metal, and more magical
This season audiences get thrown straight into the classic 1995 PlayStation video game which inspired the series. Now that the game board is set, it’s time for John, Quiet, and a wacky cast of drivers (some old and some new) to arrive for Calypso’s Twisted Metal tournament.
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The last driver standing gets a single wish, no matter what it costs or even if it violates the laws of physics. Whatever your heart desires can be yours, if you’ll drive.
“That was always the goal, to get to the tournament. What’s so great about this season is every episode is about the tournament. There are some episodes that are ‘detours’ so to speak, but even those are about the tournament. So, when we get to the tournament it’s pedal to the metal, literally,” showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith told SYFY WIRE.
In addition to new characters, new settings, and higher stakes, Season 2 introduces supernatural elements, (often hilariously) with almost no explanation. The audience is expected to accept at face value, for instance, that Sweet Tooth can light his head on fire without any lasting damage. He can even put the fire out on command to emphasize a moment.
“We do know that Sweet Tooth is very enamored to pain. It’s not really that huge of a deal to him. But also, and I think this is spoken to in this season, there is definitely more of a mystical element to the entire season, and you know, we leave that kind of mystical question in the head of the viewer,” said Joe Seanoa, who plays Sweet Tooth on screen. “Some people perceive it one way, some people perceive it another way, and I think Sweet Tooth’s head is very much akin to that. You don’t know what the processes are, but it seems to work and it kind of makes you wonder what more is at work in the nefarious world of Twisted Metal.”
Mr. Grimm driving a motorcycle in Twisted Metal Season 2, Episode 5.
This season we also meet the mysterious and malicious Mr. Grimm (Richard De Klerk), one of only three characters to appear in every single Twisted Metal game. His appearance and origin have evolved over the course of the game series, but one thing has remained consistent: his hunger for human souls. Now, his body is a vessel for those souls and sometimes they bubble up to the surface. De Klerk plays Grimm like a revolving door of seamless personality changes.
“It was a challenge, and it was a true joy to figure out and to sink my teeth into,” De Klerk said.
That’s really just a taste of what Twisted Metal Season 2 has to offer. The stakes are higher than ever and the only way to survive is to put your hands at 10 and 2, jam the accelerator to the floor, and hit the road.
Twisted Metal Season 2 premieres with the first 3 episodes July 31, on Peacock. New episodes stream every Thursday.