Twisted Metal: Exclusive First Look at Season 2 of Peacock's PlayStation Series

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In the upcoming 2nd play of Peacock’s Twisted Metal, the mysterious Calypso invites each the killers, vigilantes and joyriders of the Divided States of America to enactment successful a demolition derby tourney with the committedness of making the winner’s top privation travel true.

“Everybody's a villain this play due to the fact that we're successful a tournament,” Twisted Metal prima Anthony Mackie told IGN earlier this week.

We spoke with Mackie, his co-star Stephanie Beatriz and showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith for our latest integer screen story, which reveals exclusive first-look photos from Season 2 arsenic good arsenic caller crippled details and formed members.

We tin besides exclusively denote that Twisted Metal: Season 2 premieres connected Peacock connected July 31, 2025.

Scroll done the assemblage beneath for 11 exclusive photos from Twisted Metal: Season 2.

Twisted Metal: Season 2 Exclusive First Look

Dollface: John Doe’s Vigilante Sister Unmasked

“John, astatine the extremity of Season 1, gets his privation successful a way. He wants community, helium wants family, and helium gets this realization astatine the extremity of Season 1 that he's really from New San Francisco,” Smith explained. Mackie added, “That's the large happening astir the caller season, he's beauteous overmuch connected apical of the world. He's gotten everything helium could inquire for and he's realizing what's the information of the New San Francisco beingness now.”

John’s literal and affectional travel successful Season 2 is intertwined with that of Dollface (played by Tiana Okoye). It was revealed astatine the extremity past play that the amnesiac John has a sister, who is archetypal seen wearing a doll look disguise and successful the institution of a radical of pistillate vigilantes known arsenic the Dolls. Season 2 reveals that her sanction is Krista and she’s the person of the Dolls, who fight, Robin Hood-style, for the endurance of the Outsiders against the Insiders.

“What's large is that Krista has benignant of been connected the extracurricular and she's had a antithetic acquisition than John,” said Smith. “Krista has seen the inequality betwixt the Insiders and Outsiders, and she doesn't similar it. She has decided to combat against it and truly wants to find a equilibrium betwixt the Insiders and Outsiders.”

Mackie said John gathering Krista “legitimizes who helium is arsenic a quality and a person. Even conscionable successful existent life, we ever find ourselves truthful isolated and unsocial astatine times, not having a household connection, not having a location base, being a nomad almost. And past erstwhile helium finds his sister, helium has that grounding again. He has that intent again. So it benignant of takes him backmost to that puerility that helium lost, that helium couldn't recollect, oregon answers each those questions for him that he's ever had.”

Although they’re siblings and person immoderate similarities, Smith pointed retired the cardinal differences betwixt John and Krista. “We similar that she's conscionable arsenic brainsick arsenic John is. She's conscionable arsenic convulsive successful immoderate ways and we similar seeing a small spot of the things that marque them the same, but besides she's overmuch much consenting to get into the battle. John has spent his full beingness avoiding struggle successful immoderate ways. He conscionable needs to drive, helium needs to get from constituent A to constituent B. But Krista has spent her beingness getting into the conflict, seeing that sometimes you can't enactment retired of the conflict and is much than blessed to get successful the mediate of it.”

As it turns out, 1 of Krista’s cardinal lieutenants is nary different than John’s erstwhile woman Quiet, who joined the Dolls astatine the extremity of the archetypal season. “Quiet's thing if not a survivor, and to past successful the world, you person to marque alliances, allegiances. You request to marque definite that you're safe, and that's what she does,” said Beatriz. “The assemblage is going to fig retired who and however Dollface is connected to John and however the coincidental/not coincidental transportation that she has to Quiet allows those discoveries to happen.”

Beatriz doubled down connected that crypticness: “In this world, it's like, however overmuch tin you spot what anybody says from 1 occurrence to the next? I deliberation that's a taxable that you'll spot passim the season. Trust is simply a large happening successful this satellite due to the fact that it's not conscionable astir trusting idiosyncratic oregon what idiosyncratic says to you, right? It's similar truly trusting idiosyncratic is genuinely putting your beingness successful their hands often successful this world. … Just due to the fact that idiosyncratic says thing is existent doesn't needfully marque it so.”

And everyone’s spot volition beryllium enactment to the literal trial this play erstwhile they enactment successful Calypso’s Twisted Metal Tournament. “If we're each successful this tourney together, cipher is my person but my teammate,” said Beatriz.

Calypso and the Twisted Metal Tournament

Calypso is 1 of lone 3 characters to person appeared successful each Twisted Metal game, truthful determination was plentifulness of worldly for showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith and histrion Anthony Carrigan, who is simply a instrumentality of the game, to gully from successful shaping the TV show’s incarnation of him.

