Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2 (2009)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2009
	Creator: Josh Friedman
	Actors: Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau (Firefly TV-series, Serenity), Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills, 90210 TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: August 2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Sarah Connor and her son John (Headey & Dekker) continue escaping and fighting Terminators sent from the future, while trying to prevent the creation of the Skynet Artificial Intelligence.
Review: After a disappointing first season, an excellent surprise with this second one which even if not a great TV-series, at least seems to have learned from the mistake of the first and corrected them. No more spoken introduction and conclusion by Sarah, much more interesting characters and story developed at a better pace, more action when needed. The opening episode Samson & Delilah takes us back to where we left the story at the end of Season 1 and creates from the start a new level of relationship between John and Cameron. Some episodes contain stand-alone elements, like Ep#11 Self-made man and its investigation by Cameron of the possible visit of a Terminator in 1920. Ep#9 Complications and #10 Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point show us a further investigation about the birth of Skynet. Ep#8 Mr Ferguson is ill today displays a very interesting editing with the succession of the same story told from different point of views. In general the editing is more interesting in this season especially in its second half, when the viewer lands in the middle of the action at the beginning of some episodes, to then gets the explanations thanks to flashbacks. An efficient technique to get the audience addicted, and which was not used at all during the first season (flat linear editing). It is in particular efficient during Ep#12 Alpine Fields. Starting in the middle of the season (Ep#13 Earthlings Welcome Here, Ep#14 The Good Wound, Ep#15 Desert Cantos), there is more and more continuity, like a very long episode with an X-files spirit to it. It is interrupted by a rather boring Ep#16 Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep, to then start again and ramp up with the three following episodes, the best ones of the season although not even strong in action, but rather intense in character development. Finally the last three episodes lead to an interesting revelation, but unfortunately also to a cliffhanger that will never be resolved by a third season as it was cancelled.
Rating: 5 /10