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No Season 2 for the anime series.
February 13, 2026
Word is out that Netflix has cancelled Terminator Zero after one season. Creator Mattson Tomlin broke the news in a reply to a user on X asking about the status of the show.
"It was cancelled," wrote Tomlin. "The critical and audience reception to it was tremendous, but at the end of the day not nearly enough people watched it. I would've loved to deliver on the Future War I had planned in season's 2 and 3, but I'm also very happy with how it feels contained as is."
"Netflix was really great about supporting the show and giving me tremendous creative freedom to do what I wanted to do," he added in a separate reply. "Good partners. The show was expensive and very time consuming. The only way they could justify it was if the audience showed up for it, and they just didn't. I'll also say they offered to let me do 2, maybe 3 episodes more to wrap up the story, which I declined. I felt the story I wanted to tell was much longer, and the finale of season one actually left things in a good place. But they didn't have to offer that. Good partners here."
The sci-fi anime series follows a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who is working to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet's impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
It was cancelled. The critical and audience reception to it was tremendous, but at the end of the day not nearly enough people watched it. I would’ve loved to deliver on the Future War I had planned in season’s 2 and 3, but I’m also very happy with how it feels contained as is. https://t.co/Dh7G6gkBF7 pic.twitter.com/dqCSXHIytg
— mattson tomlin (@mattsontomlin) February 13, 2026
I’ll also say they offered to let me do 2, maybe 3 episodes more to wrap up the story, which I declined. I felt the story I wanted to tell was much longer, and the finale of season one actually left things in a good place. But they didn’t have to offer that. Good partners here.
— mattson tomlin (@mattsontomlin) February 13, 2026
Comments (8)
02/16/26 at 03:48am
Take your meds, @whatwhatwhaaat
02/14/26 at 10:40pm
"Jasmine did not have a fit." I was upset that Netflix gives the creator of the show an opportunity to give the fans some sort of ending, to which the creator says NO. HBO gave Deadwood a 2 hour movie to wrap up a show cancelled more than a decade earlier. I am sure the creator of this could have done something with the 2 or 3 episodes Netflix offered. When the creators do not care about the fans, why should the fans care about the show. P.S.I comment on stuff I like or dislike. If my name was Bob, would my opinion matter more?
02/14/26 at 03:19pm
r5oast beefr! what the hell man.
we got one season.
run it, watch it over three nights, done/
a little bit of terminator lore in our lizard brains.
DUDE. TEN PEOPLE REACTED TO AN ANIMATED ONE OFF OF SOME OF THE BESTFUTURISTIC KILLBOT;
AND IT DIDN'T ALIGHN WITH YOUR SARAH SEX SCENE AND PORN?ADVENTURE?
10 people faught the netflix algorithm. they lost.
you commented and dogpiled.
10 people liked that series.
i barely knew the first season happened. i got halfway thru episode one before the netflixed moved it low in my continue watching list. algorithms.\
an artist gave us episodes and did a season.
i can't defend it. but this season might end up CANON.
roast beef and daniel screwed a pooch there.
we got one season.
run it, watch it over three nights, done/
a little bit of terminator lore in our lizard brains.
DUDE. TEN PEOPLE REACTED TO AN ANIMATED ONE OFF OF SOME OF THE BESTFUTURISTIC KILLBOT;
AND IT DIDN'T ALIGHN WITH YOUR SARAH SEX SCENE AND PORN?ADVENTURE?
10 people faught the netflix algorithm. they lost.
you commented and dogpiled.
10 people liked that series.
i barely knew the first season happened. i got halfway thru episode one before the netflixed moved it low in my continue watching list. algorithms.\
an artist gave us episodes and did a season.
i can't defend it. but this season might end up CANON.
roast beef and daniel screwed a pooch there.
02/14/26 at 02:04pm
>"The critical and audience reception to it was tremendous"
Yeah.. "tremendous" among the 10 people that cared for an animated Terminator series. TREMENDOUS!!!
Yeah.. "tremendous" among the 10 people that cared for an animated Terminator series. TREMENDOUS!!!
02/14/26 at 12:37pm
dougie, i am with you and confused on this.
the creators just wrote: 'the finale of season one actually left things in a good place'
d.g., i agree. NO CLIFFHANGERS. JUST STOP IT. i don't know why jasmine had a fit. 'pronoun' needs 1-3 hours more to a concluded season?
let's not wax poetics about the old. things ended. with or without cliffhangers. we used our imagination to ponder more on our characters and events.
Now, anyone can find a billion cliffhangers in a season of a show. what happened to so and so. what nuance wasn't explored or explained there. why doesn't the viewer get an explanation or dopamine rush? they are more prevalent than easter eggs. and that doesn't seem fun.
This creator/director feels he closed his seasons story.
sounds like he didn't do a major or planned cliffhanger. {i have not watched the series so i can't claim to know.}
can we take this person at their word, take our one season, enjoy, and then imagine....
and not apply the very sensible, everyone please agree with me, NO MORE PLANNED, VEILED, MISFIRE, OR MALICIOUS CLIFFHANGERS, TO THIS ONE SHOW.
all other shows are excluded henceforth. if the cliffhanger has artistic or literary merit. not so much the visual, which is now unbelieveable green screens and a.i.
lets not digress to much into great things. endings so shocking you take decades to go back to find the unanswered questions.
in a seperate peace, one character
in the pearl, such and such
in the awakening, they
every movie or book can have a flaw. but lets all ban together.
NO MORE ON PURPOSE CLIFFHANGERS.
the creators just wrote: 'the finale of season one actually left things in a good place'
d.g., i agree. NO CLIFFHANGERS. JUST STOP IT. i don't know why jasmine had a fit. 'pronoun' needs 1-3 hours more to a concluded season?
let's not wax poetics about the old. things ended. with or without cliffhangers. we used our imagination to ponder more on our characters and events.
Now, anyone can find a billion cliffhangers in a season of a show. what happened to so and so. what nuance wasn't explored or explained there. why doesn't the viewer get an explanation or dopamine rush? they are more prevalent than easter eggs. and that doesn't seem fun.
This creator/director feels he closed his seasons story.
sounds like he didn't do a major or planned cliffhanger. {i have not watched the series so i can't claim to know.}
can we take this person at their word, take our one season, enjoy, and then imagine....
and not apply the very sensible, everyone please agree with me, NO MORE PLANNED, VEILED, MISFIRE, OR MALICIOUS CLIFFHANGERS, TO THIS ONE SHOW.
all other shows are excluded henceforth. if the cliffhanger has artistic or literary merit. not so much the visual, which is now unbelieveable green screens and a.i.
lets not digress to much into great things. endings so shocking you take decades to go back to find the unanswered questions.
in a seperate peace, one character
in the pearl, such and such
in the awakening, they
every movie or book can have a flaw. but lets all ban together.
NO MORE ON PURPOSE CLIFFHANGERS.
02/14/26 at 08:26am
Netflix gave the show 2 years to find acceptable viewership numbers.
I’d say they were more than generous with this one.
I’d say they were more than generous with this one.
02/13/26 at 10:59pm
I read this yesterday and I guess only 1 person cares. That should tell creators to plan 1 season at a time. No more cliffhangers.
02/13/26 at 12:34pm
Netflix gave him an opportunity to at least wrap up the story, to which Tomlin declined. Thanks for thinking about the fans ASSHOLE!