“My instrumentality connected Calypso is he's a small spot of everything from the games. He's ever 3 steps ahead. He's got large expansive plans for the tournament,” Smith explained. “He's a showman. He truly loves showing off. I deliberation this is simply a mentation of Calypso wherever he's a performer. He's got a small spot of P.T. Barnum successful him wherever helium loves to person those twists. But I deliberation there's decidedly that constituent of helium does not similar being shown up and helium does not similar different radical being the halfway of attention, which is great.

“I deliberation what's besides large astir the mode Anthony portrays him is that there's this childish glee with it too,” Smith added. “He's benignant of being the assemblage surrogate successful immoderate ways wherever he's conscionable enjoying this due to the fact that he's bringing these drivers successful and letting them participate the tournament. But he's the 1 who's watching it. He's the 1 who's getting to spot the tourney play retired and enjoying the twists and turns of it. And I deliberation helium enjoys it conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic helium enjoys coming up with what the rounds are.”

For an Outsider similar Quiet, Calypso initially represents “the committedness of what is possible,” arsenic Beatriz enactment it: “In Season 1, Quiet is dazzled by it. She's truly excited by the theatricality of Calypso and the committedness of what is possible, similar Calypso's real, and he's existent and he's magic, and helium makes crap happen. Suddenly, there's an elevator successful the mediate of a tract and present we're successful a weird hallway. She's conscionable wholly dazzled by it.”

Quiet wants to triumph Calypso’s tourney truthful Calypso volition assistance her privation to marque beingness amended for the Outsiders successful the Divided States of America, but her feelings astir the big volition germinate implicit the season. (The tourney itself volition play retired implicit the second fractional of the 12-episode season.)

“I deliberation Quiet starts to look astir and truly excavation deeper and excavation down into what's really happening astir her, successful peculiar Calypso and who helium is and what helium represents and however his machinations are structuring the satellite and however they're affecting radical successful it,” said Beatriz. “Real lives are affected by what he's starting to bash successful Season 2. I deliberation her opinions astir Calypso commencement to displacement and change. I deliberation it's truly hard for her due to the fact that she wants to judge successful thing bigger than her.

“For a small while, it looks similar it mightiness beryllium Calypso, but I don't deliberation she starts the play successful the aforesaid spot that she ends it successful presumption of however she feels astir him. He's this creator of this astonishing tourney that's fundamentally going to springiness everybody the committedness of their top privation coming true, but however does that hap successful this satellite and what does it instrumentality to marque that happen? For players of the game, they already know, conscionable due to the fact that you privation thing truthful severely doesn't mean you're going to get it successful the mode that you imagined it would happen.”

"He wants to beryllium the astir celebrated slayer successful The Divided States of America.

Sweet Tooth’s Twisted Wish

The crystal pick truck-driving, masked maniac whitethorn person terrorized Las Vegas successful Season 1, but Sweet Tooth discovers successful Season 2 that he’s got contention for being the baddest of the bad.

“He's realizing that there's different radical retired there, there's different killers, and he's a large food successful an adjacent bigger pond. And he's benignant of coming to grips with that,” according to Smith.

“His large privation is that helium wants legacy. He wants to beryllium the biggest killer. He wants to beryllium the astir celebrated slayer successful The Divided States of America, and he's going to bash immoderate helium tin to get that. And this clip he's got Stu by his side, which is great. And it's been truthful amusive watching the 2 of them benignant of go this drama duo.

“Will Arnett and Samoa Joe proceed what they did past season. And I deliberation you're going to spot much unit from them, much drama from them. I deliberation fans are going to emotion to spot (Sweet Tooth) play up against caller villains. We benignant of person our ain small MCU moments, seeing them interact with enemies we've met from Season 1, caller enemies that we meet,” said Smith.

“I deliberation it's going to beryllium truly amusive to spot him unleash his unit connected the tournament.”

Mr. Grimm

Mr. Grimm is 1 of lone 3 characters – the others being Calypso and Needles Kane – who’s appeared successful each Twisted Metal game. In the games, Grimm has been some quality (a antheral with Grim Reaper-like skull look paint) and supernatural (an existent “living” skeleton). Given that helium steals souls, is the show’s Mr. Grimm, played by Richard de Klerk, really supernatural oregon conscionable a specified mortal?

“I deliberation we privation to fto the fans ticker and determine for themselves,” said Smith. “I truly wanted to marque Grimm a peculiar character. I wanted to truly thin into a quality who's a Grim Reaper, but we privation to bash our ain mentation of that.

“We did this successful Season 1 truly successfully. And we bash it adjacent much wherever nary atrocious feline is conscionable a atrocious guy. They each person interior lives and interior wishes and a crushed for them to exist. And I deliberation we bash that adjacent amended this play and I'm truly excited for you to conscionable each of them and recognize what makes them tick.”

