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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 22
"Born To Run"
April 10, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
Season finale time for Sarah Connor Chronicles, and at the start of "Born to Run," it's hard to know what to expect. Last week offered some definite promise, and as always, the threat of cancellation looms heavy; any reasonable ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 21
"Adam Raised A Cain"
April 3, 2009 - 08:04p.m.
Finally! After months of waiting, we're finally getting some serious movement on bringing the Connors into John Henry's orbit. It's like getting a check in the mail you'd long given up on ever receiving; I want ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 20
"To The Lighthouse"
March 27, 2009 - 08:03p.m.
"To The Lighthouse," the title of this week's episode, is also the title of a novel by Virginia Woolf. While the lighthouse in Terminator is literal enough to justify the name, it's probable that the writers of the ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 19
"Last Voyage Of The Jimmy Carter"
March 20, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
I really can't stand it whenever somebody on Terminator refers to a robot as "the metal." I'm not exactly sure why it bothers me; I don't have a problem with future slang, and it makes sense that ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 18
"Today Is The Day"
March 13, 2009 - 04:03p.m.
Turns out last week wasn't a fluke; things continue to improve by inches on Sarah Connor Chronicles. "Today Is The Day" still has some dead spots--the show has a bizarre way of taking what should be solid plot developments ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 17
"Ourselves Alone"
March 6, 2009 - 09:03a.m.
After the snooze-fests of the past couple of weeks, it's nice to get back to basics. "Ourselves Alone" has the return of Riley, Jesse, and Cameron's post-explosion twitchiness, and while it's not exactly a thrill ride, at ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 16
Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep
February 26, 2009 - 08:02p.m.
I'll be your host tonight in lieu of Zack Handlen, who had to be somewhere having a life. And I'll fess up, aside from reading Zack's recaps, I haven't kept close tabs on this show since ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 15
"Desert Cantos"
February 20, 2009 - 02:02p.m.
There's nothing wrong with a little gravitas. Considering that T:SCC is about the end of the world, you'd expect it to take itself seriously; much as I'd love to see them go full-on Strangelove, I'd ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 14
"The Good Wound"
February 13, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
Back in December, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off with a decent couple of cliffhangers. We’d just found out that Riley, John’s relentlessly chipper gal pal, was actually working with Derek’s girl Jesse to break John ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 13
"Earthlings Welcome Here"
December 15, 2008 - 09:12p.m.
I think this show may be starting to lose me.
Partly it's my fault. I spent the weekend re-watching the first season of Lost (which is actually better than I remembered it), and I didn't get to the ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 12
"Alpine Fields"
December 8, 2008 - 09:12p.m.
Let's see–we've got some nested structure, three convergent storylines, some character development re: Derek and Jesse, and, what, maybe a minute or so of robot-on-robot action? Something like that. "Alpine Fields" does its best to give us ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 11
"Self Made Man"
December 1, 2008 - 09:12p.m.
I always like to watch the "Previously on" montage that opens each new T:SCC episode. Not for the plot-refresher, although that can come in handy; it's more that the montage gives you a sense of what to expect ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 10
"Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point"
November 24, 2008 - 09:11p.m.
We're told over and over again that Team Connor is fighting a war–the big war, really, the War To End Pretty Much Everything. The battle against Skynet will determine the future of the human race, but while the ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 9
"Complications"
November 17, 2008 - 09:11p.m.
After the deflating conclusion to last week's showdown with Cromartie, this week's episode, "Complications," was short on set-pieces and long on, well, complications. It starts off with Sarah having the first in what will turn out to be ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 8
"Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today"
November 10, 2008 - 09:11p.m.
This might be a karmic thing. Last week's teaser promised us a dead cast member, and god help me, I was praying for an end to the life of Riley. I don't have a particular hatred for blonde ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 7
"Brothers of Nablus"
November 3, 2008 - 09:11p.m.
Damn but this is a frustrating show.
Part of the problem is momentum; the more space between installments, the more time all the absurdities have to sink in, and October had two dead weeks for T:SCC. It's the ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 6
"The Tower Is Tall, But The Fall Is Short"
October 20, 2008 - 09:10p.m.
Curious confluence of events; I spent most of Sunday reading a book for review, and that book just happened to be about therapy–a topic near and dear to the heart of tonight's episode, "The Tower Is Tall, But ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 5
"Goodbye To All That"
October 6, 2008 - 09:10p.m.
Word on the Interwebs has it that T:SCC isn't doing so hot ratings-wise. No official news as of yet, but the show could be for the chop as soon as, well, yesterday. While an early cancellation here wouldn ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 4
"Allison From Palmdale"
September 29, 2008 - 09:09p.m.
I watched WarGames over the weekend with some friends; I'd wanted to see it again ever since Noel's review. He's right, it's surprisingly good–solid performances, a clever hook, and the screenplay's a textbook example ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 3
"The Mousetrap"
September 22, 2008 - 09:09p.m.
It's a tough life, being a secondary character on an ongoing television series. Generally you're background noise–you exist to reflect the glory of the leads, to provide the occasional exposition chunk, and not much else. Sure, if ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 2
"Automatic For The People"
September 15, 2008 - 09:09p.m.
I'm willing to make a fair number of logic leaps for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but one thing has bugged me since the first season: why the hell is John Connor in school? It's the sort of TV-device ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 2, episode 1
"Samson And Delilah"
September 8, 2008 - 09:09p.m.
"Samson and Delilah," the first episode of the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, picks up exactly where last season left off. Cameron and jeep have just exploded, and Sarkissian–the real Sarkissian, played briefly by James Urbaniak ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 8/9
Vick's Chip/What He Beheld
March 3, 2008 - 10:03p.m.
By now - and "now" means, the end of Terminator's first season - I thought I'd know more about Josh Friedman. Friedman's the guy who developed the show, and the guy in charge of its vision. When I'm ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 7
The Demon Hand
February 25, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
It crossed my mind: instead of "The Demon Hand," what if this week's episode had been called "The Penis"? Yeah, I sound like I'm 12. But doesn't this show need some laughs?
This week's about a ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 6
Dungeons & Dragons
February 18, 2008 - 10:02p.m.
Last week, I'll admit, I cut this show a lot of slack. But it was an exciting night. We saw a great truck chase and a breathless chess match, the storylines were converging, the characters were coming together, and ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 5
Queen's Gambit
February 12, 2008 - 09:02a.m.
Hey there, everybody. I'll be your new Terminator: The Sarah Connor (and Moody Son and Ex-Ballerina Foxbot) Chronicles host here at the T. V. Club. I wish I could tell you that Keith Phipps has handed this over because ...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 4
"Heavy Metal"
February 4, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
This week was going to be different. I took a few comments to heart about being too hard on this show or too quick to dismiss it. This was going to be the week I dug in and really went ... -
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: season 1, episode 3
"The Turk"
January 21, 2008 - 09:01p.m.
I had not planned to continue blogging Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I thought the first two episodes were simply okay with the potential to develop into a more interesting show, but I didn't really plan to stick around ...
