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.