Twisted Metal just completed its Season 2 streaming on Peacock. The showrunners brought it to a satisfying close, but they also set up enough plot arcs to carry the show for a third, maybe even a fourth season. We gathered up all the Easter eggs and references for Twisted Metal: Season 1. And now, we’re doing the same thing for Twisted Metal Season 2.

Season 2 was even better than Season 1, focusing more on plot and forward movement, since they’ve already established the two main characters. And the critical and audience reception has been unanimously positive–where Season 1 received the Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer rating of 67%, Season 2 got 92%. Ten or fifteen years ago, the notion that a TV show based on Twisted Metal would garner this sort of momentum would not be taken seriously–the entire idea of a TV show based on a video game would be enough to disqualify it. And yet, here we are.

After a season’s worth of build up, Season 2 gives us the Calypso life-or-death car tournament that we’ve been waiting for. And they pull it off–somehow–by not taking the plot too seriously. Time and again, the writers don’t let pesky things like logic and physics get in the way of a good time. The jokes are fast and rapid-fire, so that if a couple of them bomb, the high percentage of them that land can overcompensate.

And the soundtrack, a pastiche of late ’90s and early ’00s pop, hip hop, and alternative, is perfect. From Smashing Pumpkins to Haddaway to Crash Test Dummies, the needle drops either enhance the action or stand in diametric opposition to it. Either way, it works.

Did we miss any major Easter eggs or references? Let us know in the comments.