I don’t find out about you, however I’m loving Twisted Steel Season 2. One of the crucial absurd (and absurdly superior) reveals on the 2025 TV schedule, this nice online game adaptation has every thing this longtime fan desires in a collection after which some.
From cracking up at Will Arnett and Samoa Joe’s Candy Tooth to dwelling vicariously via Anthony Mackie having a lot enjoyable as John Doe, I’m loving this goofy, bloody, and addictive Peacock unique. I lately observed one thing actually candy when watching Twisted Steel with my Peacock subscription, and this little minor element has led to me loving the present much more.
No, it’s not the “bizarre as hell” orgy, all these wild callbacks to the video games, however as a substitute the music. Let me clarify…
In case you have a look at the official Twisted Steel playlist on Spotify, you’ll see songs like Gorillaz’s breakout hit “Clint Eastwood,” the late DMX’s “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem,” and Michelle Department’s pop phenomenon “All over the place,” to call only a few. What do all of those songs have in frequent, you could ask? Properly, they had been all launched in or earlier than 2002, the purpose at which the world went to shit within the Twisted Steel-verse.
I misplaced my thoughts throughout “ONURMRK,” when Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” began enjoying in the course of the opening of the Twisted Steel event. Not solely was this a observe launched earlier than society’s collapse, but it surely was solely a pleasant nod to Twisted Steel 4, which featured “Dragula” on the soundtrack and because the identify of Mr. Zombie’s automobile within the event.
It is A Minor Element, However Having Songs From That Period Provides So A lot To The Really feel Of The Present
Similar to the “Thong Music” needle drop in the course of the first season of Twisted Steel, together with all of those era-specific songs provides a lot to the texture of the present. Positive, there’s the standard instrumental rating from composers Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson (which actually is nice, by the best way), however together with these chart-topping songs that existed contained in the present’s world earlier than the collapse provides some nice worldbuilding.
These small moments, that are admittedly temporary at occasions, add a lot magic and humor to the scenes, particularly throughout that coaching montage set to “Clint Eastwood” in the course of the early a part of the season. It simply would not really feel fairly proper to listen to Taylor Swift or Kendrick Lamar behind these scenes.
What Showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith Has Mentioned About These Needle Drops
You understand what makes these ‘90s and early 2000s tracks a lot enjoyable in Twisted Steel? Properly, moreover the truth that they make the world a lot extra enjoyable? When talking with CinemaBlend’s Nicholas Venable forward of the Season 2 premiere, showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith talked in regards to the private connections to the songs, together with an iconic and unhealthy SNL film:
I really like ‘Volcano Women!’ I really like our playlist. This 12 months, we’ve 19 tracks which might be within the season. One in all my favorites is — I imply, I do not wish to spoil considered one of them [that’s] a later one — however considered one of my favorites is early on within the season: Haddaway’s ‘What Is Love?’ As a result of my first date was going to see Night time on the Roxbury, so I needed to put that in there as a pleasant nod. However I am actually pleased with all of the songs that we’ve this season. It is a hell of a playlist.
I’ve my “Dragula” and “Clint Eastwood” recollections, Smith has his “What Is Love?” first date story, and each show why these songs simply work!
With all these needle drops, comedy, and over-the-top violence, hopefully, we get extra Twisted Steel sooner or later, as a result of I’d like to see this be part of the listing of different promising upcoming online game motion pictures and reveals.