Good Omens started with the end of the world.

Season 1 of the Prime Video series, based on the book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, followed an angel and a demon as they joined forces to stop the apocalypse from destroying the Earth they’ve come to actually enjoy.

But after that crisis was averted, the question remains: what comes next? Season 2 of the series pulls a Game of Thrones and forges its own path beyond the source material. But unlike the HBO show’s divisive final seasons, Good Omens pulls this off to great results, introducing more adventures, more hijinks, and more material for fans to obsess over. If Season 1 was an epic thriller, Season 2 is a cozy mystery that doubles down on the rich character moments that made the first season such a compelling watch.

There was never any chance that Twisted Metal would be 100% faithful to its source material. Even if it wanted to be, it’s not exactly possible. The PlayStation series has been alive and kicking for nearly 30 years, and it’s amassed a devoted fandom in the process. Newer incarnations of the game attempted to flesh out the sparse premise of the original, but Twisted Metal has always truly been about one thing: carnage.

Vehicular warfare is the name of the game. There are no heroes, just delightfully demented maniacs trying to murder each other with their cars. That makes for a fun party game, but it saddled the Twisted Metal team (led by showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith) with a difficult challenge.

The weird thing is, it totally works. The 10-episode Peacock original is the latest in a long line of video game adaptations, but it’s the first in recent memory to buck the pressures of “prestige TV” and blaze a blissfully irreverent trail. Twisted Metal embraces the pitch-black chaos of its source material while bringing timely themes to the fore. What results is a series with real heart, if not a relentless cruel streak.