Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Seasons 1–2)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) is a Fox sci-fi action series you can watch online on iFILM. The story picks up four years after the T-1000 was destroyed: Sarah and John Connor are still running, still hunted, and a new machine has just found them.

A terminator named Cameron arrives to pull them out — and through a time jump that lands all three in 2007. The mission is surgical: locate the engineer quietly assembling Skynet before the project reaches the point of no return. Lena Headey plays Sarah as someone burning out on vigilance, not a warrior on a poster. Summer Glau gives Cameron an unsettling precision that keeps hinting at something underneath. Richard T. Jones pursues them as FBI agent Ellison; Shirley Manson joins the second season as a machine with an agenda of her own.

Showrunner Josh Friedman built the mythology across two tight seasons before Fox pulled the plug in 2009 mid-story — the cliffhanger ending still divides fans. Stream Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles online on iFILM.