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Episode recaps: "Vick's Chip" & "What He Beheld" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 3/4/2008
In the first part of the two-hour season finale, Cromartie goes from school to school, checking the records of new students searching for John Connor. Derek surprises the Connors and Cameron when he produces Vick's chip that Cameron has not destroyed, contrary to what she had told them in the past. In order to disprove his accusation of mistrust about her, Cameron works with John to pull data off the chip, including a visual record of the cyborg. As it turns out, Vick was married to Barbara... read more
Episode recap: "The Demon Hand" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 2/26/2008
In an episode that is chock full of references to the previous films, the main theme appears to be nature and duality of good and evil or rather, the soulful, feeling human versus the heartless, cold machine, and how each can mimic the other but never can truly be the same.Cameron acquires a police uniform and motorcycle, disables a portion of the city's power grid then uses the power outage and her disguise to easily enter the police station that is supposed to have the missing Terminator hand... read more
Episode recap: "Dungeons and Dragons" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 2/19/2008
While Derek is being treated for the gunshot wound he sustained from the Terminator in the previous episode, we are presented with a serious of flashbacks (flashforwards?) of his experiences in the future that led up to his teleportation to this time period. During this series of flashbacks, we meet Derek's brother, Kyle (for the first time in the series); Derek, Kyle and crew are captured in a failed mission after witnessing Terminators and later Hunter Killers transporting what appear to be... read more
Episode recap: "Queen's Gambit" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 2/12/2008
“To win you must be patient, bold, calculating. And most of all: willing to sacrifice.”—Sarah ConnorAndy Goode contacts Sarah to invite her to a computer chess tournament that he has entered. Andy's new version of The Turk, the chess computer that Sarah destroyed when she burned down his house, is entered into the competition —the grand prize being is lucrative military contract. Chromartie, under the guise of Special Agent Kester, contacts Charlie Dixon to see if he has any... read more
Episode recap: "Heavy Metal" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 2/5/2008
“If you're gonna be a hero, you gotta learn how to drive stick.”—Sarah ConnorWhile John laments over the death of Jordan Cowon, Cameron discovers that Cromartie was able to make the trip ahead with them into the future via news footage from a cell phone camera (she doesn't sleep, after all). With a newspaper reports of an arson at a dock and the re-routing of coltan, a 'key element' in the construction of cyborgs, Cameron deduces that Cromartie is attempting to reconstruct or... read more
Movie News: Anna Friel Gets Lost, Death for Lena Headey, More | Today's News: Our Take | 2/4/2008
Anna Friel, the perky star of ABC's Pushing Daisies, has landed the female lead in Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost remake.... Sarah Connor herself, Lena Headey, will switch from fighting murderous cyborgs to dark wizards and the bubonic plague in the supernatural thriller Black Death.... Michael Ealy (Sleeper Cell) is IRS agent Will Smith's brother in Seven Pounds. Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson costar.... Garret Dillahunt has joined the cast of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left... read more
Episode recap: The Turk | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 1/22/2008
"No one dies in vain."—Sarah ConnorJohn and Cameron attend their new high-school for the first time and get a small taste of it's social inner workings. Sarah meets up with Tarissa Dyson, who identifies a man that could possibly be one of the creators of Skynet. Cromartie tracks down a researcher to help him 'look' like he did 10 years ago.Commentary:—This is what I like to call a plot/character development, exposition episode. Not much happened action-wise, but we are introduced to... read more
Ask Matt | 1/21/2008
When I first heard they were making a TV show based on the Terminator films, I was reluctant to get excited. It seems my reluctance was well-founded. The show is totally uneven. I know they can't do as much on TV as they can in a film, but I know for sure that TV can do much better than this. First of all, the acting is sub par at best. Summer Glau, whom I loved in Firefly, hasn't exactly won me over as the new Terminatrix. In fact, and I can't believe I'm saying this, she's actually giving me... read more
