Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Series 2, ep1
Virgin 1
Was pretty sceptical about this Terminator franchise when it was first mooted - especially after the T3 debacle (a film so bad I forgot i was watching it after wandering off to get a snack and then getting sidetracked by something more interesting. Like the washing up). Ended up enjoying the first series, which seemed to work as a kind of update of 80s TV series. It's nowhere near the depth of a reboot like Battlestar Galactica (but then what is?) - but miles better than the Blahonic Woman.
Ep1 of the second series launches straight in where we left off, with friendly Terminatrix Summer Glau being blown up in a booby-trapped van, the agent who's been on the Connor tail finally confronting the fact that all that nonsense about killer robots from the future is in fact true, and John and Sarah C still trying to do the mom and son thing while also dealing with the impending apocalypse.
This time round, they're also going to have to contend with Shirley "Garbage" Manson, as the hard-assed boss of some super-tech corp who are no doubt up to good and getting ready to meddle with Skynet's evil plans for tomorrow. Hilarious bit where she morphs out of a loo to attack someone... Next week, in true 80s fashion, Sarah and Cameron wangle their way into a nuclear reactor as janitors... minimum security checks or what? No wonder the human race is screwed...
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