Axel

Half-man, half-machine, Axel is different beloved Twisted Metal baddie making the leap to live-action successful Season 2. While the histrion playing the relation has not yet been revealed, Axel volition so look successful War Wheel signifier connected the show, which was achieved utilizing mostly applicable effects.

Smith said fans person been champing astatine the spot for Axel to articulation the amusement but his inclusion posed immense method challenges. “How bash you bash a quality that is virtually a elephantine muscular antheral stuck betwixt 2 gigantic wheels? You look astatine the plan and you say, ‘How?’ And past aft you inquire why. And I deliberation it was a challenge. Absolutely.”

When Axel moves astatine precocious speeds it’s a ocular effect but Smith said helium wanted the uncover of Axel to beryllium the series’ “show-stopper moment.” He called accumulation decorator Carey Meyer “a genius” for achieving his imaginativeness for a applicable Axel. This mentation of the quality is the 1.0 mentation of Axel, according to Smith, truthful the plan reflects the look of thing that’s inactive being tinkered with by whoever created Axel successful that world.

The existent rig for Axel required tires to beryllium molded since determination aren’t immoderate existing wheels that were large enough. The full apparatus was custom-built, weighed implicit a ton and required its ain trailer to determination it astir due to the fact that it’s that huge.

Raven: Meet the New Boss, (Not the) Same arsenic the Old Boss

While Neve Campbell played Raven successful Twisted Metal’s archetypal season, Season 2 reveals that she was not THE Raven. No, the existent Raven appears this play and is played by Patty Guggenheim, who viewers volition retrieve arsenic the scene-stealing Madisynn connected She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law. Campbell’s Raven was but 1 of respective “Ravens” moving for Guggenheim’s existent brag Raven, who Smith described arsenic the “Howard Hughes goth Raven.”

"We ever liked this thought of wanting to grow upon the Raven mythos. And we ever liked the puppeteering benignant of thought that we introduced successful Season 1, particularly towards the end,” Smith explained. “The much we talked astir it, the much we had this thought of, ‘Well, what if determination were aggregate Ravens?’ New San Francisco is specified a large metropolis that we were attracted to this thought of determination being multiples of them. How could she beryllium successful truthful galore places astatine once?”

Smith said this caller absorption gave him and the writers the accidental to propulsion much from the games “and to dive much into the Kelly backstory [Raven’s doomed woman successful Twisted Metal: Black] and springiness the fans those Easter eggs that I knew that they were looking for.”

Twisted Metal Mayhem

Smith explained that with John spending portion of his storyline this play with his sister Dollface, Quiet besides required a caller quality to stock scenes with. So they created the quality of Mayhem, played by Saylor Bell Curda.

“We talked a batch astir Quiet and what Quiet's arc was going to be. And I truly liked this thought that Quiet successful the lack of her sibling [has] the accidental to beryllium a relation exemplary and what would that beryllium like. And each the drama that we could get from introducing a caller quality that could beryllium a foil to Quiet.

“But besides we liked the thought of determination being idiosyncratic who had been connected the extracurricular and what would idiosyncratic from a younger procreation beryllium similar successful this world? So we truly went down that way and that's wherever Mayhem benignant of came from. And I truly conscionable liked the thought of this young creator who has been connected the extracurricular since birth. … What is that procreation like? And arsenic you larn deeper into the season, we benignant of get into that. We telephone her an apo baby, similar an apocalypse baby.”

While she whitethorn person been calved an apo baby, Mayhem has since grown into rather the symptom successful the ass successful her adolescence, according to Beatriz. “With immoderate teenager, listening is simply a situation for them. I deliberation they person this truly absorbing large sister/little sister relationship. Quiet becomes her chill aunt, idiosyncratic that she tin trust, that she's not successful contention with … but that she tin thin on, trust connected successful a way. That gets unsafe due to the fact that alliances successful this satellite tin alteration truly quickly. What you request successful this satellite is to beryllium capable to marque truly hard decisions erstwhile it comes to survival, and you're going to spot that play retired successful this play with Quiet and Mayhem.

“Not to enactment excessively good a constituent connected it, but she's a small portion of shit,” added Beatriz. “She's a talker. She lies done her teeth. She's a teen successful this world, truthful she's grown up wrong the satellite of Twisted Metal. She doesn't truly retrieve thing before. She's truly learned however to past successful this world, but I besides deliberation Quiet sees that she has a batch of potential, meaning that she's smart, she learns quickly, and erstwhile she is capable to listen, past Quiet tin truly instrumentality her nether her helping and thatch her rather a bit.”

Twisted Metal: Season 2 debuts connected Peacock connected July 31st. In the meantime, work our Twisted Metal: Season 1 reappraisal and observe details connected Sony’s canceled Twisted Metal game.

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