Ask Matt | 1/21/2008
Wow! Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is everything that I expected ? and didn't get ? when I tuned in to see Bionic Woman. Both Lena Headey and Summer Glau are fantastic. Congrats to Fox for finally coming up with a third show worth watching (along with Bones and House). read more
The Sarah Connor Chronicles: One Tough Mother | TV Guide Magazine Cover Story | 1/16/2008
Lena Headey, star of Fox's new Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, looks like someone you don't want to mess with. In a gloomy underground tunnel in Los Angeles, she and two burly actors in police uniforms are shooting a fight sequence so intense they're stirring up clouds of dust. Headey, clad entirely in black, kicks and jabs until she has the cops on the ground. "Lena can summon an internal fierceness that is incredibly important for this role. There's a fire in her," consulting ... read more
Episode recap: "Gnothi Seauton" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 1/15/2008
“Know thy self because what else is there to know?”—Sarah ConnorApparently, the Connors and Cameron were not the only ones teleported seven years into the future. Cromartie's head (and body we later find out) made the trip as well. He spends the entire episode getting his head straight (gruesomely literally). In the meantime, the Connors are attempting to acclimate to the year 2007. First on the agenda is getting new identities. Cameron informs them that there is a group of... read more
Episode recap: "Pilot" | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 1/14/2008
“You want to stop Skynet? We can go kill it before it's born. You can stop running, stay in one place. Fight.”—Cameron PhillipsWelcome to the TV Guide Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles blog. Let's get a move on soldier and dive right in shall we?In a series of camera shots/scenes reminiscent of (and possibly to tie into) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (T2) we are presented with the open road, fate... time... the future... moving ever forward with a voice over from Sarah Connor... read more
Terminator Sequel: Fox Makes Mid-season Noise | Roush Dispatch | 7/23/2007
With the Fox network, it's often all about the mid-season, the time when shows like American Idol and 24 come along to rescue the network from its fall doldrums. Not that it's impossible for any of Fox's September newcomers to catch on. The Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton sitcom Back to You looks very commercial. The situation is admittedly tougher for the downbeat New Orleans crime drama K-Ville or the murky supernatural crime drama New Amsterdam (about an immortal detective) to buck the odds... read more
Sam I Am Wild About! Plus: Jaime Sommers and Sarah Connor | TV Matt'rs | 6/25/2007
I'm working my way through the 2007-08 TV season pilot screeners, and thought it time to share my initial batch in a series of kneejerk thoughts. The theme for this one, you might say, is "Ladies first," as it covers ABC's new Christina Applegate comedy, NBC's Bionic Woman and Fox's The Sarah Connor Chronicles.Samantha Be Good (né Sam I Am, thanks to Dr. Seuss), is, I am prompted to rave, an early and huge favorite. I watched the pilot last Friday (and again with the wife on Saturday) and... read more
Fox Announces Its Fall Schedule | First Look: Hottest Fall TV | 5/17/2007
The new dramas premiering this fall are K-Ville, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as police officers in post-Katrina New Orleans; and New Amsterdam, the first American television project from Oscar-nominated director/producer Lasse Hallström, featuring newcomer Nikolaj Coster Waldau as a unique New York City homicide detective.The new comedy slated for fall is Back to You, from executive producers Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. Set at a TV news station in Pittsburgh, the... read more
Casting About: TV's Terminator Finds Its Sarah Connor | Today's News: Our Take | 11/8/2006
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lena Headey (The Brothers Grimm, The Cave) will pick up where Linda Hamilton left off and play the title character in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a Fox pilot set between the second and third Terminator films, and following 15-year-old John's tough-gal mom.... 8 Simple Rules' Kaley Cuoco, who, when she first auditioned for the role last spring, was deemed too young, fought the good fight and has landed the female lead in The Big Bang Theory, CBS' comedy... read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/14/2006
Film toughie Chazz Palminteri has been cast in the ABC drama pilot Drift, where he will play t read more