Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched Twisted Steel your entire means by means of, so be warned!
All through the ten episodes that make up Twisted Steel’s debut season, a complete lot of hectic and violent mayhem surrounds the primary characters John and Quiet, as partially brought on by the nutso Candy Tooth and his nonconsensual henchman Stu. In the long run, the characters are principally break up up once more, as John (and viewers) are made conscious of an impending event set to point out off the members’ abilities by means of vehicular fight, which is basically the roots of the massively fashionable online game franchise. It was fairly the reveal, and a welcome one to stability the baffling twist that all the things Anthony Mackie’s character went by means of was all for the sake of delivering a pint of ice cream. After which that was adopted by Stephanie Beatriz’s thief being accosted by a girl claiming to be John’s sister, to not point out the post-credits scene and doable loss of life.
All in all, Twisted Steel’s ending was a good way to arrange a follow-up season, and when CinemaBlend talked with Stephanie Beatriz (as seen above), I requested how she felt about the way in which issues wrapped up, and she or he appeared to be all in on wrapping up the story with a hook that leaves viewers wanting extra. Connecting it again to her fandom of comics and graphic novels, she informed me:
I believe it is actually cool. Particularly since I believe our hope is that folks watch the entire collection rapidly, as a result of I believe you form of get caught up in it. After which, , in the identical means that once I was a teen once I’d learn a graphic novel, and I might get to that final panel, and I would be like, ‘Wait, there is no means they’ll wrap this up.’ And also you’re kind of studying down the web page and that you’ve like two panels left, after which there’s that ‘To be continued…’ And I believe there’s so many potentialities on this world, we have solely seen a small part of it. We do not know what’s on the finish of the street, and so I am excited to see how that will get flushed out, hopefully in one other season of it.
I believe we will all agree right here that it could be a complete intestine punch straight from Joe Samoa’s Candy Tooth if this wound up being the one season we get from Twisted Steel. As Beatriz put it, the introduction of Calypso’s event units up future the place something might occur (no less than throughout the unfastened logical requirements of this batshit universe), contemplating the season largely caught with Quiet and John’s journey, and did not totally discover the remainder of the apocalypse-ravaged nation. To not point out the idea of digging extra into John’s precise household historical past, and studying about his sister.
I additionally had the pleasure of speaking to Doughboys co-host Mike Mitchell about how a lot of a blast he had taking part in Stu, a personality loosely tailored from the online game collection. All through Twisted Steel, Stu begins out being a reasonably horrible deputy to Thomas Haden Church’s corrupt authority determine Agent Stone, alongside his finest buddy Mike (Tahj Vaughans). He then turns into an confederate to Candy Tooth, extra out of survival necessity than something, and whereas it looks as if the season ends with Stu in a great place, the post-credits scene spins that assumption on its head.
As Mike and Stu are getting comfy on the seaside with a pair of faux girls as companions, Candy Tooth reveals up out of nowhere and seems to slaughter the previous whereas preserving Stu alive, presumably for being as minorly loyal as he was. Here is what Mike Mitchell informed me about that scene, in addition to working with professional wrestler Samoa Joe:
I spend a ton of time with Joe within the present, and I cherished our pairing. Like a psychopath and a dummy form of pairing up collectively, which was so enjoyable. And it was so enjoyable to play off that stuff and be with Joe. There is a cliffhanger on the finish of the season, which I can discuss now, which is nice. There is a cliffhanger on the finish of the primary season the place Joe mainly pulls me into the woods. He slashes up. Mike. I believe. You realize, we do not actually see it occur. However he slashes up Mike, and I get yanked.
Whereas the Birthday Boys co-founder did vaguely make it looks as if Candy Tooth won’t have slaughtered Tahj Vaughan’s character, I believe it could take some wild explaining to reverse the bloodbath that was implied. And now we’re left to consider the various, many, many sordid issues that Candy Tooth may do with Stu. He would not appear to be the form of monster who would deal with Stu like a type of life-sized feminine dolls on the seaside, however contemplating the villain nonetheless has a working data of “Thong Music” lyrics, possibly I should not assume something about his libido. (Talking of, take a look at what Samoa Joe informed us about singing Sisquo’s summer time jam whereas filming.)
So for everybody like me who desperately desires to see what occurs to those characters in a second season, I would say make damned certain to grab up a Peacock subscription, watch all ten episodes, after which inform everybody to do the identical factor. Although the WGA writers strike and SAG-AFTRA strike are at present making it troublesome to forecast something concerning the leisure trade’s future, it’s presumably an ideal time to binge a present like this. Particularly because it boasts 30-minute runtimes for all episodes, which is one thing I want different reveals would get behind.
Whereas ready to listen to extra about Twisted Steel‘s future, take a look at all the opposite upcoming online game diversifications which are heading to theaters and TV within the near-to-distant future.
