Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t watched the sixth episode of Twisted Steel Season 2 with a Peacock subscription, so be warned!
Although Twisted Steel has actually featured some gnarly deaths thus far in its action-packed second season, I haven’t precisely been emotionally jarred seeing Candy Tooth flip one-off characters into posthumous ventriloquist dummies, or by seeing Axel’s weirdo creator vanquished. However Episode 206, “MKAW1SH,” did certainly throw me for a loop by taking out a lead that I used to be sure would survive the season: Tiana Okoye’s Dollface.
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Possibly it gained’t find yourself being probably the most miserable demise on the 2025 TV schedule, however no person can say Dollface went down like something however a hardcore badass. Having led the Dolls to turning into a formidable feminine drive in post-America, Dollface efficiently went by means of all of the blood, sweat and tears to make it to the qualifying spherical of Calypso’s event, solely to lose much more blood after being shot, stabbed and blown up through airstrike. Laborious. Effing. Core.
Alongside her co-stars Patty Guggenheim and Saylor Bell Curda, TIana Okoye talked to CinemaBlend about Season 2. Noting that it’s maybe too quickly to name Dollface a marty (contemplating what John needs for in the long run), I requested her to talk to the character representing one thing extra essential than what somebody may anticipate from a online game adaptation. In her phrases:
Oh, wow, thanks. Thanks for saying that. Yeah, she is absolutely, actually essential. I feel, in a world like this one, the place everyone seems to be on their very own and has lived on their very own for therefore lengthy. I feel it is very important discover like-minded individuals, and other people to name household, individuals to guard you, and other people to struggle for you. I feel that is her function within the revolution, within the apocalypse, is to create an area that’s protected, handy over the weapons and the instruments, to struggle for your self, and struggle for different individuals. And I like that about her, and I join together with her on that.
For all that Twisted Steel is a particularly heightened and pretty pessimistic tackle society’s downfall — not that I do know what an optimistic apocalypse appears like — Dollface was arguably as inspirational and motivational as another character. Which is not to say each single considered one of her strategies and moral choices was excellent, or that she would legitimately be a superb chief in peacetime, however as a beacon of unwavering energy, she’s all beastmode.
So whereas Dollface could not all the time have non-deadly options to unravel her issues, a whole lot of what she will get executed BEFORE bloodshed can actually be seen as aspirational. To that finish, Okoye talked concerning the character’s management high quality, saying:
I feel it is so essential to have unimaginable organizers and individuals who have a robust mission of defending and offering and preventing for actually good issues. So I feel that that is her, and I vibe together with her actual arduous.
I can solely think about that future episodes will take extra main characters out of the image, but it surely was tough to lose Dollface this early. After all, with the opening and ending tying into John voicing his needs to Calypso, I perceive why his organic sister can be the one who wanted to die first, for plot functions. Will that want come true sooner or later?
Effectively, John would wish to win the event, naturally. Additionally, Calypso would should be an sincere individual and never a weirdo trickster, so the jury’s nonetheless out on all of it.
Twisted Steel Season 2 drops new episodes Thursdays on Peacock.