Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

Terminator Zero
Mattson Tomlin
Netflix

How many times can Judgment Day arrive and/or be averted before it loses all meaning? That question has plagued every instalment in the Terminator franchise later than James Cameron’s brilliant first two movies. It is something that the new Netflix animated series Terminator Zero attempts to address – perhaps in order to justify its own existence.

Cameron has no involvement in Terminator Zero, which was created and written by Mattson Tomlin and animated by Japanese studio Production I.G.…