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Set after the events in Terminator 2, Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker), now find themselves alone in a very dangerous, complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that more enemies from the future, and the present, could attack at any moment. |
USA Today
As much as the show recalls the movies, it also recalls some of the best work ever done in the genre for TV: the Buffy universe of Joss Whedon. Most every blast of portent and bombast is lightened by a throwaway joke; scenes of intense action and violence give way to equally well-realized scenes of domestic life that root the fantasy in emotional reality