Sweet Tooth is here to decapitate passers-by as part of his stay in Vegas
Walled cities, a killer clown and plenty of vehicular mayhem are the focus of the new Twisted Metal trailer released Monday morning. The trailer gives us our best look yet at the adaptation, due out on Peacock later this month.
This new trailer presents the series and its irreverent yet apocalyptic tone more clearly than the clip from this year’s Summer Game Fest. This part featured Will Arnett’s “Sweet Tooth” beating up Anthony Mackie’s character “The Milkman” and eventually forcing him to sing the Thong Song in the middle of an abandoned casino. And while that’s undoubtedly a distinct part of the show, this new trailer explains a little more about what’s going on around the clown brawls.
The trailer mainly focuses on a narrative by Mackie’s character, which informs us about the state of the world in the series: Some tragedy has happened and the United States is a wasteland. The happiest people live in fairly comfortable, isolated cities, while the lands in between are a barren desert of highways, cars, guns, and outlaws. Mackie’s character is someone tasked with delivering goods between these cities, which few people succeed in doing due to the dangers involved. But things really get going when Mackie receives an order from Neve Campbell’s character, asking him to deliver something halfway across the county in exchange for a house within the walled town she runs.
If this all sounds a little grumpy, don’t worry, the show’s utterly weird, goofy, and slightly ’90s-tinged humor is still very much present here. In one part, Mackie’s character makes donuts on a mall map to find the footlocker, while in another part, someone anxiously compliments that Sweet Tooth’s recent decapitation is the most impressive they’ve seen. It’s a bizarre mix of dark and violent punch lines and outright silliness that is sure to make for a very interesting and very odd combination throughout the series. It’s not the last of us.
All 10 episodes of Season 1 of Twisted Metal will premiere on Peacock on July 27th.
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