Unfortunately, Netflix’s “Terminator Zero” will not be back for a second season. The streamer has decided to cancel the animated series after only one season.
Creator Mattson Tomlin broke the news via X.
“Netflix was really great about supporting the show and giving me tremendous creative freedom to do what I wanted to do. Good partners,” the post reads. “The show was expensive and very time consuming. The only way they could justify it was if the audience showed up for it, and they just didn’t.”
“I’ll also say they offered to let me do 2, maybe 3 episodes more to wrap up the story, which I declined. I felt the story I wanted to tell was much longer, and the finale of season one actually left things in a good place. But they didn’t have to offer that. Good partners here,” he adds in a reply.
“Terminator Zero” takes place right after the events of 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The series focuses on two timelines, one set in 2022, where a future war rages between human survivors and an army of machines. The other is set in 1997, the year Skynet became self-aware and launched a war against humanity.
A soldier voiced by Sonoya Mizuno is sent back in time to try to change the fate of humanity. In 1997, she must protect scientist Malcolm Lee (André Holland), who is launching a new AI system (Rosario Dawson), to defeat Skynet. To stop him, a group of ruthless assassins keeps hunting him.
More of Tomlin’s “Terminator”
“Maybe someday I’ll do a big thread about the plans I had for the full five season run,” Tomlin continued. “The series finale was special and it was part of my pitch to get the job. I’ve written all of the season two scripts and outlined pretty much all of season three…Maybe I will return to that world in a different form. I really do love it, and it was extremely gratifying to see so many people connect with it the way they did.”
“If I had my say (which I obviously don’t, screen rant let’s not even get started) my return to the Terminator universe would be with a live action, lower budget full-fledged horror movie,” he also teased.
The first and now only season of “Terminator Zero” is currently streaming on Netflix.
